[{"id":"1269","cataloger_name":["Bindu,Reddy"],"partnerInstitution":["Concordia University"],"collection_source_collection":["SGWU Reading Series-Concordia University Department of English fonds"],"source_collection_label":["SGWU Reading Series-Concordia University Department of English fonds"],"collection_contributing_unit":["Records Management and Archives"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_description":["The fonds consists of some administrative records of the SGWU Department of English and the Concordia Department of English between 1971 and 2000. It also consists of some SGWU Department of English records related to student academic activities in the 1940s and to public readings and lectures, and a few interviews, produced between 1966 and 1972. The fonds mainly includes minutes of departmental meetings and some course timetables. It also includes some student papers in bound volumes and 63 sound recordings (80 audio reels) mainly composed of poetry readings (see the Concordia SpokenWeb project which uses this material) but also a few lectures given at SGWU. There are also loose typed sheets describing some of the SGWU poetry readings."],"collection_source_collection_id":["I086"],"persistent_url":["http://archives.concordia.ca/I086"],"item_title":["Earle Birney at Sir George Williams University, The Poetry Series, 23 February 1968"],"item_title_source":["Cataloguer"],"item_title_note":["\"EARLE BIRNEY Recorded February 23, 1968 3.75 ips, on 1/2 track on 1 mil. tape\" written on sticker on the back of the tape's box. \"EARLE BIRNEY i006/SR18\" written on sticker on the spine of the tape's box. \"I006-11-018\" also written on sticker on the reel.\n"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_series_title":["The Poetry Series"],"item_subseries_title":["Poetry 2"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"creator_names":["Birney, Earle"],"creator_names_search":["Birney, Earle"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/97679781\",\"name\":\"Birney, Earle\",\"dates\":\"1904-1955\",\"notes\":\"Poet Earle Birney was born in Calgary, Alberta in 1904, when it was still part of the Northwest Territories. Birney spent his early years on a remote farm, until his family moved to Banff in 1911, and then again in 1916 to Creston, British Columbia. Upon graduation from high-school, Birney worked odd jobs as a bank clerk, a farm labourer and as a general labourer at national parks in B.C. before enrolling at the University of British Columbia, in chemistry, in 1922. He quickly switched into english literature and became the associate editor and subsequently editor-in-chief of the school newspaper, The Ubyssey. Birney graduated in Honours English in 1926, and completed a Master’s Degree from the University of Toronto in 1927. Birney pursued further graduate work at the University of California at Berkeley, until leaving in 1930 for the University of Utah to become a lecturer for two years. He returned to Toronto to complete his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, and became a party organizer for the Trotskyist branch of the Communist Party. Birney received a fellowship to the University of London, England to study and thus traveled to Norway to interview Leon Trotsky. In 1938, with Ph.D. in hand, Birney taught at the University of Toronto and became the editor of the Canadian Forum until 1940. After enlisting in the Canadian Army, he published his first volume of poetry, David (Ryerson Press, 1942) which won the Governor General’s Award for Poetry. Birney then shipped off to serve in the Second World War, returning with a manuscript for Now is time (Ryerson Press, 1945), which also won a Governor General’s Award. Birney was editor of The Canadian Poetry Magazine (1946-48) and a professor at the University of British Columbia (1948-62). There, Birney created the very first department of creative writing in Canada. His subsequent publications include The strait of Anian (Ryerson Press, 1948), Trial of a city (Ryerson Press,1952) which was later published with its original title, The damnation of Vancouver (McClelland and Stewart, 1957), Ice cod bell or stone (McClelland and Stewart, 1962). Throughout the 60’s and 70’s, his poetry became more innovative and radical, publishing Near false creek mouth (McClelland and Stewart, 1964), a collaboration with bp Nichol, Pnomes, jukollages & other stunzas (Ganglia Press, 1969), Rag and bone shop (McClelland and Stewart, 1971), What’s so big about green? (McClelland and Stewart, 1973), The rugging and the moving times (Black Moss Press, 1976), Alphbeings and other seasyours (Pikadilly Press, 1976), and Fall by fury (McClelland and Stewart, 1978). Along with poetry, Birney published two prose novels, Turvey  (McClelland and Stewart, 1949) and Down the long table (McClelland and Stewart, 1955), a collection of stories Big bird in the bush (Mosaic Press, 1978), non fiction The creative writer (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 1966), and The cow jumped over the moon (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972) among others. Birney’s poems have been collected in Selected poems (McClelland and Stewart, 1966), The poems of Earle Birney (McClelland and Stewart, 1969), Collected poems (McClelland and Stewart, 1975), and his last volume, Last makings (McClelland and Stewart, 1991). Birney received an honorary doctorate from the University of Alberta and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. 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Sadly enough, as he tells me, the only book of his still generally in print is the Selected Poems of 1966, which we do have on sale outside the door and of which, I should remind you, he gets a cut from his publisher. [Audience laughter]. Luckily there, I have, have heard that there will be a couple of Birney books within the next little while, one of them published in the United States [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30] and the other one by the Coach House Press [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5137585], presuming always that there will be a Coach House Press in the next little while. I would just like to mention that my association with Earle Birney has always been very, a good one, for me, and I wouldn't be here today to be talking about him unless I happened to be a member of the Poetry Committee, and, except that if it hadn't been for him, and the fact that both he and I were in Vancouver [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24639] at one time, I probably wouldn't have been writing any poems at all. Either that, or he would be writing mine. So without any further ado, and probably to our great delectation, I would like to introduce Earle Birney. \n \nAudience\n00:02:15 \nApplause.\n \nEarle Birney\n00:02:26\nThank you very much, George [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1239280]. I should, in all fairness to George, say that he actually wrote all this information about me and probably a good number of the poems, which I will be reading under my own name tonight. I would also like to say that I have, was recently corresponding with a man who had just resigned as president of a University to become a Dean of another University and had said, well, at least I will show them that if a Dean is a mouse in training to be a rat, then some rats can revert to being mice. Now, if we apply this to the world of poetry, I would say that I am a mouse in training to be less than a mouse, to be something in another category--I think I'd like to be Bursar of Canadian Poetry. But nobody has really set me up for that. I'm going to start by making sure that I read one good poem tonight by reading a poem of W. B. Yeats [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40213] [audience laughter] called \"A Prayer for Old Age\", which has, I think, I'm afraid, more and more pertinence to my condition. He wrote it at 69. \n \nEarle Birney\n00:04:10\nReads \"A Prayer for Old Age\"  by W. B. Yeats.\n \nEarle Birney\n00:04:54\nThat I will use as an excuse for some of the poems I now shall read you, if I can find my list. The last thing. Ah yes, here it is. Now there's no mic and I want to make sure that everyone is hearing me. If I'm not talking loud enough, those that cannot hear, would you please put a hand up now. I'm very sorry, I'm very sorry--well, you will have to go to the back and then somebody who's standing can come here. I'm sorry there aren't, that some of you have to stand, and I'll try to make it as fast as possible so we can all get out of here. [Audience laughter]. I'm going to begin with some poems that are, alas, too well known to my fellow poets, most of them in this room, but I had planned it this way and I'm stuck with it now and so are they. I'm going to begin with a series that came out, some members of a series that came out in Ice Cod Bell or Stone, and later others in, Near False Creek Mouth, that have to do with wandering around the global village, and this one begins in, well it since begins in Vancouver, but it's about Honolulu [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18094]. I got a fellowship to go to England [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21] and I was in Vancouver and I discovered that it only cost me two hundred dollars and some odd cents more to go to London [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q84] and back to Vancouver by way of going around the world, you know, just heading west. The air tickets were accommodating me that way. So I decided to go west, and my first stop, I noticed, was Honolulu, and I began to get a bit of a temperature about that, and I thought, how 'bout, I might as well live it up, I'm going to Honolulu tomorrow morning, going to be there tomorrow night, and so I will engage a room in Hawaiian Village Hotel for the one night, because first night, I know I have a little money. After that, God knows what's going to happen to me because I intend to stay in a lot of places before I get to London. So I did this, I reserved a room before I left Vancouver, not realizing that this had put me in a bit of a box, because this is one of the Kaiser-Hilton hotels on Waikiki Beach [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q254861], and they have a special greeter who meets all the planes, just for people coming to them. And it happened, through another mischance, that I was the only one for that hotel, and this unsettled me so much I had to write about it. [Audience laughter]. Something which I call \"Twenty-Third Flight\" for reasons, well, the poem is imitative of another poet, much older, much greater, by the name of David. Not the one that I pushed off the cliff [audience laughter], the one who was a harpist.\n \nEarle Birney\n00:08:39\nReads \"Twenty-Third Flight\" [from Selected Poems 1940-1966; audience laughter throughout].\n \nAudience\n00:10:58\nApplause and laughter.\n \nEarle Birney\n00:11:06\nThank you very much, I hesitate to look as if I anticipated more applause, but I would much prefer it if you'd just let me rattle ahead here, for one thing it's getting hotter in here and more and more uncomfortable and as I say, let me get ahead with it, and so if at the end, of course, if anybody is still here with enough energy left, fine. Is there anybody who knows where water is available, any water hole out there in those vast cement deserts?\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:11:50\nThere should be some beside you, there.\n \nEarle Birney\n00:11:52\nUh, well, there's a water pitcher, and a water glass…[audience laughter]. I'll prove it... [audience laughter].\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:12:05\nIf I drink it, it's okay.\n \nEarle Birney\n00:12:06\nYeah! ...Well, while George is away I'll read one of his poems. This one is called \"Honolulu\" and follows immediately after the other, but in between was about forty, twenty-four hours, I guess, in which I visited the very famous outdoor aviary, one of the world's famous aviaries, and also the aquarium and so on, and I also encountered a type, a Honolulu type of sorts. So this poem, which is perhaps about the involvement of people with animals through self-projection, and the involvement of human animals with each other. \n \nEarle Birney\n00:13:05\nReads \"Honolulu\" [from Selected Poems 1940-1966].\n \nEarle Birney\n00:14:41\nThen I went to Japan [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17], and I want to read you one little poem, this is my Zen poem, I guess. [Audience laughter]. Every poet has to have a Zen poem. Thank you, George. \n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:14:54\nOh ho, I could give you a Zen greeting. Alright. It's really cold. I tried to get it out of the Coke [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2813] machine but it just didn't work. \n \nEarle Birney\n00:15:03\nGood gin, thank you. \"Windchimes in a Temple Ruin\"--you know these little glass-leave things, which one expects to see in Japan, but not suddenly to hear when you're all alone in an old ruin. Some left up in the rafters.