CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
8376
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:
The Bards of March: Mar 15/86 Barbour/Prize Draw/Kroetsch (Nichol) Van Herk B Wiebe
Title Source:
Transcribed from the artifact
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Identifiers:
[29.10.1]
Rights
Rights:
In Copyright (InC)
Notes:
Enters Public Domain at the end of 2036
CREATORS
Name:
Kroetsch, Robert
Dates:
1927-2011
CONTRIBUTORS
Name:
Barbour, Doug
Name:
Nichol, B.P.
Dates:
1944-1988
Name:
Van Herk, Aritha
Dates:
-1954
Name:
Wiebe, Rudy
Dates:
-1934
MATERIAL DESCRIPTION
Recording Type:
Analogue
AV Type:
Audio
Material Designation:
Cassette
Physical Composition:
Magnetic Tape
Extent:
1/8 inch
Side:
A and B
Tape Brand:
XHE
Sound Quality:
Good
Physical Condition:
Good
DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION
Duration:
T00:59:20
Size:
978.34 MB
Dates
Date:
1986-03-15
Type:
Performance Date
Notes:
Dates taken from container and/or accompanying material.
LOCATION
Address:
Edmonton [?], Alberta, Canada
CONTENT
Contents:
Doug Barbour
[00:00:56]
Reads "Alone on the Road".
Doug Barbour
[00:03:30]
Reads "That Gone Tune".
Doug Barbour
[00:08:25]
Reads "For a Branch of Almond Tree in Bloom, 1890".
Unknown
[00:09:45]
Untitled [begins with epigraph from review Smaro Kambourelli wrote of Phyllis Webb].
B.P. Nichol
[00:20:15]
Reads "1: For a Poet Who Has Stopped Writing" by Robert Kroetsch.
B.P. Nichol
[00:21:30]
Reads "14: I Find Myself Reading the Old Guys Now December 6th 1983" by Robert Kroetsch.
B.P. Nichol
[00:22:31]
Reads "Sonnet #1" by Robert Kroetsch.
B.P. Nichol
[00:23:32]
Reads "I'm Getting Old Now" by Robert Kroetsch.
B.P. Nichol
[00:24:42]
Reads "Sonnet #5" by Robert Kroetsch.
B.P. Nichol
[00:25:15]
Reads "Sonnet for My Daughters" by Robert Kroetsch.
B.P. Nichol
[00:26:00]
Reads "1" by Robert Kroetsch.
B.P. Nichol
[00:26:31]
Reads "3" by Robert Kroetsch.
B.P. Nichol
[00:27:05]
Reads "Envoy, To Begin With" by Robert Kroetsch.
Aritha Van Herk
[00:30:57]
Reads excerpt from No Fixed Address.
Ruby Wiebe
[00:47:04]
Reads excerpt from The Temptation of Big Bear.
Notes:
Readings as well as prize draws for the NeWest event.
- Doug Barbour, two poems about jazz: “Alone on the Road” and “That Gone Tune”. “That Gone Tune” inspired by listening to Dave Holland Quintet at the Yardbird Suite (jazz club in Edmonton). Third poem “For a Branch of Almond Tree in Bloom, 1890” a sonnet responding to Vincent van Gogh’s iconic “Branch of Almond Tree in Bloom” (find now as “Almond Blossom”). Untitled mixing sound and poetry, begins with epigraph from review Smaro Kambourelli wrote of Phyllis Webb.
- Recording includes prize draw by Jack Lewis (NeWest manager): Rudy Wiebe giving away his books (Wiebe helped organize the event), art prize.
- Robert Kroetsch (read by bpNichol): Nichol qualifies to read Robert Kroetsch because his father was born in Alberta. Nichol notes that Kroestch seeks to displace the “I” in his poetry, and this is about as far as he can displace it. Reading from section Advice to My Friends, "1: For a Poet Who Has Stopped Writing," "14: I Find Myself Reading the Old Guys Now December 6th 1983," "Sonnet #1," "I'm Getting Old Now," "Sonnet #5"; reading from section Sounding the Name, "Sonnet for My Daughters"; reading from section The Poet's Mother "1," "3," "Envoy, To Begin With."
- Aritha Van Herk: Reading from No Fixed Address: something is playing in the background during the reading. Section pertains to characters going to poetry reading, feminist and ironic view of poetry by novelists.
- Rudy Wiebe: Reading from The Temptation of Big Bear, the last and only speech of big Bear, post-conviction.
NOTES
RELATED WORKS
Citation:
Kroetsch, Advice to My Friends. Van Herk, No Fixed Address. Wiebe, The Tempation of Big Bear.