CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
8379
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 Poetry Reading
Title Source:
Transcribed from the artifact
Title Note:
List of readers.
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Identifiers:
[29.13]
Rights
Rights:
In Copyright (InC)
Notes:
Enters Public Domain at the end of 2041
CREATORS
Name:
Kroetsch, Robert
Dates:
1927-2011
CONTRIBUTORS
Name:
McMaster, Sheila
Name:
Vaira, Ursula
Dates:
1952-
Name:
Jenkins, Kay
Name:
Dingwald, Mairi
Name:
Mann, Elizabeth
Name:
Marlin, Linda
MATERIAL DESCRIPTION
Recording Type:
Analogue
AV Type:
Audio
Material Designation:
Cassette
Physical Composition:
Magnetic Tape
Extent:
1/8 inch
Side:
A
Tape Brand:
Memorex
Sound Quality:
Good
Physical Condition:
Good
DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION
Duration:
T00:44:21
Size:
1.43 GB
Dates
Date:
1988
Type:
Performance Date
Notes:
Dates taken from container and/or accompanying material.
LOCATION
CONTENT
Contents:
Sheila McMaster
[00:00:00]
Reads "Selene".
Sheila McMaster
[00:01:12]
Reads "Freedom".
Sheila McMaster
[00:01:27]
Reads "His Friend".
Sheila McMaster
[00:02:05]
Reads "Shadow of a Shaman".
Sheila McMaster
[00:02:45]
Reads "Slight of Hand".
Sheila McMaster
[00:03:10]
Reads "Hibiscus".
Sheila McMaster
[00:03:26]
Reads "To Have Known More of You".
Ursula Vaira
[00:05:10]
Reads "Under a Blue Moon at Midnight".
Ursula Vaira
[00:06:28]
Reads "The Apple Tree".
Ursula Vaira
[00:08:40]
Reads "Snapshot Motel 6".
Ursula Vaira
[00:11:08]
Reads "Cadillac".
Ursula Vaira
[00:12:10]
Reads "I Spoke the Word and It Rained".
Ursula Vaira
[00:13:00]
Reads "untitled".
Kay Jenkins
[00:14:35]
Reads "Morocco".
Kay Jenkins
[00:15:19]
Reads "untitled".
Kay Jenkins
[00:16:07]
Reads "Lover".
Kay Jenkins
[00:16:30]
Reads "On Richard Street".
Kay Jenkins
[00:17:24]
Reads "Our Love".
Kay Jenkins
[00:18:00]
Reads "Taped".
Mairi Dingwald
[00:20:00]
Reads "In Defense of Men".
Mairi Dingwald
[00:23:00]
Reads "The Golden Rule in 1991".
Mairi Dingwald
[00:25:10]
Reads "Song of a Wanderer".
Elizabeth Mann
[00:30:40]
Reads "You See No More".
Elizabeth Mann
[00:31:32]
Reads "A Change of Colour".
Elizabeth Mann
[00:32:05]
Reads "I Heard Your Voice".
Elizabeth Mann
[00:33:15]
Reads "Who Is This?".
Elizabeth Mann
[00:34:33]
Reads "Too Hard".
Elizabeth Mann
[00:35:02]
Reads "Leaving".
Elizabeth Mann
[00:35:47]
Reads "First Spring Day".
Linda Marlin
[00:37:02]
Reads "untitled".
Linda Marlin
[00:39:15]
Reads "She Had a Cottage".
Notes:
- A weeklong poetry workshop in August 1991. Somewhere with a beach (British Columbia?)
- “I Spoke”: fascinated by the act of naming, by naming something it will exist. Also about chickens.
- Robert Kroetsch on Kay – she is a successful watercolour painter who has decided to write poems
- Dingwald – comparatively late to writing, she considers it verse rather than poetry. Living as a learning process.
- “Song”: “I would not have read tonight except Robert read it and said ‘why not?’”
- Robert Kroetsch on Mann – poet from the interior
- Mann: difficulties of building and sustaining a ranch, as well as women’s condition
- Martin recording is not part of the workshop recording.
NOTES
RELATED WORKS
Citation:
n/a. Poems written during weeklong workshop.