\n \nEarle Birney\n00:15:31\nReads \"Windchimes in a Temple Ruin\" [from Selected Poems 1940-1966].\n \nEarle Birney\n00:16:12\nBut I think I'm going to leave Asia [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q48] for the moment, and get on to Europe [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q46], briefly, been around to Spain [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29], at any rate. I was sitting, more or less minding my own business, on a plaza in Madrid [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2807] one morning, having my coffee, and something happened, which again I felt I should chronicle. Desmond Pacey [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5264782] says I'm a chronicler, and so I, having learned that, I now use the word [audience laughter] to explain what I'm doing. I renamed the plaza, it had a rather dull name, I call it Plaza de Inquisicion. \n \nEarle Birney\n00:17:09\nReads “Plaza de Inquisicion” [from Near False Creek Mouth and collected in Selected Poems 1940-1966].\n \nEarle Birney\n00:17:44\nI also went to the Prado [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q160112] of course, and saw, for the first time, the original of one of the three studies by El Greco [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q301] of The Espolio [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q52301456], or the taking-off and rending of Christ's garments, which was one of El Greco's themes. And I was struck, as I had never been really before, I suppose because I never had really looked at these paintings properly, I had looked at them in small illustrations--I was struck by the extraordinary amount of space which had been taken up, which El Greco had devoted to the carpenter who was making the holes in the cross preparatory to having Christ nailed to the cross. In fact, the whole lower third of the canvas is devoted to him in one of these three versions, and not only that but he is, they're facing us, with his back to Christ, and on the right and left are two of the Marys, whose eyes are on him. I felt that perhaps El Greco was trying to say something here, apart from what he was saying about the actual scene of the crucifixion, in a symbolic way, perhaps about something that happened to do, really, with this religion, but with, whatever we'd call it, religion, whatever we'd call it, of art. Or if not of art, but craft. It's a little, perhaps, exaggerated, to call the carpenter an artist, but it's obvious that he'd been very much at that moment a craftsman. And so I wrote \"El Greco: Espolio\".\n \nEarle Birney\n00:20:04\nReads \"El Greco: Espolio\" [from Selected Poems 1940-1966].\n \nEarle Birney\n00:22:29\nWhen I come to Canada [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16], now, I'm going to kind of sneak in on the side by reading you a poem that has to do with a very remote, I suppose the most remote part of Canada, in fact, the piece of land that is even nearer to the North Pole [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q934] than Greenland [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q223] or anything the Russians have, Ellesmereland [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q146841]. And I will read it first of all in English, and then, more or less for the hell of it, I'm going to read it in a translation into Spanish, but anyway, because I think I like the sound of it in Spanish. It's short, so I've practiced my Spanish on it, and maybe I won't make too many boobs.\n \nEarle Birney\n00:23:30\nReads \"Ellesmereland\" in English [published later in The Collected Poems of Earle Birney, Vol 1].\n \nEarle Birney\n00:24:10\nReads \"Ellesmereland\" in Spanish.\n \nEarle Birney\n00:24:59\nWell I'll get down and turn to more familiar territory. \"Canada Case History\". This is a poem written quite a long time ago, in 1945, in fact, when I'd just got back from World War Number Two [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q362], I always have to be careful to name which one it is, people getting confused about how far back I go now. And I found that in 1967 I had to do a little patching and changing of this, because history had not only caught up with me, it had changed me. But here, first of all is the original. No, I don't think, I can't, I don't think I can bear to read the original, I think I'll just read you what, what happened to this poem in 1967 in the centennial year.\n \nEarle Birney\n00:26:09\nReads \"Canada: Case History\" [from Selected Poems 1940-1966; audience laughter throughout].\n \nEarle Birney\n00:28:15\nWell now I'm going to read you other various scrappy things about Canadian literature which have never been published and never will be, I think, sneak them out like this once in a while. \n \nEarle Birney\n00:28:38\nReads unnamed poem.\n \nAudience \n00:29:20\nLaughter.\n \nEarle Birney\n00:29:29\nThen there's John, Jean Cabot, as I think my school teacher, trying very hard to be bilingual, made us say, but it turns out he wasn't French at all, but Italian. His name was Giovanni Caboto [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85642]. \n \nEarle Birney\n00:29:48\nReads \"John Cabot\" [published later as “giovanni caboto - john cabot” in Rag & Bone Shop].\n \nAudience\n00:30:27\nLaughter.\n \nEarle Birney\n00:30:36\nThis is something to my publisher, when they brought out a book of mine, Ice Cod Bell or Stone, full of beautiful artwork, except that the man in charge of the artwork had never read the little poem, the \"Klein Ellesmereland\" that I've just read to you, and so never discovered that when I was talking about bells, I was talking about harebells, or flowers, and he put very large iron church bells into all the illustrations. [Audience laughter]. I had asked to see the artwork in advance and was told that the authors, that this was not the custom to show authors the artwork in advance, so I didn't see it. So all I could do at the end was write something. \"To the reader”, which was not included in the volume.\n \nEarle Birney\n00:31:45\nReads \"To the reader\".\n \nEarle Birney\n00:32:39\nI went to spend a weekend a couple of years ago for the first time with Al Purdy [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4704621] in his shack in Ameliasburg [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4742321], and I had read a lot of his Ameliasburg poems before, and I knew Al, but this was a new experience to be actually in the country of the poet, particularly as it was so well staked out--nobody else has ever written about Ameliasburg and the country north of there. Or ever will, I think. But Al has used it, and the country, and developed it into part of the remarkable fineness of his poetry. \n \nEarle Birney\n00:33:33\nReads \"In Purdy's Ameliasburg\" [published later in Rag & Bone Shop]. \n \nEarle Birney\n00:37:13\nNow a poem about another part of Canada. Still Ontario [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1904], part of the north. This is a poem about driving west with somebody else, another guy, and...well there it is. It's called \"Way to the West\". Summertime.\n \nEarle Birney\n00:37:46\nReads \"Way to the West\" [from Selected Poems 1940-1966].\n \nEarle Birney\n00:41:45\nWell, I'm going to get out to the West Coast very briefly. I'm going to read you something toward the end of a long poem. The trouble with long poems is, you could never dare to read the whole thing to any audience. So I'll read you, it's toward the end of the thing called \"November walk near False Creek mouth\". The last page.\n \nEarle Birney\n00:42:26\nReads final section of \"November walk near False Creek mouth\" [from Near False Creek Mouth and collected later in Selected Poems 1940-1966].\n \nEND\n00:45:06\n[Cut or edit made in tape. Unknown amount of time elapsed].\n \nEarle Birney\n00:45:07\nI'm going to read you a few odd things which are to some extent experimental, I suppose. Most of these have not been published, and some of them I haven't read before. This one is called a \"Swahili Serenade\" and I'll tell you about it after I read it. It's Swahili Found Serenade, really. \n \nEarle Birney\n00:45:44\nReads \"Swahili Serenade\" [published later as “found swahili serenade” in Rag & Bone Shop; audience laughter throughout].\n \nEarle Birney\n00:46:13\nWell, as some of you have already perceived, already noticed, this is made up, each line is a juke-box tune, it's just a very easy kind of poem to make up; I offer it to you as a formula for quick poetry, just sit down by a jukebox and pick off some titles. [Audience laughter]. Five minute poem. Here's another kind of found poem of a different sort, called, I call it \"Space Conquest\". That's about all that I've contributed to it. \"Space Conquest\".\n \nEarle Birney\n00:46:56\nReads \"Space Conquest\".\n \nEarle Birney\n00:47:33\nWell those ten lines, each of five syllables, came out of a computer at the University of Waterloo [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1049470] last week, into which we had programmed a hundred and eleven, the one hundred and eleven words of George Meredith's [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q90238] \"Lucifer in Starlight,\" and the last thirty-three words of Archibald MacLeish's [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q633354] \"The End of the World.\" Don't ask me why we picked those two poems, I had nothing to do with the picking of the poems. But some of us, two linguists, two linguist-isists, a mathematician, and myself, and masses of computers are producing this sort of poetry. It took point eight-three seconds, not even one second, to produce the hundred-some-odd lines, out of which I chose those ten. So you can see it doesn't take very long, once you've programmed the machine, to find the, you know, the entire text of Hamlet [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41567], but this is what we have done so far, we haven't put too much time on it yet. Some things that I haven't had computers write for me, although perhaps I might have, or should have. This one's called \"Kooks of the Monk\". \n \nEarle Birney\n00:49:24\nReads \"Kooks of the Monk\".\n \nAudience\n00:49:37\nLaughter.\n \nEarle Birney\n00:49:39\nThat is sometimes called \"concrete\". Fun anyway, to do. This is something that I may not be able to finish, but I'll try it. It's the train from Cardiff [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10690] to London. English trains sound different, of course. \n \nEarle Birney\n00:50:03\nPerforms \"Train from Cardiff to London\".\n \nAudience\n00:50:53\nLaughter.\n \nEarle Birney\n00:50:59\nThis is a found collage from one issue of the Toronto Daily Star [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1067299], called \"Toronto Daily Tele-Starlings\", and this is only a small part of the poem which has no beginning or end, it goes on forever if you read the whole of the Star.  \n \nEarle Birney\n00:51:22\nReads \"Toronto Daily Tele-Starlings\" [audience laughter throughout].\n \nEarle Birney\n00:53:26\nA series of poems with reference back to the Yeats poem I read at the beginning, perhaps. \n \nEarle Birney\n00:53:36\nReads \"Like an eddy\" [published later in Rag & Bone Shop and collected in Ghost in the Wheels: Selected Poems].\n\nEarle Birney\n00:55:42\nAnd, two short haikus.\n \nEarle Birney\n00:55:47\nReads [two of three haikus from “hokkai in the dew line snow”, published later in Rag & Bone Shop and collected in Ghost in the Wheels: Selected Poems].\n \nEarle Birney\n00:56:16\nReads [\"BUILDINGS\", published later in Rag & Bone Shop and collected in The Collected Poems of Earle Birney, Vol 1].\n \nEarle Birney\n00:56:50\nAnd, a poem that is written in kind of an attempt to write something to express a tiny little bit of the pleasure I've had, through most of my life, in reading Chaucer [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5683]. Called \"I'm always going back to Chaucer\".\n \nEarle Birney\n00:57:20\nReads \"I'm always going back to Chaucer\" in Middle English.\n \nEarle Birney\n00:59:06\nNow something that has to do with my Shetland [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47134] grand-aunt. Tea with my Shetland grand-aunt. This is a little, slightly different dialect. And there's a kind of an opposition of styles going on here. It's a very old poem, refurbished.\n \nEarle Birney\n00:59:32\nReads \"Tea at my Shetland Aunt’s\" in a Shetland dialect [published later in The Collected Poems of Earle Birney, Vol 1].