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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":["Phyllis Webb and Gwendolyn MacEwen at Sir George Williams University, The Poetry Series, 18 November 1966"],"item_title_source":["Cataloguer"],"item_title_note":["“PHYLLIS WEBB. Recorded November 18, 1966 with Gwedolyn MacEwan. 3.75 its, 1/2 track on 1. mil tape” written on sticker on the back of the tape box. Gwendolyn MacEwen's name is misspelled. “PHYLLIS WEBB I006/SR130” written on sticker on the spine of tape box. “i006-11-130” written on sticker on the reel.\n\n\"GWENDOLYN MacEWAN I066/SR161\" written on sticker on the spine of the tape's box. MacEwen is misspelled. \"I006-11-161\" written on sticker on the reel."],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_series_title":["The Poetry Series"],"item_subseries_title":["Poetry 1"],"item_identifiers":["[I006-11-130, I006-11-161]"],"access":["Streaming"],"creator_names":["MacEwen, Gwendolyn","Webb, Phyllis"],"creator_names_search":["MacEwen, Gwendolyn","Webb, Phyllis"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/115290827\",\"name\":\"MacEwen, Gwendolyn\",\"dates\":\"1941-1987\",\"notes\":\"Poet, novelist and short story writer Gwendolyn MacEwen was born in Toronto in 1941, and spent her childhood there and in Winnipeg. Her first poem was published in The Canadian Forum, and a year later, when she was eighteen, she left school to pursue a career in writing. She self-published her first two collections of poetry, Selah and The drunken clock in 1961 (Aleph Press). In 1962, she briefly married fellow poet Milton Acorn, published her first novel, Julian the magician (Macmillan, 1963), and a collection of poetry, The rising fire (Contact Press, 1963), which established her reputation on the Canadian scene at the age of twenty-two. That same year, her work was published in Jacques Godbout and John Robert Colombo’s anthology Poetry 64/Poesie 64 (Ryerson Press/ Editions du jour, 1963). MacEwen followed this success with poetry collections A Breakfast for Barbarians (Ryerson Press, 1966), The Shadow-Maker (Macmillan, 1969) which won a Governor General’s Award for poetry, The Armies of the Moon (Macmillan, 1972), which won the A.J.M. Smith Poetry Award, Magic Animals: Selected Poems (Macmillan, 1975), The Fire-Eaters (Oberon Press, 1976), The T.E. Lawrence Poems (Mosaic Press/Valley Editions, 1982) and Earthlight: Selected Poems (General Publisher, 1982). She was re-married to Greek singer Nikos Tsingos, who introduced her to worlds Mediterranean. MacEwen published in other genres, including a CBC verse play Terror and Erebus (reprinted as Afterworlds in 1987), novel King of Egypt, King of Dreams (Macmillan, 1971), collections of short stories Norman (Oberon Press, 1972) and Norman’s Land (1985), travel book Mermaids and Ikons: A Greek Summer (Anansi, 1978), a translation of Euripides’ The Trojan Women: A Play (Playwright’s Co-op, 1979), and two children’s books, The chocolate moose (New Canada Publications, 1981) and The honey drum (Mosaic Press, Flatiron Books, 1983).  Her last publication, Afterworlds (McClelland and Stewart, 1987) won a Governor General’s Award, and was published shortly before her death in 1987. Two volumes of selected work appeared posthumously, The poetry of Gwendolyn MacEwen: the early years (Exile Editions, 1993) and The poetry of Gwendolyn MacEwen: the later years (Exile Editions, 1994) edited by Margaret Atwood and Barry Callaghan.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Author\",\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\" http://viaf.org/viaf/29847238\",\"name\":\"Webb, Phyllis\",\"dates\":\"1927-2021\",\"notes\":\"Poet Phyllis Webb was born in Victoria, British Columbia in 1927. She completed a B.A. in Philosophy and English at University of British Columbia and at the young age of twenty-two, she ran as a CCF candidate for the B.C. legislature. She finished one year of graduate studies at McGill University in 1950 in Montreal. She traveled and lived in San Francisco, Paris and England before settling back in B.C. where she taught at UBC for four years. Her first poems were published in Trio (Contact Press) in 1954 with Eli Mandel and Gael Turnbull, and in Even your right eye in 1956 (McClelland and Stewart). The Sea is Also a Garden (Ryerson Press) was published in 1952, and Naked poems (Periwinkle Press) was published in 1965. While in Toronto, Phyllis Webb conceived and was executive producer of the CBC radio program “Ideas” from 1966 to 1969. Two years later in 1971, Webb published Selected Poems (Talon Books). Webb’s many publications also include Wilson’s bowl (Coach House Press, 1980), Sunday water: thirteen anti ghazals (Island Writing Series, 1982), The vision tree: selected poems (Talon Books, 1982) which won the Governor General’s Award and Hanging fire (Coach House Press, 1990). Along with poetry, Phyllis Webb also collected her essays, reviews and radio discussions in Taking (1982), Nothing but brush strokes: selected prose (NeWest, 1995). She was the writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta, and taught at University of Victoria and the Banff Centre. Phyllis Webb has also won the Canada Council Senior Arts Award in 1981 and 1987, as well as being awarded an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1992. She lives on Saltspring Island, B.C.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Author\",\"Performer\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Kiyooka, Roy"],"contributors_names_search":["Kiyooka, Roy"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/30784426\",\"name\":\"Kiyooka, Roy\",\"dates\":\"1926-1994\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Presenter\",\"Series organizer\"]}]"],"Presenter_name":["Kiyooka, Roy"],"Series_organizer_name":["Kiyooka, Roy"],"Performance_Date":[1966],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/4 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"Scotch\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"Mono\",\"playing_speed\":\"3 3/4 ips\",\"sound_quality\":\"Good\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"\",\"physical_condition\":\"\",\"track_configuration\":\"Half-track\",\"material_designation\":\"Reel to Reel\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"\",\"other_physical_description\":\"\"},{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/4 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"Mono\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"\",\"physical_condition\":\"\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"Reel to Reel\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"\",\"other_physical_description\":\"\"}]"],"material_designations":["Reel to Reel","Reel to Reel"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape","Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue","Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio","Audio"],"playback_mode":["Mono","Mono"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1966 11 18\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Date written on sticker on the tape box. Date is also referenced but not specified in \\\"Georgantics\\\" by Bob Simco\",\"source\":\"Accompanying Material\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/22080570\",\"venue\":\"Hall Building Basement Theatre\",\"notes\":\"Location specified in printed announcement \\\"Georgantics\\\" by Bob Simco (Supplemental material)\",\"address\":\"1455, Boul de Maisonneuve Ouest, Montreal, Quebec, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"45.4972758\",\"longitude\":\"-73.57893043\"}]"],"Address":["1455, Boul de Maisonneuve Ouest, Montreal, Quebec, Canada"],"Venue":["Hall Building Basement Theatre"],"City":["Montreal, Quebec"],"content_notes":["Phyllis Webb reads from The Sea is Also a Garden (Ryerson Press, 1962), Even Your Right Eye (McClelland & Stewart, 1956), and Naked Poems (Periwinkle Press, 1965). Gwendolyn MacEwen reads from Breakfast for Barbarians (Ryerson Press, 1966) and poems published later in The Shadow-Maker (Macmillan, 1969) and a few unknown poems."],"contents":["phyllis_webb_i006-11-130.mp3 [File 1 of 2]\n\nRoy Kiyooka\n00:00:00\nNow perhaps some of you are wondering what these readings are all about and how the choices made, I have here a slight commentary on that which I would like to read to you. Our answer to this is that we have not attempted to make the series an exhaustive coverage of any particular school or faction of poetry. Nor has our concern been an attempt to seek out the so-called \"great poets\". Our choices have been made with the desire to present to you, hopefully, the possibilities of utterance that is more than parochial. In short, this is our attempt to sound just that diversity that so much characterizes the North American Poetry scene. Now tonight it is my very great pleasure to introduce to you two poets whose distinctiveness is more than the fact of their sex. I want to introduce each poet in turn, Phyllis Webb [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7188637] will begin the readings and after the intermission, I shall introduce to you Gwendolyn MacEwen [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4276487]. Now Phyllis Webb has published three books of poems, they are Even Your Right Eye in 1956, The Sea is Also a Garden in ‘62 and Naked Poems in ‘65. Her earlier work appeared in Trio along with Eli Mandel [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3050883] and Gael Turnbull [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5516589]. She is currently a program organizer for CBC's [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q461761] Ideas Series [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5988057]. Ladies and Gentleman, Ms. Phyllis Webb.\n \nUnknown\n00:02:20\n[Cut or edit in tape. Unknown amount of time elapsed].\n \nPhyllis Webb\n00:02:21\nI'd like to begin with a found poem, in that it was simply given to me by a child behaving in my presence. It's called \"Alec\".\n \nPhyllis Webb\n00:02:35\nReads \"Alec\".\n \nPhyllis Webb\n00:04:07\nReads \"Rilke\".\n \nPhyllis Webb\n00:05:58\nThis next poem is called \"Continuum\" and it's not a very extraordinary or terribly good poem even, I don't think, but it came out of a rather extraordinary experience, which was television. And it was simply a news clip from Vietnam [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q881], but this one had soundtrack on it, which made it rather more touching and inspired me to wire the Prime Minister. And shortly after that and I didn't know I was getting to the wire in the middle of it until I got there and it has to do with the almost totally impossibility of separating out objective events  that happen out there in history and in time and one's own private history. \"Continuum\".\n\nPhyllis Webb\n00:07:04\nReads \"Continuum\".\n \nPhyllis Webb\n00:08:34\nI'm afraid I am suffering from the Toronto [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q172] plague which may be rampant here too. The next poem has a title longer than the poem. The title is \"A Loaf of Sliced Bread Wrapped in Cellophane and Bought at the Supermarket Where the Doors Open Without Pushing\".\n \nPhyllis Webb\n00:09:04\nReads \"A Loaf of Sliced Bread Wrapped in Cellophane and Bought at the Supermarket Where the Doors Open Without Pushing\".\n \nPhyllis Webb\n00:09:13\nAnd the next poem is dedicated to Paul Goodman [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q943567], and there is a quotation embedded in the poem which you will probably catch when I come to it. It's a short poem.\n \nPhyllis Webb\n00:09:32\nReads unnamed poem.\n \nPhyllis Webb\n00:10:06\nReads \"Poetry\".\n \nPhyllis Webb\n00:11:54\nI will read now from my volume The Sea is Also a Garden. \"Propositions\".\n \nPhyllis Webb\n00:12:16\nReads \"Propositions\" from The Sea is Also a Garden.\n \nPhyllis Webb\n00:13:28\nThe next poem is one that seems to elicit negative vibrations from an audience in the first three quarters, so go ahead and zoom them at me.\n \nPhyllis Webb\n00:13:43\nReads unnamed poem.\n \nPhyllis Webb\n00:16:02\nI don't think I have the voice to read both sides of this poems tonight, there are two poems, one called \"Breaking\" and one called \"Making\". They're about the creative process that involves both those things, but \"Making\" is rather long and a little hard to read, so I'll read \"Breaking\" which is better probably as a poem.\n \nPhyllis Webb\n00:16:47\nReads \"Breaking\".\n \nPhyllis Webb\n00:19:04\nThe next poem is called \"The Time of Man\" and had a rather interesting genesis. I was reading an article in Horizon [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3786777] by Dr. Loren Eiseley [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2634723], which he was putting forward some ideas on evolution and it was very beautifully written this Dr. Eiseley's an excellent stylist as well as a good scientist and I discovered that as I was going through I was marking the sentences and a few days later I began writing a poem and picked up the book and listed the sentences, so this poem takes off from the Eiseley article which is called \"The Time of Man\" in which Eiseley says we must live evolution forward amongst many other interesting things and it is started with quotations, which you will get some of the time and some of the time you won't. I sent it to him for confirmation about the scientific aspects of it, he said okay, I used to write poetry too. \"The Time of Man\".\n \nPhyllis Webb\n00:20:24\nReads \"The Time of Man\".\n \nPhyllis Webb\n00:21:38\nReads \"Sitting\".\n \nPhyllis Webb\n00:22:08\nI want to read an old poem now, which I wrote in Dublin [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1761], long years ago, if I can find it. It's called \"Poems of Dublin\", where I'd gone on a sort of literary pilgrimage in search of the spirit of Yeats [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40213] and Joyce [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6882] among others, it's a very down to earth sort of poem, in four parts.\n \nPhyllis Webb\n00:22:45\nReads \"Poems of Dublin\".\n \nPhyllis Webb\n00:25:33\nI want to move on now to my latest book called Naked Poems and which one of your local critics, or at least he wrote for the Montreal Star [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3521910] at this particular point, exclaimed of the price because there are so few words in the book. It's 2.25$. These poems are very small, and therefore very expensive and came at a bitter price, I may say, to me. They came quite as a surprise, I didn't know what I was doing when I wrote them, the first fourteen or so I thought, my goodness, what are these little things doing here, and I couldn't quite take them seriously and then I began to see the order that really was intrinsic in them, and realized that here was something, almost a new form for me to work on, and it's very bare, naked, undecorated and I wanted to get rid of all my affectations. And so I decided to write a couple hundred of them, and I wrote about a hundred and then got hung up on a technical problem, and finally reduced them to, I don't know, forty or so that are in this book. So this is a distillation, let's say. I'm going to read the first fourteen which comprise a total poem, in a sense the whole book is a poem. And then I'll read a few more as long as my voice and your patience will hold out. \"Suite I\".\n \nPhyllis Webb\n00:27:56\nReads \"Suite I\" from Naked Poems.\n \nPhyllis Webb\n00:28:53\nReads \"Flies\" from Naked Poems.\n \nPhyllis Webb\n00:29:10\nReads \"Your Blouse\" from Naked Poems.\n \nPhyllis Webb\n00:29:41\nReads \"Suite II\" from Naked Poems.\n \nPhyllis Webb\n00:31:27\nOne of the things I was interested in doing in these poems is again this subjective and the objective, here the subject and the object relationship, so that I use objects just to speak for themselves, in a sense, and yet they are all prismed in the way I see them. And again this impossibility of the dichotomy of subjective-objective.\n \nPhyllis Webb\n00:32:09\nReads unnamed poem from Naked Poems.\n \nEND\n00:32:43\n\n\ngwendolyn_macewan_i006-11-161.mp3 [File 2 of 2]\n\nRoy Kiyooka\n00:00:00\nSecond half of our program...on the second half of our program we will have Gwendolyn MacEwen reading for us. I have notes in my hand concerning her, but on the back of this album, here, a CBC [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q461761] publications release of...is it eight Canadian poets? One, two, three, four… [Audience laughter]. Yes, eight Canadian poets, this album is about to be released very shortly. There's a much more comprehensive biography of her, so I shall read this as an introduction to her. Born in Toronto [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q172] in 1941, began publishing poetry in the Canadian Forum [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5030045] at age fifteen. She left school at eighteen, a high school dropout, as the sociologists would say [audience applause and laughter] to devote herself to writing. She has published three books of poetry, The Drunken Clock, The Rising Fire, and most recently, A Breakfast for Barbarians. She has also published a novel called Julian the Magician. In 1965, she was awarded the prize for poetry in the CBC's new writing contest. With the aid of a Canada Council [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2993809] grant, she is currently at work on a novel on the, how do you pronounce the guy's name? [whispers off-mic to MacEwen]...Pharaoh Akhenaten [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q81794] [laughter] of the eighteenth dynasty in Egypt [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79]. Ladies and gentlemen, Gwendolyn MacEwen.\n \nUnknown\n00:01:47\n[Cut or edit in tape. Unknown amount of time elapsed].\n \nGwendolyn MacEwen\n00:01:47\nSo listen, I had a great idea that if our voices gave out we were just going to open up the record and bring a recorder up on a stage and place the needle in the proper groove, and then just let the record speak for itself. However, I guess the voice is intact. I'm reading first from my latest work, poems from the last year. The first is called \"The Zoo\".\n  \nGwendolyn MacEwen\n00:02:22\nReads \"The Zoo\".\n \nGwendolyn MacEwen\n00:03:38\nNot feeling that I'd sufficiently exploited beasts and things, I wrote another called \"The Taming of the Dragon\".\n \nGwendolyn MacEwen\n00:03:49\nReads \"The Taming of the Dragon\".\n \nGwendolyn MacEwen\n00:04:57\nStill not having exploited the animal kingdom, I wrote a poem which, well, is not connected with the animal kingdom at all, really. It's called \"The Horse-head Nebula\".\n  \nGwendolyn MacEwen\n00:05:12\nReads \"The Horse-head Nebula\".\n \nGwendolyn MacEwen\n00:06:19.86\nReads \"Wheels\".\n \nGwendolyn MacEwen\n00:07:18\nThis is a poem which, oddly enough, came out in a Mexican magazine in Spanish not too long ago, looking completely unrecognizable to me. It's called \"I Should Have Predicted\".\n \nGwendolyn MacEwen\n00:07:38\nReads \"I Should Have Predicted\" [published later in The Shadow-Maker].\n \nGwendolyn MacEwen\n00:08:47\nSome people have asked me if that poem was about Toronto, and I'm at a loss to answer, not having seen horses, riders, chariots, or anything remotely similar in Toronto. Plus the fact, I'm sure many people have predicted the death of Toronto, as far as that goes. I recall Phyllis reading a poem on perhaps an evolutionary theme, and I have one here called \"The Heel\".