[{"id":"1263","cataloger_name":["Masoumeh,Zaare"],"partnerInstitution":["Concordia University"],"collection_source_collection":["SGWU Reading Series-Concordia University Department of English fonds"],"source_collection_label":["SGWU Reading Series-Concordia University Department of English fonds"],"collection_contributing_unit":["Records Management and Archives"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_description":["The fonds consists of some administrative records of the SGWU Department of English and the Concordia Department of English between 1971 and 2000. It also consists of some SGWU Department of English records related to student academic activities in the 1940s and to public readings and lectures, and a few interviews, produced between 1966 and 1972. The fonds mainly includes minutes of departmental meetings and some course timetables. It also includes some student papers in bound volumes and 63 sound recordings (80 audio reels) mainly composed of poetry readings (see the Concordia SpokenWeb project which uses this material) but also a few lectures given at SGWU. There are also loose typed sheets describing some of the SGWU poetry readings."],"collection_source_collection_id":["I086"],"persistent_url":["http://archives.concordia.ca/I086"],"item_title":["Margaret Atwood and Alden Nowlan at Sir George Williams University, The Poetry Series, 13 October 1967"],"item_title_source":["Cataloguer"],"item_title_note":["\"MARGARET ATWOOD & ALDEN NOWLAN Recorder October 13, 1967 3.75 ips on 1.mil tape, 1/2 track\" written on sticker on the back of the tape's box. \"ATWOOD & NOWLAN I006/SR36\" written on sticker on the spine of the tape's box. \"I006-11-036\" also written on sticker on the reel."],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_series_title":["The Poetry Series"],"item_subseries_title":["Poetry 2"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"creator_names":["Atwood, Margaret","Nowlan, Alden"],"creator_names_search":["Atwood, Margaret","Nowlan, Alden"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/109322990\",\"name\":\"Atwood, Margaret\",\"dates\":\"1939-\",\"notes\":\"Internationally acclaimed novelist, poet, critic and activist Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa, Ontario, November 18,  1939. She lived in Ottawa until 1946, when her family settled in Leaside, a suburb of Toronto. Atwood entered Victoria College, University of Toronto, graduating with honours in 1961. Her first published collection of short stories was Double Persephone (Hawkshead Press, 1961). By 1962 she had received her MA in English from Radcliffe College in the United States, working on further graduate work at Harvard University between 1962-3 and in 1965-7. Atwood published her second collection, The Circle Game (Anansi, 1966), which won the Governor General Award for Poetry. She wrote articles and reviews for Alphabet, Canadian Literature and Poetry among other publications, and poems for Kayak, Quarry and the Tamarack Review. Poems published in her book The Animals in That Country (Oxford University Press, 1968) won first prize in Canada’s 1967 Centennial Commission poetry competition. In 1970, she published three books, Procedures for Underground (Oxford University Press), Time, and The Journals of Susanna Moodie (Oxford University Press). Between 1971 and 1973, Atwood worked as an editor and on the board of directors for the House of Anansi press in Toronto, which in 1972 published Power Politics. Upon the discovery at Harvard that there was no published critical study of Canadian literature, she herself wrote and published Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (Anansi, 1971), which created a stir of controversy, but by 1982 it had sold more than 85,000 copies. Since 1973, she has lived with novelist and activist Graeme Gibson, producing one daughter, Eleanor Jess in 1967. Atwood taught and lectured at several Universities across Canada, the US and Australia, including University of British Columbia, University of Alberta, Sir George Williams University (now Concordia) (1967-68) and at York University, Toronto. A selection of her publications include Surfacing (Simon & Schuster, 1972), You Are Happy (Harper &Row, 1974), Selected Poems (Oxford University Press) in 1976, Two-Headed Poems (Simon & Schuster, 1978), True Stories (Oxford University Press, 1981) and Second Words (Anansi, 1982). Her 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale (McClelland & Stewart) became one of her most popular and critically acclaimed works. In 1986 she was appointed the Berg Chair at New York University, as well as serving as writer-in-residence at several other Universities. She co-founded and served as chair to the Writer’s Union of Canada in 1982-3, and served as president of the Canadian Centre of International PEN from 1984-6. She has subsequently published dozens of books, including Cat’s Eye (McClelland & Stewart, 1988), The Robber Bride (Doubleday, 1993), Alias Grace (Nan A. Talese, 1996), The Blind Assassin (Nan A. Talese, 2000), Oryx and Crake (2003), The Penelopiad (Canongate, 2005) and The Tent (Bloomsbury, 2006). Along with many other publications of her critical essays, Curious Pursuits: Occasional Writing 1970-2005 (Verago) came out in 2005. Her most recent novel, Year of the Flood was published in 2009 by Doubleday Press. Her many prizes and honours include the Booker Prize, the E.J. Pratt Medal (1961), The Radcliffe Medal (1980), the Commonwealth Writers Prize (1992), and she is a Companion of the Order of Canada. Atwood continues to work as spokesperson on behalf of human rights and the environment. \",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Author\",\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/61671170\",\"name\":\"Nowlan, Alden\",\"dates\":\"1933-1983\",\"notes\":\"Poet Alden Nowlan was born in 1933, in a small rural community near Windsor, Nova Scotia. Nowlan worked as a young man on farms, lumbermills and as a sawmill helper before he left Nova Scotia for New Brunswick to take a position as editor at The Heartland Observer and the night-news editor of the Saint John Telegraph-Journal. Nowlan published his first book of poetry, The rose and the puritan (New Brunswick University) in 1958, which was followed closely by A darkness in the earth (Hearse Press, 1959), Wind in a rocky country (Emblem Books, 1961), Under the ice (Ryerson Press, 1961) and The things which are (Contact Press,1962). In 1967 he was awarded the Governor General’s Award for his collection Bread, wine and salt (Clarke, Irwin). Nowlan was offered a writer-in-residence position at the University of New Brunswick, which he held until his death in 1983. His other publications include The mysterious naked man (Clarke, Irwin, 1969), Between tears and laughter (Clarke, Irwin, 1971), I’m a stranger here myself (Clarke, Irwin, 1974), Smoked glass (Clarke, Irwin, 1977) and I might not tell everybody this (Clarke, Irwin, 1982). Nowlan was also involved in theatre, and wrote three stage plays with Walter Learning: Frankenstein (Clarke, Irwin, 1976), The incredible murder of Cardinal Tosca (Learning Productions, 1978) and The dollar woman (Borealis Press, 1981). Nowlan was awarded a Doctor of Letters from the University of New Brunswick, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Nowlan has also published an autobiography, Various persons named Kevin O’Brien (Clarke, Irwin, 1973), a collection of short stories, Miracle at Indian River (Clarke, Irwin, 1968), a travel book Campobello, the outer island (Clarke, Irwin, 1975) and collected twenty-seven of his magazine articles in Double exposure (Brunswick Press, 1978). Numerous titles were published posthumously, including Alden Nowlan, early poems (Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 1983), The best of Alden Nowlan (Lancelot Press, 1993), Will ye let the mummers in? 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Alden Nowlan reads from Bread Wine and Salt (Clarke, Irwin & Company, 1967) along with some poems from unknown sources.  "],"contents":["margaret_atwood_alden_nowlan_i006-11-036.mp3\n\nMargaret Atwood\n00:00:00\nI should apologize to begin with for my voice. I don't usually sound quite this much like Tallulah Bankhead [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q255815]. I have the Montreal [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q340] plague. The first poem is called \"This is a Photograph of Me,\" and it's the first poem in The Circle Game [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7723073].\n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:00:22\nReads \"This is a Photograph of Me\" from The Circle Game.\n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:01:35\nThe next poem is called \"Camera,\" and is dedicated to somebody I knew who liked to take pictures. \n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:01:44\nReads \"Camera\" [from The Circle Game].\n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:03:24\nAnd a small poem called \"Carved Animals\".\n\nMargaret Atwood\n00:03:28\nReads \"Carved Animals\" [from The Circle Game].\n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:04:25\nNow some more recent poems, which I should explain were mostly written in the United States [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30] when I was living there recently. The first one called \"At the Tourist centre in Boston\". Now Canada [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16] does have a Tourist centre in Boston [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q100].\n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:04:50\nReads \"At the Tourist centre in Boston\" [published later in The Animals in that Country [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7713834]].\n\nMargaret Atwood\n00:06:48\nAnd a poem called \"The Green Man\", which is dedicated to the Boston Strangler [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2855440]. \n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:06:56\nReads \"The Green Man\".\n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:08:03\nThis poem called \"A Fortification\".\n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:08:08\nReads \"A Fortification\" [published later in The Animals in that Country].\n\nMargaret Atwood\n00:09:17\nAnd this is a poem dedicated to my landlady who didn't remain my landlady for very long, called \"The Landlady\".\n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:09:29\nReads \"The Landlady\" [published later in The Animals in that Country].\n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:10:47\nAnd this poem called, \"A Foundling\".\n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:10:52\nReads \"A Foundling\" [published later in The Animals in that Country].\n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:11:41\nAnd this poem, which has no title.\n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:11:49\nReads [\"Untitled\"].\n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:12:58\nAnd a poem called \"Chronology\", which I wrote in one of my more paranoid states of mind. \n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:13:06\nReads \"Chronology\".\n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:14:39\nAnd here's my love poem to the, our large, friendly neighbour to the south. \n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:14:50\nReads \"Backdrop addresses cowboy\" [published later in The Animals in that Country].\n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:16:28\nThen a slightly happier poem called \"A Voice\".\n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:16:36\nReads \"A Voice\" [published later in The Animals in that Country].\n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:17:40\nAnd this one called, \"An Elegy for the Giant Tortoises\", which I wrote when I heard that they were planning to use a certain South Pacific island for the building of an airstrip. \n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:17:59\nReads \"An Elegy for the Giant Tortoises\" [published later in The Animals in that Country].\n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:19:19\nAnd this poem called, \"It is Dangerous to Read Newspapers\".\n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:19:26\nReads \"It is Dangerous to Read Newspapers\" [published later in The Animals in that Country].\n\nMargaret Atwood\n00:20:49\nReads \"I was reading a scientific article\" [published later in The Animals in that Country].\n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:22:20\nAnd the last poem. \n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:22:25\nReads \"The Reincarnation of Captain Cook\" [published later in The Animals in that Country].\n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:23:44\nThank you.\n \nAudience\n00:23:46\nApplause [cut off abruptly].\n \nUnknown\n00:23:49\n[Cut or edit made in tape. Unknown amount of time elapsed]. \n \nRoy Kiyooka\n00:23:58\n...for quite a number of years as a journalist in the Maritimes [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q731613], and this evening he is here with his wife and son and will be reading to you. Ladies and gentlemen, Alden Nowlan [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4713563].\n \nAudience\n00:24:17\nApplause.