\n\n \nEarle Birney\n01:01:21\nWell now I'm going to turn back to older poems. To conclude. Hum...I'm going to read two or three poems that, who have some relationship to California [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q99] and Oregon [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q824]. First of all, a poem that, when I wrote it, I wrote it on the day of its date. I thought the date was going to be very significant. August the seven, 1964, Florence [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q862740], Oregon. And that was because on that day, the American fleet moved into the coast and shelled the coast of North Vietnam [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q881], against the international agreements into which the United States had entered some years before. And I thought that this would surely go down in living memory, as a deed of aggression and perfidy. But there have been so many since, almost every day, that everybody has forgotten about that first shelling of the shore from the Gulf of Tonkin [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q212428]. But I happened to be on the shore of the Pacific [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q98] almost directly across from the Gulf of Tonkin, in fact, the waves that were coming in perhaps had their pulsing first on the other side. And this, one couldn't get it out of one's mind, having seen the morning papers and heard the radio, and I went, I had gone fishing with an American poet and his two boys. The salmon were running, coming in, but I have got less and less interested in killing even fish as I get older and softer, and I soon gave up even wanting to cook fish, and left it to the others, and I went up, because I had nothing to do then, I went up and I sat on a cliff, and started thinking about the sea out there, and cormorants fishing, and once in a while the flash of a seal coming up, also fishing, and I also suddenly realized I was sitting there just staring out at the sea and I began to think, I remembered Frost's [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q168728] poem about how odd human beings are, you know, they go down to the sea and they sit and they all, they always look out at the sea, although they can't look very far out or very far in. And I thought that was exactly what I was feeling, the whole thing. But I thought well it's not really Frost's ocean, this is Robinson Jeffers' [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q734955] ocean, and here is this great eye of indifference, so I began my poem, called \"Looking from Oregon\" with a line from Robinson Jeffers about the Pacific: \"And what it watches is not our wars\".\n \nEarle Birney\n01:04:54\nReads \"Looking from Oregon\" [from Selected Poems 1940-1966].\n \nEarle Birney\n01:06:20\nAnd another little poem which is really a video poem, and I should put it on a screen but I forgot to bring my slides. Brought them as far as the hotel, but I forgot to bring them up here.  o you'll just have to visualize a poem shaped like a pair of stairs but coming up at you, and visualize yourself at the top of these stairs with your back against the side of a theatre, a campus theatre at the University of Oregon [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q766145], with signs of last week's shows, this one to go on tonight, that I'm waiting to go into, waiting for my friends, who have the tickets, and watching people come up these steps, the cars coming by and discharging people. \"Campus Theatre Steps\". Summertime, a beautiful summer night. \n \nEarle Birney\n01:07:14\nReads \"Campus Theatre Steps\" [from Selected Poems 1940-1966].\n \nEarle Birney\n01:08:04\nThen I was driving along the coast, a long time, and I was confronted with a sign that hadn't been there before. A billboard, with the same message multiplied up and down the coast and everywhere I went, since the last time I was there. Now I, this is my favourite state of the American Union, Oregon, absolutely beautiful, still, despite whatever, all the attempts of man to un-beautify it, there's still this great volcanic, snow-covered mountains, such, shaped a bit like Fujiyama [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q39231], there is also all those beautiful rocks and sea-lion caves and the pounding surf and the rhododendrons, the whole works. And there's these, this sign saying, \"Billboards Build Freedom of Choice, Courtesy of Oregon Chamber of Commerce\". I brooded about this, and being alone, I couldn't get the answer. What is the philosophy behind this? So I invented a hitchhiker, and I picked him up, and he told me, and this is what he said. This poem is dated 61-62, and Khruschev [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35314] is still in power in Russia [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q159]. \n \nEarle Birney\n01:09:36\nReads \"Billboards Build Freedom of Choice\" [from Near False Creek Mouth and collected later in Selected Poems 1940-1966].\n \nEarle Birney\n01:11:42\nWell, I think we'll slip down into Mexico [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96] for a moment before we wind this show up. There's a very short little thing called Irapuato [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q816845]. Well it's all part, it's like, poetry is like guidebooks, you know, guidebooks are always pointing out irrational connections between things, and so is poetry, so sometimes they get together, and in this case the guidebook had told me that there were two things, sort of, that this place was famous for, and I had discovered they were right.\n \nEarle Birney\n01:12:29\nReads \"Irapuato\" [from Selected Poems 1940-1966].\n \nEarle Birney\n01:13:06\nReads \"Memory No Servant\" [from Near False Creek Mouth and collected later in Selected Poems 1940-1966].\n \nEarle Birney\n01:14:20\nA poem addressed to friend and writer George Lamming [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1340511], who's perhaps best known for his autobiography of his child as a poor negro boy on the island of Barbados [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q244]. George Lamming who wrote In the Castle of My Skin [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23307454], and who happened to be in Jamaica [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q766] when I went there, and was extremely hospitable to me, and so were all his friends. And when I left I wrote him this poem, which had to do with a split-second feeling, something, thing happening inside me, an internal happening, the night of the last party, the last night of the last party. \n \nEarle Birney\n01:15:18\nReads \"For George Lamming\" [from Near False Creek Mouth and collected later in Selected Poems 1940-1966].\n \nEarle Birney\n01:16:32\nWell just in case you would think that I am soft about this and I'm going to like anybody if their skin is darker than mine, I'll read you a counter-poem that happened to come out of the island of Trinidad [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q128323], out of some little external happening, perhaps in part, perhaps really just an internal happening.\n \nEarle Birney\n01:17:20\nReads \"Meeting of Strangers\" [from Near False Creek Mouth and collected later in Selected Poems 1940-1966].\n \nEarle Birney\n01:19:06\nAnd then a very brief little, Irving Layton [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1673289]-type poem from Curacao [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25279]. Very much a...very pallid compared with Irving's, I must say.\n \nEarle Birney\n01:19:22\nReads \"Curacao\" [from Near False Creek Mouth and collected later in Selected Poems 1940-1966].\n \nAudience\n01:19:45\nLaughter.\n \nEarle Birney\n01:19:54\nNow I'm going to conclude with two pieces. One is about the farthest back of these poems. Although some things I've read tonight began earlier but have been revised, this one has not been particularly revised. It's called \"The Road to Nijmegen\" and was written in Holland [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55] in January of 1945, the last winter of the war. Which was the coldest winter, and in this part of Holland, first the Germans in coming and then in retreating had cut down every tree anywhere around. The trees were used for fuel and for mine props and...And then we had come in, and if there were any trees left, we'd got them. And in fact, it was no longer a matter of trees, it was a matter of trying to find bits and pieces of coal and getting the coal working and getting the coal out of the hands of black marketeers. And meantime the people were cold, even colder than we were, and they also lacked food. This is a letter home to a friend.\n \nEarle Birney\n01:22:10\nReads \"The Road to Nijmegen\" [published later in The Collected Poems of Earle Birney, Vol 1].\n \nEarle Birney\n01:24:38\nAnd finally, “From The Hazel Bough”.\n \nEarle Birney\n01:24:48\nReads \"From the Hazel Bough\" [from Selected Poems 1940-1966 and collected ater in The Collected Poems of Earle Birney, Vol 1].\n \nEarle Birney\n01:25:41\nThank you very much.\n \nAudience\n01:25:43\nApplause.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n01:26:12\nI guess you've already said it for us, and I can only repeat, thanks very much, Earle.\n \nEND\n01:26:25\n[Cut off abruptly]."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Year-Specific Information:\\n\\nIn 1968, Birney left for Australia on a trip financed by a Canada Council Medal and Award. He also went on a Canadian reading tour, which this reading might have been part of (see Elspeth Cameron’s Earle Birney: A Life, pg 492). Birney was also working on Pnomes, jukollages & other stunzas (Ganglia Press, 1969), a collaboration with bp Nichol.\",\"type\":\"General\"},{\"note\":\"Local Connections:\\n\\nEarle Birney was an influential poet and professor at the University of British Columbia thus influencing a younger generation of poets like Frank Davey, George Bowering, Daphne Marlatt, David Bromige, Phyllis Webb, John Newlove, Joe Rosenblatt, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Michael Ondaatje, bill bissett and Lionel Kearns among many others during the early 60’s. Birney was also connected to poets like A.J.M. Smith, Irving Layton, Al Purdy and Robert Creeley. *On an interesting note, a trip to Montreal to read at Sir George Williams in 1970 was cancelled due to a car accident Birney was involved in. (Elspeth Cameron’s Earle Birney: A Life (Viking Press, 1994), page 498).\\n\",\"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\\nAdditional research and edits by Ali Barillaro\",\"type\":\"Cataloguer\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/encyclopedia-of-post-colonial-literatures-in-english-vol-1/oclc/32566813&referer=brief_results\",\"citation\":\"Adam, Ian. “Birney, Earle (1904-). Routledge Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English. Eugene Benson and L.W. Connolly (eds). London: Routledge, 1994. 2 vols.\"},{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/ice-cod-bell-or-stone-new-poems/oclc/61536179&referer=brief_results\",\"citation\":\"Birney, Earle. Ice Cod Bell or Stone. 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Sadly enough, as he tells me, the only book of his still generally in print is the Selected Poems of 1966, which we do have on sale outside the door and of which, I should remind you, he gets a cut from his publisher. [Audience laughter]. Luckily there, I have, have heard that there will be a couple of Birney books within the next little while, one of them published in the United States [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30] and the other one by the Coach House Press [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5137585], presuming always that there will be a Coach House Press in the next little while. I would just like to mention that my association with Earle Birney has always been very, a good one, for me, and I wouldn't be here today to be talking about him unless I happened to be a member of the Poetry Committee, and, except that if it hadn't been for him, and the fact that both he and I were in Vancouver [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24639] at one time, I probably wouldn't have been writing any poems at all. Either that, or he would be writing mine. So without any further ado, and probably to our great delectation, I would like to introduce Earle Birney. \\n \\nAudience\\n00:02:15 \\nApplause.\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:02:26\\nThank you very much, George [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1239280]. I should, in all fairness to George, say that he actually wrote all this information about me and probably a good number of the poems, which I will be reading under my own name tonight. I would also like to say that I have, was recently corresponding with a man who had just resigned as president of a University to become a Dean of another University and had said, well, at least I will show them that if a Dean is a mouse in training to be a rat, then some rats can revert to being mice. Now, if we apply this to the world of poetry, I would say that I am a mouse in training to be less than a mouse, to be something in another category--I think I'd like to be Bursar of Canadian Poetry. But nobody has really set me up for that. I'm going to start by making sure that I read one good poem tonight by reading a poem of W. B. Yeats [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40213] [audience laughter] called \\\"A Prayer for Old Age\\\", which has, I think, I'm afraid, more and more pertinence to my condition. He wrote it at 69. \\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:04:10\\nReads \\\"A Prayer for Old Age\\\"  by W. B. Yeats.