\n \nGwendolyn MacEwen\n00:09:32\nReads \"The Heel\" [published later in The Shadow-Maker].\n \nGwendolyn MacEwen\n00:11:16\nNow, I think I can safely move into Breakfast for Barbarians. It needs a little preparation, a little cushioning, perhaps. This is a poem called \"The Garden of Square Roots: An Autobiography\".\n \nGwendolyn MacEwen\n00:12:01\nReads \"The Garden of Square Roots: An Autobiography\" from A Breakfast for Barbarians.\n \nGwendolyn MacEwen\n00:13:33\nI think all poets should have some suffering poems, poems of great anguish. So feeling I was somewhat deficient in this area [audience laughter], I made use of a very opportune situation, recovering from an appendectomy in hospital. [Audience laughter]. Deciding that surely this was my moment, if I was ever going to write a painful poem it must be now. [Audience laughter]. So this is \"Appendectomy\".\n \nGwendolyn MacEwen\n00:14:20\nReads \"Appendectomy\".\n \nUnknown\n00:14:22\n[High-pitched sound. Possible damage to recording].\n \nUnknown\n00:14:57\n[High-pitched sound. Possible damage to recording].\n \nGwendolyn MacEwen\n00:15:20\nAlthough I can't say that I'm convinced that that suffering was valid, either. But. The next poem is called \"The Self Assumes\", and I rarely talk about how a poem gets written because it seems mostly irrelevant, but I would remark that the last line of this poem was one of those very strange, surprising things that comes to one almost instantaneously, and one plucks it out of the air. I was very delighted with it. \"The Self Assumes\".\n \nGwendolyn MacEwen\n00:16:08\nReads \"The Self Assumes\".\n \nGwendolyn MacEwen\n00:18:01\nThe next poem is one of a group of poems toward the end of this book where the, I think the tone or the voice takes a somewhat radical departure from the poems in the rest of the book. It's called \"The Caravan\".\n \nGwendolyn MacEwen\n00:18:23\nReads \"The Caravan\" from A Breakfast for Barbarians. \n \nGwendolyn MacEwen\n00:20:29\nI'm trying to locate a poem in this book which I realized doesn't exist. It's somewhere else altogether. I'd like to end this reading with a trilogy of poems. Which are also toward the end of Breakfast for Barbarians. Poems which, for me, represent a stage in my own growth as a poet. They are called the Arcanum poems, I believe they're on the record which Roy Kiyooka [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3445789] was showing you. \n \nGwendolyn MacEwen\n00:21:15\nReads \"Arcanum One\" from A Breakfast for Barbarians.\n \nGwendolyn MacEwen\n00:22:35\nBefore I go into \"Arcanum Two\", in case anyone is mystified with beetles and suns and various creatures like that, let me say that the book is, the poem, rather, is of an Egyptian theme. A royal house. And the events taking place within it. So we move on: \"Arcanum Two\".\n \nGwendolyn MacEwen\n00:23:05\nReads \"Arcanum Two\" from A Breakfast for Barbarians.\n \nGwendolyn MacEwen\n00:24:33\nAnd finally, \"Arcanum Three\".\n \nGwendolyn MacEwen\n00:24:39\nReads \"Arcanum Three\" from A Breakfast for Barbarians.\n \nGwendolyn MacEwen\n00:25:31\nThank you very much. \n \nUnknown\n00:25:34\n[Cut or edit in tape. Unknown amount of time elapsed]. \n \nRoy Kiyooka\n00:25:34\n...everybody here, I want to thank Gwendolyn MacEwen. Our night three is on December the second. Thank you very much. \n \nEND\n00:25:42\n"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Year-Specific Information:\\n\\n In 1966, Phyllis Webb was executive producer of CBC’s “Ideas” radio show in Toronto. She had just published Naked Poems in 1965.\\n\\nIn 1966, Gwendolyn MacEwen published Breakfast for Barbarians (Ryerson Press).\",\"type\":\"General\"},{\"note\":\"\\nLocal Connections:\\n\\nWhile studying at McGill in the early 50’s, she became involved with the literary circle that included F.R. Scott, Louis Dudek and Irving Layton. Her work was published by Toronto’s Coach House Press, McClelland and Stewart, Ryerson University Press and Vancouver’s Talonbooks. She also kept correspondences with George Bowering (Archives Canada).\\n\\nThe direct connection between Sir George Williams University and Gwendolyn MacEwen is unknown. However, MacEwen was an important emerging poet from Toronto, associated with poets Margaret Atwood, and husband Milton Acorn.\",\"type\":\"General\"},{\"note\":\"I006-11-130:\\nOriginal transcript, research, introduction and edits by Celyn Harding-Jones \\n\\nAdditional research and edits by Ali Barillaro\\n\\nI006-11-161:\\nOriginal transcript by Rachel Kyne\\n\\nOriginal print catalogue, research, introduction 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/encyclopedia-of-post-colonial-literatures-in-english-vol-1/oclc/32566813&referer=brief_results\",\"citation\":\"Atwood, Margaret. “MacEwen, Gwendolyn (1941-87)”. Routledge Encyclopedia of Post- Colonial Literatures in English. Eugene Benson & L.W. Connolly (eds). 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Our answer to this is that we have not attempted to make the series an exhaustive coverage of any particular school or faction of poetry. Nor has our concern been an attempt to seek out the so-called \\\"great poets\\\". Our choices have been made with the desire to present to you, hopefully, the possibilities of utterance that is more than parochial. In short, this is our attempt to sound just that diversity that so much characterizes the North American Poetry scene. Now tonight it is my very great pleasure to introduce to you two poets whose distinctiveness is more than the fact of their sex. I want to introduce each poet in turn, Phyllis Webb [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7188637] will begin the readings and after the intermission, I shall introduce to you Gwendolyn MacEwen [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4276487]. Now Phyllis Webb has published three books of poems, they are Even Your Right Eye in 1956, The Sea is Also a Garden in ‘62 and Naked Poems in ‘65. Her earlier work appeared in Trio along with Eli Mandel [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3050883] and Gael Turnbull [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5516589]. She is currently a program organizer for CBC's [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q461761] Ideas Series [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5988057]. Ladies and Gentleman, Ms. Phyllis Webb.\\n \\nUnknown\\n00:02:20\\n[Cut or edit in tape. Unknown amount of time elapsed].\\n \\nPhyllis Webb\\n00:02:21\\nI'd like to begin with a found poem, in that it was simply given to me by a child behaving in my presence. It's called \\\"Alec\\\".\\n \\nPhyllis Webb\\n00:02:35\\nReads \\\"Alec\\\".\\n \\nPhyllis Webb\\n00:04:07\\nReads \\\"Rilke\\\".\\n \\nPhyllis Webb\\n00:05:58\\nThis next poem is called \\\"Continuum\\\" and it's not a very extraordinary or terribly good poem even, I don't think, but it came out of a rather extraordinary experience, which was television. 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They're about the creative process that involves both those things, but \\\"Making\\\" is rather long and a little hard to read, so I'll read \\\"Breaking\\\" which is better probably as a poem.\\n \\nPhyllis Webb\\n00:16:47\\nReads \\\"Breaking\\\".\\n \\nPhyllis Webb\\n00:19:04\\nThe next poem is called \\\"The Time of Man\\\" and had a rather interesting genesis. 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I sent it to him for confirmation about the scientific aspects of it, he said okay, I used to write poetry too. \\\"The Time of Man\\\".\\n \\nPhyllis Webb\\n00:20:24\\nReads \\\"The Time of Man\\\".\\n \\nPhyllis Webb\\n00:21:38\\nReads \\\"Sitting\\\".\\n \\nPhyllis Webb\\n00:22:08\\nI want to read an old poem now, which I wrote in Dublin [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1761], long years ago, if I can find it. 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They came quite as a surprise, I didn't know what I was doing when I wrote them, the first fourteen or so I thought, my goodness, what are these little things doing here, and I couldn't quite take them seriously and then I began to see the order that really was intrinsic in them, and realized that here was something, almost a new form for me to work on, and it's very bare, naked, undecorated and I wanted to get rid of all my affectations. And so I decided to write a couple hundred of them, and I wrote about a hundred and then got hung up on a technical problem, and finally reduced them to, I don't know, forty or so that are in this book. So this is a distillation, let's say. I'm going to read the first fourteen which comprise a total poem, in a sense the whole book is a poem. And then I'll read a few more as long as my voice and your patience will hold out. \\\"Suite I\\\".\\n \\nPhyllis Webb\\n00:27:56\\nReads \\\"Suite I\\\" from Naked Poems.\\n \\nPhyllis Webb\\n00:28:53\\nReads \\\"Flies\\\" from Naked Poems.\\n \\nPhyllis Webb\\n00:29:10\\nReads \\\"Your Blouse\\\" from Naked Poems.\\n \\nPhyllis Webb\\n00:29:41\\nReads \\\"Suite II\\\" from Naked Poems.\\n \\nPhyllis Webb\\n00:31:27\\nOne of the things I was interested in doing in these poems is again this subjective and the objective, here the subject and the object relationship, so that I use objects just to speak for themselves, in a sense, and yet they are all prismed in the way I see them. 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I have notes in my hand concerning her, but on the back of this album, here, a CBC [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q461761] publications release of...is it eight Canadian poets? One, two, three, four… [Audience laughter]. Yes, eight Canadian poets, this album is about to be released very shortly. There's a much more comprehensive biography of her, so I shall read this as an introduction to her. Born in Toronto [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q172] in 1941, began publishing poetry in the Canadian Forum [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5030045] at age fifteen. She left school at eighteen, a high school dropout, as the sociologists would say [audience applause and laughter] to devote herself to writing. She has published three books of poetry, The Drunken Clock, The Rising Fire, and most recently, A Breakfast for Barbarians. She has also published a novel called Julian the Magician. In 1965, she was awarded the prize for poetry in the CBC's new writing contest. With the aid of a Canada Council [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2993809] grant, she is currently at work on a novel on the, how do you pronounce the guy's name? [whispers off-mic to MacEwen]...Pharaoh Akhenaten [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q81794] [laughter] of the eighteenth dynasty in Egypt [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79]. Ladies and gentlemen, Gwendolyn MacEwen.\\n \\nUnknown\\n00:01:47\\n[Cut or edit in tape. Unknown amount of time elapsed].\\n \\nGwendolyn MacEwen\\n00:01:47\\nSo listen, I had a great idea that if our voices gave out we were just going to open up the record and bring a recorder up on a stage and place the needle in the proper groove, and then just let the record speak for itself. However, I guess the voice is intact. I'm reading first from my latest work, poems from the last year. The first is called \\\"The Zoo\\\".\\n  \\nGwendolyn MacEwen\\n00:02:22\\nReads \\\"The Zoo\\\".\\n \\nGwendolyn MacEwen\\n00:03:38\\nNot feeling that I'd sufficiently exploited beasts and things, I wrote another called \\\"The Taming of the Dragon\\\".\\n \\nGwendolyn MacEwen\\n00:03:49\\nReads \\\"The Taming of the Dragon\\\".\\n \\nGwendolyn MacEwen\\n00:04:57\\nStill not having exploited the animal kingdom, I wrote a poem which, well, is not connected with the animal kingdom at all, really. It's called \\\"The Horse-head Nebula\\\".\\n  \\nGwendolyn MacEwen\\n00:05:12\\nReads \\\"The Horse-head Nebula\\\".\\n \\nGwendolyn MacEwen\\n00:06:19.86\\nReads \\\"Wheels\\\".\\n \\nGwendolyn MacEwen\\n00:07:18\\nThis is a poem which, oddly enough, came out in a Mexican magazine in Spanish not too long ago, looking completely unrecognizable to me. It's called \\\"I Should Have Predicted\\\".\\n \\nGwendolyn MacEwen\\n00:07:38\\nReads \\\"I Should Have Predicted\\\" [published later in The Shadow-Maker].\\n \\nGwendolyn MacEwen\\n00:08:47\\nSome people have asked me if that poem was about Toronto, and I'm at a loss to answer, not having seen horses, riders, chariots, or anything remotely similar in Toronto. Plus the fact, I'm sure many people have predicted the death of Toronto, as far as that goes. I recall Phyllis reading a poem on perhaps an evolutionary theme, and I have one here called \\\"The Heel\\\".\\n \\nGwendolyn MacEwen\\n00:09:32\\nReads \\\"The Heel\\\" [published later in The Shadow-Maker].\\n \\nGwendolyn MacEwen\\n00:11:16\\nNow, I think I can safely move into Breakfast for Barbarians. It needs a little preparation, a little cushioning, perhaps. This is a poem called \\\"The Garden of Square Roots: An Autobiography\\\".\\n \\nGwendolyn MacEwen\\n00:12:01\\nReads \\\"The Garden of Square Roots: An Autobiography\\\" from A Breakfast for Barbarians.\\n \\nGwendolyn MacEwen\\n00:13:33\\nI think all poets should have some suffering poems, poems of great anguish. So feeling I was somewhat deficient in this area [audience laughter], I made use of a very opportune situation, recovering from an appendectomy in hospital. [Audience laughter]. Deciding that surely this was my moment, if I was ever going to write a painful poem it must be now. [Audience laughter]. So this is \\\"Appendectomy\\\".\\n \\nGwendolyn MacEwen\\n00:14:20\\nReads \\\"Appendectomy\\\".\\n \\nUnknown\\n00:14:22\\n[High-pitched sound. Possible damage to recording].\\n \\nUnknown\\n00:14:57\\n[High-pitched sound. Possible damage to recording].\\n \\nGwendolyn MacEwen\\n00:15:20\\nAlthough I can't say that I'm convinced that that suffering was valid, either. But. The next poem is called \\\"The Self Assumes\\\", and I rarely talk about how a poem gets written because it seems mostly irrelevant, but I would remark that the last line of this poem was one of those very strange, surprising things that comes to one almost instantaneously, and one plucks it out of the air. I was very delighted with it. \\\"The Self Assumes\\\".\\n \\nGwendolyn MacEwen\\n00:16:08\\nReads \\\"The Self Assumes\\\".\\n \\nGwendolyn MacEwen\\n00:18:01\\nThe next poem is one of a group of poems toward the end of this book where the, I think the tone or the voice takes a somewhat radical departure from the poems in the rest of the book. It's called \\\"The Caravan\\\".\\n \\nGwendolyn MacEwen\\n00:18:23\\nReads \\\"The Caravan\\\" from A Breakfast for Barbarians. \\n \\nGwendolyn MacEwen\\n00:20:29\\nI'm trying to locate a poem in this book which I realized doesn't exist. It's somewhere else altogether. I'd like to end this reading with a trilogy of poems. Which are also toward the end of Breakfast for Barbarians. Poems which, for me, represent a stage in my own growth as a poet. They are called the Arcanum poems, I believe they're on the record which Roy Kiyooka [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3445789] was showing you. \\n \\nGwendolyn MacEwen\\n00:21:15\\nReads \\\"Arcanum One\\\" from A Breakfast for Barbarians.\\n \\nGwendolyn MacEwen\\n00:22:35\\nBefore I go into \\\"Arcanum Two\\\", in case anyone is mystified with beetles and suns and various creatures like that, let me say that the book is, the poem, rather, is of an Egyptian theme. A royal house. And the events taking place within it. So we move on: \\\"Arcanum Two\\\".\\n \\nGwendolyn MacEwen\\n00:23:05\\nReads \\\"Arcanum Two\\\" from A Breakfast for Barbarians.\\n \\nGwendolyn MacEwen\\n00:24:33\\nAnd finally, \\\"Arcanum Three\\\".\\n \\nGwendolyn MacEwen\\n00:24:39\\nReads \\\"Arcanum Three\\\" from A Breakfast for Barbarians.\\n \\nGwendolyn MacEwen\\n00:25:31\\nThank you very much. \\n \\nUnknown\\n00:25:34\\n[Cut or edit in tape. Unknown amount of time elapsed]. \\n \\nRoy Kiyooka\\n00:25:34\\n...everybody here, I want to thank Gwendolyn MacEwen. Our night three is on December the second. Thank you very much. \\n \\nEND\\n00:25:42\\n\",\"notes\":\"Gwendolyn MacEwen reads from Breakfast for Barbarians (Ryerson Press, 1966) and poems published later in The Shadow-Maker (Macmillan, 1969) and a few unknown poems.\\n\\n00:00- Roy Kiyooka introduces Gwendolyn MacEwen. [INDEX: second half of reading, CBC recording of eight Canadian poets (Phyllis Webb, Earle Birney, John Newlove, Al Purdy, Irving Layton, Leonard Cohen, George Bowering and Gwendolyn MacEwen (CBC, 1966), biography, born in Toronto in 1941, publishing poetry at age 15, high school dropout, sociologists, three poetry books: The Drunken Clock, The Rising Fire and Breakfast for Barbarians, novel Julian and the Magician, 1965 award from CBC’s\\nwriting contest, Canada Council grant, Pharaoh Akhenaton and the eighteenth dynasty in Egypt, (perhaps King of Egypt, King of Dreams (Macmillan, 1971)].\\n01:47- Gwendolyn MacEwen introduces reading and “The Zoo”. [INDEX: loss of voice,\\nrecording, record, latest work].\\n02:22- Reads “The Zoo”.\\n03:38- Introduces “The Taming of the Dragon”. [INDEX: exploited beasts].\\n03:49- Reads “The Taming of the Dragon”.\\n04:57- Introduces “The Horse-head Nebula”. [INDEX: exploited the animal kingdom].\\n05:12- Reads “The Horse-head Nebula”.\\n06:19- Reads “Wheels”.\\n07:18- Introduces “I Should Have Predicted”. [INDEX: published in Mexican magazine in\\nSpanish; later published in The Shadow-Maker (Macmillan, 1969)].\\n07:38- Reads “I Should Have Predicted”.\\n08:47- Explains “I Should Have Predicted” and introduces “The Heel”. [INDEX: about\\nToronto, horses, riders, chariots, death of Toronto, Phyllis [Webb] poem, evolutionary\\ntheme; later published in The Shadow-Maker (Macmillan, 1969)].\\n09:32- Reads “The Heel”.\\n11:16- Introduces Breakfast for Barbarians. [INDEX: preparation, cushioning].\\n11:52- Introduces “The Garden of Square Roots: An Autobiography”. [INDEX: from\\nBreakfast for Barbarians].\\n12:01- Reads “The Garden of Square Roots: An Autobiography”.\\n13:33- Introduces “Appendectomy”. [INDEX: suffering poem, poets, appendectomy in hospital,painful poem; from Breakfast for Barbarians].\\n14:20- Reads “Appendectomy”.\\n14:22- Damage to recording\\n14:57- Damage to recording\\n15:20- Explains “Appendectomy”, introduces “The Self Assumes”. [INDEX: suffering,\\nvalidity, how a poem gets written, irrelevant, last line, strange surprise, instantaneous, out of air; from Breakfast for Barbarians].\\n16:08- Reads “The Self Assumes”.\\n18:01- Introduces “The Caravan”. [INDEX: group of poems, tone, voice, radical departure; from Breakfast for Barbarians].\\n18:23- Reads “The Caravan”.\\n20:29- Introduces “Arcanum One”. [INDEX: poem that doesn’t exist, trilogy of poems, at the end of Breakfast for Barbarians, stage in growth as a poet, Arcanum poems, on record, Roy Kiyooka].\\n21:15- Reads “Arcanum One”.\\n22:35- Introduces “Arcanum Two”. 