CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
8352
Partner Institution:
University of Calgary
Source Collection Title:
Earle Birney fonds
Source Collection ID:
Source Collection Contributing Unit:
University of Calgary, Archives and Special Collections
Source Collection URI:
Source Collection Image URL:
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
Earle Birney reading from Ice, cod, bell or stone and Near False Creek mouth.
Title Source:
Transcribed from the artifact
Title Note:
Label of recording title and included poems taped to box. Box stamped JS 0X6.
Language:
English
Production Context:
Studio recording
Identifiers:
[7.4(.1)]
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:
T00:24:53
Size:
410.16 MB
Dates
Date:
1966
Type:
Performance Date
Notes:
Dates supplied through research for copyright.
LOCATION
CONTENT
Contents:
Earle Birney
[00:00:00]
Reads "Njarit".
Earle Birney
[00:02:27]
Reads "Francisco Treguerras".
Earle Birney
[00:04:45]
Reads "Beldams of Tepoztlán".
Earle Birney
[00:05:30]
Reads "Conducted Ritua: San Juan de Ulúa".
Earle Birney
[00:06:48]
Reads "Salt Fish and Akee".
Earle Birney
[00:09:00]
Reads "Professor of Middle English Confronts Monster".
Earle Birney
[00:09:50]
Reads "On the Beach".
Earle Birney
[00:10:37]
Reads "Turbonave Magnolia".
Earle Birney
[00:15:11]
Reads "Advice to a Hamilton (Ont.) lady about to travel again".
Earle Birney
[00:16:29]
Reads "Guadelupe".
Earle Birney
[00:17:40]
Reads "Prosperity in Poza Rica".
Earle Birney
[00:18:33]
Reads "Caribbean Kingdoms".
Earle Birney
[00:21:05]
Reads "Toronto Board of Trade goes abroad".
Notes:
Title based on contents of file.
- “Njarit”: state of Mexico, mountainous and dense jungle. Narrow deep canyons called barancas, can look down into jungle villages. Amongst these villages bright schoolhouses or factories appear, appear as irrationality in an otherwise harmonious landscape
- “Francisco Tresguerra”: Born in Solea, Mexico (1759-1833), Tresguerra was a self-taught architect, sculptor, engraver, and poet who introduced neoclassical form into the churches in his town in opposition to the elaborate rococo style. One church remains which his Last Judgement, which is a self-portrait.
- “Salt Fish and Akee”: Written after a dinner in Jamaica. Birney notices that you can now buy preserved akee fruit in Toronto now. Proper way to eat this delicacy is with salt fish (salted Newfoundland cod).
- “Professor”: Written in Jamaica.
- “On the Beach”: Written in West Indies.
- “Turbonave Magnolia”: Voyage on a terrible Spanish passenger ship from Trinidad to Spain.
- “Guadelupe”: Shrine on the edge of Mexico City. Traditional place to go for penance, for the last half-mile/mile penitents travel on their knees to the shrine.
- “Prosperity”: Oil found near a small jungle village.
- “Caribbean”: Poems have been circling around Caribbean Sea and now back in flowering islands.
- “Toronto”: October 1962, the day after the world was supposed to end – Khrushchev and Kennedy and the Cuba crisis. Chartered plane of Toronto Board (60 or 120 people) arrived and upstaged Birney. Birney was invited to the reception at largest club in Chile (Union Club, Santiago de Chile). His poet’s revenge was recording one half of a conversation he overheard.
NOTES
RELATED WORKS
Citation:
Ice, Cod, Bell or Stone; Near False Creek Mouth