\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:04:54\\nThat I will use as an excuse for some of the poems I now shall read you, if I can find my list. The last thing. Ah yes, here it is. Now there's no mic and I want to make sure that everyone is hearing me. If I'm not talking loud enough, those that cannot hear, would you please put a hand up now. I'm very sorry, I'm very sorry--well, you will have to go to the back and then somebody who's standing can come here. I'm sorry there aren't, that some of you have to stand, and I'll try to make it as fast as possible so we can all get out of here. [Audience laughter]. I'm going to begin with some poems that are, alas, too well known to my fellow poets, most of them in this room, but I had planned it this way and I'm stuck with it now and so are they. I'm going to begin with a series that came out, some members of a series that came out in Ice Cod Bell or Stone, and later others in, Near False Creek Mouth, that have to do with wandering around the global village, and this one begins in, well it since begins in Vancouver, but it's about Honolulu [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18094]. I got a fellowship to go to England [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21] and I was in Vancouver and I discovered that it only cost me two hundred dollars and some odd cents more to go to London [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q84] and back to Vancouver by way of going around the world, you know, just heading west. The air tickets were accommodating me that way. So I decided to go west, and my first stop, I noticed, was Honolulu, and I began to get a bit of a temperature about that, and I thought, how 'bout, I might as well live it up, I'm going to Honolulu tomorrow morning, going to be there tomorrow night, and so I will engage a room in Hawaiian Village Hotel for the one night, because first night, I know I have a little money. After that, God knows what's going to happen to me because I intend to stay in a lot of places before I get to London. So I did this, I reserved a room before I left Vancouver, not realizing that this had put me in a bit of a box, because this is one of the Kaiser-Hilton hotels on Waikiki Beach [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q254861], and they have a special greeter who meets all the planes, just for people coming to them. And it happened, through another mischance, that I was the only one for that hotel, and this unsettled me so much I had to write about it. [Audience laughter]. Something which I call \\\"Twenty-Third Flight\\\" for reasons, well, the poem is imitative of another poet, much older, much greater, by the name of David. Not the one that I pushed off the cliff [audience laughter], the one who was a harpist.\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:08:39\\nReads \\\"Twenty-Third Flight\\\" [from Selected Poems 1940-1966; audience laughter throughout].\\n \\nAudience\\n00:10:58\\nApplause and laughter.\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:11:06\\nThank you very much, I hesitate to look as if I anticipated more applause, but I would much prefer it if you'd just let me rattle ahead here, for one thing it's getting hotter in here and more and more uncomfortable and as I say, let me get ahead with it, and so if at the end, of course, if anybody is still here with enough energy left, fine. Is there anybody who knows where water is available, any water hole out there in those vast cement deserts?\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:11:50\\nThere should be some beside you, there.\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:11:52\\nUh, well, there's a water pitcher, and a water glass…[audience laughter]. I'll prove it... [audience laughter].\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:12:05\\nIf I drink it, it's okay.\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:12:06\\nYeah! ...Well, while George is away I'll read one of his poems. This one is called \\\"Honolulu\\\" and follows immediately after the other, but in between was about forty, twenty-four hours, I guess, in which I visited the very famous outdoor aviary, one of the world's famous aviaries, and also the aquarium and so on, and I also encountered a type, a Honolulu type of sorts. So this poem, which is perhaps about the involvement of people with animals through self-projection, and the involvement of human animals with each other. \\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:13:05\\nReads \\\"Honolulu\\\" [from Selected Poems 1940-1966].\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:14:41\\nThen I went to Japan [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17], and I want to read you one little poem, this is my Zen poem, I guess. [Audience laughter]. Every poet has to have a Zen poem. Thank you, George. \\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:14:54\\nOh ho, I could give you a Zen greeting. Alright. It's really cold. I tried to get it out of the Coke [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2813] machine but it just didn't work. \\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:15:03\\nGood gin, thank you. \\\"Windchimes in a Temple Ruin\\\"--you know these little glass-leave things, which one expects to see in Japan, but not suddenly to hear when you're all alone in an old ruin. Some left up in the rafters.\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:15:31\\nReads \\\"Windchimes in a Temple Ruin\\\" [from Selected Poems 1940-1966].\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:16:12\\nBut I think I'm going to leave Asia [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q48] for the moment, and get on to Europe [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q46], briefly, been around to Spain [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29], at any rate. I was sitting, more or less minding my own business, on a plaza in Madrid [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2807] one morning, having my coffee, and something happened, which again I felt I should chronicle. Desmond Pacey [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5264782] says I'm a chronicler, and so I, having learned that, I now use the word [audience laughter] to explain what I'm doing. I renamed the plaza, it had a rather dull name, I call it Plaza de Inquisicion. \\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:17:09\\nReads “Plaza de Inquisicion” [from Near False Creek Mouth and collected in Selected Poems 1940-1966].\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:17:44\\nI also went to the Prado [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q160112] of course, and saw, for the first time, the original of one of the three studies by El Greco [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q301] of The Espolio [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q52301456], or the taking-off and rending of Christ's garments, which was one of El Greco's themes. And I was struck, as I had never been really before, I suppose because I never had really looked at these paintings properly, I had looked at them in small illustrations--I was struck by the extraordinary amount of space which had been taken up, which El Greco had devoted to the carpenter who was making the holes in the cross preparatory to having Christ nailed to the cross. In fact, the whole lower third of the canvas is devoted to him in one of these three versions, and not only that but he is, they're facing us, with his back to Christ, and on the right and left are two of the Marys, whose eyes are on him. I felt that perhaps El Greco was trying to say something here, apart from what he was saying about the actual scene of the crucifixion, in a symbolic way, perhaps about something that happened to do, really, with this religion, but with, whatever we'd call it, religion, whatever we'd call it, of art. Or if not of art, but craft. It's a little, perhaps, exaggerated, to call the carpenter an artist, but it's obvious that he'd been very much at that moment a craftsman. And so I wrote \\\"El Greco: Espolio\\\".\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:20:04\\nReads \\\"El Greco: Espolio\\\" [from Selected Poems 1940-1966].\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:22:29\\nWhen I come to Canada [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16], now, I'm going to kind of sneak in on the side by reading you a poem that has to do with a very remote, I suppose the most remote part of Canada, in fact, the piece of land that is even nearer to the North Pole [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q934] than Greenland [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q223] or anything the Russians have, Ellesmereland [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q146841]. And I will read it first of all in English, and then, more or less for the hell of it, I'm going to read it in a translation into Spanish, but anyway, because I think I like the sound of it in Spanish. It's short, so I've practiced my Spanish on it, and maybe I won't make too many boobs.\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:23:30\\nReads \\\"Ellesmereland\\\" in English [published later in The Collected Poems of Earle Birney, Vol 1].\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:24:10\\nReads \\\"Ellesmereland\\\" in Spanish.\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:24:59\\nWell I'll get down and turn to more familiar territory. \\\"Canada Case History\\\". This is a poem written quite a long time ago, in 1945, in fact, when I'd just got back from World War Number Two [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q362], I always have to be careful to name which one it is, people getting confused about how far back I go now. And I found that in 1967 I had to do a little patching and changing of this, because history had not only caught up with me, it had changed me. But here, first of all is the original. No, I don't think, I can't, I don't think I can bear to read the original, I think I'll just read you what, what happened to this poem in 1967 in the centennial year.\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:26:09\\nReads \\\"Canada: Case History\\\" [from Selected Poems 1940-1966; audience laughter throughout].\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:28:15\\nWell now I'm going to read you other various scrappy things about Canadian literature which have never been published and never will be, I think, sneak them out like this once in a while. \\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:28:38\\nReads unnamed poem.\\n \\nAudience \\n00:29:20\\nLaughter.\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:29:29\\nThen there's John, Jean Cabot, as I think my school teacher, trying very hard to be bilingual, made us say, but it turns out he wasn't French at all, but Italian. His name was Giovanni Caboto [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85642]. \\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:29:48\\nReads \\\"John Cabot\\\" [published later as “giovanni caboto - john cabot” in Rag & Bone Shop].\\n \\nAudience\\n00:30:27\\nLaughter.\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:30:36\\nThis is something to my publisher, when they brought out a book of mine, Ice Cod Bell or Stone, full of beautiful artwork, except that the man in charge of the artwork had never read the little poem, the \\\"Klein Ellesmereland\\\" that I've just read to you, and so never discovered that when I was talking about bells, I was talking about harebells, or flowers, and he put very large iron church bells into all the illustrations. [Audience laughter]. I had asked to see the artwork in advance and was told that the authors, that this was not the custom to show authors the artwork in advance, so I didn't see it. So all I could do at the end was write something. \\\"To the reader”, which was not included in the volume.\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:31:45\\nReads \\\"To the reader\\\".