\n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:24:26\nThank you, Roy [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3445789]. First of all, I want to reassure everyone that I'm not going to read everything that's in this. I feel that probably there are some who are terrified when they see this, you know. It's really basically laziness that I haven't shortened anything out, I simply have wads of things here. \n \nAudience\n00:24:55\nLaughter.\n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:24:56\nNo no, not that one, I'm not going to read them all, definitely, definitely not. \n \nUnknown\n00:25:09\nSilence [pause].\n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:25:19\nFirst of all I have a very, very bad poem that I can't resist reading. I realized that it's sort of a bad beginning to start off with a poem that the poet himself considers a very bad one, but I wrote this when I arrived here this afternoon. To the natural egotism of a poet, you see, I can't resist offering it to this sort of captive audience here. [Audience laughter]. \"Poem for the Ritz Carlton\". [Audience laughter].\n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:26:06\nReads \"Poem for the Ritz Carlton\" [audience laughter throughout].\n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:26:30\nThat isn't really as critical of the Ritz Carlton as it sounds, because I sort of like the crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173882], too, you see. [Audience laughter]. Next, I'd like to read some poems from my new book, Bread Wine and Salt, which is going to be published by Carter when, the first week in November, at three dollars and fifty cents. [Audience laughter]. That is the commercial.  \"I, Icarus\".\n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:27:15\nReads \"I, Icarus\" [from Bread, Wine and Salt].\n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:28:34\nReads \"Sailors\" [from Bread, Wine and Salt].\n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:30:06\nThis poem is entitled \"The Cinnamon Bears\", which sounds at first as if it were some sort of an animal cooking. But actually, what these cinnamon bears were, was back around the turn of the century in New Brunswick [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1965], as I've been told, there were all sorts of touring side-show type of things, you know, that, fortune tellers, and...people with a monkey, organ grinders with a monkey, and all this type of, sort of strolling pyres or wandering minstrels that existed up until the advent of radio and television. And it was a terrific thing, of course, in these backwoods communities. No doubt throughout Canada and the United States, when one of these people arrived. And among the, among these people were men who had trained bears, who, because of their colouration, were called cinnamon bears. And this poem actually is sort of a found poem, because it's not so much a creative thing as it is the transcription of a conversation which I happened to overhear between an old couple in northern New Brunswick. A man and his wife in their seventies, when they, suddenly something brought back these memories of these days of the organ grinders and the cinnamon bears. And as I say, I sort of made the poem more or less by simply transcribing the things which they said to one another, which it seemed to me was sort of a poetry, a form of poetry itself. \n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:32:20\nReads \"The Cinnamon Bears\" [from Bread, Wine and Salt].\n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:33:21\nReads \"Britain Street, St. John, New Brunswick” [published as “Britain Street” in Bread, Wine and Salt].\n\nAlden Nowlan\n00:34:22\nThis is another, sort of a found poem, I'm not really terribly convinced that it's a poem at all. Last year, when I had a quite serious illness, one afternoon I was in the waiting room at the doctor's office, and the only thing that seemed to lay at hand for me to read was a copy of one of these Confessions magazines entitled Secret Life. [Audience laughter]. And as I glanced through it, it seemed to me, all that I actually read of it, you know, were these sort of captions at the top of the articles, and some of the big type in it. But it seemed to me really, as I glanced through it, that it had, that it contained sort of a crazy poetry of its own. At least, in the mood that I was in at the time, I sort of responded to it as though it were a crazy sort of poetry. And so as I sat there I sort of jotted down some of these things from the magazine, and ever since I've been trying to pass it off as a poem. \n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:35:37\nReads \"Secret Life\" [from Bread, Wine and Salt; audience laughter throughout].\n \nAudience\n00:36:39\nLaughter. \n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:36:57\nReads \"In Our Time\" [from Bread, Wine and Salt].\n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:40:51\nReads \"The Changeling\" [from Bread, Wine and Salt].\n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:41:49\nReads \"The Hollow Men\" [from Bread, Wine and Salt].\n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:42:38\nThis poem is entitled \"Ancestral Memories Evoked by Attending the Opening of the Playhouse in Fredericton [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2138], New Brunswick\". And I'm a little afraid that many of you will feel that it is sort of pointless. I'm not sure really but what you'd have to be completely immersed in the atmosphere of New Brunswick to get the real point of it, but. But that said, not implying any superiority on the part of New Brunswickers, unfortunately. Anyway.\n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:43:26\nReads \"Ancestral Memories Evoked by Attending the Opening of the Playhouse in Fredericton, New Brunswick\" [from Bread, Wine and Salt].\n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:44:36\nReads \"Every Man Owes God a Death\" [from Bread, Wine and Salt].\n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:46:41\nThis poem, for no particular reason, is entitled \"The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner\". \n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:46:48\nReads \"The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner\" [from Bread, Wine and Salt].\n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:48:23\nThis is a poem that came out of a serious illness that I had last year, and it's entitled \"In the Operating Room\". \n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:48:38\nReads \"In the Operating Room\" [from Bread, Wine and Salt].\n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:50:05\nI have a few other recent poems I'll dig out of these. \n \nUnknown\n00:50:12\nAmbient Sound [pause; Nowlan turning pages].\n\nAlden Nowlan\n00:50:47\nAs I sort through these, I'm silently cursing myself for not having done this before I came here. \n \nUnknown\n00:50:52\nAmbient Sound [pause; Nowlan turning pages].\n\nAlden Nowlan\n00:51:20\nHere's a fairly recent poem which isn't a political poem at all, but a human poem. And one that I wrote as a result of watching on television the debates in the United Nations [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1065] on the Middle East [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7204] crisis. And one of the horrible things I felt as I watched it was how completely dehumanized it all was, that the real, human issues had been lost sight of, and sort of drowned in an ocean of resolutions and memos from embassies and all this sort of things. And one night when they televised these sessions through until about four o'clock, the ambassador of Saudi Arabia [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q851] spoke, and he delivered certainly a very bigoted speech, and one that as a speech I wouldn't have agreed with, but I felt an admiration for him, because it had seemed to me that he was the only really human thing that had happened there all day. You know, that certainly he was a bigoted old man, full of thousands of years of hatred, but it was a human hatred, expressed in a human manner, something that the rest of them had completely lost sight of. And as a result of this feeling I wrote this poem, \"For Jamil Baroody [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96384169], Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United Nations on the Occasion of his Address to the Security Council, June 1967\".\n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:53:21\nReads \"For Jamil Baroody, Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United Nations on the Occasion of his Address to the Security Council, June 1967\".\n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:56:26\nReads \"Fireworks\".\n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:57:34\nReads \"Two Poems for the Nova Scotia Department of Highways\".\n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:59:31\nFinally, this is a poem entitled \"State Visit\", and the motivation of it, like one of the earlier ones I read, was sort of this same feeling of frustration at the complete dehumanization of politics as we feel it today, and particularly, this sort of apotheosis of world leaders into some sort of a symbol, so they even, I think, begin to think of themselves in these sort of abstract terms, rather than as a human being. And out of--this is sort of, I suppose, perhaps to a degree sort of a bitter little poem, but it stemmed from an emotion which I'm sure many of us feel. \n \nAlden Nowlan\n01:00:27\nReads \"State Visit\".\n \nEND\n01:01:39\n[Cut off abruptly]."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Year-Specific Information:\\n\\nIn 1967, Margaret Atwood had moved to Montreal and took a position at the Sir George Williams University English Department. She taught four courses, as well as working on The Animals in that Country, The Journals of Susanna Moodie, Procedures for Underground and finished The Edible Woman.\\n\\nIn 1967, Nowlan was awarded the Governor General’s Award for Bread Wine and Salt which was published the same year. He was also offered a position as writer-in-residence at the University of New Brunswick during this time.\",\"type\":\"General\"},{\"note\":\"Local Connections:\\n\\nAtwood became an important award-winning poet and critic in Canada by the late 60‘s. Sir George Williams English Department hired Atwood in 1967 as an English lecturer, after she had graduated from Harvard.  \\n\\nHis direct connection to Sir George Williams is unknown, but Nowlan was one of the most popular and important Maritime poets of the sixties and seventies.\",\"type\":\"General\"},{\"note\":\"Reel-to-reel tape>CD>digital file\",\"type\":\"Preservation\"},{\"note\":\"Original transcript, print catalogue, research, introduction and edits by Celyn Harding-Jones.\\n\\nAdditional research and edits by Ali Barillaro\",\"type\":\"Cataloguer\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"http://www.ccca.ca/history/ozz/english/authors/nowlan_alden.html\",\"citation\":\"“Alden Nolan (1933-1983)”. One Zero Zero: A Virtual Library of English Canadian Small      Presses, 1945-2044. Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art: The Canadian Art Database. 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I don't usually sound quite this much like Tallulah Bankhead [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q255815]. I have the Montreal [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q340] plague. The first poem is called \\\"This is a Photograph of Me,\\\" and it's the first poem in The Circle Game [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7723073].\\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:00:22\\nReads \\\"This is a Photograph of Me\\\" from The Circle Game.\\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:01:35\\nThe next poem is called \\\"Camera,\\\" and is dedicated to somebody I knew who liked to take pictures. \\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:01:44\\nReads \\\"Camera\\\" [from The Circle Game].\\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:03:24\\nAnd a small poem called \\\"Carved Animals\\\".\\n\\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:03:28\\nReads \\\"Carved Animals\\\" [from The Circle Game].\\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:04:25\\nNow some more recent poems, which I should explain were mostly written in the United States [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30] when I was living there recently. The first one called \\\"At the Tourist centre in Boston\\\". Now Canada [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16] does have a Tourist centre in Boston [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q100].\\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:04:50\\nReads \\\"At the Tourist centre in Boston\\\" [published later in The Animals in that Country [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7713834]].\\n\\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:06:48\\nAnd a poem called \\\"The Green Man\\\", which is dedicated to the Boston Strangler [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2855440]. \\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:06:56\\nReads \\\"The Green Man\\\".\\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:08:03\\nThis poem called \\\"A Fortification\\\".\\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:08:08\\nReads \\\"A Fortification\\\" [published later in The Animals in that Country].