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Gnarowski was heavily involved in several presses and magazines throughout his career, which include Le Chien d’or/The Golden Dog, Delta, Golden Dog Press, the Tecumseh Press, Arc Poetry Magazine and McGraw-Hill Ryerson’s Critical Views on Canadian Writers Series (Ryerson Press, 1970), and Canadian Poetry. Along with Ron Everson, Raymond Souster and Louis Dudek, he founded the League of Canadian Poets in 1966. He taught English at the University of Sherbrooke from 1961-62; at Port Arthur (now Thunder Bay), Ontario from 1962-65; was an assistant professor of English at Sir George Williams University (now Concordia) from 1966-72; Carleton University from 1972 onwards. 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His first book, New Wings for Icarus was published in 1966 (Coach House Press), followed by Face on the Dark in 1970. Beissel later published The Salt I Taste (D.C. Books, 1975), The Cantos North (Penumbra Press, 1982), Season of Blood (Mosaic Press,1984), Poems new and selected (Grove Press, 1987), Across the Sun’s Warp (BuschekBooks, 2003). He later wrote and published several plays; Inook and the Sun was performed at the Stratford Festival in 1973. 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Mike Gnarowski reads from Postscript for St. James Street (Delta, 1965) and from other unknown sources."],"contents":["Henry_beissel_i086-11-003.mp3 [File 1 of 2]\n\nRoy Kiyooka\n00:00:00\nLadies and Gentleman, um, let's see, what am I going to say? [Audience laughter and applause]...Well, glad to see y’all here. So, Professor Louis Dudek []https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3261787] from McGill University [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q201492] will introduce the two poets who’re reading this evening. \n\nAudience\n00:00:31\nApplause.\n\nLouis Dudek\n00:00:40\nI expected a longer introduction than that, it will be very fine. There are two kinds of readings that I like to attend very much, one kind is the sort that they're having tonight at McGill University, where a well-established poet who has been on the scene for forty or fifty years comes to read. Over there, it's A.J.M. Smith [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4647944] from Michigan State [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q270222], Canadian anthologist and well-known poet. With a poet like that, really makes no difference what he reads or how he reads it's just important to see him and even the tottering saint can perform miracles on occasions. The other kinds of poets I do like to hear very much are the sort that we'll hear tonight, Gnarowski and Beissel [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1606507]. The McGill publicity department sent out a notice about A.J.M. Smith and described him as well-known Anthropologist of Canadian poetry. Actually, they corrected it in ink, they made the mistake twice though, probably a typist error. But they didn't know how correct they were, with the current scene in Canadian writing, there are primitive types around that are hard to classify and we need anthropologists...Well, Beissel and Gnarowski are not of this breed of poets who seem to have lost all sense of poetic organization or form, where you think that conventions, poetic conventions have been abolished and what is left are chaotic bits of internal monologue on the page. Of course, that kind of school may be very interesting to watch to see what comes out of it but at present, having watched it now for a few years I'm a little impatient often and tired of the magazines where this material occurs because it seems so easy to turn out and anyone has these bits of chaotic monologue going on. On the other hand, there are many poets still writing who are not following the conventional forms of English metrics and rhyme and so forth, who are turning out poems or at least watching what happens what happens with the words on the page and both the poets we're listening to tonight are of this kind. They are very careful craftsmen. Henry Beissel has the long list of achievements to his credits already, but two on that list strike me very much. One is, amongst many of the posts where he's taught, one is the University of Alberta [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q640694] is the kind of political stir that was created on the campus when his magazine Edge was brought into the classroom by one of the professors. That is, his poetry contains, content that can make one think, that is morally committed to certain issues in today's world. He's very strongly a moral poet on one side, and the other item in his biography is his new book which has just appeared New Wings for Icarus, which is extremely aesthetic at the same time that it is meaningful in this way. His poetry seems to combine two things, one is a moral urgency and on the other hand, at the same time, a romantic sense of language and of imagery and of emotion that goes with that, which are all very, very promising characteristics for a beginning poet, but I think that this New Wings for Icarus book is his first considerable book. So, without more ado, I introduce to you Henry Beissel. \n\nHenry Beissel\n00:05:30\nWhen I considered the kind of poems that I might read this evening and the order in which to read them, I was thinking of the condition of this hall, as it was the last time I was here and I therefore chose two poems which I wrote in the West Indies [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q669037]. [Audience laughter]. They celebrate the sun in an ambiguous sort of way, I'm going to read them all the same, despite the fact that the conditions have changed. I don't know how much you need to know about the West Indies, I'm hoping—oh.\n\nAudience Member 1\n00:06:15\nAddresses Beissel [unintelligible].\n\nHenry Beissel\n00:06:17\nIs this any better? Is there someone in the hall who can attend please to all this? \n\nAudience Member 2\n00:06:28\nAddresses Beissel [unintelligible].\n\nAudience\n00:06:30\nLaughter.\n\nHenry Beissel\n00:06:39\nWell I'll try to speak a little louder on my own, in spite of the microphone. I was saying that I don't know how much one needs to know of the West Indies to respond to this sort of poem, I'm hoping something of the West Indies might be in the poems, the first is called \"Pans at Carnival\". Pan [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6610630] is the expression for a steel drum. The imagery in the poem is taken entirely from the steel drum and its use at Carnival [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4618], a feast that is about to be celebrated in Trinidad [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q754] in about a month. Rhythmically, the poem tries to catch something of the rhythm of the steel pan. \n\nHenry Beissel\n00:07:28\nReads \"Pans at Carnival\".\n\nHenry Beissel\n00:10:18\nThe second poem celebrates something of the violence that the sun, with which the sun blesses those parts of the world from which it never really disappears.\n\nHenry Beissel\n00:10:34\nReads \"Where the Sun Only\".\n\nHenry Beissel\n00:12:49\nNext I want to read two parts from New Wings for Icarus. Time does not allow me to read the whole poem, because then I could read you nothing else. “Icarus” is a poem that is written in four parts, it is with some regret that I read only two, because to me it is like playing the second and fourth part of a symphony, but there is no alternative. \n\nHenry Beissel\n00:13:19\nReads \"New Wings for Icarus\", part 2 from New Wings for Icarus.\n\nHenry Beissel\n00:13:51\nSorry, I'll start again. This is a hard one to read and this print is very small. I better hold it closer.\n\nHenry Beissel\n00:13:59\nReads \"New Wings for Icarus\", part 2 from New Wings for Icarus.\n\nHenry Beissel\n00:19:41\nReads \"New Wings for Icarus\", part 4 from New Wings for Icarus.\n\nHenry Beissel\n00:26:39\nNow for a little sort of relaxation in-between, I find unrelieved serious poetry hard to bear myself, I'll read—unfortunately I do not write occasional poems terribly often, they always seem to grow into something much bigger than I can handle, but the next two poems I want to read you are occasional poems, poetry can come out of anything of course, and this one came out of an encounter in a house of Inquisition in Cartagena [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q657461], in Colombia [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q739], it is really self-explanatory. It's called \"En la Casa de Inquisición\". \n\nHenry Beissel\n00:27:40\nReads \"En la Casa de Inquisición\".\n\nHenry Beissel\n00:29:23\nThe next poem leads me on to the last set of poems, but you won't discover that until you hear the last two poems. This poem is dedicated to my daughter, when she was 1 and a half, the first stanza deals with the circumstances of her birth, which were somewhat elaborate, there were firemen. The second stanza deals with her present—this would be the past from the time of the poem, the second deals with her present, and the third with her future. \n\nHenry Beissel\n00:30:07\nReads \"To My Daughter at Age 1 1/2\".\n\nHenry Beissel\n00:33:25\nAnd now I come to the final two poems. They belong together and are part of a— we agreed not to torture you and not to read for more than 30 minutes this evening and I am trying to stick to that. This is rather the beginning of something that I may never live to finish, the entire thing is supposed to have some 26 poems, of which you will hear the first two, one is a prologue and the other one is called \"Adam Enter Eve\". In the prologue, a character introduces himself who is to play his part in the rest of the poem. It's not really a dramatic poem, although it's, well I don't think of it as a drama, although it has dramatic qualities. Anyway, I don't like to be my own critic. I prefer just to read you the poem. The whole cycle will be called \"The Dancer from the Dance\" that is as you no doubt know, a quotation from Yeats [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40213]. \n\nHenry Beissel\n00:34:45\nReads \"Prologue\" from \"The Dancer from the Dance\".\n\nHenry Beissel\n00:37:04\nReads \"Adam Enter Eve\".\n\nEND\n00:49:40\n[Recording continues on mike_gnarowski_i006-11-122.mp3].\n\nmike_gnarowski_i006-11-122.mp3 [File 2 of 2]\n\nLouis Dudek\n00:00:00\nStrongly I was impressed and moved by that reading by Henry Beissel. Really several times after the poems I wanted to applaud, only we don't do that. They were magnificently organized forms with powerful language and very well read, I felt, I think I'm speaking for most people here when I say that. Mike Gnarowski who reads next is different perhaps in the extent to which his poetry is oriented towards reality. Not by implication because Beissel's also is very real and very down to earth and very much committed to the real world, but Gnarowski's poetry has a lot to do with Canadian poetry and the way it has turned towards the real world since about 1925 since A.J.M. Smith and Scott [F.R. Scott; https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3081656] and A.M. Klein [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2778027] began writing. Gnarowski's been very active as a student of Canadian literature, a scholar and a bibliographer and so forth of our literature looking into the sources of this modern poetry and to letters and documents. In this he has done some very valuable work, indexing little magazines that would be otherwise, less well known, preparing bibliographies and he is now working on a larger anthology of criticism introducing the backgrounds of modern Canadian poetry. All this kind of study which is very valuable on the academic side is also important to his poetry I feel, that it places him within the line of modern Canadian poets who have tried to interpret the real, the visible, the actual, directly in poetry. Somewhat in the way I suppose that all modern poetry in English does, including T.S. Eliot's [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37767] \"Waste Land\" [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q581458] and Ezra Pound's [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q163366] \"Cantos\" [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2701465] and e. e. cumming's [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q298703] comedies and satires and Auden's [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q178698] poetry also. That is the characteristic of twentieth-century poetry is that its extreme realism and the bringing of the romantic conceptions of the last century to bear upon the actual world and showing that the conflict, the intense conflict that exists in the poet between his conception of things and what he sees before him. That you find in Gnarowski very much. He as a writer he is a meticulous craftsman, I don't know if that's symbolic [audience laughter]... He's also a meticulous craftsman and his poems seem to grow by accretion, very gradually. He writes with a stubborn integrity and knows what he thinks and what he's trying to say in a poem, they aren't just momentary fusions. They're highly worked up pieces of writing. There's a strong element of rationality and reality in this poetry, less of the flight of the emotions and the fantasy that's in most other poets. There's a very strong formal organization in his poetry, a clean speech, straight as the Greeks as Ezra Pound used to say in the past. His first book is entitled Postscript for St. James Street which has to do with, in some part anyhow, with the business world in which we live and he has chosen that quite consciously as a subject that could be turned into poetry, to take the business man, the real in that sense, St. James Street [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1526237] and see what can be made out of that imaginatively. Most poets when they treat a subject like that turn it into satire, because what else can you make out of St. James Street, but Gnarowski wants to keep his vision clear and straight for the fact to see what it really is without elevating too much or perhaps without caricaturing the reality, and it's a very interesting experiment. I'm sure you'll all enjoy listening to his poetry.\n \nMike Gnarowski\n00:05:09\nA couple of years ago I had the occasion to go up into North Western Ontario [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1904], and I lived there for three or four years and more specifically on Port Arthur [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7230482] which is on the very shores of Lake Superior [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1066], and I kept looking at this magnificent and fantastic lake and it kept bothering me. It was too big and too vast and too meaningful and too ominous in many ways to be let off too easily. I also had a friend up there who was an anthropologist and archaeologist and a very good one, and he spent a lot of time going up into that country up around Lake Superior and he kept coming back with all sorts of wonderful thing, all sorts of relics of the past as it were. Gaffs and skulls and this and that which he kept finding and he told me that that part of the world had at one time had supported a pretty fantastic civilization of its own, a very peculiar civilization. And I looked at the lake, Lake Superior, and I decided I would try to write something about it, about the feelings that I think that this ominous body of water might have. A little poem I did for it is entitled \"Great Sea\".\n \nMike Gnarowski\n00:06:30\nReads \"Great Sea\".\n \nMike Gnarowski\n00:10:40\nAnd following along the same themes, a little poem entitled \"Amethyst Harbour\" which was occasioned by a visit of A.Y. Jackson [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3499926] and several friends who gathered in this quite magnificent place on the lake, just about this time of the year and you could look out across Thunder Bay [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9298873] and you saw nothing but ice-locked island and of course snow and ice continuing forever and ever. I always felt the nature, of course, there had not been overcome by man and that nature always threatened man and that there was a struggle, a conflict, a tension going on. So here is \"Amethyst Harbour\".\n \nMike Gnarowski\n00:11:31\nReads \"Amethyst Harbour\".\n \nMike Gnarowski\n00:13:20\nAs Louis Dudek pointed out, I've always been fascinated by those men who wheel and deal and who are responsible for much of the life of the nation, I suppose, of North America [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49], the so-called businessman, much maligned most of the time. I normally try to deal as properly as I can and in this instance I think I'm probably being unkind. This is a poem entitled \"Portrait of a Man Come to Say Farewell\".\n \nMike Gnarowski\n00:13:55\nReads \"Portrait of a Man Come to Say Farewell\".\n\nAudience\n00:15:26\nApplause [one person].\n \nMike Gnarowski\n00:15:30\nUhh--Thank you. A little while ago, or a few years ago I should say, I had the occasion to go to a town south-east of here called Victoriaville [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141731], I was there on business and I went through an old-age or an old-people's home and some of you may know what those places are like, I was profoundly affected by this experience and I tried to write something about it and I've called this little thing \"Provincia Nostra\".\n \nMike Gnarowski\n00:15:56\nReads \"Provincia Nostra”.\n \nMike Gnarowski\n00:16:50\nThis is for a friend who was lost in an automobile accident.\n \nMike Gnarowski\n00:16:54\nReads unnamed poem.\n \nMike Gnarowski\n00:17:31\nA very short thing, which I think fills the purpose of keeping me from becoming too serious.\n \nMike Gnarowski\n00:17:46\nReads unnamed poem. \n\nMike Gnarowski\n00:17:59\nThank you.\n \nAudience\n00:18:00\nLaughter and applause [cut off].\n\nIntroducer\n00:18:03\nWe'd like to express our thanks to Mike Gnarowski, Henry Beissel, and our special appreciation to Louis Dudek who made the supreme sacrifice of tearing himself away from McGill to come here and introduce them. [Audience applause]. Our next reading will be in two weeks, on Friday, January 27 Margaret Avison [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6759152] will be coming from Toronto [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q172] to read her poetry and the following reading on Sat. Feb. 11, Paul Blackburn [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7149388] who is the Poet in Residence at the City College in New York [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1093910] and the author of, among other things, Brooklyn, Manhattan Transit will be coming here to read his poetry. Thank you.\n \nEND\n00:19:00\n"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Year-specific Information:\\n\\nHenry Beissel was teaching at Sir George Williams University in 1966. He also edited Edge: An Independent Periodical, no. 6, Spring 1967.\\n\\nMike Gnarowski received his Ph.D. from University of Ottawa in 1967, and was working as an associate professor at Sir George Williams University. He co-edited The Making of Modern Poetry in Canada with Louis Dudek, which was published by Ryerson Press in 1967. He was the editor of Yes magazine from 1956-69.\",\"type\":\"General\"},{\"note\":\"Local connections:\\n\\nBeissel retired as Distinguished Emeritus Professor of English from Concordia University in 1996. Henry Beissel, Mike Gnarowski and Louis Dudek (also in this reading) organized the Montreal Committee, and organized The Emergency Symposium on the Americanization of Canadian Universities in May of 1969.