\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:32:39\\nI went to spend a weekend a couple of years ago for the first time with Al Purdy [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4704621] in his shack in Ameliasburg [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4742321], and I had read a lot of his Ameliasburg poems before, and I knew Al, but this was a new experience to be actually in the country of the poet, particularly as it was so well staked out--nobody else has ever written about Ameliasburg and the country north of there. Or ever will, I think. But Al has used it, and the country, and developed it into part of the remarkable fineness of his poetry. \\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:33:33\\nReads \\\"In Purdy's Ameliasburg\\\" [published later in Rag & Bone Shop]. \\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:37:13\\nNow a poem about another part of Canada. Still Ontario [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1904], part of the north. This is a poem about driving west with somebody else, another guy, and...well there it is. It's called \\\"Way to the West\\\". Summertime.\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:37:46\\nReads \\\"Way to the West\\\" [from Selected Poems 1940-1966].\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:41:45\\nWell, I'm going to get out to the West Coast very briefly. I'm going to read you something toward the end of a long poem. The trouble with long poems is, you could never dare to read the whole thing to any audience. So I'll read you, it's toward the end of the thing called \\\"November walk near False Creek mouth\\\". The last page.\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:42:26\\nReads final section of \\\"November walk near False Creek mouth\\\" [from Near False Creek Mouth and collected later in Selected Poems 1940-1966].\\n \\nEND\\n00:45:06\\n[Cut or edit made in tape. Unknown amount of time elapsed].\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:45:07\\nI'm going to read you a few odd things which are to some extent experimental, I suppose. Most of these have not been published, and some of them I haven't read before. This one is called a \\\"Swahili Serenade\\\" and I'll tell you about it after I read it. It's Swahili Found Serenade, really. \\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:45:44\\nReads \\\"Swahili Serenade\\\" [published later as “found swahili serenade” in Rag & Bone Shop; audience laughter throughout].\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:46:13\\nWell, as some of you have already perceived, already noticed, this is made up, each line is a juke-box tune, it's just a very easy kind of poem to make up; I offer it to you as a formula for quick poetry, just sit down by a jukebox and pick off some titles. [Audience laughter]. Five minute poem. Here's another kind of found poem of a different sort, called, I call it \\\"Space Conquest\\\". That's about all that I've contributed to it. \\\"Space Conquest\\\".\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:46:56\\nReads \\\"Space Conquest\\\".\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:47:33\\nWell those ten lines, each of five syllables, came out of a computer at the University of Waterloo [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1049470] last week, into which we had programmed a hundred and eleven, the one hundred and eleven words of George Meredith's [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q90238] \\\"Lucifer in Starlight,\\\" and the last thirty-three words of Archibald MacLeish's [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q633354] \\\"The End of the World.\\\" Don't ask me why we picked those two poems, I had nothing to do with the picking of the poems. But some of us, two linguists, two linguist-isists, a mathematician, and myself, and masses of computers are producing this sort of poetry. It took point eight-three seconds, not even one second, to produce the hundred-some-odd lines, out of which I chose those ten. So you can see it doesn't take very long, once you've programmed the machine, to find the, you know, the entire text of Hamlet [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41567], but this is what we have done so far, we haven't put too much time on it yet. Some things that I haven't had computers write for me, although perhaps I might have, or should have. This one's called \\\"Kooks of the Monk\\\". \\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:49:24\\nReads \\\"Kooks of the Monk\\\".\\n \\nAudience\\n00:49:37\\nLaughter.\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:49:39\\nThat is sometimes called \\\"concrete\\\". Fun anyway, to do. This is something that I may not be able to finish, but I'll try it. It's the train from Cardiff [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10690] to London. English trains sound different, of course. \\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:50:03\\nPerforms \\\"Train from Cardiff to London\\\".\\n \\nAudience\\n00:50:53\\nLaughter.\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:50:59\\nThis is a found collage from one issue of the Toronto Daily Star [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1067299], called \\\"Toronto Daily Tele-Starlings\\\", and this is only a small part of the poem which has no beginning or end, it goes on forever if you read the whole of the Star.  \\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:51:22\\nReads \\\"Toronto Daily Tele-Starlings\\\" [audience laughter throughout].\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:53:26\\nA series of poems with reference back to the Yeats poem I read at the beginning, perhaps. \\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:53:36\\nReads \\\"Like an eddy\\\" [published later in Rag & Bone Shop and collected in Ghost in the Wheels: Selected Poems].\\n\\nEarle Birney\\n00:55:42\\nAnd, two short haikus.\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:55:47\\nReads [two of three haikus from “hokkai in the dew line snow”, published later in Rag & Bone Shop and collected in Ghost in the Wheels: Selected Poems].\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:56:16\\nReads [\\\"BUILDINGS\\\", published later in Rag & Bone Shop and collected in The Collected Poems of Earle Birney, Vol 1].\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:56:50\\nAnd, a poem that is written in kind of an attempt to write something to express a tiny little bit of the pleasure I've had, through most of my life, in reading Chaucer [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5683]. Called \\\"I'm always going back to Chaucer\\\".\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:57:20\\nReads \\\"I'm always going back to Chaucer\\\" in Middle English.\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:59:06\\nNow something that has to do with my Shetland [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47134] grand-aunt. Tea with my Shetland grand-aunt. This is a little, slightly different dialect. And there's a kind of an opposition of styles going on here. It's a very old poem, refurbished.\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n00:59:32\\nReads \\\"Tea at my Shetland Aunt’s\\\" in a Shetland dialect [published later in The Collected Poems of Earle Birney, Vol 1].\\n\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n01:01:21\\nWell now I'm going to turn back to older poems. To conclude. Hum...I'm going to read two or three poems that, who have some relationship to California [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q99] and Oregon [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q824]. First of all, a poem that, when I wrote it, I wrote it on the day of its date. I thought the date was going to be very significant. August the seven, 1964, Florence [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q862740], Oregon. And that was because on that day, the American fleet moved into the coast and shelled the coast of North Vietnam [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q881], against the international agreements into which the United States had entered some years before. And I thought that this would surely go down in living memory, as a deed of aggression and perfidy. But there have been so many since, almost every day, that everybody has forgotten about that first shelling of the shore from the Gulf of Tonkin [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q212428]. But I happened to be on the shore of the Pacific [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q98] almost directly across from the Gulf of Tonkin, in fact, the waves that were coming in perhaps had their pulsing first on the other side. And this, one couldn't get it out of one's mind, having seen the morning papers and heard the radio, and I went, I had gone fishing with an American poet and his two boys. The salmon were running, coming in, but I have got less and less interested in killing even fish as I get older and softer, and I soon gave up even wanting to cook fish, and left it to the others, and I went up, because I had nothing to do then, I went up and I sat on a cliff, and started thinking about the sea out there, and cormorants fishing, and once in a while the flash of a seal coming up, also fishing, and I also suddenly realized I was sitting there just staring out at the sea and I began to think, I remembered Frost's [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q168728] poem about how odd human beings are, you know, they go down to the sea and they sit and they all, they always look out at the sea, although they can't look very far out or very far in. And I thought that was exactly what I was feeling, the whole thing. But I thought well it's not really Frost's ocean, this is Robinson Jeffers' [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q734955] ocean, and here is this great eye of indifference, so I began my poem, called \\\"Looking from Oregon\\\" with a line from Robinson Jeffers about the Pacific: \\\"And what it watches is not our wars\\\".\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n01:04:54\\nReads \\\"Looking from Oregon\\\" [from Selected Poems 1940-1966].\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n01:06:20\\nAnd another little poem which is really a video poem, and I should put it on a screen but I forgot to bring my slides. Brought them as far as the hotel, but I forgot to bring them up here.  o you'll just have to visualize a poem shaped like a pair of stairs but coming up at you, and visualize yourself at the top of these stairs with your back against the side of a theatre, a campus theatre at the University of Oregon [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q766145], with signs of last week's shows, this one to go on tonight, that I'm waiting to go into, waiting for my friends, who have the tickets, and watching people come up these steps, the cars coming by and discharging people. \\\"Campus Theatre Steps\\\". Summertime, a beautiful summer night. \\n \\nEarle Birney\\n01:07:14\\nReads \\\"Campus Theatre Steps\\\" [from Selected Poems 1940-1966].\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n01:08:04\\nThen I was driving along the coast, a long time, and I was confronted with a sign that hadn't been there before. A billboard, with the same message multiplied up and down the coast and everywhere I went, since the last time I was there. Now I, this is my favourite state of the American Union, Oregon, absolutely beautiful, still, despite whatever, all the attempts of man to un-beautify it, there's still this great volcanic, snow-covered mountains, such, shaped a bit like Fujiyama [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q39231], there is also all those beautiful rocks and sea-lion caves and the pounding surf and the rhododendrons, the whole works. And there's these, this sign saying, \\\"Billboards Build Freedom of Choice, Courtesy of Oregon Chamber of Commerce\\\". I brooded about this, and being alone, I couldn't get the answer. What is the philosophy behind this? So I invented a hitchhiker, and I picked him up, and he told me, and this is what he said. This poem is dated 61-62, and Khruschev [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35314] is still in power in Russia [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q159]. \\n \\nEarle Birney\\n01:09:36\\nReads \\\"Billboards Build Freedom of Choice\\\" [from Near False Creek Mouth and collected later in Selected Poems 1940-1966].\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n01:11:42\\nWell, I think we'll slip down into Mexico [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96] for a moment before we wind this show up. There's a very short little thing called Irapuato [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q816845]. Well it's all part, it's like, poetry is like guidebooks, you know, guidebooks are always pointing out irrational connections between things, and so is poetry, so sometimes they get together, and in this case the guidebook had told me that there were two things, sort of, that this place was famous for, and I had discovered they were right.\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n01:12:29\\nReads \\\"Irapuato\\\" [from Selected Poems 1940-1966].