\\n\\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:09:17\\nAnd this is a poem dedicated to my landlady who didn't remain my landlady for very long, called \\\"The Landlady\\\".\\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:09:29\\nReads \\\"The Landlady\\\" [published later in The Animals in that Country].\\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:10:47\\nAnd this poem called, \\\"A Foundling\\\".\\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:10:52\\nReads \\\"A Foundling\\\" [published later in The Animals in that Country].\\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:11:41\\nAnd this poem, which has no title.\\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:11:49\\nReads [\\\"Untitled\\\"].\\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:12:58\\nAnd a poem called \\\"Chronology\\\", which I wrote in one of my more paranoid states of mind. \\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:13:06\\nReads \\\"Chronology\\\".\\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:14:39\\nAnd here's my love poem to the, our large, friendly neighbour to the south. \\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:14:50\\nReads \\\"Backdrop addresses cowboy\\\" [published later in The Animals in that Country].\\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:16:28\\nThen a slightly happier poem called \\\"A Voice\\\".\\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:16:36\\nReads \\\"A Voice\\\" [published later in The Animals in that Country].\\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:17:40\\nAnd this one called, \\\"An Elegy for the Giant Tortoises\\\", which I wrote when I heard that they were planning to use a certain South Pacific island for the building of an airstrip. \\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:17:59\\nReads \\\"An Elegy for the Giant Tortoises\\\" [published later in The Animals in that Country].\\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:19:19\\nAnd this poem called, \\\"It is Dangerous to Read Newspapers\\\".\\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:19:26\\nReads \\\"It is Dangerous to Read Newspapers\\\" [published later in The Animals in that Country].\\n\\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:20:49\\nReads \\\"I was reading a scientific article\\\" [published later in The Animals in that Country].\\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:22:20\\nAnd the last poem. \\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:22:25\\nReads \\\"The Reincarnation of Captain Cook\\\" [published later in The Animals in that Country].\\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:23:44\\nThank you.\\n \\nAudience\\n00:23:46\\nApplause [cut off abruptly].\\n \\nUnknown\\n00:23:49\\n[Cut or edit made in tape. Unknown amount of time elapsed]. \\n \\nRoy Kiyooka\\n00:23:58\\n...for quite a number of years as a journalist in the Maritimes [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q731613], and this evening he is here with his wife and son and will be reading to you. Ladies and gentlemen, Alden Nowlan [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4713563].\\n \\nAudience\\n00:24:17\\nApplause.\\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:24:26\\nThank you, Roy [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3445789]. First of all, I want to reassure everyone that I'm not going to read everything that's in this. I feel that probably there are some who are terrified when they see this, you know. It's really basically laziness that I haven't shortened anything out, I simply have wads of things here. \\n \\nAudience\\n00:24:55\\nLaughter.\\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:24:56\\nNo no, not that one, I'm not going to read them all, definitely, definitely not. \\n \\nUnknown\\n00:25:09\\nSilence [pause].\\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:25:19\\nFirst of all I have a very, very bad poem that I can't resist reading. I realized that it's sort of a bad beginning to start off with a poem that the poet himself considers a very bad one, but I wrote this when I arrived here this afternoon. To the natural egotism of a poet, you see, I can't resist offering it to this sort of captive audience here. [Audience laughter]. \\\"Poem for the Ritz Carlton\\\". [Audience laughter].\\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:26:06\\nReads \\\"Poem for the Ritz Carlton\\\" [audience laughter throughout].\\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:26:30\\nThat isn't really as critical of the Ritz Carlton as it sounds, because I sort of like the crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173882], too, you see. [Audience laughter]. Next, I'd like to read some poems from my new book, Bread Wine and Salt, which is going to be published by Carter when, the first week in November, at three dollars and fifty cents. [Audience laughter]. That is the commercial.  \\\"I, Icarus\\\".\\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:27:15\\nReads \\\"I, Icarus\\\" [from Bread, Wine and Salt].\\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:28:34\\nReads \\\"Sailors\\\" [from Bread, Wine and Salt].\\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:30:06\\nThis poem is entitled \\\"The Cinnamon Bears\\\", which sounds at first as if it were some sort of an animal cooking. But actually, what these cinnamon bears were, was back around the turn of the century in New Brunswick [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1965], as I've been told, there were all sorts of touring side-show type of things, you know, that, fortune tellers, and...people with a monkey, organ grinders with a monkey, and all this type of, sort of strolling pyres or wandering minstrels that existed up until the advent of radio and television. And it was a terrific thing, of course, in these backwoods communities. No doubt throughout Canada and the United States, when one of these people arrived. And among the, among these people were men who had trained bears, who, because of their colouration, were called cinnamon bears. And this poem actually is sort of a found poem, because it's not so much a creative thing as it is the transcription of a conversation which I happened to overhear between an old couple in northern New Brunswick. A man and his wife in their seventies, when they, suddenly something brought back these memories of these days of the organ grinders and the cinnamon bears. And as I say, I sort of made the poem more or less by simply transcribing the things which they said to one another, which it seemed to me was sort of a poetry, a form of poetry itself. \\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:32:20\\nReads \\\"The Cinnamon Bears\\\" [from Bread, Wine and Salt].\\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:33:21\\nReads \\\"Britain Street, St. John, New Brunswick” [published as “Britain Street” in Bread, Wine and Salt].\\n\\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:34:22\\nThis is another, sort of a found poem, I'm not really terribly convinced that it's a poem at all. Last year, when I had a quite serious illness, one afternoon I was in the waiting room at the doctor's office, and the only thing that seemed to lay at hand for me to read was a copy of one of these Confessions magazines entitled Secret Life. [Audience laughter]. And as I glanced through it, it seemed to me, all that I actually read of it, you know, were these sort of captions at the top of the articles, and some of the big type in it. But it seemed to me really, as I glanced through it, that it had, that it contained sort of a crazy poetry of its own. At least, in the mood that I was in at the time, I sort of responded to it as though it were a crazy sort of poetry. And so as I sat there I sort of jotted down some of these things from the magazine, and ever since I've been trying to pass it off as a poem. \\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:35:37\\nReads \\\"Secret Life\\\" [from Bread, Wine and Salt; audience laughter throughout].\\n \\nAudience\\n00:36:39\\nLaughter. \\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:36:57\\nReads \\\"In Our Time\\\" [from Bread, Wine and Salt].\\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:40:51\\nReads \\\"The Changeling\\\" [from Bread, Wine and Salt].\\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:41:49\\nReads \\\"The Hollow Men\\\" [from Bread, Wine and Salt].\\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:42:38\\nThis poem is entitled \\\"Ancestral Memories Evoked by Attending the Opening of the Playhouse in Fredericton [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2138], New Brunswick\\\". And I'm a little afraid that many of you will feel that it is sort of pointless. I'm not sure really but what you'd have to be completely immersed in the atmosphere of New Brunswick to get the real point of it, but. But that said, not implying any superiority on the part of New Brunswickers, unfortunately. Anyway.\\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:43:26\\nReads \\\"Ancestral Memories Evoked by Attending the Opening of the Playhouse in Fredericton, New Brunswick\\\" [from Bread, Wine and Salt].\\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:44:36\\nReads \\\"Every Man Owes God a Death\\\" [from Bread, Wine and Salt].\\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:46:41\\nThis poem, for no particular reason, is entitled \\\"The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner\\\". \\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:46:48\\nReads \\\"The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner\\\" [from Bread, Wine and Salt].\\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:48:23\\nThis is a poem that came out of a serious illness that I had last year, and it's entitled \\\"In the Operating Room\\\". \\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:48:38\\nReads \\\"In the Operating Room\\\" [from Bread, Wine and Salt].\\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:50:05\\nI have a few other recent poems I'll dig out of these. \\n \\nUnknown\\n00:50:12\\nAmbient Sound [pause; Nowlan turning pages].\\n\\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:50:47\\nAs I sort through these, I'm silently cursing myself for not having done this before I came here. \\n \\nUnknown\\n00:50:52\\nAmbient Sound [pause; Nowlan turning pages].\\n\\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:51:20\\nHere's a fairly recent poem which isn't a political poem at all, but a human poem. And one that I wrote as a result of watching on television the debates in the United Nations [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1065] on the Middle East [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7204] crisis. And one of the horrible things I felt as I watched it was how completely dehumanized it all was, that the real, human issues had been lost sight of, and sort of drowned in an ocean of resolutions and memos from embassies and all this sort of things. And one night when they televised these sessions through until about four o'clock, the ambassador of Saudi Arabia [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q851] spoke, and he delivered certainly a very bigoted speech, and one that as a speech I wouldn't have agreed with, but I felt an admiration for him, because it had seemed to me that he was the only really human thing that had happened there all day. You know, that certainly he was a bigoted old man, full of thousands of years of hatred, but it was a human hatred, expressed in a human manner, something that the rest of them had completely lost sight of. And as a result of this feeling I wrote this poem, \\\"For Jamil Baroody [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96384169], Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United Nations on the Occasion of his Address to the Security Council, June 1967\\\".\\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:53:21\\nReads \\\"For Jamil Baroody, Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United Nations on the Occasion of his Address to the Security Council, June 1967\\\".\\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:56:26\\nReads \\\"Fireworks\\\".\\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:57:34\\nReads \\\"Two Poems for the Nova Scotia Department of Highways\\\".\\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:59:31\\nFinally, this is a poem entitled \\\"State Visit\\\", and the motivation of it, like one of the earlier ones I read, was sort of this same feeling of frustration at the complete dehumanization of politics as we feel it today, and particularly, this sort of apotheosis of world leaders into some sort of a symbol, so they even, I think, begin to think of themselves in these sort of abstract terms, rather than as a human being. And out of--this is sort of, I suppose, perhaps to a degree sort of a bitter little poem, but it stemmed from an emotion which I'm sure many of us feel. \\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n01:00:27\\nReads \\\"State Visit\\\".\\n \\nEND\\n01:01:39\\n[Cut off abruptly].\",\"notes\":\"Margaret Atwood reads from The Circle Game (House of Anansi, 1966) as well as poems later published in The Animals in that Country (Oxford University Press, 1968). Nowlan reads from Bread Wine and Salt (Clarke, Irwin & Company, 1967) along with some poems from unknown sources.  \\n\\n00:00- Atwood introduces “This is a Photograph of Me”. [INDEX: Montreal plague, Tallula Bankhead, The Circle Game; from The Circle Game.]\\n00:22- Reads “This is a Photograph of Me”.\\n01:35- Introduces “The Camera”. [INDEX: dedication; published as “Camera” in The Circle \\tGame]\\n01:44- Reads “Camera”.\\n03:28- Reads “Carved Animals”. [INDEX: from The Circle Game, part III of “Some Objects of Wood and Stone”.]\\n04:25- Introduces “At the tourist center in Boston”. [INDEX: recent poems, written in the   United States, Canada’s Tourist Center in Boston; from The Animals in that Country.]\\n04:50- Reads “At the tourist centre in Boston”.\\n06:48- Introduces “The Green Man” [INDEX: dedicated to the Boston Strangler; from   unknown source.]\\n06:56- Reads “The Green Man”.\\n08:03- Reads “A fortification”. [INDEX: from The Animals in that Country]\\n09:17- Introduces “The landlady”. [INDEX: dedicated to Atwood’s landlady; from The Animals in that Country.]\\n09:29- Reads “The landlady”.\\n10:47- Reads “A foundling”. [INDEX: from The Animals in that Country.]\\n11:41- Reads “Untitled”.\\n12:58- Introduces “Chronology”. [INDEX: written in a paranoid state of mind; from unknown source.]\\n13:06- Reads “Chronology”.\\n14:39- Introduces “Backdrop addresses cowboy”. [INDEX: U.S.A.]\\n14:50- Reads “Backdrop addresses cowboy”. [INDEX: from The Animals in that Country.]\\n16:36- Reads “A voice”. [INDEX: from The Animals in that Country.]\\n17:40- Introduces “Elegy for giant tortoises”. [INDEX: South Pacific Island as airstrip; from The Animals in that Country.]\\n17:59- Reads “Elegy for giant tortoises”.\\n19:19- Reads “It’s dangerous to read newspapers”. [INDEX: from The Animals in that        Country.]\\n20:49- Reads “I was reading a scientific article”. [INDEX: from The Animals in that Country.]\\n22:25- Reads “The reincarnation of Captain Cook”. [INDEX: from The Animals in that      Country.]\\n23:44- End of Atwood’s Reading.\\n23:49- CUT in recording.\\n23:58- Roy Kiyooka introduces Alden Nowlan (recording starts mid-introduction). [INDEX: Journalist from the Maritimes, with wife and son.]\\n24:26- Alden Nowlan introduces the reading. [INDEX: shortened poems, poems for reading.]\\n25:19- Introduces “Poem for the Rich Carlton”. [INDEX: bad poem, written upon arrival in Montreal, egotism of poet, audience.]\\n26:06- Reads “Poem for the Rich Carlton”.\\n26:30- Explains “Poem for the Rich Carlton”. [INDEX: crypt of St Paul’s Cathedral.]\\n26:43- Introduces “I, Icarus”. [INDEX: from new book, Bread Wine and Salt, published by Carter at $3.50.]\\n27:15- Reads “I, Icarus”.\\n28:34- Reads “Sailors” [INDEX: from Bread, Wine and Salt.]\\n30:06- Introduces “The Cinnamon Bears”. [INDEX: animal cooking, turn of the century, New Brunswick, touring side-show, fortune tellers, monkey, organ grinders, strolling pyres, wandering minstrels, advent of radio and television, Canada, United States, trained bears, found poem, creative, transcription of a conversation, northern New Brunswick, form of poetry; from Bread, Wine and Salt.]\\n32:30- Reads “The Cinnamon Bears”.\\n33:21- Reads “Britain Street, St. John, New Brunswick”. 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He received a Canada Council grant in 1963 to write and draw, and published The LSD Leacock (Coach House Press, 1966), which established Rosenblatt as a serious poet. Rosenblatt then began editing Jewish Dialog, a literary magazine, in 1969, which he continued until 1983. He then published The winter of the lunar moth (House of Anansi, 1968), a collection of drawings Greenbaum (Coach House Press, 1971), Bumblebee dithyramb (Press Porcepic, 1972), Dream craters (Press Porcepic, 1974), Virgins and vampires (McClelland and Stewart, 1975) and Top Soil (Press Porcepic, 1976) which won a Governor General’s Award. Rosenblatt continued to publish collections of drawings and poetry collections, including Doctor Anacoda’s solar fan club (Press Porcepic, 1978), Loosely tied hands: an experiment in punk (Black Moss Press, 1978), The sleeping lady (Exile Editions, 1979), Brides of the stream (Oolichan Books, 1983), a reconsidered history of Marxist government Beds and consenting dreamers (Oolichan Books, 1994) and The Joe Rosenblatt Reader (Exile Editions, 1995). Rosenblatt received the B.C. Book Prize in 1986 for Poetry Hotel (1986). Rosenblatt held several positions as writer in residence at the University of Western Ontario (1979-1980), as Visiting Lecturer at University of Victoria (1980-81), the Associate editor of the Malahat Review (1980-1982), the writer in residence at the Saskatoon Public Library (1985-86) and at the University of Rome and University of Bologna (1987). 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He graduated from Kamsack College in 1956, and completed one year at the University of Saskatoon before touring and working in many cities across Canada. Newlove has worked as a school teacher in Birtle, Manitoba, as a social worker in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, at a radio station in Weyburn and in Regina, and as a clerk at the University of British Columbia bookstore. His first book of poetry is titled Grave Sirs (Robert Reid & Takao Tanabe, Vancouver, 1962), and is followed by Elephants, Mothers and Others (Periwinkle, 1963), Moving in Alone (Contact Press, 1965), What They Say (Weed/Flower, 1967), Black Night Window (McClelland & Stewart, 1968), The Cave (McClelland & Stewart, 1970), and Lies (McClelland & Stewart, 1972), which won a Governor General’s Award for Poetry. Newlove also worked as a writer-in-residence at the Regina Public Library, the University of Toronto, at Montreal’s Loyola College, and as an editor with McClelland & Stewart Publishing in Toronto between 1970 and 1974. Newlove then edited the McClelland & Stewart anthology Canadian Poetry: the modern era (1977), and published his own poetry in The fat man: selected poems 1962-1972 (McClelland & Stewart, 1977), The green plain (Oolichan Books, 1981), The night the dog smiled (ECW Press, 1986) and Apology for absence: Selected poems 1962-1992 (Porcupine’s Quill, 1993). Newlove taught writing at the David Thompson University Centre in Nelson, B.C. and as an editor for the Federal Commission of Official Languages in Ottawa. Newlove won the Saskatchewan Writer’s Guild Founders Award in 1984 and the Literary Press Group Award in 1986. 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Joe Rosenblatt will begin the reading, there will be an intermission, and John Newlove will follow. I'm going to quote largely from the copy in Joe Rosenblatt's book, The LSD Leacock, for I hope servient biographical information. It goes like this, he was born in Toronto on December the 26th, nineteen hundred and thirty-three. He says that he has suffocated in Toronto ever since then. He attended the Central Technical School [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5061898] and dropped out in Grade 10, he has worked as a grave-digger, plumber's helper, civil servant, railway express misanthrope. He has attended the Provincial Institute of Trades where he acquired a diploma as a welder fitter, his favourite writers are Ambrose Biers, William Blake [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41513], Emily Dickinson [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4441], and A.M. Klein [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2778027], and his favourite dream, is Cyclops turning up at a [nigh-bank (?)]. [Audience laughter]. His previous book of poems, which was probably printed in nineteen hundred and sixty-three, is called Voyage of the Mood. Joe Rosenblatt.\n \nAudience\n00:02:27\nApplause.\n \nJoe Rosenblatt\n00:02:36\nWasn't that [unintelligible]. I'm just going to read, start off with a series of poems I had written about my uncle, who was a fishmonger. He had a habit of phyxiating and murdering fish, and slicing them, and slicing them, and...well, I'll start. This is called \"Uncle Nathan: Blessed his memory, speaketh in land-locked green\".\n \nJoe Rosenblatt\n00:03:11\nReads \"Uncle Nathan: Blessed his memory, speaketh in land-locked green\" [from Winter of the Luna Moth].\n\nAudience\n00:06:10\nApplause.\n \nJoe Rosenblatt\n00:06:16\n\"Ichthycide\". Another poem about my uncle. It's funny, really. [Audience laughter].\n \nJoe Rosenblatt\n00:06:29\nReads \"Ichthycide\" [from Winter of the Luna Moth].\n \nAudience\n00:08:05\nLaughter and applause .\n\nJoe Rosenblatt\n00:08:13\nThis is called \"A Shell Game\". Has to do with my uncle. [Audience laughter]. It's about his funeral.  Joke.\n \nJoe Rosenblatt\n00:08:27\nReads \"A Shell Game [from Winter of the Luna Moth].\n \nJoe Rosenblatt\n00:09:42\nI wrote all kinds of poems. I was in Vancouver and I came across the god-awful logic of the zoo. It kinda scared the hell out of me. It was a bat. I've never seen a bat before. Met people who were bats. But this was the real McCoy, it was a fruit bat and it was hanging upside-down, you know, that's the way they live and they fornicate that way too, apparently, upside-down. So I wrote about bats. I have some more fish poems but I get tired of that after a while, you start hating it. And we'll begin with \"Bats\". While it's true the bat is a mammal, not a bird, there's all types of kinds of mythology based on prejudice about bats and which I've tried to embody in these poems. \n \nJoe Rosenblatt\n00:10:47\nReads \"Bats\" [from Winter of the Luna Moth].\n \nJoe Rosenblatt\n00:11:32\nOutside of the bat poem there came a group of sound poetry. Because I tried to get the feeling of the bat in the air, you know the image of the bat and the way it, and the movements of the bat. And this is called \"The Fruit Bat\". First encounter with a bat.\n \nJoe Rosenblatt\n00:11:56\nReads \"The Fruit Bat\" [from Winter of the Luna Moth].\n \nJoe Rosenblatt\n00:13:16\nThis is better. This is “The Bat Cage”.\n \nJoe Rosenblatt\n00:13:19\nReads “The Bat Cage” [from Winter of the Luna Moth]. \n \nJoe Rosenblatt\n00:14:39\nOh we're like bats to people. We used to have, I used to, when I was a kid I went to school and we had a music teacher who was a bit of a nut. She used to rap kids across the knuckles, you know, just to hear them singing. [Audience laughter]. I may have called her Mrs. Love, I can't recall, the trauma was too great. \n \nJoe Rosenblatt\n00:15:02\nReads “The Vampire” [from Winter of the Luna Moth].\n \nAudience\n00:15:48\nLaughter and applause.\n \nJoe Rosenblatt\n00:15:55\n\"The Zombie\". Just whistle when you get tired of these bat poems. Do anything you wanna do. \"The Zombie\". By the way, bats are supposed to be unkosher according to Leviticus [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41490]. It says all fowl that creep going upon all fours shall be an abomination unto you. But in other countries they're great appetizers, the fruit bat especially, and I have an interesting poem, not right now though. \"The Zombie\".\n \nJoe Rosenblatt\n00:16:26\nReads \"The Zombie\" [from Winter of the Luna Moth].\n \nJoe Rosenblatt\n00:17:59\nI'll read one more bat poem, it's the sound thing, an experimental thing which I later developed...too many of these bats here. I wrote a Christmas poem on bats, too. Maybe I should read it. Dedicated to somebody. I'll read the sound poem. It's more important. \"The Butterfly Bat\". There is a butterfly bat. Hm, found in the Orient, a very beautiful bat, orange apparently, very beautiful though. \n \nJoe Rosenblatt\n00:18:43\nReads \"The Butterfly Bat\" [from Winter of the Luna Moth].\n \nJoe Rosenblatt\n00:20:02\nReads \"Orpheus in Stanley Park\" [from Winter of the Luna Moth]. \n \nJoe Rosenblatt\n00:20:50\n\"Sex and Death\". This poem's for a friend of mine. \n \nJoe Rosenblatt\n00:20:54\nReads \"Sex and Death\" [from Winter of the Luna Moth].\n \nJoe Rosenblatt\n00:21:48\nI should read the egg poems, because I don't think many of you have heard them, and I'll do that. You'd probably like them better than the bats. More meaningful. This is called \"Egg Sonata\".\n \nJoe Rosenblatt\n00:22:20\nReads \"Egg Sonata\" [from The LSD Leacock].\n \nAudience\n00:23:38\nLaughter and applause.\n \nJoe Rosenblatt\n00:23:44\nReads [\"Let the egg live\" (?)].\n \nUnknown\n00:24:56\nSilence [cut or edit made in tape. Unknown amount of time elapsed].\n \nJoe Rosenblatt\n00:24:59\nReads \"It's in the egg, in the little round egg\" [from The LSD Leacock].\n \nJoe Rosenblatt\n00:26:57\nOne more egg poem. [Audience laughter and applause]. This is a prose poem. It's called \"The Easter I got for Passover\". [Audience laughter]. It has to do with an argument, whether the body of Christ did not go to heaven, the moderator of the United Church of Canada [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q198745] said yesterday, Right Reverend Ernest Marshall Howes told a press conference that he does not believe in the physical resurrection of Jesus but does believe in a spiritual resurrection. That's from the Globe and Mail [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43148750], 23rd of April, '65.\n \nJoe Rosenblatt\n00:27:46\nReads \"The Easter I got for Passover\" [from The LSD Leacock].\n \nAudience\n00:30:02\nApplause. \n \nJoe Rosenblatt\n00:30:10\nDo you want to read, John? Where is he? [Audience laughter]. Do you want me to come here? Yeah, okay. I'm getting down to my dirty poems, what am I going to do? I wrote a whole bunch of pornographic poetry, right. I'll read that for the end when the time's up. I wrote a poem to Che Guevara [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5809], if I can find the thing now, because I really muddled everything up here, oh here it is. It's called \"The Beehive: An Elegy to Che Guevara\".