CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
8349
Partner Institution:
University of Calgary
Source Collection Label:
Earle Birney fonds
Sub Series:
Earle Birney fonds
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
Earle Birney reading from Selected poems 1940-1966 (Tape 7)
Title Source:
Transcribed from the artifact
Title Note:
Label of recording title and included poems taped to box. Box stamped ME 0X5.
Language:
English
Production Context:
Studio recording
Identifiers:
[7.3.7]
Rights
Rights:
The Public Domain Mark (PDM)
CREATORS
Name:
Birney, Earle
Dates:
1904-1995
CONTRIBUTORS
MATERIAL DESCRIPTION
Recording Type:
Analogue
AV Type:
Audio
Material Designation:
Reel to Reel
Physical Composition:
Magnetic Tape
Extent:
1/4 inch
Playing Speed:
7 1/2 ips
Tape Brand:
CBC Radio - Canada
Sound Quality:
Excellent
Physical Condition:
Good
DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION
Duration:
T00:31:54
Size:
525.81 MB
Dates
Date:
1966
Type:
Performance Date
Notes:
Date taken from creation dates listed for item level descriptions in archival finding aid for the Earle Birney fonds Item number 7.3.7
LOCATION
CONTENT
Contents:
Earle Birney
[00:00:00]
Reads "First Tree for Frost" [Section title Canada: Case History].
Earle Birney
[00:02:29]
Reads "Bushed".
Earle Birney
[00:04:16]
Reads "Biography".
Earle Birney
[00:06:10]
Reads "Takkakaw Falls".
Earle Birney
[00:07:45]
Reads "Climbers".
Earle Birney
[00:09:48]
Reads "Images in Place of Logging".
Earle Birney
[00:11:25]
Reads "Slug in Woods".
Earle Birney
[00:13:12]
Reads "Aluroid".
Earle Birney
[00:15:21]
Reads "Haiku for a Young Waitress".
Earle Birney
[00:15:39]
Reads "Gulf of Georgia".
Earle Birney
[00:16:39]
Reads "November Walk Near False Creek Mouth".
Notes:
Title based on contents of file.
- Concluding section “Canada: Case History.” Remainder of the poems in this section have to do with Alberta or British Columbia.
- “First Tree for Frost”: About country between Edmonton and Calgary, from a long time ago.
- “Biography”: Written on Thetis Island on the West Coast 1949.
- “Takkakaw Falls”: Reads differently, can tell that it is a more abstract/concrete poem just from his shift in reading style.
- “Climbers”: Written on Savary Island, B.C. 1950. Climbing takes place in mountains immediately north of city of Vancouver.
- “Images in Place of Logging”: Written on Vancouver Island 1948.
- “Slug in Woods”: One of his earliest completed poems, written in Crescent Beach, B. C. 1928.
- “Aluroid”: Written in back garden in Vancouver 1948. Birney had a Siamese cat called Bast after the Egyptian cat goddess. ‘aluroid’ is a funny dictionary name for cat-like, Birney prefers ‘aluroid’ because it sounds like a sounds his Siamese cat made, his cat was “really far out of this world, more sci-fi type, they are humanoid so they also must be aluroid.”
- “Haiku for a Young Waitress”: Vancouver 1960.
- “Gulf of Georgia”: Vancouver 1945, small lyrical poem.
- “November Walk Near False Creek Mouth”: Begun in 1961 in Vancouver, completed in 1963 in Ametia, Spain - [? cannot find] .
NOTES
RELATED WORKS
Citation:
Selected Poems, 1940-1966