\\n\\nMike Gnarowski is very involved in the effort to promote Canadian authors and writers, editing and publishing criticism and anthologies of Canadian poetry, specifically those of Leonard Cohen, Archibald Lampman and Raymond Knister as well as little known writers.\",\"type\":\"General\"},{\"note\":\"Original transcript, research, introduction and edits by Celyn Harding-Jones\\n\\nAdditional research and edits by Faith Paré (2020) and Ali Barillaro (2021)\\n\",\"type\":\"Cataloguer\"},{\"note\":\"2 reel-to-reel tapes>2 CDs>2 digital files\",\"type\":\"Preservation\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/new-wings-for-icarus-a-poem-in-four-parts/oclc/1127807997&referer=brief_results\",\"citation\":\"Beissel, Henry. New Wings for Icarus. 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Really several times after the poems I wanted to applaud, only we don't do that. They were magnificently organized forms with powerful language and very well read, I felt, I think I'm speaking for most people here when I say that. Mike Gnarowski who reads next is different perhaps in the extent to which his poetry is oriented towards reality. Not by implication because Beissel's also is very real and very down to earth and very much committed to the real world, but Gnarowski's poetry has a lot to do with Canadian poetry and the way it has turned towards the real world since about 1925 since A.J.M. Smith and Scott [F.R. Scott; https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3081656] and A.M. Klein [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2778027] began writing. Gnarowski's been very active as a student of Canadian literature, a scholar and a bibliographer and so forth of our literature looking into the sources of this modern poetry and to letters and documents. In this he has done some very valuable work, indexing little magazines that would be otherwise, less well known, preparing bibliographies and he is now working on a larger anthology of criticism introducing the backgrounds of modern Canadian poetry. All this kind of study which is very valuable on the academic side is also important to his poetry I feel, that it places him within the line of modern Canadian poets who have tried to interpret the real, the visible, the actual, directly in poetry. Somewhat in the way I suppose that all modern poetry in English does, including T.S. Eliot's [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37767] \\\"Waste Land\\\" [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q581458] and Ezra Pound's [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q163366] \\\"Cantos\\\" [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2701465] and e. e. cumming's [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q298703] comedies and satires and Auden's [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q178698] poetry also. That is the characteristic of twentieth-century poetry is that its extreme realism and the bringing of the romantic conceptions of the last century to bear upon the actual world and showing that the conflict, the intense conflict that exists in the poet between his conception of things and what he sees before him. That you find in Gnarowski very much. He as a writer he is a meticulous craftsman, I don't know if that's symbolic [audience laughter]... He's also a meticulous craftsman and his poems seem to grow by accretion, very gradually. He writes with a stubborn integrity and knows what he thinks and what he's trying to say in a poem, they aren't just momentary fusions. They're highly worked up pieces of writing. There's a strong element of rationality and reality in this poetry, less of the flight of the emotions and the fantasy that's in most other poets. There's a very strong formal organization in his poetry, a clean speech, straight as the Greeks as Ezra Pound used to say in the past. His first book is entitled Postscript for St. James Street which has to do with, in some part anyhow, with the business world in which we live and he has chosen that quite consciously as a subject that could be turned into poetry, to take the business man, the real in that sense, St. James Street [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1526237] and see what can be made out of that imaginatively. Most poets when they treat a subject like that turn it into satire, because what else can you make out of St. James Street, but Gnarowski wants to keep his vision clear and straight for the fact to see what it really is without elevating too much or perhaps without caricaturing the reality, and it's a very interesting experiment. I'm sure you'll all enjoy listening to his poetry.\\n \\nMike Gnarowski\\n00:05:09\\nA couple of years ago I had the occasion to go up into North Western Ontario [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1904], and I lived there for three or four years and more specifically on Port Arthur [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7230482] which is on the very shores of Lake Superior [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1066], and I kept looking at this magnificent and fantastic lake and it kept bothering me. It was too big and too vast and too meaningful and too ominous in many ways to be let off too easily. I also had a friend up there who was an anthropologist and archaeologist and a very good one, and he spent a lot of time going up into that country up around Lake Superior and he kept coming back with all sorts of wonderful thing, all sorts of relics of the past as it were. Gaffs and skulls and this and that which he kept finding and he told me that that part of the world had at one time had supported a pretty fantastic civilization of its own, a very peculiar civilization. And I looked at the lake, Lake Superior, and I decided I would try to write something about it, about the feelings that I think that this ominous body of water might have. A little poem I did for it is entitled \\\"Great Sea\\\".\\n \\nMike Gnarowski\\n00:06:30\\nReads \\\"Great Sea\\\".\\n \\nMike Gnarowski\\n00:10:40\\nAnd following along the same themes, a little poem entitled \\\"Amethyst Harbour\\\" which was occasioned by a visit of A.Y. Jackson [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3499926] and several friends who gathered in this quite magnificent place on the lake, just about this time of the year and you could look out across Thunder Bay [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9298873] and you saw nothing but ice-locked island and of course snow and ice continuing forever and ever. I always felt the nature, of course, there had not been overcome by man and that nature always threatened man and that there was a struggle, a conflict, a tension going on. So here is \\\"Amethyst Harbour\\\".\\n \\nMike Gnarowski\\n00:11:31\\nReads \\\"Amethyst Harbour\\\".\\n \\nMike Gnarowski\\n00:13:20\\nAs Louis Dudek pointed out, I've always been fascinated by those men who wheel and deal and who are responsible for much of the life of the nation, I suppose, of North America [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49], the so-called businessman, much maligned most of the time. I normally try to deal as properly as I can and in this instance I think I'm probably being unkind. This is a poem entitled \\\"Portrait of a Man Come to Say Farewell\\\".\\n \\nMike Gnarowski\\n00:13:55\\nReads \\\"Portrait of a Man Come to Say Farewell\\\".\\n\\nAudience\\n00:15:26\\nApplause [one person].\\n \\nMike Gnarowski\\n00:15:30\\nUhh--Thank you. A little while ago, or a few years ago I should say, I had the occasion to go to a town south-east of here called Victoriaville [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141731], I was there on business and I went through an old-age or an old-people's home and some of you may know what those places are like, I was profoundly affected by this experience and I tried to write something about it and I've called this little thing \\\"Provincia Nostra\\\".\\n \\nMike Gnarowski\\n00:15:56\\nReads \\\"Provincia Nostra”.\\n \\nMike Gnarowski\\n00:16:50\\nThis is for a friend who was lost in an automobile accident.\\n \\nMike Gnarowski\\n00:16:54\\nReads unnamed poem.\\n \\nMike Gnarowski\\n00:17:31\\nA very short thing, which I think fills the purpose of keeping me from becoming too serious.\\n \\nMike Gnarowski\\n00:17:46\\nReads unnamed poem. \\n\\nMike Gnarowski\\n00:17:59\\nThank you.\\n \\nAudience\\n00:18:00\\nLaughter and applause [cut off].\\n\\nIntroducer\\n00:18:03\\nWe'd like to express our thanks to Mike Gnarowski, Henry Beissel, and our special appreciation to Louis Dudek who made the supreme sacrifice of tearing himself away from McGill to come here and introduce them. [Audience applause]. Our next reading will be in two weeks, on Friday, January 27 Margaret Avison [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6759152] will be coming from Toronto [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q172] to read her poetry and the following reading on Sat. Feb. 11, Paul Blackburn [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7149388] who is the Poet in Residence at the City College in New York [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1093910] and the author of, among other things, Brooklyn, Manhattan Transit will be coming here to read his poetry. Thank you.\\n \\nEND\\n00:19:00\\n\",\"notes\":\" Mike Gnarowski reads from Postscript for St. James Street (Delta, 1965) and from other unknown sources.\\n\\n00:00 - Introduction by Louis Dudek [INDEX: Henry Beissel’s reading, realism in poetry, Canadian poetry since 1925, A.J.M. Smith, F.R. Scott, A.M. Klein, bibliographer, indexing smaller magazines, T.S. Eliot’s “Wastel Land”, Ezra Pound’s “Cantos”, e e cumming’s satires and comedies, W.H. 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So, Professor Louis Dudek []https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3261787] from McGill University [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q201492] will introduce the two poets who’re reading this evening. \\n\\nAudience\\n00:00:31\\nApplause.\\n\\nLouis Dudek\\n00:00:40\\nI expected a longer introduction than that, it will be very fine. There are two kinds of readings that I like to attend very much, one kind is the sort that they're having tonight at McGill University, where a well-established poet who has been on the scene for forty or fifty years comes to read. Over there, it's A.J.M. Smith [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4647944] from Michigan State [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q270222], Canadian anthologist and well-known poet. With a poet like that, really makes no difference what he reads or how he reads it's just important to see him and even the tottering saint can perform miracles on occasions. The other kinds of poets I do like to hear very much are the sort that we'll hear tonight, Gnarowski and Beissel [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1606507]. The McGill publicity department sent out a notice about A.J.M. Smith and described him as well-known Anthropologist of Canadian poetry. Actually, they corrected it in ink, they made the mistake twice though, probably a typist error. But they didn't know how correct they were, with the current scene in Canadian writing, there are primitive types around that are hard to classify and we need anthropologists...Well, Beissel and Gnarowski are not of this breed of poets who seem to have lost all sense of poetic organization or form, where you think that conventions, poetic conventions have been abolished and what is left are chaotic bits of internal monologue on the page. Of course, that kind of school may be very interesting to watch to see what comes out of it but at present, having watched it now for a few years I'm a little impatient often and tired of the magazines where this material occurs because it seems so easy to turn out and anyone has these bits of chaotic monologue going on. On the other hand, there are many poets still writing who are not following the conventional forms of English metrics and rhyme and so forth, who are turning out poems or at least watching what happens what happens with the words on the page and both the poets we're listening to tonight are of this kind. They are very careful craftsmen. Henry Beissel has the long list of achievements to his credits already, but two on that list strike me very much. One is, amongst many of the posts where he's taught, one is the University of Alberta [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q640694] is the kind of political stir that was created on the campus when his magazine Edge was brought into the classroom by one of the professors. That is, his poetry contains, content that can make one think, that is morally committed to certain issues in today's world. He's very strongly a moral poet on one side, and the other item in his biography is his new book which has just appeared New Wings for Icarus, which is extremely aesthetic at the same time that it is meaningful in this way. His poetry seems to combine two things, one is a moral urgency and on the other hand, at the same time, a romantic sense of language and of imagery and of emotion that goes with that, which are all very, very promising characteristics for a beginning poet, but I think that this New Wings for Icarus book is his first considerable book. So, without more ado, I introduce to you Henry Beissel. \\n\\nHenry Beissel\\n00:05:30\\nWhen I considered the kind of poems that I might read this evening and the order in which to read them, I was thinking of the condition of this hall, as it was the last time I was here and I therefore chose two poems which I wrote in the West Indies [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q669037]. [Audience laughter]. They celebrate the sun in an ambiguous sort of way, I'm going to read them all the same, despite the fact that the conditions have changed. I don't know how much you need to know about the West Indies, I'm hoping—oh.\\n\\nAudience Member 1\\n00:06:15\\nAddresses Beissel [unintelligible].\\n\\nHenry Beissel\\n00:06:17\\nIs this any better? Is there someone in the hall who can attend please to all this? \\n\\nAudience Member 2\\n00:06:28\\nAddresses Beissel [unintelligible].\\n\\nAudience\\n00:06:30\\nLaughter.\\n\\nHenry Beissel\\n00:06:39\\nWell I'll try to speak a little louder on my own, in spite of the microphone. I was saying that I don't know how much one needs to know of the West Indies to respond to this sort of poem, I'm hoping something of the West Indies might be in the poems, the first is called \\\"Pans at Carnival\\\". Pan [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6610630] is the expression for a steel drum. The imagery in the poem is taken entirely from the steel drum and its use at Carnival [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4618], a feast that is about to be celebrated in Trinidad [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q754] in about a month. Rhythmically, the poem tries to catch something of the rhythm of the steel pan. \\n\\nHenry Beissel\\n00:07:28\\nReads \\\"Pans at Carnival\\\".\\n\\nHenry Beissel\\n00:10:18\\nThe second poem celebrates something of the violence that the sun, with which the sun blesses those parts of the world from which it never really disappears.\\n\\nHenry Beissel\\n00:10:34\\nReads \\\"Where the Sun Only\\\".\\n\\nHenry Beissel\\n00:12:49\\nNext I want to read two parts from New Wings for Icarus. Time does not allow me to read the whole poem, because then I could read you nothing else. “Icarus” is a poem that is written in four parts, it is with some regret that I read only two, because to me it is like playing the second and fourth part of a symphony, but there is no alternative. \\n\\nHenry Beissel\\n00:13:19\\nReads \\\"New Wings for Icarus\\\", part 2 from New Wings for Icarus.\\n\\nHenry Beissel\\n00:13:51\\nSorry, I'll start again. This is a hard one to read and this print is very small. I better hold it closer.\\n\\nHenry Beissel\\n00:13:59\\nReads \\\"New Wings for Icarus\\\", part 2 from New Wings for Icarus.\\n\\nHenry Beissel\\n00:19:41\\nReads \\\"New Wings for Icarus\\\", part 4 from New Wings for Icarus.\\n\\nHenry Beissel\\n00:26:39\\nNow for a little sort of relaxation in-between, I find unrelieved serious poetry hard to bear myself, I'll read—unfortunately I do not write occasional poems terribly often, they always seem to grow into something much bigger than I can handle, but the next two poems I want to read you are occasional poems, poetry can come out of anything of course, and this one came out of an encounter in a house of Inquisition in Cartagena [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q657461], in Colombia [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q739], it is really self-explanatory. It's called \\\"En la Casa de Inquisición\\\". \\n\\nHenry Beissel\\n00:27:40\\nReads \\\"En la Casa de Inquisición\\\".\\n\\nHenry Beissel\\n00:29:23\\nThe next poem leads me on to the last set of poems, but you won't discover that until you hear the last two poems. This poem is dedicated to my daughter, when she was 1 and a half, the first stanza deals with the circumstances of her birth, which were somewhat elaborate, there were firemen. The second stanza deals with her present—this would be the past from the time of the poem, the second deals with her present, and the third with her future. \\n\\nHenry Beissel\\n00:30:07\\nReads \\\"To My Daughter at Age 1 1/2\\\".\\n\\nHenry Beissel\\n00:33:25\\nAnd now I come to the final two poems. They belong together and are part of a— we agreed not to torture you and not to read for more than 30 minutes this evening and I am trying to stick to that. This is rather the beginning of something that I may never live to finish, the entire thing is supposed to have some 26 poems, of which you will hear the first two, one is a prologue and the other one is called \\\"Adam Enter Eve\\\". In the prologue, a character introduces himself who is to play his part in the rest of the poem. It's not really a dramatic poem, although it's, well I don't think of it as a drama, although it has dramatic qualities. Anyway, I don't like to be my own critic. I prefer just to read you the poem. 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Well, this is our seventh poetry evening and we welcome you all here this cold and blustery evening. Now, this evening we're having Margaret Avison [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6759152] read poems, and I wanted to say a few things about her. I first listened to Margaret read her poems at the poetry conference, University of British Columbia [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q391028], during the summer of 1963. Her reading, together with those of the other poets on hand, are among the most memorable occasions I've had in my love affair with poems and poets. Four years later, in early January, we spent an afternoon together. Now I don't want to attribute, what I felt with a thought, on Bloor Street, to our conversation, but the warmth of it was very real. Margaret Avison was born in Guelph [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q504114], Ontario [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1904]; some early years were spent in Alberta [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1951]; she graduated from Victoria College [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3551503], the University of Toronto [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q180865], in 1940, with a BA in English Language and Literature. She has been a secretary of all sorts for various firms, individuals, and organizations, and has also been a research assistant and librarian and presently teaches English at Scarborough College, Toronto [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q172]. 