\n \nJoe Rosenblatt\n00:30:52\nReads \"The Beehive: An Elegy to Che Guevara\" [from Winter of the Luna Moth]. \n \nJoe Rosenblatt\n00:31:42\nA poem about a critic, “Fable”.\n \nJoe Rosenblatt\n00:31:47\nReads “Fable” [from Winter of the Luna Moth].  \n \nJoe Rosenblatt\n00:32:37\nI wrote another one about a critic, a friend of mine. It's called \"The Crab Louse\". I'll read it. [Audience laughter]. I think some of you may recognize him. \n \nJoe Rosenblatt\n00:32:47\nReads \"The Crab Louse\".\n \nJoe Rosenblatt\n00:33:25\nReads \"The Fire Bug Poet\".\n \nJoe Rosenblatt\n00:34:29\n\"How Mice Make Love,\" how'd this get in here? \"How Mice Make Love\".\n \nJoe Rosenblatt\n00:34:36\nReads \"How Mice Make Love\" [from Winter of the Luna Moth].\n \nJoe Rosenblatt\n00:35:29\n\"The Electric Rose\".\n \nJoe Rosenblatt\n00:35:34\nReads \"The Electric Rose\" [from Winter of the Luna Moth].\n \nAudience\n00:37:13\nApplause.\n \nJoe Rosenblatt\n00:37:17\nShould I read on? Well this is a poem called \"Itch\". It's about that cat who, you know, in the world of the dead. And as usual I mucked up all the mythology, but it was too late to change the poem. So I said, what the hell. \n \nJoe Rosenblatt\n00:37:44\nReads \"Itch\" [from Winter of the Luna Moth].\n \nJoe Rosenblatt\n00:41:51\nThere's a loathsome typographical error in here. That's what happens.\n \nJoe Rosenblatt\n00:41:56\nResumes reading \"Itch\" [from Winter of the Luna Moth].\n \nJoe Rosenblatt\n00:43:20\n[Unintelligible] a more cheerful poem, if I can find one here. How about \"Cricket Love\"? I'll read one very early poem I wrote, \"Better She Dressed in a Black Garment\". \n \nJoe Rosenblatt\n00:43:39\nReads \"Better She Dressed in a Black Garment\" [from Winter of the Luna Moth].\n \nJoe Rosenblatt\n00:44:21\nThank you. \n \nAudience\n00:44:22\nApplause.\n \nRoy Kiyooka\n00:44:35\nThere'll be a fifteen minute inter- [cut off abruptly]. \n \nEND\n00:44:37\n\n\njohn_newlove_i006-11-143.mp3 [File 2 of 2]\n\nRoy Kiyooka\n00:00:00\nWell, it gives me a very special kind of pleasure to introduce John Newlove. An old and dear friend. We met in the fall of '61 in Vancouver, and both of us had come from Saskatchewan [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1989] to Vancouver. I think that some of John's most memorable early poems have to do with the fact of Saskatchewan.  It's perhaps not an exaggeration to say that the place does continue to haunt him, and hopefully that the exorcism is not complete and that we may get some more Saskatchewan poems. Subsequently, and this is still in Vancouver, we shared a studio, or rather, he shared my studio [audience laughter], for a period of little over a year. Now during this time, we played marathon games of chess, ate several hundred dozens of chocolate-coated Long Johns, scribbled poems, dribbled paint, drank cheap red wine...and read through at least a dozen five-foot shelves of great and lesser works of literature, not to mention the confusion of mice, drunken poets, women, painters, and assorted kooks who kept visiting us. Now, it was during this period that his first book, called Grave Sirs was printed, and I have in italics here \"more or less.\" If you want to know the history of that book, you can ask John. I think there must be fifty odd copies that are still unbound someplace. This was printed by Robert Reed. It was followed by a second, called Elephants, Mothers, and Others, done by Tak Tanabe, again in Vancouver, and subsequent to that, it was rumored that Robert Columbo had discovered John Newlove for Canadian poetry [audience laughter], when he collected some of his works together in an anthology called Poetry '64. Now. Following this, of course, Contact Press bought out his book, Moving in Alone, which was perhaps the book that brought him his first large-scale critical attention. Meanwhile, of course, I'd come here, and some time afterwards I received a book, a wee book, called...let's see. [Audience laughter]. Can't read my own printing here. What They Say. Yes, What They Say is a wee book of poems, it's made up of the rejects from his manuscript that he submitted to McClelland and Stewart [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6800322]. McClelland and Stewart is to bring out his next book of poems called Black Night Window, when they get around to doing it. The manuscript has been in their hands for over twenty-four months. There has been much other activity which include three, two years and a third one coming up as poet in residence at Deep Springs [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5250324] in California [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q99]. I want to conclude this little preamble by saying that at the time that John moved out of our studio, I took over this room that he slept in and wrote poetry in. The mattress in this room was about sixteen inches from the floor, and on two sides, on the wall, there was copious scribbling.  Most of it were quotations from Heraclitus [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41155] that he was reading at that time.\n \nAudience\n00:04:43\nApplause.\n \nJohn Newlove\n00:04:51\nThey weren't quotations from whoever, whatever Greek name that was you just made up, [audience laughter], they were from Herodotus [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26825]. And, Roy [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3445789] might have mentioned that, while I suppose technically you could say I was sharing the studio, I was paying half the rent.  Almost half the rent. I was paying some rent. [Audience laughter]. And he never mentioned who won most of the chess games. I write a lot of...who's throwing things at me?  You didn't win any chess games. [Audience laughter]. And you weren't paying any rent, either. I write a lot of poems about dreams, one night I woke up with a dream about an Australian chief and I managed to write down most of it. It's called \"The Almost King\".\n \nJohn Newlove\n00:05:42\nReads \"The Almost King\" [audience laughter throughout].\n\nJohn Newlove\n00:08:32\nWell, when you have dreams like that, you don't really have much chance. I've a number of short poems, I'm told it's not good to give them at poetry readings because people don't listen fast enough or something. But. [Laughter]. This...Yes, that ashtray is stolen from the faculty club, George, and your wife stole it. [Audience laughter]. This one is called \"The Candle\".\n \nJohn Newlove\n00:09:07\nReads \"The Candle\".\n \nJohn Newlove\n00:09:19\nAgain a dream. This poem, misprinted in the Malahat Review [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1567225], is one that I most like. It's called \"The Engine and the Sea\".\n \nJohn Newlove\n00:09:32\nReads \"The Engine and the Sea\" [published later in The Cave and in The Fat Man].\n \nJohn Newlove\n00:11:26\nLove poems about sleep. And about dreams. This one is called \"Before Sleep\". I used to have a great deal of trouble going to sleep because I was afraid I would have nightmares.\n \nJohn Newlove\n00:11:44\nReads \"Before Sleep\" [later published in The Cave and in The Fat Man].\n \nJohn Newlove\n00:12:53\nAnd again another one about dreams, this one called \"The Dream Man”. Dreamed I once wrote a dream about somebody else's dream, but that's not fair, dreams are copyright. This was my own. [Audience laughter].\n \nJohn Newlove\n00:13:09\nReads \"The Dream Man\".\n \nJohn Newlove\n00:14:35\nAccording to the rules, you're supposed to say things in between poems, but I can't really ever think of anything appropriate to say in between them, so. I used to have some nice Ed Sullivan [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83807] routines, but I've forgotten them. This poem is called \"Burn\".\n \nJohn Newlove\n00:14:52\nReads \"Burn\".\n \nJohn Newlove\n00:15:16\nAnd this one, an old one, again fairly short. It's called \"No Song\".\n \nJohn Newlove\n00:15:25\nReads \"No Song\" [from Black Night Window and published later in The Fat Man].\n \nJohn Newlove\n00:15:47\nI have a poem I wrote for and about a friend, but after the poem was finished as you may see, I showed it to him but I didn't tell him it was about him. He said it was a very good poem and very accurate, and so on. But he didn't know it was about himself. It's called, \"What do you want, what do you want?\".\n \nJohn Newlove\n00:16:06\nReads \"What do you want, what do you want?\" [from Black Night Window and later published in The Fat Man; audience laughter and applause throughout].\n  \nJohn Newlove\n00:17:01\nAfter he said it was such an accurate poem, I couldn't tell him it was about him. This one's called \"Strand by Strand\".\n \nJohn Newlove\n00:17:14\nReads \"Strand by Strand\".\n \nJohn Newlove\n00:17:56\nThis is the first time I've kept to a list of...because usually I decide that I don't want to read a particular poem and I get all confused, but I'm very pleased with myself when I keep right to the schedule. Everything organized, everything complete. This short poem in five naturally short pieces is called \"One Day\".\n \nJohn Newlove\n00:18:23\nReads \"One Day\".\n \nJohn Newlove\n00:18:55\nCharles Williams [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124735] died in about 1953, he was an Englishman, originally Cockney. He wrote a number of what I think are very good poems, a number of detective novels, some theological deputation, I guess would be the right word. One of his detective novels is about finding the holy grail. It's called War in Heaven and it's out in Faber Paperback, go and buy it, it's really nice. This poem is for and from and about Charles Williams.\n \nJohn Newlove\n00:19:35\nReads “For and From Charles Williams” [from What They Say].\n \nJohn Newlove\n00:20:04\nNow my list has gone to pot, because I've got a poem down in a magazine that I didn't bring. So. One day some years ago, I was hitchhiking out to British Columbia [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1974]. I got to a place called Golden [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1020179], B.C. and I had to go up the Big Bend Highway [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30253222], this would be before the Rogers Pass [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q383051] was open. And I got a ride about thirty miles in on what I didn't know was an illegally-present logging truck, because the Big Bend Highway was not open to traffic for three more days. So I sat three days on the Big Bend Highway. This poem roughly...well, it's called \"Solitaire\".\n \nJohn Newlove\n00:20:47\nReads \"Solitaire\" [from Black Night Window and published later in The Fat Man].\n \nJohn Newlove\n00:21:22\nThis short one called \"El Paso\" because El Paso was the place where it happens. It was ninety degrees outside in El Paso [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16562], and with the air conditioning, which I couldn't turn off, it was about thirty below. And I couldn't sleep, I had to get up in the middle of the night and get dressed and get under the blankets, and I caught terrible cold in that motel. \n \nJohn Newlove\n00:21:41\nReads \"El Paso\".\n \nJohn Newlove\n00:21:56\nSince I've been out of Nova Scotia, I've written a couple of poems about or around Nova Scotia. The main thing I can't seem to get in a poem just yet is the difference between the Pacific Ocean [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q98], in Vancouver, and the Atlantic [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q97]. There seems a tremendous difference that I can feel but that I can't seem yet to grasp in the fact. This poem is called \"God Bless You\".\n \nJohn Newlove\n00:22:24\nReads \"God Bless You\" [later published in The Cave and in The Fat Man].\n \nAudience\n00:22:43\nLaughter.\n \nJohn Newlove\n00:22:47\nThe next piece is on the back of my list. I think this is about the only other ethnic Nova Scotia-type poem that I've got, but I was only there for about six months and I can't quite put out a book yet. This is called \"By the Grey Atlantic\".\n \nJohn Newlove\n00:23:04\nReads \"By the Grey Atlantic\" [published later in The Cave and in The Fat Man].\n \nJohn Newlove\n00:23:31\nI think I'll read quickly a number of poems from this book. I'm anxious not to keep you too long, if anybody feels like walking out, I won't really be insulted if you'll [unintelligible]. These are all quite simple so I might as well just give the title in my school-class fashion and then go on to read them. This is called \"The Photograph my Mother Keeps\". I might see first that Veregin [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7921203] is a town in Saskatchewan named after a leader of the Doukhobors [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5302215], they first came to that area after Peter the Lordly Verigin [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4107818] [unintelligible] his palace, which is really just a gigantic farmhouse, it's outside the town. \n \nJohn Newlove\n00:24:19\nReads \"The Photograph my Mother Keeps\".\n \nJohn Newlove\n00:25:04\nThis one, about a pregnant girl, it's called \"On Her Long Bed of Night”.\n \nJohn Newlove\n00:25:09\nReads \"On Her Long Bed of Night\".\n \nJohn Newlove\n00:26:12\nSo, this one's about my father. Drowning kittens, in a lot of houses in Saskatchewan you keep a rain barrel on a corner of the house underneath a spout to get the fresh rainwater for washing and so on.