CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
8358
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 uncollected poems (Tape 2)
Title Source:
Transcribed from the artifact
Title Note:
Writing on back of container. Label of recording title and included poems taped to box. Box stamped JH 0X8.
Language:
English
Production Context:
Studio recording
Identifiers:
[8.1-2]
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:
T00:28:07
Size:
463.45 MB
Dates
Date:
1966
Type:
Performance Date
Notes:
Dates supplied through research for copyright.
LOCATION
CONTENT
Contents:
Earle Birney
[00:00:00]
Reads "The Doukhobor".
Earle Birney
[00:02:09]
Reads "Night".
Earle Birney
[00:04:05]
Reads "On a Diary".
Earle Birney
[00:16:53]
Reads "Tea With My Shetland Grand-Aunt".
Earle Birney
[00:19:53]
Reads "Gabardine Fireman".
Notes:
Contents of file handwritten on container rather than label.
- 1920s-50s, prose and verse mostly uncollected
- “Doukhobor”: written in 1920 when Birney was 16 and heading to his job in Canadian Bank of Commerce in B.C., the train passed a Doukhobor settlement.
- “Night”: made it into the UBC paper, when a freshman, with this poem.
- “Diary”: Comes from Birney’s second book of poems, not reprinted since. Poem is “somewhat poetic” comments on the diary of a girl Birney met in London during the war, diary begun in 1935 when she was 15. Dedicated to Margaret Crossland, the girl and now a poet in London.
- “Tea”: 1920s, result of visit with Shetland aunt, upset by sparrows on her roof.
- “Gabardine Fireman”: anecdote written from friend Eric Nickle’s Vancouver column. Birney restarts the poem when reading.
NOTES
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