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The casette is enclosed in an envelope with the University of Lethbridge Department of English stamped on it\n- The file contains a full transcription of the interview.\n- Begins mid-sentence with introduction by Marguerite McDonald\n- Robert Kroetsch and Wiebe are at a piano with Collie Banks, they didn’t know they were already being recorded.\n- Rudy was a singer – he sings “Amazing Grace” then Robert Kroetsch sings “Wild, Wild Women”\n- [00:03:07] interview on approach to prairie writing\n- Beer parlours and prairie stories – Wiebe says there are only certain types of stories that you can hear at parlours\n- Space and the prairies – W “space has everything in it” you just have to look\n- Always in relationship with the landscape/earth and the prairies make you aware of this relationship\n- W – man is vertical compared to flatness of prairies, man moves while landscape remains immutable\n- K – why movement across prairies so important to novels\n- K – doesn’t like generalizations about the prairies\n- K – as writers we accept the prairies – earlier writers (Grove, Ross) trying to resist the prairies – trying to impose another cultural pattern onto it\n- W – old writers had a sense that somehow the prairies had to be improved, whereas current writers now live and move within the prairie space and work with it\n- W – When writing Big Bear travelled his prairie routes. Wiebe didn’t try to write notes during the journey, wanted to feel the experience\n- K – did the same for Badlands – a week on Red Deer River\n- Commenting on the quote about Canadian literature that “it’s by our lack of ghosts we’re haunted”: W – disagrees, gives examples of buffalo jumps which are over 4000 years old. He insists that we have ghosts, but it’s “by our ignorance that we’re haunted” because we don’t know or refuse the history.\n- K – in writing, you look for a story that acts out inside of you\n"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558522146818,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":3.6228101},{"id":"8376","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Robert Kroetsch fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Robert Kroetsch fonds"],"collection_contributing_unit":["University of Calgary, Archives and Special Collections"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_id":[""],"persistent_url":["https://searcharchives.ucalgary.ca/robert-kroetsch-fonds"],"item_title":["The Bards of March: Mar 15/86 Barbour/Prize Draw/Kroetsch (Nichol) Van Herk B Wiebe"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[29.10.1]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2036"],"creator_names":["Kroetsch, Robert"],"creator_names_search":["Kroetsch, Robert"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/120613489\",\"name\":\"Kroetsch, Robert\",\"dates\":\"1927-2011\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Author\",\"Performer\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Barbour, Doug","Nichol, B.P.","Van Herk, Aritha","Wiebe, Rudy"],"contributors_names_search":["Barbour, Doug","Nichol, B.P.","Van Herk, Aritha","Wiebe, Rudy"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Barbour, Doug \",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/76350280\",\"name\":\"Nichol, B.P.\",\"dates\":\"1944-1988\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/110789564\",\"name\":\"Van Herk, Aritha\",\"dates\":\"-1954\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/39385421\",\"name\":\"Wiebe, Rudy\",\"dates\":\"-1934\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]}]"],"performer_name":["Barbour, Doug ","Nichol, B.P.","Van Herk, Aritha","Wiebe, Rudy"],"Performance_Date":[1986],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"A and B\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"XHE\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Good\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"\",\"physical_condition\":\"Good\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"\",\"other_physical_description\":\"\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"RK_Acc_775_04.25.29.10-1\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T00:59:20\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"978.34 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1986-03-15\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Dates taken from container and/or accompanying material.\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"Edmonton [?], Alberta, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"Address":["Edmonton [?], Alberta, Canada"],"City":["Edmonton, Alberta"],"content_notes":["\nReadings as well as prize draws for the NeWest event.\n- Doug Barbour, two poems about jazz: “Alone on the Road” and “That Gone Tune”. “That Gone Tune” inspired by listening to Dave Holland Quintet at the Yardbird Suite (jazz club in Edmonton). Third poem “For a Branch of Almond Tree in Bloom, 1890” a sonnet responding to Vincent van Gogh’s iconic “Branch of Almond Tree in Bloom” (find now as “Almond Blossom”). Untitled mixing sound and poetry, begins with epigraph from review Smaro Kambourelli wrote of Phyllis Webb.\n- Recording includes prize draw by Jack Lewis (NeWest manager): Rudy Wiebe giving away his books (Wiebe helped organize the event), art prize.\n- Robert Kroetsch (read by bpNichol): Nichol qualifies to read Robert Kroetsch because his father was born in Alberta. Nichol notes that Kroestch seeks to displace the “I” in his poetry, and this is about as far as he can displace it. Reading from section Advice to My Friends, \"1: For a Poet Who Has Stopped Writing,\" \"14: I Find Myself Reading the Old Guys Now December 6th 1983,\" \"Sonnet #1,\" \"I'm Getting Old Now,\" \"Sonnet #5\"; reading from section Sounding the Name, \"Sonnet for My Daughters\"; reading from section The Poet's Mother \"1,\" \"3,\" \"Envoy, To Begin With.\"\n- Aritha Van Herk: Reading from No Fixed Address: something is playing in the background during the reading. Section pertains to characters going to poetry reading, feminist and ironic view of poetry by novelists.\n- Rudy Wiebe: Reading from The Temptation of Big Bear, the last and only speech of big Bear, post-conviction.\n"],"contents":["Doug Barbour  \n[00:00:56]\nReads \"Alone on the Road\".\nDoug Barbour\n[00:03:30]\nReads \"That Gone Tune\".\nDoug Barbour\n[00:08:25]\nReads \"For a Branch of Almond Tree in Bloom, 1890\".\nUnknown\n[00:09:45]\nUntitled [begins with epigraph from review Smaro Kambourelli wrote of Phyllis Webb].\nB.P. Nichol\n[00:20:15]\nReads \"1: For a Poet Who Has Stopped Writing\" by Robert Kroetsch.\nB.P. Nichol\n[00:21:30]\nReads \"14: I Find Myself Reading the Old Guys Now December 6th 1983\" by Robert Kroetsch.\nB.P. Nichol\n[00:22:31]\nReads \"Sonnet #1\" by Robert Kroetsch.\nB.P. Nichol\n[00:23:32]\nReads \"I'm Getting Old Now\" by Robert Kroetsch.\nB.P. Nichol\n[00:24:42]\nReads \"Sonnet #5\" by Robert Kroetsch.\nB.P. Nichol\n[00:25:15]\nReads \"Sonnet for My Daughters\" by Robert Kroetsch.\nB.P. Nichol\n[00:26:00]\nReads \"1\" by Robert Kroetsch.\nB.P. Nichol\n[00:26:31]\nReads \"3\" by Robert Kroetsch.\nB.P. Nichol\n[00:27:05]\nReads \"Envoy, To Begin With\" by Robert Kroetsch.\nAritha Van Herk\n[00:30:57]\nReads excerpt from No Fixed Address.\nRuby Wiebe\n[00:47:04]\nReads excerpt from The Temptation of Big Bear."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"Kroetsch, Advice to My Friends. Van Herk, No Fixed Address. Wiebe, The Tempation of Big Bear.\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558525292544,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":3.6228101}]