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The fonds consists of correspondence, manuscripts, teaching papers, personal and financial records, material pertaining to the Vancouver Poetry Centre, photographs, audiotapes, ephemera, etc."],"collection_source_collection_id":["MsC 26"],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["Basil Bunting's lecture and reading from Ezra Pound's \"Cantos\" for his English class at UBC on November 30 1970 and bpNichol's reading"],"item_title_source":["J-card and Recording"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Classroom recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["Tallman, Warren","Bunting, Basil","Pound, Ezra","Nichol, bp (Barrie Phillip)"],"creator_names_search":["Tallman, Warren","Bunting, Basil","Pound, Ezra","Nichol, bp (Barrie Phillip)"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\" http://viaf.org/viaf/11397708\",\"name\":\" Tallman, Warren\",\"dates\":\"1921-1994\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/4949021\",\"name\":\"Bunting, Basil\",\"dates\":\"1900-1985\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\",\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/24606774\",\"name\":\"Pound, Ezra\",\"dates\":\"1885-1972\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Author\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/76350280\",\"name\":\"Nichol, bp (Barrie Phillip)\",\"dates\":\"1944-1988\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\",\"Reader\",\"Performer\"]}]"],"contributors":["[]"],"Production_Date":[1970],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"../Uploads/12214/Warren Tallman Fonds_MsC 26.44_201.jpg\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"\",\"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\":\"J-card\",\"other_physical_description\":\"Black and white clear jewel case with J-card\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"201 Side A.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:47:42\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"43.6 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"Sound Recording\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"},{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"201 Side B.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:46:06\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"42.2 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"Sound Recording\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1970-11-30\",\"type\":\"Production Date\",\"notes\":\"Basil Bunting reading poetry at Warren Tallman's classroom \",\"source\":\"J-card\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1424987\",\"venue\":\"UBC\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"6398 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4\",\"latitude\":\"49.2586\",\"longitude\":\"-123.2452\"}]"],"Address":["6398 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4"],"Venue":["UBC"],"City":["Vancouver, British Columbia"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Side A contains Basil Bunting's lecture for his own class at UBC on November 30 1970: he's reading from Pound's \\\"Cantos\\\" and discussing the selections of poems as labelled on the cassette's jcard: \\\"Canto 80,\\\" \\\"Canto 81,\\\" \\\"Canto 49\\\", and \\\"Canto 4\\\". Bunting was in a visiting professor position for Fall 1970, brought by Tallman and Peter Quartermain.\\n\\nSide B is a b.p. nichol reading introduced by another speaker (potentially Robin Blaser). It is not clear if this event took place in one of Blaser's classes at SFU, nor is any date given. \\nThe sound quality on side two is better than side one\",\"type\":\"General\"}]"],"Related_works":["[]"],"_version_":1853670556698673152,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:00.983Z","score":4.0026903}]