\n \nJohn Newlove\n00:26:27\nReads “My Daddy Drowned” [from Elephants, Mothers and Others and later published in The Fat Man].\n \nAudience\n00:27:09.11\nLaughter and applause.\n \nJohn Newlove\n00:27:18\nThis one is called \"Half in Love\".\n \nJohn Newlove\n00:27:22\nReads \"Half in Love\".\n \nJohn Newlove\n00:28:02\nThis one is called \"Sister Cowen\". She used to run a mission in Edmonton [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2096], and she had very good stew. She was a very violent woman. On Christmas Eve she used to give all the bums fifty cents, but she gave a particularly long sermon on Christmas Eve. She was very down on booze.\n \nJohn Newlove\n00:28:25\nReads \"Sister Cowen\".\n \nJohn Newlove\n00:28:40\nLaughter.\n \nJohn Newlove\n00:28:49\nThis one is set in Vancouver outside Roy Kiyooka's studio. \n \nJohn Newlove\n00:28:58\nReads unnamed poem.\n \nJohn Newlove\n00:29:30\nThe name of this book is Elephants, Mothers, and Others. I've read poems about others and one about my mother, and this is the elephant’s poem. \n \nJohn Newlove\n00:29:41\nReads “Elephants” from Elephants, Mothers, and Others [and published later in The Fat Man; audience laughter throughout].\n \nJohn Newlove\n00:30:01\nI think I've gone on too long, there is a longish poem called \"The Fat Man\", which I want to read, so I'll skip the rest of the stuff I thought I was going to read and just do this one.\n \nAnnotation\n00:30:18\nReads \"The Fat Man\" [published later in The Fat Man].\n \nAudience\n00:34:47\nApplause.\n \nJohn Newlove\n00:34:48\nIt's not finished, you see, it's not...[Audience laughter].\n \nJohn Newlove\n00:34:52\nResumes reading \"The Fat Man\" [published later in The Fat Man].\n \nJohn Newlove\n00:36:33\nThank you.\n \nAudience\n00:36:35\nApplause.\n \nEND\n00:36:55\n"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Year-Specific Information:\\n\\nIn 1968, Rosenblatt published his third collection of poetry, The winter of the lunar moth (House of Anansi).\\n\\n In 1968, Newlove published Black Night Window (McClelland & Stewart) and 3 Poems (Western P). The Fat Man: Selected Poems 1962-1972 (McClelland & Stewart, 1977) collects poems written during this time.\",\"type\":\"General\"},{\"note\":\"Local Connections:\\n\\nRosenblatt was an influential and up-and-coming Canadian poet in the mid 60’s and while there is no direct connection to Sir George Williams University, he was friends with and known by many in poetry circles.\\n\\nAs illustrated in the introduction to this reading, John Newlove was close friends with Roy Kiyooka (Professor at Sir George Williams and Reading Series Committee member) when they both lived in Vancouver. Newlove was also an important Canadian and Prairie poet.\",\"type\":\"General\"},{\"note\":\"Original transcript by Rachel Kyne\\n\\nOriginal print catalogue, introduction, research, and edits by Celyn Harding-Jones\\n\\nAdditional research and edits by Ali Barillaro\\n\",\"type\":\"Cataloguer\"},{\"note\":\"2 reel-to-reel tapes>2 CDs> 2 digital files\",\"type\":\"Preservation\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/oxford-companion-to-twentieth-century-poetry-in-english/oclc/807465072&referer=brief_results\",\"citation\":\"Besner, Neil. \\\"Rosenblatt, Joe (Joseph)\\\". The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English. Ian Hamilton (ed). Oxford University Press, 1996. \"},{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/contemporary-canadian-poem-anthology/oclc/988192362&referer=brief_results\",\"citation\":\"Bowering, George (ed). “John Newlove”. The Contemporary Canadian Poem Anthology.         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Montreal: Sir George Williams University, 6 October 1967, page 6. \"}]"],"_version_":1853670548835401728,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:53.477Z","digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"https://files.spokenweb.ca/concordia/sgw/audio/all_mp3/john_newlove_i006-11-143.mp3\",\"file_path\":\"files.spokenweb.ca>concordia>sgw>audio>all_mp3\",\"filename\":\"john_newlove_i006-11-143.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"00:36:55\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"88.6 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"john_newlove_i006-11-143.mp3 [File 2 of 2]\\n\\nRoy Kiyooka\\n00:00:00\\nWell, it gives me a very special kind of pleasure to introduce John Newlove. An old and dear friend. We met in the fall of '61 in Vancouver, and both of us had come from Saskatchewan [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1989] to Vancouver. I think that some of John's most memorable early poems have to do with the fact of Saskatchewan.  It's perhaps not an exaggeration to say that the place does continue to haunt him, and hopefully that the exorcism is not complete and that we may get some more Saskatchewan poems. Subsequently, and this is still in Vancouver, we shared a studio, or rather, he shared my studio [audience laughter], for a period of little over a year. Now during this time, we played marathon games of chess, ate several hundred dozens of chocolate-coated Long Johns, scribbled poems, dribbled paint, drank cheap red wine...and read through at least a dozen five-foot shelves of great and lesser works of literature, not to mention the confusion of mice, drunken poets, women, painters, and assorted kooks who kept visiting us. Now, it was during this period that his first book, called Grave Sirs was printed, and I have in italics here \\\"more or less.\\\" If you want to know the history of that book, you can ask John. I think there must be fifty odd copies that are still unbound someplace. This was printed by Robert Reed. It was followed by a second, called Elephants, Mothers, and Others, done by Tak Tanabe, again in Vancouver, and subsequent to that, it was rumored that Robert Columbo had discovered John Newlove for Canadian poetry [audience laughter], when he collected some of his works together in an anthology called Poetry '64. Now. Following this, of course, Contact Press bought out his book, Moving in Alone, which was perhaps the book that brought him his first large-scale critical attention. Meanwhile, of course, I'd come here, and some time afterwards I received a book, a wee book, called...let's see. [Audience laughter]. Can't read my own printing here. What They Say. Yes, What They Say is a wee book of poems, it's made up of the rejects from his manuscript that he submitted to McClelland and Stewart [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6800322]. McClelland and Stewart is to bring out his next book of poems called Black Night Window, when they get around to doing it. The manuscript has been in their hands for over twenty-four months. There has been much other activity which include three, two years and a third one coming up as poet in residence at Deep Springs [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5250324] in California [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q99]. I want to conclude this little preamble by saying that at the time that John moved out of our studio, I took over this room that he slept in and wrote poetry in. The mattress in this room was about sixteen inches from the floor, and on two sides, on the wall, there was copious scribbling.  Most of it were quotations from Heraclitus [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41155] that he was reading at that time.\\n \\nAudience\\n00:04:43\\nApplause.\\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:04:51\\nThey weren't quotations from whoever, whatever Greek name that was you just made up, [audience laughter], they were from Herodotus [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26825]. And, Roy [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3445789] might have mentioned that, while I suppose technically you could say I was sharing the studio, I was paying half the rent.  Almost half the rent. I was paying some rent. [Audience laughter]. And he never mentioned who won most of the chess games. I write a lot of...who's throwing things at me?  You didn't win any chess games. [Audience laughter]. And you weren't paying any rent, either. I write a lot of poems about dreams, one night I woke up with a dream about an Australian chief and I managed to write down most of it. It's called \\\"The Almost King\\\".\\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:05:42\\nReads \\\"The Almost King\\\" [audience laughter throughout].\\n\\nJohn Newlove\\n00:08:32\\nWell, when you have dreams like that, you don't really have much chance. I've a number of short poems, I'm told it's not good to give them at poetry readings because people don't listen fast enough or something. But. [Laughter]. This...Yes, that ashtray is stolen from the faculty club, George, and your wife stole it. [Audience laughter]. This one is called \\\"The Candle\\\".\\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:09:07\\nReads \\\"The Candle\\\".\\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:09:19\\nAgain a dream. This poem, misprinted in the Malahat Review [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1567225], is one that I most like. It's called \\\"The Engine and the Sea\\\".\\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:09:32\\nReads \\\"The Engine and the Sea\\\" [published later in The Cave and in The Fat Man].\\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:11:26\\nLove poems about sleep. And about dreams. This one is called \\\"Before Sleep\\\". I used to have a great deal of trouble going to sleep because I was afraid I would have nightmares.\\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:11:44\\nReads \\\"Before Sleep\\\" [later published in The Cave and in The Fat Man].\\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:12:53\\nAnd again another one about dreams, this one called \\\"The Dream Man”. Dreamed I once wrote a dream about somebody else's dream, but that's not fair, dreams are copyright. This was my own. [Audience laughter].\\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:13:09\\nReads \\\"The Dream Man\\\".\\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:14:35\\nAccording to the rules, you're supposed to say things in between poems, but I can't really ever think of anything appropriate to say in between them, so. I used to have some nice Ed Sullivan [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83807] routines, but I've forgotten them. This poem is called \\\"Burn\\\".\\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:14:52\\nReads \\\"Burn\\\".\\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:15:16\\nAnd this one, an old one, again fairly short. It's called \\\"No Song\\\".\\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:15:25\\nReads \\\"No Song\\\" [from Black Night Window and published later in The Fat Man].\\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:15:47\\nI have a poem I wrote for and about a friend, but after the poem was finished as you may see, I showed it to him but I didn't tell him it was about him. He said it was a very good poem and very accurate, and so on. But he didn't know it was about himself. It's called, \\\"What do you want, what do you want?\\\".\\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:16:06\\nReads \\\"What do you want, what do you want?\\\" [from Black Night Window and later published in The Fat Man; audience laughter and applause throughout].\\n  \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:17:01\\nAfter he said it was such an accurate poem, I couldn't tell him it was about him. This one's called \\\"Strand by Strand\\\".\\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:17:14\\nReads \\\"Strand by Strand\\\".\\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:17:56\\nThis is the first time I've kept to a list of...because usually I decide that I don't want to read a particular poem and I get all confused, but I'm very pleased with myself when I keep right to the schedule. Everything organized, everything complete. This short poem in five naturally short pieces is called \\\"One Day\\\".\\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:18:23\\nReads \\\"One Day\\\".\\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:18:55\\nCharles Williams [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124735] died in about 1953, he was an Englishman, originally Cockney. He wrote a number of what I think are very good poems, a number of detective novels, some theological deputation, I guess would be the right word. One of his detective novels is about finding the holy grail. It's called War in Heaven and it's out in Faber Paperback, go and buy it, it's really nice. This poem is for and from and about Charles Williams.\\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:19:35\\nReads “For and From Charles Williams” [from What They Say].\\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:20:04\\nNow my list has gone to pot, because I've got a poem down in a magazine that I didn't bring. So. One day some years ago, I was hitchhiking out to British Columbia [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1974]. I got to a place called Golden [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1020179], B.C. and I had to go up the Big Bend Highway [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30253222], this would be before the Rogers Pass [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q383051] was open. And I got a ride about thirty miles in on what I didn't know was an illegally-present logging truck, because the Big Bend Highway was not open to traffic for three more days. So I sat three days on the Big Bend Highway. This poem roughly...well, it's called \\\"Solitaire\\\".