\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n01:13:06\\nReads \\\"Memory No Servant\\\" [from Near False Creek Mouth and collected later in Selected Poems 1940-1966].\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n01:14:20\\nA poem addressed to friend and writer George Lamming [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1340511], who's perhaps best known for his autobiography of his child as a poor negro boy on the island of Barbados [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q244]. George Lamming who wrote In the Castle of My Skin [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23307454], and who happened to be in Jamaica [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q766] when I went there, and was extremely hospitable to me, and so were all his friends. And when I left I wrote him this poem, which had to do with a split-second feeling, something, thing happening inside me, an internal happening, the night of the last party, the last night of the last party. \\n \\nEarle Birney\\n01:15:18\\nReads \\\"For George Lamming\\\" [from Near False Creek Mouth and collected later in Selected Poems 1940-1966].\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n01:16:32\\nWell just in case you would think that I am soft about this and I'm going to like anybody if their skin is darker than mine, I'll read you a counter-poem that happened to come out of the island of Trinidad [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q128323], out of some little external happening, perhaps in part, perhaps really just an internal happening.\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n01:17:20\\nReads \\\"Meeting of Strangers\\\" [from Near False Creek Mouth and collected later in Selected Poems 1940-1966].\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n01:19:06\\nAnd then a very brief little, Irving Layton [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1673289]-type poem from Curacao [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25279]. Very much a...very pallid compared with Irving's, I must say.\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n01:19:22\\nReads \\\"Curacao\\\" [from Near False Creek Mouth and collected later in Selected Poems 1940-1966].\\n \\nAudience\\n01:19:45\\nLaughter.\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n01:19:54\\nNow I'm going to conclude with two pieces. One is about the farthest back of these poems. Although some things I've read tonight began earlier but have been revised, this one has not been particularly revised. It's called \\\"The Road to Nijmegen\\\" and was written in Holland [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55] in January of 1945, the last winter of the war. Which was the coldest winter, and in this part of Holland, first the Germans in coming and then in retreating had cut down every tree anywhere around. The trees were used for fuel and for mine props and...And then we had come in, and if there were any trees left, we'd got them. And in fact, it was no longer a matter of trees, it was a matter of trying to find bits and pieces of coal and getting the coal working and getting the coal out of the hands of black marketeers. And meantime the people were cold, even colder than we were, and they also lacked food. This is a letter home to a friend.\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n01:22:10\\nReads \\\"The Road to Nijmegen\\\" [published later in The Collected Poems of Earle Birney, Vol 1].\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n01:24:38\\nAnd finally, “From The Hazel Bough”.\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n01:24:48\\nReads \\\"From the Hazel Bough\\\" [from Selected Poems 1940-1966 and collected ater in The Collected Poems of Earle Birney, Vol 1].\\n \\nEarle Birney\\n01:25:41\\nThank you very much.\\n \\nAudience\\n01:25:43\\nApplause.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n01:26:12\\nI guess you've already said it for us, and I can only repeat, thanks very much, Earle.\\n \\nEND\\n01:26:25\\n[Cut off abruptly].\",\"notes\":\"Earle Birney reads from Near False Creek Mouth (McClelland and Stewart, 1964) and Selected Poems 1940-1966 (McClelland and Stewart, 1966), as well as poems later collected in Rag & Bone Shop (McClelland and Stewart, 1971), The Collected Poems of Earle Birney, Vol 1 (McClelland and Stewart, 1975), and Ghost in the Wheels: Selected Poems (McClelland and Stewart, 1977).\\n\\n00:00- George Bowering introduces Earle Birney. [INDEX: most famous poet, flyers for readings, ‘Dean of Canadian Poetry’, Selected Poems of 1966, publisher, sale of book at reading, United States, Coach House Press, SGWU Poetry Committee, inspiration for  writing poems, Vancouver.]\\n02:26- Earle Birney introduces reading. [INDEX: George Bowering’s introduction, university Dean, ‘Bursar of Canadian Poetry’.]\\n03:41- Introduces W.B. Yeats poem “A Prayer for Old Age”. [INDEX: good poem, old age, written at age 69.]\\n04:10- Reads W.B. Yeats poem “A Prayer for Old Age”.\\n04:54- Introduces “Twenty-Third Flight” [INDEX: no microphone at reading, other poets in the room, well-known poems, reading plan, series that came out in Ice Cod Bell or Stone near False Creek mouth, wandering around a global village, Vancouver, Honolulu, fellowship to go to England, traveling West around the world, Hawaiian Village Hotel, Kaiser-Hilton hotels on Wakiki Beach, greater poet named David, push off a cliff,       harpist; from Selected Poems 1940-1966 (McClelland and Stewart, 1966).]\\n08:39- Reads “Twenty-Third Flight”.\\n11:06- Thanks audience for applause, asks for water\\n12:06- Introduces “Honolulu”. [INDEX: George Bowering, twenty-four hours after previous poem’s action, outdoor aviary, aquarium, Honolulu, people and animals, self-projection, involvement of human animals with each other; from Selected Poems 1940-1966 (McClelland and Stewart, 1966).]\\n13:05- Reads “Honolulu”.\\n14:41- Introduces “Wind Chimes in a Temple Ruin”. [INDEX: Japan, Zen poem, George        Bowering; from Selected Poems 1940-1966 (McClelland and Stewart, 1966).] \\n14:54- George Bowering brings Earle Birney a cold drink from a vending machine. [INDEX: Zen greeting, Coke Machine.]\\n15:03- Birney continues introducing “Wind Chimes in a Temple Ruin”. [INDEX: Japan, old ruins, chimes left in rafters.]\\n15:31- Reads “Wind Chimes in a Temple Ruin”.\\n16:12- Introduces “Plaza de Inquisicion”. [INDEX: Leave Asia, Europe, Spain, plaza in        Madrid, coffee, Desmond Pacey, chronicler, renaming plaza; from Selected Poems 1940-1966 (McClelland and Stewart, 1966).]\\n17:09- Reads “Plaza de Inquisicion”.\\n17:44- Introduces “El Greco: Espolio”. [INDEX: Prado, one of the three studies by El Greco of the Espolio, Christs’ garments, El Greco’s themes, struck by the painting, amount of space, carpenter making the holes in the cross, Virgin Mary, religion of art, craft, carpenter as artist; from Selected Poems 1940-1966 (McClelland and Stewart, 1966).]\\n20:04- Reads “El Greco: Espolio”.\\n22:29- Introduces “Ellesmereland”. [INDEX: Canada, remotest part of Canada, nearest to the North Pole, Greenland, Russians, English, translation into Spanish, sound of poem in Spanish; found in The Collected Poems of Earle Birney, Vol 1 (McClelland and Stewart, 1975).]\\n23:30- Reads “Ellesmereland”.\\n24:10- Reads “Ellesmereland” in Spanish.\\n24:59- Introduces “Canada Case History”. [INDEX: familiar territory, written in 1945, Birney’s return from WWII, edited the poem in 1967 because history had ‘changed’       \\tBirney, original, 1967 Centennial year; from Selected Poems 1940-1966 (McClelland and Stewart, 1966).]\\n26:09- Reads “Canada Case History”.\\n28:15- Introduces unknown poem, first line “Our forefathers literary...”. [INDEX: Canadian literature, poems never published.]\\n28:38- Reads unknown poem, first line “Our forefathers literary...”.\\n29:29- Introduces “John Cabot”. [INDEX: Jean Cabot, schoolteacher, bilingual, French, Italian, Giovanni Cabotto; from unknown source.]\\n29:48- Reads “John Cabot”.\\n30:36- Introduces “To the Reader Who Was Not Included in the Volume”. [INDEX:   publisher, Ice Cod Bell or Stone, artwork, artist never read “Ellesmereland”, didn’t    \\tknow that bells were harebells or flowers, church bells, authors barred from viewing art \\tbefore publication, poem as a result; unknown source.]\\n31:45- Reads “To the Reader...”\\n32:39- Introduces “In Purdy’s Ameliasburg”. [INDEX: weekend spent with Al Purdy, shack in Ameliasburg, Ameliasburg poems, country of the poet; unknown source.]\\n33:33- Reads “In Purdy’s Ameliasburg”.\\n37:13- Introduces “Way to the West”. [INDEX: poem about Canada, north Ontario, driving west, summertime; from Selected Poems 1940-1966 (McClelland and Stewart, 1966).] 37:46- Reads “Way to the West”.\\n41:45- Introduces selection from “November Walk Near False Creek Mouth”. [INDEX: West Coast, end of a long poem, problems reading long poems, audience, last page of the poem; unknown source; from Selected Poems 1940-1966 (McClelland and Stewart,    1966).]\\n42:26- Reads selection from “November Walk Near False Creek Mouth”.\\n45:06.96- END OF RECORDING.\\n\\n00:00- Earle Birney introduces second part of reading and “Swahili Serenade”. [INDEX:        experimental poems, not been published, never read, “Swahili Found Serenade”;   unknown source.]\\n00:37- Reads “Swahili Serenade”.\\n01:06- Explains “Swahili Serenade”, introduces  “Space Conquest”. [INDEX: poem composed of line from a juke-box tune, formula for quick poetry, five minute poem, found poem, title; unknown source.]\\n01:49- Reads “Space Conquest”.\\n02:26- Explains “Space Conquest”, introduces “Kooks of the Monk”. 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Birney’s poem includes discussion of Luis Carlos Lopez (1879-1950) and a monument to his shoes. 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First section “Montreal-Toronto” - [00:01:23] , “Toronto-Winnipeg” - [00:05:05] , “Winnipeg-Edmonton” - [00:06:39] , “Edmonton-Vancouver” - [00:09:11] .\n- “From the Hazel Bough”: Scarcely about Canada but happens to contain a memory and in Birney’s private mind is related to Toronto. Began writing in a military hospital in Toronto 1945, completed in Vancouver 1947. “Another way of putting it, all but the last stanza came to me in a half hour. It took me two years keeping the poem aside to get the last stanza the way I wanted it”\n- “The Ebb Begins from Dream”: Toronto, but could perhaps be any city. Begun in Toronto 1945, completed Bowen Island on the West Coast 1947.\n- “Way to the West”: Moved as far west and north from Toronto as the mining district of northern Ontario. On TransCanada highway 1965.\n- “North of Superior”: Much the same country, further along the celebrated Laurentian Shield. One of his earliest poems in the beginnings but not finished until 1946, notes from 1926. From old-time CPR train coming east to Toronto for the first time. Makes note to English Literature students – listen closely for references to examination classics.\n- “Winter Saturday”: Moving to the prairies, August 1947.\n- “Decomposition”: Explanation comes after reading. An early piece from 1921, touched up in 1941.\n- “Holiday in the Foothills”: Written on the foothills on the western edge of the prairies, jotted down in 1921 and revised in Calgary in 1940."],"contents":["Earle Birney\n[00:00:00]\nReads \"Page of Gaspé\" from section \"Canada: Case History\",\nEarle Birney\n[00:01:23]\nReads \"North Star West\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:11:07]\nReads \"From the Hazel Bough\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:12:40]\nReads \"The Ebb Begins from Dream\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:16:02]\nReads \"Way to the West\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:19:58]\nReads \"North of Superior\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:25:04]\nReads \"Winter Saturday\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:26:32]\nReads \"Decomposition\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:27:08]\nReads \"Holiday in the Foothills\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"Selected Poems, 1940-1966\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558520049666,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":2.9127333},{"id":"8349","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Earle Birney fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Earle Birney 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/index.php/earle-birney-fonds"],"item_title":["Earle Birney reading from Selected poems 1940-1966 (Tape 7)"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Label of recording title and included poems taped to box. 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Climbing takes place in mountains immediately north of city of Vancouver.\n- “Images in Place of Logging”: Written on Vancouver Island 1948.