1956-57 she was a Guggenheim Fellow [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6594] in poetry, and during the forties her work appeared in various Canadian magazines, and in the fifties, mainly in American ones. She has published two books of poems; The Winter Sun in 1960 won the Governor General's Award [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q283256], and in 1966, W.W. Norton [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1282208] in New York [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60] issued The Dumbfounding [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42189162], her latest book. Ladies and gentlemen, it gives me great pleasure in introducing to you Margaret Avison.\n \nUnknown\n00:02:59\n[Cut or edit made in tape. Unknown amount of time elapsed]. \n \nMargaret Avison\n00:02:59\nI don't know about the reading but I do know about the pleasure of meeting Roy [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3445789] again here, and being introduced by him. If this were Monday, or up to a week from tonight, I would be able to join the Angry Art Week. I don't know if anybody else has received these letters, but in New York City initially they're trying this and anybody who gets a letter from them is asked to dedicate any reading or event to what they're trying to do. You can still send them money, too, I'll give you the address if you want it later. What they're going to do is play harps in railroad stations and have...lets see, Bach [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1339] cantatas in railroad stations, play-ins in various museums and the lobbies of concert halls, recital halls, business buildings--I like that one--dramatic presentations in laundromats and supermarkets, [audience laughter], a paint-in, and fences and billboards throughout Manhattan [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11299] with their work showing and so on. This is a series. \"What we're trying to do is through art to reach the American people as human beings.\" So...[audience laughter]. If this were Monday I'd dedicate the reading [audience laughter and applause]...This is all very orderly, although it doesn't look it, and it starts with other people's poems of various kinds. A little section of C. Bukowski [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76409], somebody said that's Charles, an American poet. It's a great long thing that was in a mimeograph magazine, and the description is of a woman with a bicycle and a baby carriage, high-heeled shoes, white socks, and all her belongings, on a hot day in the middle of a road in a city. \n \nMargaret Avison\n00:05:28\nReads unnamed poem by Charles Bukowski.\n \nMargaret Avison\n00:06:30.\nThat's sad, so on the same page I copied one of Al Fowler's, which was in a magazine called Lines, which is the all-time happiest little poem, and I don't know why. I'm going to stop where the lines stop, not where the sense stops, so you can see the shape of it.  There's no capital letters. There's no title.\n \nMargaret Avison\n00:07:01\nReads “Are you a root or a tendermint” by Al Fowler [published in Lines 6].\n\nAudience \n00:07:20\nLaughter.\n\nMargaret Avison\n00:07:30\nThis is one by Gerry Gilbert [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5552756], called \"Zoo\".\n \nMargaret Avison\n00:07:39\nReads \"Zoo\" by Gerry Gilbert.\n \nMargaret Avison\n00:08:00\nI may bring in some more of other people's, but this is just a little, it's a friend of mine in Toronto who's made it to grade seven this year. He calls it \"The Delinquent\", and he has, in this copy he has said that it's his copyright so if you betray the fact that I read some of it, I'll be in trouble with him.\n \nMargaret Avison\n00:08:33\nReads \"The Delinquent\" by an unnamed author [audience laughter throughout].\n \nMargaret Avison\n00:10:20\nIt goes on, a bit, I want to go back to where it gets sad, though. I love \"She twisted her pinkies behind her but all the knots held more\".\n \nMargaret Avison\n00:10:30\nResumes reading \"The Delinquent\" [audience laughter throughout].\n \nMargaret Avison\n00:11:33\nThere's an awful line in the next verse. [Audience laughter].\n \nMargaret Avison\n00:11:41\nResumes reading \"The Delinquent\" [audience laughter throughout].\n \nMargaret Avison\n00:12:43\nIt ends up with knotting a burning matchstick into her old man's hair. [Audience laughter]. I think as he goes on he'll be somebody. If I'm not reading mine I'll warn of you. Some of these...the first one is a Toronto poem with footnotes, saying that TTC [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17978] means Toronto Transit Commission, and the Ditch is an open cut on the Yonge subway between Bloor and Rosedale. \n \nMargaret Avison\n00:13:38\nReads unnamed poem.\n \nMargaret Avison\n00:14:37\nThe second subway poem...a little child, it's called \"Subway Station Why Not.\"\n \nMargaret Avison\n00:14:53\nReads \"Subway Station Why Not\".\n \nMargaret Avison\n00:15:56\nThis next one is St. Clair Avenue, where I live on the car tracks. It's called \"Insomniac Report\".\n \nMargaret Avison\n00:16:11\nReads \"Insomniac Report\".\n \nMargaret Avison\n00:17:07\nFeels as if I should be doing something different, but I don't know what. I did a poem to people writing examinations I'm hunting for, but I think I've forgotten it. There's three about this odd experience of teaching and students. This one was written before I had had the experience, but was looking forward to it. And it had the title \"Is That You/Me Standing on My/Your Feet?\" And it's very full of fine theory and idealism.\n \nMargaret Avison\n00:18:18\nReads \"Is That You/Me Standing on My/Your Feet?\".\n \nMargaret Avison\n00:19:21\nAnd I've got two other incomplete ones that should be read with that. I'll just read two stanzas of the first one, it's got one four-line stanza for the students...\n \nMargaret Avison\n00:19:36\nReads unnamed poem.\n \nMargaret Avison\n00:20:36\nThe teacher's answer hasn't got written yet. Here's another bit, two stanzas, the student and the teacher, that isn't finished. The student is talking although it doesn't sound like it. \n \nMargaret Avison\n00:21:01\nReads unnamed poem.\n \nMargaret Avison\n00:21:51\nThere's a daybreak bus I have to catch and this one is called \"October 21, '66, at a bus stop on the way\".\n \nMargaret Avison\n00:22:03\nReads \"October 21, '66, at a bus stop on the way\".\n \nMargaret Avison\n00:23:07\nI had planned to get all this organized on the plane, but I was in the middle of the three seats and I kept getting the briefcase out and everything would fall to the floor, and this one would dive for it, or this one, and I finally gave up, so it's upside down. This is dedicated to Jacques Ellul [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q322922], The Technological Society [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1607727], a book he wrote that's a little mad but very stirring.\n \nMargaret Avison\n00:23:56\nReads [“Making Senses”, published later in No Time]. \n \nMargaret Avison\n00:26:39\nThere's one here that is just the equivalent to sketching, I guess. I know a poet in Chicago [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1297] who used to go and sit around in the Art Institute [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q239303], when it was a fairly quiet room, and stare all morning, and if any words occurred to him, he dashed them down. And sometime he worked up his sketches and sometime he didn't, which is a technique that's lots of fun to practice, and occasionally something grows out of it. In this case I don't think I'll ever do anything but it'll show you the kind of thing that I mean, if, as I assume, most of you are writers.\n \nMargaret Avison\n00:27:38\nReads unnamed poem. \n \nMargaret Avison\n00:28:25\nNow a poem with syntax and stuff called \"The Seven Birds\". A corner of Bathurst and College Street in Toronto which is the kind of buildings that have been there since the first world war, where there's often stores on the street level and an apartment or two above. \n \nMargaret Avison\n00:29:01\nReads \"The Seven Birds\" [published later in sunblue].\n\nMargaret Avison\n00:30:15\nI think I should read a long, fierce poem. This is not by me except translated. It's the poem of Gyula Illyes [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q381107], called \"Of Tyranny, In One Breath\". Ilona Duczynska [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q967353] did a literal translation for me and then read it to me for sound and we worked through it that way.  Apparently the poem started, or happened, in 1956 in Budapest [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1781]. Illyes had written it some years before but hadn't been angry enough at the time to risk what it was to bring it out. But he grew angry enough and somebody said the one thing that nobody censors is the magazine which tells you what lectures are going on where and what movies are running where and is just a news sheet, and the middle spread was for advertising, so they printed this in the middle sheet and it was, they tried to stop it as soon as the authorities found it but by then they were storming the radio station or however it started. I can't do it in one breath because it goes on for several pages. In the first part of it, \"it,\" meaning \"tyranny\" is small \"i\" and towards the end it's a capital \"I.\"\n \nMargaret Avison\n00:32:27\nReads English translation of \"Of Tyranny, In One Breath\" by Gyula Illyes [published later in Always Now, Vol. 1].\n\nMargaret Avison\n00:39:26\nSo, after the revolution he was much too well-known to disappear but they said he was insane and he was in an asylum for a while, but he wrote a lot of lovely things there, so I don't think he was, and he's not there now. It's much better, I think. A group of silly things it's embarrassing to read but I will, called \"Bestialities\".\n \nMargaret Avison\n00:40:19\nReads \"Bestialities\", parts 1-5 [from The Dumbfounding; audience laughter throughout].\n \nMargaret Avison\n00:41:14\nThe last one I think is just beautiful, but nobody gets it unless I explain, so I'll explain, it's like you take a piece of 8 by 11 typing paper...\n \nAudience Member 1\n00:41:26\nDon't explain, just say it.\n \nMargaret Avison\n00:41:28\nAlright, you can tell me then, eh? \n \nMargaret Avison\n00:41:33\nReads \"Bestialities\", part 6 [from The Dumbfounding].\n \nMargaret Avison\n00:41:40\nNow, come on...[Audience laughter]. Hmm? Does anybody want the explanation? Well I've read it. It's just a crumpled-up letter, you know, you get it and you read it and you cry and you crumble it up and you throw it down and the mite goes up...Now I'll read it again.\n \nMargaret Avison\n00:42:17\nReads \"Bestialities\", part 6 [from The Dumbfounding].\n \nMargaret Avison\n00:42:35\n“The Absorbed\". This is one of the very cold days, I guess about ten below, enough. It's inside the pane of glass separating inside from outside comes into it, a certain kind of sky that goes with that which is like glass again. \n \nMargaret Avison\n00:43:09\nReads \"The Absorbed\" [from The Dumbfounding].\n \nMargaret Avison\n00:45:50\nReads [\"Thaw\" from Winter Sun].\n \nMargaret Avison\n00:47:37\nI would like to read two other weather ones and then I'll give you a break. This is “Two Mayday Selves”.\n \nMargaret Avison\n00:47:54\nReads \"Two Mayday Selves\" [from The Dumbfounding].\n \nMargaret Avison\n00:49:42\nAnd the last one is late spring, early summer. Jet-plane and terminuses, called \"Black-White Under Green, May 18th 1965”.\n \nMargaret Avison\n00:50:06\nReads \"Black-White Under Green, May 18th 1965” [published as “May 18 1965” in The Dumbfounding].\n\nUnknown\n00:52:53\n[Cut or edit made in tape. Unknown amount of time elapsed].\n\nMargaret Avison\n00:52:54\nI've been asked to read \"The Valiant Vacationist\". It was written so many years ago...I think I would be quite right in saying thirty years ago, and probably a little more. And I couldn't write this well now but in a way when you're very young you've got the whole world in one lump without any lump, and you only get bits later on. \n \nMargaret Avison\n00:53:34\nReads \"The Valiant Vacationist\" [published later in Always Now: Vol. 1].\n \nMargaret Avison\n00:56:54\nThen the one \"To Professor X, Year Y\".\n \nMargaret Avison\n00:57:03\nReads \"To Professor X, Year Y\" [from Winter Sun].\n\nMargaret Avison\n00:59:57\nI'd like to read one introductory poem to the long one, \"The Earth that Falls Away\", and that one, and two short ones, if you'll bear with me that long. This is called \"The Absolute, the Day\".\n \nMargaret Avison\n01:00:22\nReads \"The Absolute, the Day\" [published later as “Absolute” in sunblue and in Always Now Vol. 2].\n\nMargaret Avison\n01:01:39\nThis one is \"The Earth that Falls Away\". There's an epigraph from Beddoes’ [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2165597] Death's Jest-Book [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42188673]: \"Can a man die? Aye, as the sun doth set, it is the earth that falls away from light\". There are a number of human situations, some into the past, through the present generation, the rest various city people, myself, and the stories come interleaving so that as I name a new section it'll be a new group of people, and by request I'm going to  stop at the line-ends here. \n \nMargaret Avison\n01:02:32\nReads \"The Earth that Falls Away\" [from The Dumbfounding].\n \nMargaret Avison\n01:15:52\nReads [\"He Couldn’t Be Safe (Isaiah 53:5)”, published later in sunblue].\n \nMargaret Avison\n01:16:54\nThere's one more and I'll stop with this one. \n \nMargaret Avison\n01:17:00\nReads [section from “The Jo Poems”, part 6. Published later in No Time. 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Well, this is our seventh poetry evening and we welcome you all here this cold and blustery evening. Now, this evening we're having Margaret Avison [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6759152] read poems, and I wanted to say a few things about her. I first listened to Margaret read her poems at the poetry conference, University of British Columbia [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q391028], during the summer of 1963. Her reading, together with those of the other poets on hand, are among the most memorable occasions I've had in my love affair with poems and poets. Four years later, in early January, we spent an afternoon together. Now I don't want to attribute, what I felt with a thought, on Bloor Street, to our conversation, but the warmth of it was very real. Margaret Avison was born in Guelph [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q504114], Ontario [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1904]; some early years were spent in Alberta [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1951]; she graduated from Victoria College [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3551503], the University of Toronto [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q180865], in 1940, with a BA in English Language and Literature. She has been a secretary of all sorts for various firms, individuals, and organizations, and has also been a research assistant and librarian and presently teaches English at Scarborough College, Toronto [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q172]. 1956-57 she was a Guggenheim Fellow [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6594] in poetry, and during the forties her work appeared in various Canadian magazines, and in the fifties, mainly in American ones. She has published two books of poems; The Winter Sun in 1960 won the Governor General's Award [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q283256], and in 1966, W.W. Norton [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1282208] in New York [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60] issued The Dumbfounding [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42189162], her latest book. Ladies and gentlemen, it gives me great pleasure in introducing to you Margaret Avison.\\n \\nUnknown\\n00:02:59\\n[Cut or edit made in tape. Unknown amount of time elapsed]. \\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:02:59\\nI don't know about the reading but I do know about the pleasure of meeting Roy [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3445789] again here, and being introduced by him. If this were Monday, or up to a week from tonight, I would be able to join the Angry Art Week. I don't know if anybody else has received these letters, but in New York City initially they're trying this and anybody who gets a letter from them is asked to dedicate any reading or event to what they're trying to do. You can still send them money, too, I'll give you the address if you want it later. What they're going to do is play harps in railroad stations and have...lets see, Bach [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1339] cantatas in railroad stations, play-ins in various museums and the lobbies of concert halls, recital halls, business buildings--I like that one--dramatic presentations in laundromats and supermarkets, [audience laughter], a paint-in, and fences and billboards throughout Manhattan [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11299] with their work showing and so on. This is a series. \\\"What we're trying to do is through art to reach the American people as human beings.\\\" So...[audience laughter]. If this were Monday I'd dedicate the reading [audience laughter and applause]...This is all very orderly, although it doesn't look it, and it starts with other people's poems of various kinds. A little section of C. Bukowski [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76409], somebody said that's Charles, an American poet. It's a great long thing that was in a mimeograph magazine, and the description is of a woman with a bicycle and a baby carriage, high-heeled shoes, white socks, and all her belongings, on a hot day in the middle of a road in a city. \\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:05:28\\nReads unnamed poem by Charles Bukowski.\\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:06:30.\\nThat's sad, so on the same page I copied one of Al Fowler's, which was in a magazine called Lines, which is the all-time happiest little poem, and I don't know why. I'm going to stop where the lines stop, not where the sense stops, so you can see the shape of it.  There's no capital letters. There's no title.\\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:07:01\\nReads “Are you a root or a tendermint” by Al Fowler [published in Lines 6].\\n\\nAudience \\n00:07:20\\nLaughter.