CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
8362
Partner Institution:
University of Calgary
Source Collection Title:
Robert Kroetsch 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:
Robert Kroetsch reads at Pages book store, 1995
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Identifiers:
[1.1]
Rights
Rights:
In Copyright (InC)
Notes:
Enters Public Domain at the end of 2045
CREATORS
Name:
Kroetsch, Robert
Dates:
1927-2011
CONTRIBUTORS
Name:
Van Herk, Aritha
Dates:
1954-
MATERIAL DESCRIPTION
Recording Type:
Analogue
AV Type:
Audio
Tape Brand:
Unknown acetate
Sound Quality:
Good
Physical Condition:
Good
DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION
Duration:
T00:47:16
Size:
778.92 MB
Dates
Date:
1995
Type:
Performance Date
Notes:
Dates supplied through research for copyright.
LOCATION
CONTENT
Contents:
Aritha Van Herk
Introduces Robert Kroetsch to an audience of creative writing students at Pages book store.
Robert Kroetsch
[00:06:44]
Reads "Hornbook #15".
Robert Kroetsch
[00:09:55]
Reads "Winnipeg is a Kind of a News".
Robert Kroetsch
[00:12:50]
Reads "The New World and Finding It".
Robert Kroetsch
[00:21:20]
Reads "The RK Hornbooks: Retractions".
Robert Kroetsch
[00:25:27]
Reads "Hornbook B".
Robert Kroetsch
[00:27:05]
Reads "Hornbook E: Against Reason".
Robert Kroetsch
[00:27:35]
Reads "Hornbook H".
Robert Kroetsch
[00:28:04]
Reads "The Oviedo Mound".
Robert Kroetsch
[00:31:07]
Reads "What the Crow Said".
Notes:
The physical copy of this digitized recording has not been located.
- Speaking to creative writing students at Pages on Kensington, Calgary. Aritha van Herk introduces.
- [00:06:00] Writing poetry again through the story of Rita K.
- “Hornbook #15”: question of identity through place – fallacy of the isolation of writers. Two sentence line format.
- “Winnipeg”: when writing poetry listening to the speech unit, and therefore the body writes the poem in a sense. Here he is intentionally writing way beyond the breath statement.
- “New”: Fascination with the Orpheus story. A quest for the new world. Calgary as a part of this dream or illusion.
- “Oviedo”: Three mound poems which Rita organizes her poems into – “The Battle River Mound,” “The Kyoto Mound,” and “The Oviedo Mound”. Question of ‘where does the poem reside?’.
- Crow: inspired by readings of South American magic realist texts
- Qs: What do you do when you aren’t feeling inspired to write?
- Process for writing – going over drafts repeatedly
- When did he know he wanted to be a writer? At 16, in an English class in Red Deer High School. His English teacher asked if he ever considered being a writer.
NOTES
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