\n- “Slug in Woods”: One of his earliest completed poems, written in Crescent Beach, B. C. 1928.\n- “Aluroid”: Written in back garden in Vancouver 1948. Birney had a Siamese cat called Bast after the Egyptian cat goddess. ‘aluroid’ is a funny dictionary name for cat-like, Birney prefers ‘aluroid’ because it sounds like a sounds his Siamese cat made, his cat was “really far out of this world, more sci-fi type, they are humanoid so they also must be aluroid.”\n- “Haiku for a Young Waitress”: Vancouver 1960.\n- “Gulf of Georgia”: Vancouver 1945, small lyrical poem.\n- “November Walk Near False Creek Mouth”: Begun in 1961 in Vancouver, completed in 1963 in Ametia, Spain - [? cannot find] ."],"contents":["Earle Birney  \n[00:00:00]  \nReads \"First Tree for Frost\" [Section title Canada: Case History].  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:02:29]  \nReads \"Bushed\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:04:16]  \nReads \"Biography\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:06:10]  \nReads \"Takkakaw Falls\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:07:45]  \nReads \"Climbers\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:09:48]  \nReads \"Images in Place of Logging\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:11:25]  \nReads \"Slug in Woods\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:13:12]  \nReads \"Aluroid\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:15:21]  \nReads \"Haiku for a Young Waitress\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:15:39]  \nReads \"Gulf of Georgia\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:16:39]  \nReads \"November Walk Near False Creek Mouth\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"Selected Poems, 1940-1966\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558520049667,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":2.9127333},{"id":"8351","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Earle Birney fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Earle Birney 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/index.php/earle-birney-fonds"],"item_title":["Earle Birney reading from Selected poems 1940-1966 (Tape 8)"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Label of recording title and included poems taped to box. 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First is more pessimistic mood, other perhaps compensatory optimistic.\n- “Time Bomb”: Written in the last year of the war from military hospital in Watford, England, suffering from diphtheria.\n- “Each Lie”: Written on a hospital ship coming back from England. Much longer in the first published version and then some years later, Paris 1953, shortened down to two stanzas.\n- Two translations from Attila József: Done with the assistance of native Hungarian Ilona Duczynska, completed around 1960. “On the City’s Rim” written in 1930s in Budapest shortly before Attila’s suicide.\n- Two translations from Mao Tse-tung: From literal translation and convocation with Chinese scholar at UBC Ping Ti-ho. First poem about Tse-tung’s youth, when he decides to become young Communist revolutionary. Second poem is after he has successfully built revolutionary army, holds the north, and knows he holds the victory. Going to meet Chiang Kai-shek, his first trip on an airplane. Enchanted with what he sees, also thinking back on the previous leaders of China and flattering himself as the first good poet to rule China.\n- “Answers to a Grade-school Biology Test”: Responding to an exam paper for grade six biology. Also had read an article in Harper’s from scientist speculating what species was best to take over the world after man had ended.\n- “Vitus Bering”: Scandinavian explorer in service of Russian tsarist government in eighteenth century, Bering Strait and Bering Sea named after him. "],"contents":["Earle Birney  \n[00:00:00]  \nReads \"Pacific Door\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:02:08]  \nReads \"Remarks Decoded from Outer Space\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:03:30]  \nReads \"Man is a Snow\" and \"Or a Wind\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:06:56]  \nReads \"Time Bomb\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:07:48]  \nReads \"Each Lie\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:08:41]  \nReads \"Five Poor Men Speak\"\nEarle Birney  \n[00:11:36]\n\"On the City's Rim\". \nEarle Birney  \n[00:17:21]\nReads \"Midstream\".\nEarle Birney  \n[00:20:40]  \nReads \"Snowscape from a Plane\".   \n[00:22:33]  \nReads \"Answers to a Grade-school Biology Test\".   \nEarle Birney  \n[00:24:13]  \nReads \"Vitus Bering\" from Ice, Cod, Bell or Stone."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"Selected Poems, 1940-1966; Ice, Cod, Bell or Stone\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558520049669,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":2.9127333},{"id":"8352","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Earle Birney fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Earle Birney 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/index.php/earle-birney-fonds"],"item_title":["Earle Birney reading from Ice, cod, bell or stone and Near False Creek mouth."],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Label of recording title and included poems taped to box. 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Narrow deep canyons called barancas, can look down into jungle villages. Amongst these villages bright schoolhouses or factories appear, appear as irrationality in an otherwise harmonious landscape\n- “Francisco Tresguerra”: Born in Solea, Mexico (1759-1833), Tresguerra was a self-taught architect, sculptor, engraver, and poet who introduced neoclassical form into the churches in his town in opposition to the elaborate rococo style. One church remains which his Last Judgement, which is a self-portrait.\n- “Salt Fish and Akee”: Written after a dinner in Jamaica. Birney notices that you can now buy preserved akee fruit in Toronto now. Proper way to eat this delicacy is with salt fish (salted Newfoundland cod).\n- “Professor”: Written in Jamaica.\n- “On the Beach”: Written in West Indies.\n- “Turbonave Magnolia”: Voyage on a terrible Spanish passenger ship from Trinidad to Spain.\n- “Guadelupe”: Shrine on the edge of Mexico City. Traditional place to go for penance, for the last half-mile/mile penitents travel on their knees to the shrine.\n- “Prosperity”: Oil found near a small jungle village.\n- “Caribbean”: Poems have been circling around Caribbean Sea and now back in flowering islands.\n- “Toronto”: October 1962, the day after the world was supposed to end – Khrushchev and Kennedy and the Cuba crisis. Chartered plane of Toronto Board (60 or 120 people) arrived and upstaged Birney. Birney was invited to the reception at largest club in Chile (Union Club, Santiago de Chile). His poet’s revenge was recording one half of a conversation he overheard.\n"],"contents":["Earle Birney\n[00:00:00]\nReads \"Njarit\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:02:27]\nReads \"Francisco Treguerras\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:04:45]\nReads \"Beldams of Tepoztlán\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:05:30]\nReads \"Conducted Ritua: San Juan de Ulúa\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:06:48]\nReads \"Salt Fish and Akee\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:09:00]\nReads \"Professor of Middle English Confronts Monster\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:09:50]\nReads \"On the Beach\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:10:37]\nReads \"Turbonave Magnolia\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:15:11]\nReads \"Advice to a Hamilton (Ont.) lady about to travel again\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:16:29]\nReads \"Guadelupe\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:17:40]\nReads \"Prosperity in Poza Rica\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:18:33]\nReads \"Caribbean Kingdoms\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:21:05]\nReads \"Toronto Board of Trade goes abroad\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"Ice, Cod, Bell or Stone; Near False Creek Mouth\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558520049670,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":2.9127333},{"id":"8353","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Earle Birney fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Earle Birney 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/index.php/earle-birney-fonds"],"item_title":["Earle Birney reading from Ice, cod, bell or stone and Near False Creek mouth."],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Label of recording title and included poems taped to box. 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Imagine a Canadian woman talking to an American woman.\n- “Bueno Aires”: Headed by a quotation from Argentinian poet Rafael Alberti.\n- “Orphiasco”: Homage to novelist Ivy Compton-Burnett.\n- “Can. Hist”: A short course in Canadian history.\n- Strait of Anian: initially going to read “Prairie Counterpoint” then decides not to read it on this tape and instead read “Reverse”.\n- “Driftwood”: Written for friend Einer Neilsen of Bowen Island.\n"],"contents":["Earle Birney\n[00:00:00]\nReads \"Most of a Dialogue in Cuzco\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:09:35]\nReads \"Buenos Aires: 1962\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:15:04]\nReads \"Orphiasco\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:16:07]\nReads \"Can. 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Includes poetic speaker in addition to Birney, an old farmer (?).\n- The rest of the poems have to do with the Second World War.\n- “For Steve”: Elegy for his friend Steve Cutwright. They trained together before Steve joined the Air Force. Died as Birney was preparing to ship over to Europe. Written in 1943.\n- “And the Earth”: Written in Ash, Surrey, England. The title line comes from a poem by Shelley.\n- “Invasion”: Next spring (from the previous poem), in southern England 1944. Just before D-Day, when bombers were flying overhead at a rate of one thousand a day. Written for Margaret Crossland.\n- “D-Day”: Written on the evening of D-Day in Surrey. Birney “feeling very much out of it.”\n- “Caverned”: Written later that same year (1944), when in Belgium. Written for two Belgians who hosted Birney, were compelled to host Birney but were not compelled to be his friends. Wrote this poem for them when he left for Holland.\n- “VE-Night”: Back in England after hospitalization. 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Written when Birney was an undergraduate student. Refers to a cove in the farthest reaches of Burrard Inlet, where an old girlfriend’s family had a cabin.\n- “Eagle”: Coastal terrain of Vancouver. At the time of writing, Eagle Island had only two cabins and could only be accessed with a small boat or swimming. Birney wrote this while nostalgic in Toronto. After reading poem notes, “Yes, I was an unregenerate Westerner in those days.”\n- “European”: Moving into wartime poems again.\n- “France”: The beginning of the de Gaul movement of resistance in conquered France.\n- “On Going”: Ended the book. Written to his wife. Birney starts the reading over after a few lines.\n- “Villanelle”: Early vintage piece. 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Includes a title piece about epigrams.\n- “Kootenay”: also titled “Creston October” and “Foothills October,” he never made his mind up.\n- “Aubade”: Verses begun in 1926 while living briefly and unhappily in University of Toronto fraternity house. Revised after Second World War.\n- “Stanzas”: Writing on strange animals.\n- “Crow”: Birney can’t remember which academic he is liabling or perhaps he really was looking at a crow\n- “These”: begun 1937, finished later. For a girl named Jessie.\n- “Skull”: After seeing photo of scalped Indigenous skull in prairie grass\n- “Ballad”: Kootenay Brown was an Oxford man, adventurer, pony express rider, Indian trader, owned most of Waterton, won his Cree wife in a horse race. Legend that on his deathbed he told his wife he would come back as an eagle, when the first plane landed in Waterton the next summer she believed it was her husband and ran into the propeller blades.\n- “Moon”: event from 1917, Elphinstone is mountain near Vancouver which was a hideout for draft dodgers. True story of Jim and Harry.\n- “Valentine”: 1929 valentine piece in Chaucerian, based on legend of St. Valentine.\n- “Thanks”: 1929 Chaucerian, written after given homemade doll of Wife of Bath by student Gillian.\n- “Alberni”: story of Pedro Alberni and Charles W. Barkley (Alberni canal and Barkley sound). Written in 1934 when Birney was on SS Philly bound from West coast of Canada to Hull with wheat.