\\n\\nMargaret Avison\\n00:07:30\\nThis is one by Gerry Gilbert [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5552756], called \\\"Zoo\\\".\\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:07:39\\nReads \\\"Zoo\\\" by Gerry Gilbert.\\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:08:00\\nI may bring in some more of other people's, but this is just a little, it's a friend of mine in Toronto who's made it to grade seven this year. He calls it \\\"The Delinquent\\\", and he has, in this copy he has said that it's his copyright so if you betray the fact that I read some of it, I'll be in trouble with him.\\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:08:33\\nReads \\\"The Delinquent\\\" by an unnamed author [audience laughter throughout].\\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:10:20\\nIt goes on, a bit, I want to go back to where it gets sad, though. I love \\\"She twisted her pinkies behind her but all the knots held more\\\".\\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:10:30\\nResumes reading \\\"The Delinquent\\\" [audience laughter throughout].\\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:11:33\\nThere's an awful line in the next verse. [Audience laughter].\\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:11:41\\nResumes reading \\\"The Delinquent\\\" [audience laughter throughout].\\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:12:43\\nIt ends up with knotting a burning matchstick into her old man's hair. [Audience laughter]. I think as he goes on he'll be somebody. If I'm not reading mine I'll warn of you. Some of these...the first one is a Toronto poem with footnotes, saying that TTC [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17978] means Toronto Transit Commission, and the Ditch is an open cut on the Yonge subway between Bloor and Rosedale. \\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:13:38\\nReads unnamed poem.\\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:14:37\\nThe second subway poem...a little child, it's called \\\"Subway Station Why Not.\\\"\\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:14:53\\nReads \\\"Subway Station Why Not\\\".\\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:15:56\\nThis next one is St. Clair Avenue, where I live on the car tracks. It's called \\\"Insomniac Report\\\".\\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:16:11\\nReads \\\"Insomniac Report\\\".\\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:17:07\\nFeels as if I should be doing something different, but I don't know what. I did a poem to people writing examinations I'm hunting for, but I think I've forgotten it. There's three about this odd experience of teaching and students. This one was written before I had had the experience, but was looking forward to it. And it had the title \\\"Is That You/Me Standing on My/Your Feet?\\\" And it's very full of fine theory and idealism.\\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:18:18\\nReads \\\"Is That You/Me Standing on My/Your Feet?\\\".\\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:19:21\\nAnd I've got two other incomplete ones that should be read with that. I'll just read two stanzas of the first one, it's got one four-line stanza for the students...\\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:19:36\\nReads unnamed poem.\\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:20:36\\nThe teacher's answer hasn't got written yet. Here's another bit, two stanzas, the student and the teacher, that isn't finished. The student is talking although it doesn't sound like it. \\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:21:01\\nReads unnamed poem.\\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:21:51\\nThere's a daybreak bus I have to catch and this one is called \\\"October 21, '66, at a bus stop on the way\\\".\\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:22:03\\nReads \\\"October 21, '66, at a bus stop on the way\\\".\\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:23:07\\nI had planned to get all this organized on the plane, but I was in the middle of the three seats and I kept getting the briefcase out and everything would fall to the floor, and this one would dive for it, or this one, and I finally gave up, so it's upside down. This is dedicated to Jacques Ellul [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q322922], The Technological Society [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1607727], a book he wrote that's a little mad but very stirring.\\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:23:56\\nReads [“Making Senses”, published later in No Time]. \\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:26:39\\nThere's one here that is just the equivalent to sketching, I guess. I know a poet in Chicago [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1297] who used to go and sit around in the Art Institute [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q239303], when it was a fairly quiet room, and stare all morning, and if any words occurred to him, he dashed them down. And sometime he worked up his sketches and sometime he didn't, which is a technique that's lots of fun to practice, and occasionally something grows out of it. In this case I don't think I'll ever do anything but it'll show you the kind of thing that I mean, if, as I assume, most of you are writers.\\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:27:38\\nReads unnamed poem. \\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:28:25\\nNow a poem with syntax and stuff called \\\"The Seven Birds\\\". A corner of Bathurst and College Street in Toronto which is the kind of buildings that have been there since the first world war, where there's often stores on the street level and an apartment or two above. \\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:29:01\\nReads \\\"The Seven Birds\\\" [published later in sunblue].\\n\\nMargaret Avison\\n00:30:15\\nI think I should read a long, fierce poem. This is not by me except translated. It's the poem of Gyula Illyes [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q381107], called \\\"Of Tyranny, In One Breath\\\". Ilona Duczynska [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q967353] did a literal translation for me and then read it to me for sound and we worked through it that way.  Apparently the poem started, or happened, in 1956 in Budapest [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1781]. Illyes had written it some years before but hadn't been angry enough at the time to risk what it was to bring it out. But he grew angry enough and somebody said the one thing that nobody censors is the magazine which tells you what lectures are going on where and what movies are running where and is just a news sheet, and the middle spread was for advertising, so they printed this in the middle sheet and it was, they tried to stop it as soon as the authorities found it but by then they were storming the radio station or however it started. I can't do it in one breath because it goes on for several pages. In the first part of it, \\\"it,\\\" meaning \\\"tyranny\\\" is small \\\"i\\\" and towards the end it's a capital \\\"I.\\\"\\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:32:27\\nReads English translation of \\\"Of Tyranny, In One Breath\\\" by Gyula Illyes [published later in Always Now, Vol. 1].\\n\\nMargaret Avison\\n00:39:26\\nSo, after the revolution he was much too well-known to disappear but they said he was insane and he was in an asylum for a while, but he wrote a lot of lovely things there, so I don't think he was, and he's not there now. It's much better, I think. A group of silly things it's embarrassing to read but I will, called \\\"Bestialities\\\".\\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:40:19\\nReads \\\"Bestialities\\\", parts 1-5 [from The Dumbfounding; audience laughter throughout].\\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:41:14\\nThe last one I think is just beautiful, but nobody gets it unless I explain, so I'll explain, it's like you take a piece of 8 by 11 typing paper...\\n \\nAudience Member 1\\n00:41:26\\nDon't explain, just say it.\\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:41:28\\nAlright, you can tell me then, eh? \\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:41:33\\nReads \\\"Bestialities\\\", part 6 [from The Dumbfounding].\\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:41:40\\nNow, come on...[Audience laughter]. Hmm? Does anybody want the explanation? Well I've read it. It's just a crumpled-up letter, you know, you get it and you read it and you cry and you crumble it up and you throw it down and the mite goes up...Now I'll read it again.\\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:42:17\\nReads \\\"Bestialities\\\", part 6 [from The Dumbfounding].\\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:42:35\\n“The Absorbed\\\". This is one of the very cold days, I guess about ten below, enough. It's inside the pane of glass separating inside from outside comes into it, a certain kind of sky that goes with that which is like glass again. \\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:43:09\\nReads \\\"The Absorbed\\\" [from The Dumbfounding].\\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:45:50\\nReads [\\\"Thaw\\\" from Winter Sun].\\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:47:37\\nI would like to read two other weather ones and then I'll give you a break. This is “Two Mayday Selves”.\\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:47:54\\nReads \\\"Two Mayday Selves\\\" [from The Dumbfounding].\\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:49:42\\nAnd the last one is late spring, early summer. Jet-plane and terminuses, called \\\"Black-White Under Green, May 18th 1965”.\\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:50:06\\nReads \\\"Black-White Under Green, May 18th 1965” [published as “May 18 1965” in The Dumbfounding].\\n\\nUnknown\\n00:52:53\\n[Cut or edit made in tape. Unknown amount of time elapsed].\\n\\nMargaret Avison\\n00:52:54\\nI've been asked to read \\\"The Valiant Vacationist\\\". It was written so many years ago...I think I would be quite right in saying thirty years ago, and probably a little more. And I couldn't write this well now but in a way when you're very young you've got the whole world in one lump without any lump, and you only get bits later on. \\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:53:34\\nReads \\\"The Valiant Vacationist\\\" [published later in Always Now: Vol. 1].\\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:56:54\\nThen the one \\\"To Professor X, Year Y\\\".\\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n00:57:03\\nReads \\\"To Professor X, Year Y\\\" [from Winter Sun].\\n\\nMargaret Avison\\n00:59:57\\nI'd like to read one introductory poem to the long one, \\\"The Earth that Falls Away\\\", and that one, and two short ones, if you'll bear with me that long. This is called \\\"The Absolute, the Day\\\".\\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n01:00:22\\nReads \\\"The Absolute, the Day\\\" [published later as “Absolute” in sunblue and in Always Now Vol. 2].\\n\\nMargaret Avison\\n01:01:39\\nThis one is \\\"The Earth that Falls Away\\\". There's an epigraph from Beddoes’ [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2165597] Death's Jest-Book [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42188673]: \\\"Can a man die? Aye, as the sun doth set, it is the earth that falls away from light\\\". There are a number of human situations, some into the past, through the present generation, the rest various city people, myself, and the stories come interleaving so that as I name a new section it'll be a new group of people, and by request I'm going to  stop at the line-ends here. \\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n01:02:32\\nReads \\\"The Earth that Falls Away\\\" [from The Dumbfounding].\\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n01:15:52\\nReads [\\\"He Couldn’t Be Safe (Isaiah 53:5)”, published later in sunblue].\\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n01:16:54\\nThere's one more and I'll stop with this one. \\n \\nMargaret Avison\\n01:17:00\\nReads [section from “The Jo Poems”, part 6. Published later in No Time. Subtitled “Having” in Always Now: Vol. 2].\\n \\nEND\\n01:17:54\\n[Cut off abruptly].\\n\",\"notes\":\"Margaret Avison reads from Winter Sun (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1960) and The Dumbfounding (W.W. Norton & Co, 1966), as well as a few poems published years later in books like sunblue (Lancelot Press, 1978) and No Time (Lancelot Press and Brick Books, 1998). The majority of the poems read were also collected in three volumes, entitled Always Now (The Porcupine’s Quill, 2003).\\n\\nI086-11-002.1=AC\\n\\n(Rachel has indexed poems)\\n00:00- Roy Kiyooka introduces Margaret Avison. [INDEX: seventh poetry evening, poetry conference at UBC summer of 1963; Bloor Street, Guelph Ontario, Alberta, Victoria College of the University of Toronto in 1940 with BA from English Language and Literature, secretary at firms, research assistant, librarian, teaching English at    \\tScarborough College (Toronto), Guggenheim Fellow 1956-7, Canadian and American    \\tmagazines; books: The Winter Sun won Governor General’s Award in 1960, The    Dumbfounding (W.W. Norton in New York, 1966).]\\n02:59- Avison introduces poem by Charles Bukowski, first line “She had gone wrong somewhere...” [INDEX: Roy Kiyooka (meeting), Angry Art Week in NYC, dedicate    \\treadings to Angry Art Week, Bach, Manhattan, American people, American poet,        \\tMimeograph Magazine.]\\n05:28- Reads section from a poem by Charles Bukowski “She had gone wrong somewhere...”\\n06:30- Introduces poem by Al Fowler first line “Quote: Are you a root or a tender mint     tea?”. [INDEX: magazine Line, line stops, shape of poem, no capital letters, no title.]\\n07:01- Reads poem by Al Fowler, first line “Quote: Are you a root or a tender mint tea?”.\\n07:30- Introduces poem by Gerry Gilbert called “Zoo”.\\n07:39- Reads poem by Gerry Gilbert, called  “Zoo”.\\n08:00- Introduces poem called “The Delinquent”  by unknown child. [INDEX: friend in Toronto, in grade seven.]\\n08:33- Reads “The Delinquent”.\\n10:20- Interjects comment about poem.\\n10:30- Continues reading “The Delinquent”.\\n11:33- Interjects comment about poem.\\n11:41- Continues reading “The Delinquent”.\\n12:43- Explains “The Delinquent”, Introduces poem, first line “Inside the TTC’s fence...”.  [INDEX: Toronto poem, footnotes, TTC means Toronto Transit Commission, Yonge       \\tSubway between Bloor and Rosedale.]\\n13:38- Reads first line “Inside the TTC’s fence...”. [INDEX: cities, Toronto, transportation, subway; from an unknown source.]\\n14:37- Introduces “Subway Station Why Not”. [INDEX: subway poem, child, from unknown source]\\n14:53- Reads “Subway Station Why Not”. [INDEX: cities, Toronto,  transportation, subway, child; from an unknown source.]\\n15:56- Introduces “Insomniac Report”. [INDEX: St. Clair Avenue (Toronto), car tracks.]\\n16:11- Reads “Insomniac Report”. [INDEX: cities, Toronto, night, streets, sounds, sleep; from an unknown source.]\\n17:07- Introduces “Is that You/Me Standing on My/Your Feet?”. [INDEX: students writing exams, teaching, theory, idealism; from an unknown source.]\\n18:18- Reads “Is that You/Me Standing on My/Your Feet?”. [INDEX: school, teaching, work, children, student.]\\n19:21- Introduces incomplete poems, first line “No instant morality for us...”. [INDEX:        incomplete poem, two stanzas of first, one four-line stanza for the students; from an      unknown source.]\\n19:36- Reads first line “No instant morality for us...”. [INDEX: school, teaching, work,        children, students.]\\n20:36- Introduces incomplete poem, first line “The boy with the brilliant promises...”. [INDEX: teacher’s answer, two stanzas, incomplete poem; from an unknown source.]\\n21:01- Reads first line “The boy with the brilliant promises...”. [INDEX: work, school,        teaching, children, students.]\\n21:51- Introduces \\\"October 21, '66, at a bus stop on the way.\\\". [INDEX: daybreak bus; from an unknown source]\\n22:03- Reads \\\"October 21, '66, at a bus stop on the way.\\\". [INDEX: nature, time, day.]\\n23:07- Introduces unknown poem first line “A junk truck stopped beside my bus...”. [INDEX: plane, dedicated to Jacques Ellul who wrote The Technological Society; from an unknown source.]\\n23:55- Reads first line “A junk truck stopped beside my bus...”. [INDEX: cities, bus, truck, metal, urban, waste, stone, wreck, yard, grass, gargoyle.]\\n26:39- Introduces first line, “Grey by water...”. [INDEX: sketching, poet in Chicago, Art       Institute; from an unknown source.]\\n27:38- Reads first line “Grey by water...”. [INDEX: language, play, process, sketch.]\\n28:25- Introduces “The Seven Birds”. [INDEX: poem with syntax, corner of Bathurst and     College Street in Toronto, First World War building; from sunblue in “Sketches”.]\\n29:01- Reads “The Seven Birds”.\\n30:15- Introduces poem Avison translated, called “Of Tyranny in One Breath” by Gyula     Illyes. [INDEX: Ilona Duczynska, translation, 1956 in Budapest, censorship in magazines, newsheets, radio station, authorities, protest, tyranny; collected in Always  Now, Vol. 1 (Porcupine’s Quill, 2003).]\\n32:27- Reads “Of Tyranny in One Breath” by Gyula Illyes.\\n39:26- Explains “Of Tyranny in One Breath”, introduces “Bestialities”. [INDEX: revolution, Gyula Illyes, insane asylum; from The Dumbfounding.]\\n40:19- Reads “Bestialities”. [INDEX: play, animals, language, puns.]\\n41:14- Introduces first line “Said the mite on the single page of a sad letter: Eureka...”.      [INDEX: misunderstood poem, 8x11 typing paper.]\\n41:26- Audience member interjects, asks her to read it without explanation.\\n41:28- Avison reads first line “Said the mite on the single page of a sad letter: Eureka...”.\\n41:40- Explains “Said the mite on the single page of a sad letter: Eureka...”. [INDEX:        crumpled up letter, mite; from unknown source.]\\n42:17- Re-reads “Said the mite on the single page of a sad letter: Eureka...”.\\n42:35- Introduces “Be Absorbed”. [INDEX: cold day, glass pane, sky; from unknown source.]\\n43:09- Reads “Be Absorbed”. [INDEX: nature, weather, glass, window, cold, winter, ice.]\\n45:50- Reads “The Thaw”. [INDEX: city, children, weather, winter, spring, streets, dog, sparrow, pigeons, boy; published as “Thaw” in Winter Sun.]\\n47:37- Introduces poem, first line “The grackle shining in long grass...”. [INDEX weather   poem, May; Howard Fink list “To May Day”.]\\n47:54- Reads “The grackle shining in long grass...”. [INDEX: colours, birds, grackle, city,   streets, winter, day, breath; from unknown source.]\\n49:42- Introduces “Black-White Under Green”. [INDEX: late spring, early summer, Jet-plane terminuses, May 18th, 1965.]\\n50:06- Reads “Black-White Under Green”. [INDEX: nature, flowers, birds, plane, flight,     leaves, snow, sky, sea, music, ice; from The Dumbfounding.]\\n52:53.49- END OF RECORDING.\\n  \\nPoem (by stated title or first line):                                     \\nFIRST CD: I086-11-002.1=AC                         \\t\\t           Time            Duration\\n\\n[\\\"She had gone wrong...\\\"]by Charles Bukowski                        00:05:28      \\t01:01\\n[\\\"Quote: Are you a root or a tender mint tea?