\\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:20:47\\nReads \\\"Solitaire\\\" [from Black Night Window and published later in The Fat Man].\\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:21:22\\nThis short one called \\\"El Paso\\\" because El Paso was the place where it happens. It was ninety degrees outside in El Paso [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16562], and with the air conditioning, which I couldn't turn off, it was about thirty below. And I couldn't sleep, I had to get up in the middle of the night and get dressed and get under the blankets, and I caught terrible cold in that motel. \\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:21:41\\nReads \\\"El Paso\\\".\\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:21:56\\nSince I've been out of Nova Scotia, I've written a couple of poems about or around Nova Scotia. The main thing I can't seem to get in a poem just yet is the difference between the Pacific Ocean [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q98], in Vancouver, and the Atlantic [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q97]. There seems a tremendous difference that I can feel but that I can't seem yet to grasp in the fact. This poem is called \\\"God Bless You\\\".\\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:22:24\\nReads \\\"God Bless You\\\" [later published in The Cave and in The Fat Man].\\n \\nAudience\\n00:22:43\\nLaughter.\\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:22:47\\nThe next piece is on the back of my list. I think this is about the only other ethnic Nova Scotia-type poem that I've got, but I was only there for about six months and I can't quite put out a book yet. This is called \\\"By the Grey Atlantic\\\".\\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:23:04\\nReads \\\"By the Grey Atlantic\\\" [published later in The Cave and in The Fat Man].\\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:23:31\\nI think I'll read quickly a number of poems from this book. I'm anxious not to keep you too long, if anybody feels like walking out, I won't really be insulted if you'll [unintelligible]. These are all quite simple so I might as well just give the title in my school-class fashion and then go on to read them. This is called \\\"The Photograph my Mother Keeps\\\". I might see first that Veregin [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7921203] is a town in Saskatchewan named after a leader of the Doukhobors [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5302215], they first came to that area after Peter the Lordly Verigin [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4107818] [unintelligible] his palace, which is really just a gigantic farmhouse, it's outside the town. \\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:24:19\\nReads \\\"The Photograph my Mother Keeps\\\".\\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:25:04\\nThis one, about a pregnant girl, it's called \\\"On Her Long Bed of Night”.\\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:25:09\\nReads \\\"On Her Long Bed of Night\\\".\\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:26:12\\nSo, this one's about my father. Drowning kittens, in a lot of houses in Saskatchewan you keep a rain barrel on a corner of the house underneath a spout to get the fresh rainwater for washing and so on.\\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:26:27\\nReads “My Daddy Drowned” [from Elephants, Mothers and Others and later published in The Fat Man].\\n \\nAudience\\n00:27:09.11\\nLaughter and applause.\\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:27:18\\nThis one is called \\\"Half in Love\\\".\\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:27:22\\nReads \\\"Half in Love\\\".\\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:28:02\\nThis one is called \\\"Sister Cowen\\\". She used to run a mission in Edmonton [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2096], and she had very good stew. She was a very violent woman. On Christmas Eve she used to give all the bums fifty cents, but she gave a particularly long sermon on Christmas Eve. She was very down on booze.\\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:28:25\\nReads \\\"Sister Cowen\\\".\\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:28:40\\nLaughter.\\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:28:49\\nThis one is set in Vancouver outside Roy Kiyooka's studio. \\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:28:58\\nReads unnamed poem.\\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:29:30\\nThe name of this book is Elephants, Mothers, and Others. I've read poems about others and one about my mother, and this is the elephant’s poem. \\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:29:41\\nReads “Elephants” from Elephants, Mothers, and Others [and published later in The Fat Man; audience laughter throughout].\\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:30:01\\nI think I've gone on too long, there is a longish poem called \\\"The Fat Man\\\", which I want to read, so I'll skip the rest of the stuff I thought I was going to read and just do this one.\\n \\nAnnotation\\n00:30:18\\nReads \\\"The Fat Man\\\" [published later in The Fat Man].\\n \\nAudience\\n00:34:47\\nApplause.\\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:34:48\\nIt's not finished, you see, it's not...[Audience laughter].\\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:34:52\\nResumes reading \\\"The Fat Man\\\" [published later in The Fat Man].\\n \\nJohn Newlove\\n00:36:33\\nThank you.\\n \\nAudience\\n00:36:35\\nApplause.\\n \\nEND\\n00:36:55\\n\",\"notes\":\"John Newlove reads from Black Night Window (McClelland & Stewart, 1968), What They Say (Weed/Flower, 1967), Elephants, Mothers and Others (Periwinkle Press, 1963) and poems later published in The Cave (McClelland & Stewart, 1970). Most of these poems have been collected in The Fat Man: Selected Poems 1962-1972 (McClelland & Stewart, 1977).\\n\\n00:00- Roy Kiyooka introduces John Newlove. [INDEX: friend, fall of 1961, Vancouver,        Saskatchewan, early poems, studio, chess, Long Johns, paint, wine, literature, mice,     drunken poets, women, Grave Sirs published in this period, Robert Reed, Elephants,      Mothers and Others, Tak Tanabe, Robert Columbo discovered John Newlove, Canadian        poetry, Poetry ’64, Contact Press, Moving in Alone, critical attention, What They Say \\t(Weed/Flower, 1967), rejected manuscripts submitted to McClelland and Stewart, new   book Black Night Window, manuscript, poet in residence at Deep Springs in California,    Heraclitus.]\\n04:51- John Newlove responds to Kiyooka’s introduction, and introduces “The Almost King”. [INDEX: Herodotus, studio, Roy Kiyooka, rent, chess games, poems about dreams, Australian chief; from unknown source.]\\n05:42- Reads “The Almost King”.\\n08:32- Introduces “The Candle”. [INDEX: drams, short poems, poetry readings, listening, ashtray, faculty club, George (Bowering), Angela (Bowering); from unknown source.]\\n09:07- Reads “The Candle”.\\n09:19- Introduces “The Engine in the Sea”. [INDEX: dream, misprinted in the Malahat Review, favourite poem, supposed to be ‘and the Sea’; first printed in The Cave (McClelland and Stewart, 1970), collected in The Fat Man (McClelland and Stewart, 1977).]\\n09:32- Reads “The Engine and the Sea”.\\n11:26- Introduces “Before Sleep”. [INDEX: love poems about sleep, dreams, problems sleeping, nightmares; first printed in The Cave (McClelland and Stewart, 1970), collected in The Fat Man (McClelland and Stewart, 1977).]\\n11:44- Reads “Before Sleep”.\\n12:53- Introduces “The Dream Man”. [INDEX: dreams, dream about someone else’s dream, copyright; from unknown source.]\\n13:09- Reads “The Dream Man”.\\n14:35- Introduces “Burn”. [INDEX: reading ‘rules’, extra-poetic speech, Ed Sullivan routines; from unknown source.]\\n14:52- Reads “Burn”.\\n15:16- Introduces “No Song”. [INDEX: old poem, short poem; published first in Black Night Window (McClelland and Stewart, 1968), collected in The Fat Man (McClelland and Stewart, 1977).]\\n15:25- Reads “No Song”.\\n15:47- Introduces “What do you want?” [INDEX: wrote for and about a friend; originally    printed in Black Night Window (McClelland and Stewart, 1968), collected in The Fat       Man (McClelland and Stewart, 1977).]\\n16:06- Reads “What do you want?”.\\n17:01- Introduces “Strand by Strand”. [INDEX: from unknown source.]\\n17:14- Reads “Strand by Strand”.\\n17:56- Introduces “One Day”. [INDEX: list of poems to read, poem in five short parts; from unknown source.]\\n18:23- Reads “One Day”.\\n18:55- Introduces first line “For and From Charles Williams”. [INDEX: Charles Williams   \\tdeath in 1953, Englishman, Cockney, detective novels, poems, theological disputation,   holy grail, War in Heaven Faber Paperback; published in What they Say (Weed/flower     Press, 1967).]\\n19:35- Reads first line “For and From Charles Williams”.\\n20:04- Introduces “Solitaire”. [INDEX: list, magazine, hitchhiking in British Columbia, Golden, B.C, Big Bend Highway, Rogers Pass, ride, illegally-present logging truck; originally printed in Black Night Window (McClelland and Stewart, 1968), collected in The Fat Man (McClelland and Stewart, 1977).]\\n20:47- Reads “Solitaire”.\\n21:22- Introduces “El Paso”. [INDEX: ninety degrees, air conditioning, thirty below, sleep, cold, motel; from unknown source.]\\n21:41- Reads “El Paso”.\\n21:56- Introduces “God Bless You”. [INDEX: Nova Scotia, poem, difference between Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean, Vancouver; later printed in The Cave (McClelland and Stewart, 1970), The Fat Man (McClelland and Stewart, 1977).]\\n22:24- Reads “God Bless You”.\\n22:47- Introduces “By the Grey Atlantic”. [INDEX: list, Nova-Scotia-type poem, six months, unfinished book; later printed in The Cave (McClelland and Stewart, 1970), The Fat Man (McClelland and Stewart, 1977).]\\n23:04- Reads “By the Grey Atlantic”.\\n23:31- Introduces “The Photograph my Mother Keeps”. [INDEX: reading poems from book (unknown), title, school-class fashion, Verrigan, Saskatchewan, named after the leader of the Doukhabors, Peter the Lordly Verrigan, farmhouse; from unknown source.]\\n24:19- Reads “The Photograph my Mother Keeps”.\\n25:04- Introduces “On Her Long Bed of Night”. [INDEX: pregnant girl; from unknown        source.]\\n25:09- Reads “On Her Long Bed of Night”.\\n26:12- Introduces “My Daddy Drowned”. [INDEX: father, kittens, houses in Saskatchewan, rain barrel, house, fresh rainwater; published Elephants, Mothers and Others (Periwinkle, 1963), collected in The Fat Man (McClelland and Stewart, 1977).]\\n26:27- Reads “My Daddy Drowned”.\\n27:18- Reads “Half in Love”.\\n28:02- Introduces “Sister Cowen”. [INDEX: Sister Cowen, mission in Edmonton, stew, violent woman, Christmas eve, homeless men, fifty cents, alcohol, sermon; from unknown source.]\\n28:27- Reads “Sister Cowen”.\\n28:49- Introduces first line “The obnoxiously-generated neon suspense...”. [INDEX: Roy        Kiyooka’s studio; from unknown source.]\\n28:58- Reads first line “The obnoxiously-generated neon suspense...”.\\n29:30- Introduces first line “Elephants ”. [INDEX: from Elephants, Mothers and Others        (Periwinkle, 1963) later collected in The Fat Man (McClelland and Stewart, 1977),       \\tmother, others, elephant poem.]\\n29:41- Reads first line “Elephants”.\\n30:01- Introduces “The Fat Man”. 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Hello, Mr. Bowering [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1239280]. [Audience laughter]. Well, welcome to the sixth reading of our second series of evenings with Canadian and American poets. Tonight we have Joe Rosenblatt [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1691575], Toronto [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q172], and John Newlove [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6250356], formerly of Vancouver [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24639], now residing in Nova Scotia [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1952]. Joe Rosenblatt will begin the reading, there will be an intermission, and John Newlove will follow. I'm going to quote largely from the copy in Joe Rosenblatt's book, The LSD Leacock, for I hope servient biographical information. It goes like this, he was born in Toronto on December the 26th, nineteen hundred and thirty-three. He says that he has suffocated in Toronto ever since then. He attended the Central Technical School [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5061898] and dropped out in Grade 10, he has worked as a grave-digger, plumber's helper, civil servant, railway express misanthrope. He has attended the Provincial Institute of Trades where he acquired a diploma as a welder fitter, his favourite writers are Ambrose Biers, William Blake [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41513], Emily Dickinson [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4441], and A.M. Klein [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2778027], and his favourite dream, is Cyclops turning up at a [nigh-bank (?)]