CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
9475
Partner Institution:
University of Alberta
Source Collection Title:
Department of English Recorded Events
Source Collection ID:
Source Collection Description:
Literary readings, lectures, panels, and interviews organized by members of the Department of English, University of Alberta, featuring local and visiting authors. Original recordings on reel to reel and cassette, Edmonton and area, 1969-1988.
Source Collection Contributing Unit:
Department of English and Film Studies
Source Collection URI:
Source Collection Image URL:
Sub Series Title:
Department of English Recorded Events
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
Jeni Couzyn at University of Alberta, 1976
Language:
English
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
CREATORS
Name:
Couzyn, Jeni
Name:
Couzyn, Jeni
CONTRIBUTORS
MATERIAL DESCRIPTION
Recording Type:
Analogue
AV Type:
Audio
Material Designation:
Reel to Reel
Physical Composition:
Magnetic Tape
Playing Speed:
3 3/4 ips
Tape Brand:
Sony SLH-72-370-BL
DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION
Dates
Date:
1976-12-02
Type:
Performance Date
LOCATION
Venue:
University of Alberta Humanities Centre Lecture Theatre 3 (Edmonton)
CONTENT
NOTES
Type:
General
Note:
Handwritten from back of reel case: Poet Jeni Couzin (mispelled; ***Jeni Couzyn), a public reading, UofA, Dec. 2/76. Typewritten from sheet of paper inside reel case: Please announce to all your classes: A public reading by poet Jeni Couzin, Humanities Centre, University of Alberta, AV L-3, Thursday December 2nd 1976, 12:30 noon. Jeni Couzin was born in South Africa, spent ten years in Britain, and has recently settled in Canada. She was one of the founding members of Poets' Conference and Poets' Union in Britain, and was an influential figure in the formation of public reading series in England. She is the author of three books of poetry, all of which were well received: Flying (Workshop Press), Monkey's Wedding (Cape), and the recent Christmas in Africa (J.J. Douglas, Vancouver, & Heinemann, London). Some of the critical praise for Christmas in Africa: "One is grateful to a poet who can recover for the modern reader the authentic and mythopoetic voice" -- Rosemary Sullivan, CVII. "She sings and curses, applauds and deplores the conditions of humanity in these wonderfully moving poems, which include memories of Africa, personal and symbolic extensions of themes in conteporary science-fiction writing, and finally, her own intesely human reactions to everyday things . . . Home truths, and beautiful poetry" -- Gwendolyn MacEwan, Books in Canada
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