\\\"] by Al Fowler    00:07:01      \\t00:28\\n\\\"Zoo\\\" by Gerry Gilbert                                                       \\t00:07:39      \\t00:19\\n\\\"The Delinquent\\\" by an unknown, seven year-old friend  \\t00:08:33      \\t04:10\\n[\\\"Inside the TTC's fence...\\\"]                                               \\t00:13:38      \\t00:58\\n\\\"Subway Station Why Not\\\"                                    \\t        \\t00:14:53      \\t01:03  \\n\\\"Insomniac Report\\\"                                                            \\t00:16:11      \\t00:55\\n\\\"Is That You/Me Standing on My/Your Feet?\\\"                 \\t00:18:18      \\t01:02\\n[\\\"No instant morality for us...\\\"]                                          \\t00:19:36      \\t00:58\\n[\\\"The boy with the brilliant promises\\\"]                              \\t00:21:01      \\t00:50\\n\\\"October 21, '66, at a bus stop on the way\\\"                        \\t00:22:03      \\t01:02\\n [\\\"A junk truck stopped beside my bus\\\"]                           \\t00:23:56      \\t02:40\\n[\\\"Grey by water...\\\"]                                                            \\t00:27:38      \\t00:45\\n\\\"The Seven Birds\\\"                                                              \\t00:29:01      \\t01:13\\n\\\"Of Tyranny in One Breath\\\" by Gyula Illyes         \\t        \\t00:32:27      \\t04:58\\n\\\"Bestialities\\\"                                                           \\t        \\t00:40:19      \\t00:54\\n\\\"Said the mite on the single page of a sad letter: Eureka.\\\"      00:41:33      \\t00:57\\n\\\"Be Absorbed\\\"                                                                    \\t00:43:09      \\t02:40\\n\\\"The Thaw\\\"                                                                        \\t00:45:50      \\t01:40\\n\\\"The grackle shining in long grass\\\"                                   \\t00:47:54      \\t00:46\\n\\\"Black-White Under Green,\\\" May 18th, 1965                   \\t00:50:06      \\t02:47\\n\\nI086-11-002.2=AC \\n\\n00:00- Avison introduces “The Valiant Vacationist”. [INDEX: written more than thirty years before, writing when young; from Elsewhere.]\\n00:41- Reads “The Valiant Vacationist”. [INDEX: vacation, travel, walking, picnic, park, city, landing, steps, trees, bridge, tourist, stranger.]\\n04:00- Reads “To Professor X, Year Y”. [INDEX: November, waiting, uniformity, crowd,        downtown, history, historian, death, snow; from The Winter Sun.]\\n07:04- Introduces “The Absolute, the Day”. [INDEX: introductory poem to “The Earth that Falls Away”.] \\n07:28- Reads “The Absolute, the Day”. [INDEX: power, rabbi, Judaism, good, morality, love.]\\n08:46- Introduces “The Earth that Falls Away”. [INDEX: epigraph from Beddoes’s Death’s Jest Book, human situations, present generation, city people, stop at the line-ends; from The Dumbfounding.]\\n09:38- Reads “The Earth that Falls Away”. [INDEX: long poem, Romans, history, Bible,    silence, breaking, marriage, illness, winter, summer, city, Dawson City, gold rush, books, Canadiana, photographs, remembrance, scholar, value, cloth, fabric, textiles, production, operation, cancer, treasure, children, blind, snow, farm, emptiness, isolation, solitude, sight, sound.]\\n22:58- Reads first line “He chose a street where he wouldn’t be safe...” [INDEX: city, street, party, Bible, safety, saviour, Jesus; from unknown source; not indicated as separate poem on Howard Fink List.]\\n24:00- Reads first line “Sir, you have nothing...”. [INDEX emptiness, nothing, snow, heart, cup, fullness, joy; from unknown source. .]\\n25:01.03- END OF RECORDING.\\n \\nPoems Time Stamped with Duration\\nSECOND CD: I086-11-002.2=AC                         \\t\\tTime            \\tDuration\\n\\\"The Valiant Vacationist\\\"                                                  \\t00:00:41      \\t03:15\\n\\\"To Professor X, Year Y\\\"                                                   \\t00:04:10      \\t02:55\\n\\\"The Absolute, the Day\\\"                                                    \\t00:07:28      \\t01:15\\n\\\"The Earth that Falls Away\\\"                                              \\t00:09:38      \\t13:15\\n\\\"He chose a street where he wouldn't be safe\\\"                   \\t00:22:58      \\t01:00\\n \\\"Sir, you have nothing\\\"                                                     \\t00:24:06      \\t00:55\\n\\nHoward Fink List:\\n“Marg Avison” reading her own poetry 21/1/67 reel information.\\n\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"Sound Recording\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"https://montreal.spokenweb.ca/sgw-poetry-readings/margaret-avison-at-sgwu-1967/\"}]"],"score":3.3905535},{"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. 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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). 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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”. [INDEX: published as “Britain     Street” in Bread, Wine and Salt.]\\n34:22- Introduces “The Secret Life”. [INDEX: found poem, maybe not a poem, serious illness, doctor’s office, Confessions magazines called Sacred Life, crazy poetry; from Bread, Wine and Salt.]\\n35:37- Reads “Secret Life”.\\n36:57- Reads “In Our Time” [INDEX: from Bread, Wine and Salt.]\\n40:51- Reads “The Changeling” [INDEX: from Bread, Wine and Salt.]\\n41:49- Reads “The Hollow Men”. [INDEX: from Bread, Wine and Salt.]\\n42:38- Introduces \\\"Ancestral Memories Evoked by Attending the Opening of the Playhouse in Fredericton, New Brunswick.\\\" [INDEX: atmosphere of New Brunswick; from   Bread, Wine and Salt.].]\\n43:26- Reads \\\"Ancestral Memories Evoked by Attending the Opening of the Playhouse in Fredericton, New Brunswick.\\\"\\n44:36- Reads “Every Man Owes God a Death”. [INDEX: from Bread, Wine and Salt.]\\n46:41- Introduces “The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner”. [INDEX: title, from Bread, Wine and Salt.]\\n46:48- Reads “The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner”.\\n48:23- Introduces “In the Operating Room”. [INDEX: serious illness the previous year, from Bread, Wine and Salt.].]\\n48:38- Reads “In the Operating Room”.\\n51:20- Introduces “For Jamol Barudi, Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United Nations on the Occasion of his Address to the Security Council, June 1967”. [INDEX: political      poem, human poem, television debates, United Nations, Middle East Crisis,    dehumanization, bigoted speech.]\\n53:21- Reads “For Jamol Barudi, Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United Nations on    the Occasion of his Address to the Security Council, June 1967”.\\n56:26- Reads “Fireworks”.\\n57:34- Reads “Two Poems for the Nova Scotia Department of Highways”.\\n59:31- Introduces “State Visit”. 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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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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)."],"contents":["joe_rosenblatt_i006-11-138.mp3 [File 1 of 2]\n \nRoy Kiyooka\n00:00:00\nGood evening. 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\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”. 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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”. 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In New York City, they met Charles Reznikoff and Louis Zukofsky, and in 1931 they formed the Objectivist movement. Having finally met Ezra Pound, Oppen’s poetry was published in his Active Anthology in 1933 (Faber and Faber). Oppen’s first collection of poetry, written in 1929, Discrete Series, was published by the Objectivist Press in 1934 and opened with a preface by Ezra Pound. From that point onwards, Oppen stopped writing poetry. The Depression had hit and the Oppens spent their time in the 30’s and 40’s organizing the unemployed in Brooklyn. Oppen served for the U.S. Army from 1943-1945 and received a Purple Heart among other honours. After the war, his family moved to Los Angeles, until 1950 when they were harassed by the McCarthy House Un-American Activities Committee for their affiliations with Communism. They fled to Mexico and resided there for eight years. By the time the Oppen family moved back to New York in 1958, Oppen had taken up poetry again. In 1962, Oppen published his second collection of poems, The Materials (New Directions Press), followed in 1965 with This In Which and Of Being Numerous in 1968 (New Directions Press), which won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1969. Seascape: Needle’s Eye was published in 1972 (Sumac Press), and in 1975 Oppen compiled his previously published material with new poems in Collected Poems (New Directions). His final collection of poetry, Primitive was published in 1978 (Black Sparrow Press). 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Touched on in some of the poems including “Pro Nobis” in This In Which. A forthcoming book, Of Being Numerous, New Directions [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27474] scheduled for the spring of 1968.\" And he ends by saying, \"If there is a moral it is one has in fact a great deal of triumph, and then, recently, he has had the following books done: This in Which, by New Directions, 1957, The Materials, New Directions again, 1962, Of Being Numerous, 1968. Now if there's any a book of poems, Discrete Series, there is a long preface by Ezra Pound [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q163366], I'd like to quote a segment of that, which goes like this: \"I salute a serious craftsman, a sensibility which is not every man's sensibility, and which is not been got out of other man's books.\" Ladies and gentlemen, George Oppen.\n\nUnknown \n00:02:47\n[Cut or edit made in tape. Unknown amount of time elapsed].\n\nGeorge Oppen\n00:02:48\nI think I will, I plan to read two of the longer poems in the last volume, so I will just read the poems. Without pleasantries and so on. We can easily make a conversation if you want afterwards, but I think I better just read the books, read the poems, and I'll make a few intermissions, it's a great deal of poetry both for you and for me, at a single sitting, and we'll make intermissions as however you think, however I think. I'll start with the poem in Of Being Numerous, called \"The Route\". That's r-o-u-t-e, route.\n \nGeorge Oppen\n00:03:37\nReads \"The Route\" from Of Being Numerous.\n \nUnknown\n00:18:45\nSilence [cut or edit made in tape].\n \nGeorge Oppen\n00:18:58\nResumes reading “The Route’\n \nUnknown\n00:22:14\n[Cut or edit made in tape].\n \nEND\n00:40:12\n"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Year-Specific Information: \\n\\nIn 1968, George Oppen published Of Being Numerous (New Directions Press, 1968).\\n\",\"type\":\"General\"},{\"note\":\"Local Connections:\\n\\nThe direct connection between Oppen and Montreal or Sir George Williams University is unknown. 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He moved to California where he received his B.A. in 1952, his M.A. in 1955 and a M.L.S. in 1956 from the University of California at Berkeley. Here he met poets Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan, the three playing major roles in the San Francisco Poetry Renaissance. Blaser, however, next to the dominant figures of Spicer and Duncan, was hesitant to identify himself as a poet and only began publishing his poetry close to twenty years later despite the fact that he was writing poetry already. His work appeared in smaller presses and received restricted attention because of this. After graduating from Berkley, Blaser worked at a number of libraries across the country, including the Widener Library in Boston where he met other East Coast poets, such as Charles Olson and John Wieners. His first larger publication was The Moth Poem (Open Space, 1964). In 1966, he moved to Vancouver, to teach at the Simon Fraser University, and became a Canadian Citizen in 1974. There, Blaser became a strong mentor and influence on the younger poets of the emerging Vancouver Poetry scene of the 60’s, influencing Daphne Marlatt, bp Nichol, Erin Mouré, and Steve McCaffery. His next collections of poetry followed, with Cups (Four Seasons Foundation, 1968), Image Nations 1-12; and The Stadium of the Mirror (Ferry Press, 1974), Image Nations 13 &14 (Cobblestone Press, 1975), Image Nation 15: The Lacquerhouse (W. Hoffer, 1981), Syntax (Talonbooks, 1983) and his most popular publication nominated for a Governor General’s Award, The Holy Forest (Coach House Press, 1993). Blaser was also an essayist, and published important essays such as “The Fire” (1967), “The Violets: Charles Olson and Alfred North Whitehead” (1983), “Robert Duncan, The ‘Elf’ of It” (1992), “The Recovery of the Public World” (1993), “Preface to the Early Poems of Robert Duncan” (1995), most of which are collected in The Fire: Collected Essays of Robin Blaser (University of California Press, 2006). 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Can you hear me? Can you all hear me? Okay. Well, I haven't really a great deal to say, I wanted to say simply that I met Robin Blaser in June of 1964, the occasion was the usual round of parties and a rather un-memorable reading, and a marvelous day out into the countryside, and I also had on that occasion the pleasure of meeting two very close friends of his, Stan Persky [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2330087] and Jack Spicer [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3805658]. I'll read you this little sort of resume of his career. He was born in Idaho [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1221], and he studied at Northwestern [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q309350] and Berkeley [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q168756], and was a librarian at Harvard [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13371] from 1955 to '59. He now teaches in exile at Simon Fraser University [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q201603], has made an important contribution to the San Francisco poetry renaissance in the '50's and the '60's, and was one of a triumvirate, with Duncan [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q964391] and Spicer, that fulminated the serial poem on the poetry scene. Among his own serial poems are “The Faerie Queene” and “Image-Nation”. His verse has been published in a number of contemporary poetry anthologies. They include, among many, Donald Allen's [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5293963] The New American Poetry [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7753501], the Penguin [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3374730] New Writing in the United States, and A Controversy of Poets. And among his volumes of poetry are The Boston Poems 1956-58, The Moth Poem, Les Chimeres, and Cups. He is the editor of a West Coast magazine called the Pacific Nation. Now, Robin? Please read for us.\n \nAudience\n00:02:56\nApplause.\n \nRobin Blaser\n00:03:00\nThe marvelous thing about that list of books is that The Boston Poems, in fact, I think I will read one of those, was published and I decided I didn't like the book so there's one copy in the world and I own that copy. So I'm not sure it's fair, to call that a book. I don't think I--but I think I will read, open with that, it now dates back so many years, back to the Boston [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q100] world, when [Jack] Spicer, and [John] Wieners [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1702153] and I were there together, and a very different scene from anything. [Charles] Olson [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q922978] was at Black Mountain [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2413277], and Wieners in the centre at Boston. This poem is \"The Hunger of Sound\", and the date of it would be 1956. \n \nRobin Blaser\n00:03:54\nReads \"The Hunger of Sound\" from The Boston Poems [collected later in The Holy Forest].\n\nRobin Blaser\n00:10:38\nNow I, I'm a little confused because I've changed the reading now because it was very nice to have people ask for things, so I think I'll read \"Cups\", which is a...I've worked since 1960 on a book called The Holy Forest and that is composed of several serial poems, the first of which is \"Cups\", and that is followed by one called \"The Park\", and one called \"The Faerie Queen\", then \"The Moth Poem\", and then the, then there is a group, translated from Gérard de Nerval [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q191305], \"Les Chimeres\", which is also a serial poem, and finally a group called \"The Holy Forest\", an unfinished group, and I thought I would read \"Cups\" and then a section, do a little thing on my poetics, an intermission, and then read, if you still are with me, the section I've just finished, called \"The Holy Forest\". This is \"Cups\".\n \nRobin Blaser\n00:11:47\nReads \"Cups\" [from Cups]. \n\nRobin Blaser\n00:22:58\nNow I'm going to move to my essay called \"The Fire\", which is meant to, is meant to talk about what people call poetics, I guess. It certainly talks about what I intend to do, what I am doing. \n \nRobin Blaser\n00:23:28\nReads \"The Fire\" [published later in The Fire: Collected Essays of Robin Blaser].\n \nUnknown\n00:31:57\n[Cut or edit made in tape. Unknown amount of time elapsed].\n\nRobin Blaser\n00:31:58\nResumes reading \"The Fire\". \n \nRobin Blaser\n00:43:29\nI won't go on to the rest of the essay, I think that's enough. Now...should we have a break, for a minute? Is it the right time for a break? Do you want a break? Because the next section has thirty-two poems, and not great long ones, but it's a move through the...\n \nUnknown\n00:43:57\n[Cut or edit made in tape. Unknown amount of time elapsed]. \n \nRobin Blaser\n00:43:58\nReads “In A Dark” [collected later in The Holy Forest].\n\nRobin Blaser\n00:44:17\nReads “The Prints” [collected later in The Holy Forest].\n \nRobin Blaser\n00:44:47\nReads “Love” [collected later in The Holy Forest].\n \nRobin Blaser\n00:45:18\nReads \"The Private I\" [collected later in The Holy Forest].\n \nRobin Blaser\n00:46:18\nReads \"Song\" [collected later in The Holy Forest].\n \nRobin Blaser\n00:46:52\nReads \"Translation\" [collected later in The Holy Forest].\n \nRobin Blaser\n00:47:23\nReads \"1st Tale: Over\" [collected later in The Holy Forest].\n \nRobin Blaser\n00:48:09\nReads \"2nd Tale: Returned\" [collected later in The Holy Forest].\n \nRobin Blaser\n00:49:48\nReads \": At Last\" [collected later in The Holy Forest].\n \nRobin Blaser\n00:50:29\nReads \"Aphrodite of the Leaves\" [collected later in The Holy Forest].\n \nRobin Blaser\n00:51:02\nReads \"Winter Words\" [collected later in The Holy Forest].\n \nRobin Blaser\n00:51:39\nReads \"The Stories\" [collected later in The Holy Forest].\n \nRobin Blaser\n00:52:23\nReads \"The City\" [collected later in The Holy Forest].\n \nRobin Blaser\n00:53:12\nReads \"The Translator: A Tale\" [from The Moth Poem].\n \nRobin Blaser\n00:54:31\nReads [“Sophia Nichols,” published later in The Holy Forest].\n\nRobin Blaser\n00:56:34\nReads \"A Gift: Homage to Creeley\" [published later as “A Gift” in The Holy Forest].\n \nRobin Blaser\n00:57:30\nReads \"Bottom's Dream\" [collected later in The Holy Forest].