. [Audience laughter]. His previous book of poems, which was probably printed in nineteen hundred and sixty-three, is called Voyage of the Mood. Joe Rosenblatt.\\n \\nAudience\\n00:02:27\\nApplause.\\n \\nJoe Rosenblatt\\n00:02:36\\nWasn't that [unintelligible]. I'm just going to read, start off with a series of poems I had written about my uncle, who was a fishmonger. He had a habit of phyxiating and murdering fish, and slicing them, and slicing them, and...well, I'll start. This is called \\\"Uncle Nathan: Blessed his memory, speaketh in land-locked green\\\".\\n \\nJoe Rosenblatt\\n00:03:11\\nReads \\\"Uncle Nathan: Blessed his memory, speaketh in land-locked green\\\" [from Winter of the Luna Moth].\\n\\nAudience\\n00:06:10\\nApplause.\\n \\nJoe Rosenblatt\\n00:06:16\\n\\\"Ichthycide\\\". Another poem about my uncle. It's funny, really. [Audience laughter].\\n \\nJoe Rosenblatt\\n00:06:29\\nReads \\\"Ichthycide\\\" [from Winter of the Luna Moth].\\n \\nAudience\\n00:08:05\\nLaughter and applause .\\n\\nJoe Rosenblatt\\n00:08:13\\nThis is called \\\"A Shell Game\\\". Has to do with my uncle. [Audience laughter]. It's about his funeral.  Joke.\\n \\nJoe Rosenblatt\\n00:08:27\\nReads \\\"A Shell Game [from Winter of the Luna Moth].\\n \\nJoe Rosenblatt\\n00:09:42\\nI wrote all kinds of poems. I was in Vancouver and I came across the god-awful logic of the zoo. It kinda scared the hell out of me. It was a bat. I've never seen a bat before. Met people who were bats. But this was the real McCoy, it was a fruit bat and it was hanging upside-down, you know, that's the way they live and they fornicate that way too, apparently, upside-down. So I wrote about bats. I have some more fish poems but I get tired of that after a while, you start hating it. And we'll begin with \\\"Bats\\\". While it's true the bat is a mammal, not a bird, there's all types of kinds of mythology based on prejudice about bats and which I've tried to embody in these poems. \\n \\nJoe Rosenblatt\\n00:10:47\\nReads \\\"Bats\\\" [from Winter of the Luna Moth].\\n \\nJoe Rosenblatt\\n00:11:32\\nOutside of the bat poem there came a group of sound poetry. Because I tried to get the feeling of the bat in the air, you know the image of the bat and the way it, and the movements of the bat. And this is called \\\"The Fruit Bat\\\". First encounter with a bat.\\n \\nJoe Rosenblatt\\n00:11:56\\nReads \\\"The Fruit Bat\\\" [from Winter of the Luna Moth].\\n \\nJoe Rosenblatt\\n00:13:16\\nThis is better. This is “The Bat Cage”.\\n \\nJoe Rosenblatt\\n00:13:19\\nReads “The Bat Cage” [from Winter of the Luna Moth]. \\n \\nJoe Rosenblatt\\n00:14:39\\nOh we're like bats to people. We used to have, I used to, when I was a kid I went to school and we had a music teacher who was a bit of a nut. She used to rap kids across the knuckles, you know, just to hear them singing. [Audience laughter]. I may have called her Mrs. Love, I can't recall, the trauma was too great. \\n \\nJoe Rosenblatt\\n00:15:02\\nReads “The Vampire” [from Winter of the Luna Moth].\\n \\nAudience\\n00:15:48\\nLaughter and applause.\\n \\nJoe Rosenblatt\\n00:15:55\\n\\\"The Zombie\\\". Just whistle when you get tired of these bat poems. Do anything you wanna do. \\\"The Zombie\\\". By the way, bats are supposed to be unkosher according to Leviticus [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41490]. It says all fowl that creep going upon all fours shall be an abomination unto you. But in other countries they're great appetizers, the fruit bat especially, and I have an interesting poem, not right now though. \\\"The Zombie\\\".\\n \\nJoe Rosenblatt\\n00:16:26\\nReads \\\"The Zombie\\\" [from Winter of the Luna Moth].\\n \\nJoe Rosenblatt\\n00:17:59\\nI'll read one more bat poem, it's the sound thing, an experimental thing which I later developed...too many of these bats here. I wrote a Christmas poem on bats, too. Maybe I should read it. Dedicated to somebody. I'll read the sound poem. It's more important. \\\"The Butterfly Bat\\\". There is a butterfly bat. Hm, found in the Orient, a very beautiful bat, orange apparently, very beautiful though. \\n \\nJoe Rosenblatt\\n00:18:43\\nReads \\\"The Butterfly Bat\\\" [from Winter of the Luna Moth].\\n \\nJoe Rosenblatt\\n00:20:02\\nReads \\\"Orpheus in Stanley Park\\\" [from Winter of the Luna Moth]. \\n \\nJoe Rosenblatt\\n00:20:50\\n\\\"Sex and Death\\\". This poem's for a friend of mine. \\n \\nJoe Rosenblatt\\n00:20:54\\nReads \\\"Sex and Death\\\" [from Winter of the Luna Moth].\\n \\nJoe Rosenblatt\\n00:21:48\\nI should read the egg poems, because I don't think many of you have heard them, and I'll do that. You'd probably like them better than the bats. More meaningful. This is called \\\"Egg Sonata\\\".\\n \\nJoe Rosenblatt\\n00:22:20\\nReads \\\"Egg Sonata\\\" [from The LSD Leacock].\\n \\nAudience\\n00:23:38\\nLaughter and applause.\\n \\nJoe Rosenblatt\\n00:23:44\\nReads [\\\"Let the egg live\\\" (?)].\\n \\nUnknown\\n00:24:56\\nSilence [cut or edit made in tape. Unknown amount of time elapsed].\\n \\nJoe Rosenblatt\\n00:24:59\\nReads \\\"It's in the egg, in the little round egg\\\" [from The LSD Leacock].\\n \\nJoe Rosenblatt\\n00:26:57\\nOne more egg poem. [Audience laughter and applause]. This is a prose poem. It's called \\\"The Easter I got for Passover\\\". [Audience laughter]. It has to do with an argument, whether the body of Christ did not go to heaven, the moderator of the United Church of Canada [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q198745] said yesterday, Right Reverend Ernest Marshall Howes told a press conference that he does not believe in the physical resurrection of Jesus but does believe in a spiritual resurrection. That's from the Globe and Mail [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43148750], 23rd of April, '65.\\n \\nJoe Rosenblatt\\n00:27:46\\nReads \\\"The Easter I got for Passover\\\" [from The LSD Leacock].\\n \\nAudience\\n00:30:02\\nApplause. \\n \\nJoe Rosenblatt\\n00:30:10\\nDo you want to read, John? Where is he? [Audience laughter]. Do you want me to come here? Yeah, okay. I'm getting down to my dirty poems, what am I going to do? I wrote a whole bunch of pornographic poetry, right. I'll read that for the end when the time's up. I wrote a poem to Che Guevara [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5809], if I can find the thing now, because I really muddled everything up here, oh here it is. It's called \\\"The Beehive: An Elegy to Che Guevara\\\".\\n \\nJoe Rosenblatt\\n00:30:52\\nReads \\\"The Beehive: An Elegy to Che Guevara\\\" [from Winter of the Luna Moth]. \\n \\nJoe Rosenblatt\\n00:31:42\\nA poem about a critic, “Fable”.\\n \\nJoe Rosenblatt\\n00:31:47\\nReads “Fable” [from Winter of the Luna Moth].  \\n \\nJoe Rosenblatt\\n00:32:37\\nI wrote another one about a critic, a friend of mine. It's called \\\"The Crab Louse\\\". I'll read it. [Audience laughter]. I think some of you may recognize him. \\n \\nJoe Rosenblatt\\n00:32:47\\nReads \\\"The Crab Louse\\\".\\n \\nJoe Rosenblatt\\n00:33:25\\nReads \\\"The Fire Bug Poet\\\".\\n \\nJoe Rosenblatt\\n00:34:29\\n\\\"How Mice Make Love,\\\" how'd this get in here? \\\"How Mice Make Love\\\".\\n \\nJoe Rosenblatt\\n00:34:36\\nReads \\\"How Mice Make Love\\\" [from Winter of the Luna Moth].\\n \\nJoe Rosenblatt\\n00:35:29\\n\\\"The Electric Rose\\\".\\n \\nJoe Rosenblatt\\n00:35:34\\nReads \\\"The Electric Rose\\\" [from Winter of the Luna Moth].\\n \\nAudience\\n00:37:13\\nApplause.\\n \\nJoe Rosenblatt\\n00:37:17\\nShould I read on? Well this is a poem called \\\"Itch\\\". It's about that cat who, you know, in the world of the dead. And as usual I mucked up all the mythology, but it was too late to change the poem. So I said, what the hell. \\n \\nJoe Rosenblatt\\n00:37:44\\nReads \\\"Itch\\\" [from Winter of the Luna Moth].\\n \\nJoe Rosenblatt\\n00:41:51\\nThere's a loathsome typographical error in here. That's what happens.\\n \\nJoe Rosenblatt\\n00:41:56\\nResumes reading \\\"Itch\\\" [from Winter of the Luna Moth].\\n \\nJoe Rosenblatt\\n00:43:20\\n[Unintelligible] a more cheerful poem, if I can find one here. How about \\\"Cricket Love\\\"? I'll read one very early poem I wrote, \\\"Better She Dressed in a Black Garment\\\". \\n \\nJoe Rosenblatt\\n00:43:39\\nReads \\\"Better She Dressed in a Black Garment\\\" [from Winter of the Luna Moth].\\n \\nJoe Rosenblatt\\n00:44:21\\nThank you. \\n \\nAudience\\n00:44:22\\nApplause.\\n \\nRoy Kiyooka\\n00:44:35\\nThere'll be a fifteen minute inter- [cut off abruptly]. \\n \\nEND\\n00:44:37\\n\",\"notes\":\"Joe Rosenblatt reads from Winter of the Luna Moth (Anansi Press, 1968)] and The LSD Leacock (Coach House Press, 1966) and a few poems from unknown sources.\\n\\n00:00- Roy Kiyooka introduces Joe Rosenblatt. [INDEX: George Bowering, sixth reading, second series, Canadian and American poets, Toronto, John Newlove of Vancouver/Nova Scotia, Joe Rosenblatt as first reader, The LSD Leacock (Coach House Press, 1966), biographical information, born in Toronto Dec. 26, 1933, Central Technical School, dropped out in grade 10, grave-digger, plumber’s helper, civil servant, railway express misanthrope, Provincial Institute of Trades, diploma as a welder fitter, Ambrose Biers, William Blake, Emily Dickinson, A.M. Klein, dream of cyclops turned up at nigh-bank [?], previous book of poems Voyage of the Mood (Heinrich Heine Press, 1963).]\\n02:36- Joe Rosenblatt introduces “Uncle Nathan: Blessed his memory, speaketh in land-locked green” [INDEX series of poems about his uncle, fishmonger, fish, slicing \\tfish; from Winter of the Luna Moth (Anansi, 1968).]\\n03:11- Reads “Uncle Nathan: Blessed his memory, speaketh in land-locked green”.\\n06:16- Introduces “Ichthycide”. [INDEX: poem about uncle, funny; from Winter of the Luna Moth (Anansi, 1968).]\\n06:29- Reads “Ichthycide”\\n08:13- Introduces “A Shell Game” [INDEX: uncle, funeral, joke; from Winter of the Luna Moth (Anansi, 1968).]\\n08:27- Reads “A Shell Game”.\\n09:42- Introduces “Bats”. [INDEX: all kinds of poems, Vancouver, zoo, scared, bat, fruit bat, fornicate, fish poems, mammal, bird, mythology, prejudice about bats; most likely from Winter of the Luna Moth (Anansi, 1968).]\\n10:47- Reads “Bats”.\\n11:32- Introduces “The Fruit Bat”. [INDEX: bat poem, group of sound poetry, feeling of the bat, first encounter; from Winter of the Luna Moth (Anansi, 1968).]\\n11:56- Reads “The Fruit Bat”.\\n13:16- Introduces “The Bat Cage”. [INDEX: from Winter of the Luna Moth (Anansi, 1968).]\\n13:19- Reads “The Bat Cage”.\\n14:39- Introduces “The Vampire”. [INDEX: bats, people, kid, school, music teacher,  \\ttrauma; from Winter of the Luna Moth (Anansi, 1968).]\\n15:02- Reads “The Vampire”.\\n15:55- Introduces “The Zombie”. [INDEX: bat poem, unkosher, Levictis, fowl, appetizers; from Winter of the Luna Moth (Anansi, 1968).]\\n16:26- Reads “The Zombie”.\\n17:59- Introduces “The Butterfly Bat”. [INDEX: bat poem, experimental, Christmas poem, dedication, sound poem, Orient, orange bat; from Winter of the Luna Moth (Anansi, 1968).]\\n18:43- Reads “The Butterfly Bat”.\\n20:02- Reads “Orpheus in Stanley Park”. [INDEX: from Winter of the Luna Moth (Anansi, 1968).]\\n20:50- Introduces “Sex and Death”. [INDEX: for a friend; from Winter of the Luna Moth       (Anansi, 1968).]\\n20:54- Reads “Sex and Death”.\\n21:48- Introduces “Egg Sonata”. [INDEX: egg poem, meaning; from The LSD Leacock (Coach House Press, 1966).]\\n22:20- Reads “Egg Sonata”.\\n23:44- Reads unknown poem, first line “Let the egg live...”. [INDEX: from unknown source]\\n24:59- Reads “It’s in the egg, the little round egg” [INDEX: from The LSD Leacock (Coach House Press, 1966).]\\n27:08- Introduces “The Easter I got for Passover”. [INDEX: prose poem, argument, the body of Christ, moderator of the United Church of Canada, Right Reverend Earnest Marshall Hows, press conference, disbelief in the physical resurrection of Jesus, spiritual resurrection, Globe and Mail, April 23, 1965; from The LSD Leacock (Coach House Press, 1966).]\\n27:46- Reads “The Easter I got for Passover”.\\n30:02- Introduces “The Beehive: An Elegy to Che Guevara” [INDEX: John Newlove, dirty poems, pornographic poems, Che Guevara; from Winter of the Luna Moth (Anansi Press, 1968).] \\n30:52- Reads “The Beehive: An Elegy to Che Guevara”.\\n31:42- Introduces “Fable” [INDEX: critic, fable; from Winter of the Luna Moth (Anansi Press, 1968).]\\n31:47- Reads “Fable”.\\n32:37- Introduces “The Crab Louse”. [INDEX: critic, friend; from unknown source]\\n32:47- Reads “The Crab Louse”.\\n33:25- Reads “The Fire Bug Poet”. [INDEX: from unknown source\\n34:29- Introduces “How Mice Make Love”. [INDEX: from Winter of the Luna Moth (Anansi Press, 1968).]\\n34:36- Reads “How Mice Make Love”.\\n35:29- Reads “The Electric Rose” [INDEX: from Winter of the Luna Moth (Anansi Press,      1968).]\\n37:17- Introduces “Itch”. [INDEX: Cat, world of the dead, mythology from Winter of the Luna Moth (Anansi Press, 1968).]\\n37:44- Reads “Itch”. [INDEX: interrupts poem with admission of a typographical error]\\n43:20- Introduces “Better She Dressed in a Black Garment”. [INDEX: early poem, “Cricket Love”; from Winter of the Luna Moth (Anansi Press, 1968).]\\n43:39- Reads “Better She Dressed in a Black Garment”.\\n44:35- Introducer (Roy Kiyooka) introduces 15 minute intermission.\\n44:37.30- END OF RECORDING.\\n\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"Sound Recording\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"https://montreal.spokenweb.ca/sgw-poetry-readings/joe-rosenblatt-at-sgwu-1968/\"}]"],"score":6.599895}]