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For Robert Robert Kroetsch. Joy W. Oct 15/86\n- Kerr “Aware”: poems in praise of alcohol. In Saskatchewan a television campaign called the Aware Program, promoting abstinence. \n- “Spirit”: Poem in praise of Edmonton, notes there probably aren’t many of those.\n- Going: Poems about good taste and against mass production.\n- “Transcript”: Poem for university students.\n- “Fight”: Based on the ‘fight for the family farm’, the most used political slogan in Saskatchewan.\n- Kreisel: A trip to Fiji, attempting to find his hotel reservation at the airport. Staying at a guest house and visiting with locals. Second excerpt on attending delegation on Indigenous rights.\n- Kamboureli: immigrant experience, in the form of a journal.\n- Sproxton: a head frame is a part of a mine, he feels the need to explain as many have incorrectly titled or discussed his book title. Some of the poems have to do with languages or voices playing off/against each other.\n"],"contents":["Neuman  \n[00:00:00]  \nIntroduces\nDon Kerr   \n[00:15:01]  \nReads \"1968: An Aware Poem for the Responsible Use of Alcohol\".\nDon Kerr  \n[00:17:55]  \nReads \"1968: The Spirit of Edmonton\".\nDon Kerr \n[00:20:30]  \nReads excerpt from \"Going Places\".\nDon Kerr  \n[00:23:16]  \nReads \"Editing the Prairie\".\nDon Kerr  \n[00:24:19]  \nReads \"The Transcript\".\nDon Kerr   \n[00:25:00]  \nReads \"The Fight for the Family Poet\".\nHenry Kreisel   \n[32:55]\nReads excerpts from \"Another Country\".\nSmaro Kamboureli   \n[00:56:55]  \nReads excerpts from \"In the Second Person\".\nBrix Sproxton\n[01:08:08]  \nReads excerpts from \"Head Frame\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558520049668,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":2.4240513},{"id":"8376","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Robert Kroetsch fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Robert Kroetsch fonds"],"collection_contributing_unit":["University of Calgary, Archives and Special Collections"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_id":[""],"persistent_url":["https://searcharchives.ucalgary.ca/robert-kroetsch-fonds"],"item_title":["The Bards of March: Mar 15/86 Barbour/Prize Draw/Kroetsch (Nichol) Van Herk B Wiebe"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[29.10.1]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2036"],"creator_names":["Kroetsch, Robert"],"creator_names_search":["Kroetsch, Robert"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/120613489\",\"name\":\"Kroetsch, Robert\",\"dates\":\"1927-2011\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Author\",\"Performer\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Barbour, Doug","Nichol, B.P.","Van Herk, Aritha","Wiebe, Rudy"],"contributors_names_search":["Barbour, Doug","Nichol, B.P.","Van Herk, Aritha","Wiebe, Rudy"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Barbour, Doug \",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/76350280\",\"name\":\"Nichol, B.P.\",\"dates\":\"1944-1988\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/110789564\",\"name\":\"Van Herk, Aritha\",\"dates\":\"-1954\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/39385421\",\"name\":\"Wiebe, Rudy\",\"dates\":\"-1934\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]}]"],"performer_name":["Barbour, Doug ","Nichol, B.P.","Van Herk, Aritha","Wiebe, Rudy"],"Performance_Date":[1986],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"A and B\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"XHE\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Good\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"\",\"physical_condition\":\"Good\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"\",\"other_physical_description\":\"\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"RK_Acc_775_04.25.29.10-1\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T00:59:20\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"978.34 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1986-03-15\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Dates taken from container and/or accompanying material.\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"Edmonton [?], Alberta, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"Address":["Edmonton [?], Alberta, Canada"],"City":["Edmonton, Alberta"],"content_notes":["\nReadings as well as prize draws for the NeWest event.\n- 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.\n- Recording includes prize draw by Jack Lewis (NeWest manager): Rudy Wiebe giving away his books (Wiebe helped organize the event), art prize.\n- 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.\"\n- 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.\n- Rudy Wiebe: Reading from The Temptation of Big Bear, the last and only speech of big Bear, post-conviction.\n"],"contents":["Doug Barbour  \n[00:00:56]\nReads \"Alone on the Road\".\nDoug Barbour\n[00:03:30]\nReads \"That Gone Tune\".\nDoug Barbour\n[00:08:25]\nReads \"For a Branch of Almond Tree in Bloom, 1890\".\nUnknown\n[00:09:45]\nUntitled [begins with epigraph from review Smaro Kambourelli wrote of Phyllis Webb].\nB.P. Nichol\n[00:20:15]\nReads \"1: For a Poet Who Has Stopped Writing\" by Robert Kroetsch.\nB.P. Nichol\n[00:21:30]\nReads \"14: I Find Myself Reading the Old Guys Now December 6th 1983\" by Robert Kroetsch.\nB.P. Nichol\n[00:22:31]\nReads \"Sonnet #1\" by Robert Kroetsch.\nB.P. Nichol\n[00:23:32]\nReads \"I'm Getting Old Now\" by Robert Kroetsch.\nB.P. Nichol\n[00:24:42]\nReads \"Sonnet #5\" by Robert Kroetsch.\nB.P. Nichol\n[00:25:15]\nReads \"Sonnet for My Daughters\" by Robert Kroetsch.\nB.P. Nichol\n[00:26:00]\nReads \"1\" by Robert Kroetsch.\nB.P. Nichol\n[00:26:31]\nReads \"3\" by Robert Kroetsch.\nB.P. Nichol\n[00:27:05]\nReads \"Envoy, To Begin With\" by Robert Kroetsch.\nAritha Van Herk\n[00:30:57]\nReads excerpt from No Fixed Address.\nRuby Wiebe\n[00:47:04]\nReads excerpt from The Temptation of Big Bear."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"Kroetsch, Advice to My Friends. Van Herk, No Fixed Address. Wiebe, The Tempation of Big Bear.\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558525292544,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":2.4240513}]