\n \nRobin Blaser\n00:58:18\nReads \"The Finder” [collected later in The Holy Forest].\n \nRobin Blaser\n00:59:35\nReads \"Out of the Window,\" [collected later in The Holy Forest].\n \nRobin Blaser\n01:00:45\nReads \"Merlin\" [collected later in The Holy Forest].\n \nRobin Blaser\n01:01:44\nReads \"The Cry of Merlin\" [collected later in The Holy Forest].\n\nUnknown\n01:03:55\n[Cut or edit made in tape. Unknown amount of time elapsed]. \n \nRobin Blaser\n01:03:57\nI stood between the two in the marriage ceremony and replaced the psalms that are given, at one point, that was my gift as well as my blessing, and this is the poem I wrote for that wedding. \"Image-Nation 6: a marriage poem for Gladys Hindmarch and Cliff Anston\".\n \nRobin Blaser\n1:04:15\nReads \"Image-Nation 6: a marriage poem for Gladys Hindmarch and Cliff Anston\" [published later as “Image-Nation 6 (epithalamium)” in The Holy Forest].\n \nRobin Blaser\n01:05:27\nThank you.\n\nAudience\n01:05:28\nApplause [cut off]. \n\nEND\n01:05:30\n[Cut off abruptly]."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Year-Specific Information:\\n\\nThis reading most likely took place in 1969. Blaser was teaching at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, and was most likely working on Image Nations 1-12; and The Stadium of the Mirror which was published much later in 1974.\",\"type\":\"General\"},{\"note\":\"Local Connections:\\n\\nAs stated in the introduction of this reading, Robin Blaser was an important poet involved in the San Francisco Renaissance of the 1960’s, but was connected to other important poets like Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, and Stan Persky among many others. Stanton Hoffman, a Sir George Williams University English Professor and Reading Committee Member met Robin Blaser in 1964 in Vancouver, where Blaser was teaching. He no doubt met with George Bowering at the same time.\",\"type\":\"General\"},{\"note\":\"Reel-to-reel tape>2 CDs>digital file\",\"type\":\"Preservation\"},{\"note\":\"Original transcript, research, introduction and edits by Celyn Harding-Jones\\n\\n\\nAdditional research and edits by Ali Barillaro\",\"type\":\"Cataloguer\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/cups/oclc/4506227&referer=brief_results\",\"citation\":\"Blaser, Robin. Cups. San Francisco: Four Seasons Press, 1968. \"},{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/holy-forest/oclc/971211126&referer=brief_results\",\"citation\":\"Blaser, Robin. The Holy Forest. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1993.\"},{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/fire-collected-essays-of-robin-blaser/oclc/237064008&referer=brief_results\",\"citation\":\"Blaser, Robin. The Fire: Collected Essays of Robin Blaser. Miriam Nichols (ed). Berkley: University of California Press, 2006. \"},{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/contemporary-canadian-poem-anthology/oclc/988192362&referer=brief_results\",\"citation\":\"Bowering, George, ed. The Contemporary Canadian Poem Anthology. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1984. \"},{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/oxford-companion-to-canadian-literature/oclc/605246871&referer=brief_results\",\"citation\":\"Thesen, Sharon. “Blaser, Robin”. The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature. Eugene Benson and William Toye (eds). Oxford University Press, 2001.\"},{\"url\":\"https://www.sfu.ca/retirees-forum/msg01139.html\",\"citation\":\"“Blaser- Robin Francis, 1925-2009”. The Vancouver Sun. Saturday, May 9, 2009. Page F14.\"},{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"“Blaser, Robin”. Literature Online Biography. 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Can you hear me? Can you all hear me? Okay. Well, I haven't really a great deal to say, I wanted to say simply that I met Robin Blaser in June of 1964, the occasion was the usual round of parties and a rather un-memorable reading, and a marvelous day out into the countryside, and I also had on that occasion the pleasure of meeting two very close friends of his, Stan Persky [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2330087] and Jack Spicer [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3805658]. I'll read you this little sort of resume of his career. He was born in Idaho [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1221], and he studied at Northwestern [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q309350] and Berkeley [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q168756], and was a librarian at Harvard [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13371] from 1955 to '59. He now teaches in exile at Simon Fraser University [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q201603], has made an important contribution to the San Francisco poetry renaissance in the '50's and the '60's, and was one of a triumvirate, with Duncan [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q964391] and Spicer, that fulminated the serial poem on the poetry scene. Among his own serial poems are “The Faerie Queene” and “Image-Nation”. His verse has been published in a number of contemporary poetry anthologies. They include, among many, Donald Allen's [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5293963] The New American Poetry [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7753501], the Penguin [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3374730] New Writing in the United States, and A Controversy of Poets. And among his volumes of poetry are The Boston Poems 1956-58, The Moth Poem, Les Chimeres, and Cups. He is the editor of a West Coast magazine called the Pacific Nation. Now, Robin? Please read for us.\\n \\nAudience\\n00:02:56\\nApplause.\\n \\nRobin Blaser\\n00:03:00\\nThe marvelous thing about that list of books is that The Boston Poems, in fact, I think I will read one of those, was published and I decided I didn't like the book so there's one copy in the world and I own that copy. So I'm not sure it's fair, to call that a book. I don't think I--but I think I will read, open with that, it now dates back so many years, back to the Boston [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q100] world, when [Jack] Spicer, and [John] Wieners [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1702153] and I were there together, and a very different scene from anything. [Charles] Olson [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q922978] was at Black Mountain [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2413277], and Wieners in the centre at Boston. This poem is \\\"The Hunger of Sound\\\", and the date of it would be 1956. \\n \\nRobin Blaser\\n00:03:54\\nReads \\\"The Hunger of Sound\\\" from The Boston Poems [collected later in The Holy Forest].\\n\\nRobin Blaser\\n00:10:38\\nNow I, I'm a little confused because I've changed the reading now because it was very nice to have people ask for things, so I think I'll read \\\"Cups\\\", which is a...I've worked since 1960 on a book called The Holy Forest and that is composed of several serial poems, the first of which is \\\"Cups\\\", and that is followed by one called \\\"The Park\\\", and one called \\\"The Faerie Queen\\\", then \\\"The Moth Poem\\\", and then the, then there is a group, translated from Gérard de Nerval [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q191305], \\\"Les Chimeres\\\", which is also a serial poem, and finally a group called \\\"The Holy Forest\\\", an unfinished group, and I thought I would read \\\"Cups\\\" and then a section, do a little thing on my poetics, an intermission, and then read, if you still are with me, the section I've just finished, called \\\"The Holy Forest\\\". This is \\\"Cups\\\".\\n \\nRobin Blaser\\n00:11:47\\nReads \\\"Cups\\\" [from Cups]. \\n\\nRobin Blaser\\n00:22:58\\nNow I'm going to move to my essay called \\\"The Fire\\\", which is meant to, is meant to talk about what people call poetics, I guess. It certainly talks about what I intend to do, what I am doing. \\n \\nRobin Blaser\\n00:23:28\\nReads \\\"The Fire\\\" [published later in The Fire: Collected Essays of Robin Blaser].\\n \\nUnknown\\n00:31:57\\n[Cut or edit made in tape. Unknown amount of time elapsed].\\n\\nRobin Blaser\\n00:31:58\\nResumes reading \\\"The Fire\\\". \\n \\nRobin Blaser\\n00:43:29\\nI won't go on to the rest of the essay, I think that's enough. Now...should we have a break, for a minute? Is it the right time for a break? Do you want a break? Because the next section has thirty-two poems, and not great long ones, but it's a move through the...\\n \\nUnknown\\n00:43:57\\n[Cut or edit made in tape. Unknown amount of time elapsed]. \\n \\nRobin Blaser\\n00:43:58\\nReads “In A Dark” [collected later in The Holy Forest].\\n\\nRobin Blaser\\n00:44:17\\nReads “The Prints” [collected later in The Holy Forest].\\n \\nRobin Blaser\\n00:44:47\\nReads “Love” [collected later in The Holy Forest].\\n \\nRobin Blaser\\n00:45:18\\nReads \\\"The Private I\\\" [collected later in The Holy Forest].\\n \\nRobin Blaser\\n00:46:18\\nReads \\\"Song\\\" [collected later in The Holy Forest].\\n \\nRobin Blaser\\n00:46:52\\nReads \\\"Translation\\\" [collected later in The Holy Forest].\\n \\nRobin Blaser\\n00:47:23\\nReads \\\"1st Tale: Over\\\" [collected later in The Holy Forest].\\n \\nRobin Blaser\\n00:48:09\\nReads \\\"2nd Tale: Returned\\\" [collected later in The Holy Forest].\\n \\nRobin Blaser\\n00:49:48\\nReads \\\": At Last\\\" [collected later in The Holy Forest].\\n \\nRobin Blaser\\n00:50:29\\nReads \\\"Aphrodite of the Leaves\\\" [collected later in The Holy Forest].\\n \\nRobin Blaser\\n00:51:02\\nReads \\\"Winter Words\\\" [collected later in The Holy Forest].\\n \\nRobin Blaser\\n00:51:39\\nReads \\\"The Stories\\\" [collected later in The Holy Forest].\\n \\nRobin Blaser\\n00:52:23\\nReads \\\"The City\\\" [collected later in The Holy Forest].\\n \\nRobin Blaser\\n00:53:12\\nReads \\\"The Translator: A Tale\\\" [from The Moth Poem].\\n \\nRobin Blaser\\n00:54:31\\nReads [“Sophia Nichols,” published later in The Holy Forest].\\n\\nRobin Blaser\\n00:56:34\\nReads \\\"A Gift: Homage to Creeley\\\" [published later as “A Gift” in The Holy Forest].\\n \\nRobin Blaser\\n00:57:30\\nReads \\\"Bottom's Dream\\\" [collected later in The Holy Forest].\\n \\nRobin Blaser\\n00:58:18\\nReads \\\"The Finder” [collected later in The Holy Forest].\\n \\nRobin Blaser\\n00:59:35\\nReads \\\"Out of the Window,\\\" [collected later in The Holy Forest].\\n \\nRobin Blaser\\n01:00:45\\nReads \\\"Merlin\\\" [collected later in The Holy Forest].\\n \\nRobin Blaser\\n01:01:44\\nReads \\\"The Cry of Merlin\\\" [collected later in The Holy Forest].\\n\\nUnknown\\n01:03:55\\n[Cut or edit made in tape. Unknown amount of time elapsed]. \\n \\nRobin Blaser\\n01:03:57\\nI stood between the two in the marriage ceremony and replaced the psalms that are given, at one point, that was my gift as well as my blessing, and this is the poem I wrote for that wedding. \\\"Image-Nation 6: a marriage poem for Gladys Hindmarch and Cliff Anston\\\".\\n \\nRobin Blaser\\n1:04:15\\nReads \\\"Image-Nation 6: a marriage poem for Gladys Hindmarch and Cliff Anston\\\" [published later as “Image-Nation 6 (epithalamium)” in The Holy Forest].\\n \\nRobin Blaser\\n01:05:27\\nThank you.\\n\\nAudience\\n01:05:28\\nApplause [cut off]. \\n\\nEND\\n01:05:30\\n[Cut off abruptly].\",\"notes\":\"Robin Blaser reads poems from Cups (Four Seasons Press, 1968), The Moth Poem (Open Space, 1964) and his essay “The Fire”, collected later in The Fire: Collected Essays of Robin Blaser (University of California Press, 2006), as well as poems collected later in The Holy Forest (Coach House Press, 1993).\\n\\n00:00- Stanton Hoffman introduces Robin Blaser [INDEX: Vancouver, San Francisco, June 1964, meeting, reading, countryside, Stan Persky, Jack Spicer, Idaho, Northwestern University, Berkeley University, librarian at Harvard from 1955-59, exile, teaches, Simon Fraser University, San Francisco Poetry Renaissance in the 1950’s and 1960’s, triumvirate with Robert Duncan and Jack Spicer, serial poem, “The Faerie Queene”, “Image Nation”, poetry anthologies, Donald Allen’s The New American Poetry (Grove Press, 1960), The Penguin New Writing [most likely Nendeln, Liechtenstein: Kraus, 1960 or 1970], A controversy of poets (Doubleday/ Anchor Books, 1965), poetry volumes The Boston Poems 1956-58 (self published?), The Moth Poem (Open Space, 1964), Les Chimeres (White Rabbit Press, 1965), Cups (Four Seasons Foundation, 1968), editor of The Pacific Nation.]\\n03:00- Robin Blaser introduces “The Hunger of Sound”. [INDEX: The Boston Poems, one copy in the world, dislike for the book, Boston, Jack Spicer, John Wieners, Charles       Olson, Black Mountain, 1956; from The Boston Poems (unknown publishing info) later collected in The Holy Forest (Coach House Press, 1993).]\\n03:54- Reads “The Hunger of Sound” [INDEX: serial poem, poetry, child, image, star, hunger, tree, time, sound, poem, man, wife, house, boy, Dante, book, German, gun, work, chaos, joy.]\\n10:38- Introduces “Cups”. [INDEX: order of reading, requested poems, working The Holy Forest since 1960, serial poems, “The Park”, “The Faerie Queene”, “The Moth Poem”, translations from Gerard de Nerval “Les Chimeres”, The Holy Forest as unfinished, poetics, intermission; from Cups (Four Seasons Foundation, 1968).]\\n11:47- Reads “Cups”.  [INDEX: serial poem, cup, nature, iris, flower, tree, poem, poetry,       window, sex, Dante, love, spring, truck, goat, father, hunter, blood, dark, semen, skin,     \\twhistle, sound]\\n22:58- Introduces essay “The Fire”. [INDEX: poetics; written in 1967, collected in The Holy Forest (Coach House Press, 1993)]\\n23:28- Reads essay “The Fire”. [INDEX: poetry, poetics, sight, sound, intellect, Louis    Zukofsky, San Francisco, invisibility, emotion, body, earth, god, reality, conceptual,     \\tdifficulty, image, conceptual, [Stan] Persky, imagination, language, Charles Olson,       \\t[Thoreau’s?] Walden, [Herman] Melville, [Ezra] Pound, narrative, Jack Spicer, Ovid]\\n31:57- END OF RECORDING (mid-sentence, continues on next CD I086-11-005.2)\\n\\n00:00- Robin Blaser continues reading “The Fire” essay.  [INDEX: family, idiom, English,        American, French, Orphic, Orpheus, Dionysus, Jack Spicer, Robert Duncan, imagery,  \\tLeibniz, Spinoza, Francis Yeats, monads, Nerval; written in 1967, collected in The Holy \\tForest (Coach House Press, 1993).]\\n11:31- Robin Blaser stops reading essay, introduces intermission [INDEX: break, next section, thirty-two poems, not long poems]\\n12:00- Cut in tape, unknown amount of time elapsed\\n12:00- Robin Blaser reads line “...the drive to the spring mountains...” recording starts mid-poem [INDEX: nature, drive, tree, heart, love, stone, song, star, forest, fire, night,       translation; from unknown source.]\\n12:20- Reads “The Prints”. [INDEX: Nerval, prince, tree, fantasy, heart; from Charms    (1964-1968) collected in The Holy Forest (Coach House Press, 1993).]\\n12:50- Reads “Love”. [INDEX: water, love, night; from Charms (1964-1968) collected in The Holy Forest (Coach House Press, 1993).]\\n13:21- Reads “The Private I” [IMAGE: dog, moon, wind, white, black, earth, water, wind; from Charms (1964-1968) collected in The Holy Forest (Coach House Press, 1993).]\\n14:21- Reads \\\"Song\\\" [INDEX:  Nerval, song, night, horse; from Charms (1964-1968) collected in The Holy Forest (Coach House Press, 1993).]\\n14:55- Reads \\\"Translation\\\" [INDEX: ash, Mount St. Helen's, fire, tree; from Charms    (1964-1968) collected in The Holy Forest (Coach House Press, 1993).]\\n15:26- Reads \\\"1st Tale, Lost\\\"  [INDEX: sweet, child, tale, bird, sound; from Charms \\t(1964-1968) collected in The Holy Forest (Coach House Press, 1993).]\\n16:11- Reads \\\"2nd Tale, Returned\\\"  [INDEX: brother, sister, child, fear, story, water, love,  magic, air, found; from Charms (1964-1968) collected in The Holy Forest (Coach House Press, 1993).]\\n17:50- Reads \\\":At Last\\\" [INDEX: place, tree, story, youth, body; from Charms (1964-1968) \\tcollected in The Holy Forest (Coach House Press, 1993).]\\n18:32- Reads \\\"Aphrodite of the Leaves\\\"  [INDEX: city, light, Aphrodite, place from Charms (1964-1968) collected in The Holy Forest (Coach House Press, 1993).]\\n19:05- Reads \\\"Winter Words\\\" [INDEX: fountain, silence, cold, invisible; from Charms       (1964-1968) collected in The Holy Forest (Coach House Press, 1993)]\\n19:42- Reads \\\"The Stories\\\" [INDEX: table, supper, sound, imagination, taste, radio from Charms (1964-1968) collected in The Holy Forest (Coach House Press, 1993).]\\n20:25- Reads \\\"The City\\\" [INDEX: lover, city, Wandering Jew, voice, water, radio, light,       fountain from Charms (1964-1968) collected in The Holy Forest (Coach House Press,   1993).]\\n21:15- Reads \\\"The Translator: A Tale\\\" [INDEX: water, circle, tale, translation, shadow, sex, moth, flight; from The Moth Poem (Open Space, 1964).]\\n22:34- Reads unknown poem first line [\\\"...and returns, it is easy to personify\\\"]\\t[INDEX: head, personification, woman, love, disease, nature, moon, Blake, star, city, place, Odyssey, story, night, word]\\n24:37- Reads \\\"A Gift: Homage to Creeley\\\" [INDEX: room, house, table, soul, city, language, Wells Fargo, poet, love; published as “A Gift”, from Charms (1964-1968) collected in The Holy Forest (Coach House Press, 1993).]\\n25:33- Reads \\\"Bottom's Dream\\\"  [INDEX: Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream,        Bottom, solitude, translation, city, love, glass; from Charms (1964-1968) collected in The Holy Forest (Coach House Press, 1993).]\\n26:21- Reads \\\"The Finder\\\" [INDEX: tree, window, English Bay, Vancouver, ship, body, blood, intellect, violence, death, glass; from Charms (1964-1968) collected in The Holy Forest (Coach House Press, 1993).]\\n27:37- Reads \\\"Out of the Window\\\" [INDEX: nature, earth, sea, fire, heart, city, building, loss, invisible; from Charms (1964-1968) collected in The Holy Forest (Coach House Press, 1993).]\\n28:48- Reads \\\"Merlin\\\" [INDEX: action, blackbird, glass, companion, house, window, tree, unity, poetry, city, future, movement; from Charms (1964-1968) collected in The Holy Forest (Coach House Press, 1993).]\\n29:47- Reads \\\"The Cry of Merlin\\\" (unfinished reading on recording) [INDEX: stone, blue,  spiritual, image, man, room, story, sea, sex, body, love, radio, Daphne;  from Charms     (1964-1968) collected in The Holy Forest (Coach House Press, 1993).]\\n31:58- Break/distortion in tape; recording recommences mid-phrase as Blaser introduces his last work.\\n32:00- Introduces “Image Nation 6: a marriage poem for Gladys Hindmarch and Cliff      Anston” [INDEX: marriage ceremony, psalms, gift, blessing, wedding, Gladys    \\tHindmarch, Cliff Anston; published in Image Nations 5-14 (1967- 1974) collected in The Holy Forest (Coach House Press, 1993)]\\n32:18- Reads “Image Nation 6: a marriage poem for Gladys Hindmarch and Cliff  \\tAnston” [INDEX: marriage, tree, Gladys Hindmarch, Cliff Anston, vision, gift, occasional poem, ring, unity, image, invisible.]\\n33:30- Robin Blaser thanks audience.\\n33:33.03- END OF RECORDING.\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"Sound Recording\",\"featured\":\"Yes\",\"public_access_url\":\"https://montreal.spokenweb.ca/sgw-poetry-readings/robin-blaser-at-sgwu-1969/\"}]"],"score":3.3905535}]