\n"],"contents":["Earle Birney  \n[00:00:00]  \nReads \"In This Verandah of the August Heart\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:02:04]  \nReads \"Montreal\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:02:49]  \nReads \"Toronto\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:03:19]  \nReads \"Per Ardua ad Astra\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:03:40]  \nReads \"Rara avis\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:03:58]  \nReads \"Oregon\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:04:17]  \nReads \"Why the Churches Declined\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:04:35]  \nReads \"Kootenay October\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:05:45]  \nReads \"Aubade for a Fraternity\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:08:16]  \nReads \"Stanzas on Certain Politicians\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:08:53]  \nReads \"Lines Expressing Confidence in the Future of Canadian Literature\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:09:35]  \nReads \"Crow\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:10:23]  \nReads \"These With Wind\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:11:26]  \nReads \"Skull in Grass\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:12:31]  \nReads \"Ballad of Kootenay Brown\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:18:40]  \nReads \"Moon Down Elphinstone\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:22:10]  \nReads \"Valentine After Chaucer\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:23:26]  \nReads \"Thanks to Gillian\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:24:42]  \nReads \"Alberni Canal\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558522146820,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":2.9127333},{"id":"8358","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Earle Birney fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Earle Birney 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/index.php/earle-birney-fonds"],"item_title":["Earle Birney reading uncollected poems (Tape 2)"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Writing on back of container. 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Poem is “somewhat poetic” comments on the diary of a girl Birney met in London during the war, diary begun in 1935 when she was 15. Dedicated to Margaret Crossland, the girl and now a poet in London.\n- “Tea”: 1920s, result of visit with Shetland aunt, upset by sparrows on her roof.\n- “Gabardine Fireman”: anecdote written from friend Eric Nickle’s Vancouver column. 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John Masefield (poet laureate) commenting on Chamberlin pact with Hitler, quatrain praising action. Birney adds second stanza. Sent to Saturday Night, reply January 1939 from editor – “Dear Mr. Birney, It’s very neat and well-deserved, but I am trying to keep away from any note of bitterness about the Munich business. Yours truly, B. K. Sandwell.” Typified attitudes of typical Canadian establishment until war actually came.\n- “Lines”: In 1940, felt world was far less sane than what was going on in the comic strips.\n- “Recruit”: a four line piece written which at Niagara-on-the-Lake military camp, Summer 1940.\n- “Last”: A leave, a girl, and a poem. West coast setting.\n- “Prologue”: 1941 Toronto. Birney on summer drilling, would drop into basement of Park Plaza which was a popular drinking place. Sir Charles G. D. Roberts frequented there and held a small court. Birney began scribing the people there to make a sort of 20th century Canterbury Tales – never followed through by reads from draft of what would have been the prologue. Birney comments on where these people are now throughout reading.\n- “Conrad”: 1942, a poem about Conrad Kane, a Canadian professional alpine guide who was born in Austria in 1883 and died in Canada in 1934. This is a free-wheeling ballad based on the fact from his own autobiography. Birney as a small boy was in one of Kane’s first skiing classes, and the first skiing class ever conducted in Banff. This poem was published twice in magazines but never collected.AM40"],"contents":["Earle Birney  \n[00:00:00]  \nReads \"Postscript for Mr. Masefield\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:02:30]  \nReads \"Lines for Lotus-Eaters\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:06:24]  \nReads \"Recruit at Church Parade\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:06:59]  \nReads \"In War…\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:07:15]  \nReads \"Last Night\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:08:44]  \nReads \"Prologue\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:17:25]  \nReads \"Conrad Kane\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558523195392,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":2.9127333},{"id":"8360","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Earle Birney fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Earle Birney 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/index.php/earle-birney-fonds"],"item_title":["Earle Birney reading uncollected poems (Tape 4)"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Label of recording title and included poems taped to box. 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It was the graduating night of his class of officers but Birney was in the hospital with a broken leg from a training accident. This poem was in a letter to his wife. Birney remarks “it’s not a very good poem, I’m afraid. But let’s see how it sounds.” Birney starts his reading over because he says “radio idiots” instead of “idiot radios” to which he laughs quite a bit and apologizes to the ‘audience’.\n- “Meet”: Written when Birney overseas, children’s poems to his four year old son. Birney was hung up on birds at the time, not sure his son ever read them but he enjoyed writing them. Language is quite dated (slang of the 1940s). The Killdeer; (after reading the Killdeer inserts footnote that he read a line incorrectly); The Nighthawk; The Woodpecker; The Loon; The Chickadee\n- Sonnets: six sonnets from overseas in wartime.\n- “In Praise”: Belgium 1944, it was a cold winter and Birney’s unit was under rocket fire. He received a delayed mail package with a magazine full of bad poetry by fashionable young London writers. Short imitation of them. \n- “Halifax”: When Birney was in Halifax between a hospital ship and a hospital train at the end of the war. Birney lost this poem and only rediscovered it a few days before this recording. It is an unfinished poem, Birney had been looking at Hugh MacLennan’s Barometer Rising in which he says “Halifax periodically sleeps between wars.”\n- “Restricted”: Summer 1945, Birney convalescing for a weekend at Lake Huron after leaving army. This is the first time he sees a sign ‘Gentiles Only’. The poem is in the voice of the man who puts up signs like this. 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H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers. All of these books banned on the authority of one man, identity unknown, called The Examiner of Publications, in Ottawa. This person held so much power that neither he nor the minister who appointed him needed to report to parliament on their activities. Birney uses the verbage of the Customs Act which gave them this power, following Gilbert’s rhythms in HMS Pinafore (“Captain of the King’s Navee”).\n- “Our”: Thoughts on Canadian literature, a bit of infighting.\n- “McSimptom’s”: In 1950, Birney is in Vancouver and going to Nanaimo, but got on the wrong ship. The ship was going to Nanaimo but had been chartered for the Woodward’s annual staff family picnic, everyone supposed to participate in singalong and no one want to. Tunes for the poem are from the song’s which were supposed to be sung, but Birney has changed the words a great deal. Birney notes he has to sing this, as its part of the fun.\n- “Student”: later 1950s, Birney was involved with student committee at UBC to create list of foreign writers to invite over at considerable expense while ignoring Canadian writers.\n- “untitled”: on the occasion of the retirement of one of his classics teachers, who was the father of six sons who all played on the UBC soccer team. Birney notes that this poem has to be sung, but he can’t really remember the tune.\n- “Architects”: Royal Architectural Institute of Canada asked Birney to write poems to accompany an exhibit for an architectural journal. Eight poems.\n- “Hazel”: translation of his poems into Spanish (with assistance). Birney quits halfway through reading, remarks that he needs more practice.\n- “Postprandial”: On February 9th, 1958, CBC broadcast in honour of E.J. Pratt. 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Todd\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:14:14]  \nReads \"Architects Vancouver\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:19:43]  \nReads Spanish translation \"From the Hazel Bough\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:21:02]  \nReads \"Postprandial Thanks to Ned\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558523195394,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":2.9127333},{"id":"8363","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Earle Birney fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Earle Birney 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/index.php/earle-birney-fonds"],"item_title":["Earle Birney reading uncollected poems (Tape 6)"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Label of recording title and included poems taped to box."],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Studio recording"],"item_identifiers":["[8.1-6]"],"rights":["The Public Domain Mark (PDM)"],"creator_names":["Birney, Earle"],"creator_names_search":["Birney, Earle"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/97679781\",\"name\":\"Birney, Earle\",\"dates\":\"1904-1995\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Author\",\"Performer\"]}]"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[]}]"],"Performance_Date":[1966],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/4 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"CBC Radio - Canada\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"7 1/2 ips\",\"sound_quality\":\"Excellent\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"\",\"physical_condition\":\"Good\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"Reel to Reel\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"\",\"other_physical_description\":\"\"}]"],"material_designations":["Reel to Reel"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"Birney_MsC_13.8.1-6\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T00:26:35\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"438.20 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1966\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Dates supplied through research for copyright.\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"content_notes":["- “Nobody”: 1960, poem translated from Hungarian poet Jozsef Attila.\n- “Secret”: 1962, response to publisher of Ice, Cod, Bell, Stone about the illustration’s inaccuracy (designer put in large church bell instead of the harebell flower of the poem), Birney wanted it inserted into the book somewhere but it was too late.\n- “Return”: audiovisual, shape poem.\n- “John”: Birney reading the new Canadian Dictionary of National Biographies.\n- “untitled”: Bruce Woodland wrote into the Saturday Night responding to Birney’s “John Cabot,” this is Birney’s reply.\n- “Interview”: an imaginary interview with the city of Vancouver. Have to imagine reporter asking Lady Vancouver about herself.\n- “Song”: Birney on a plane traveling into the sunset a few days prior to this recording.\n- Translation: Second attempt at reading Spanish version of “From the Hazel Bough,” first attempt on previous tape (tape 5).\n- “Leven”: prose short story. Written during the war while Birney was in England. During sneak raids in London, where one plane would come in high and drop a bomb, British fighter planes had to find them. There was no way of knowing where the bombs would land so most people ignored the alerts and went about their day."],"contents":["Earle Birney  \n[00:00:00]  \nReads \"Nobody’s as Poor as a Poor Man\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:01:16]  \nReads \"Secret Message from Poet to Reader\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:03:08]  \nReads \"Return Flight\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:04:10]  \nReads \"John Cabot\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:05:18]  \nReads untitled.  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:06:56]  \nReads \"Interview with City of Vancouver\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:14:42]  \nReads \"A Song for Sunsets\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:15:57]  \nReads Spanish translation \"From the Hazel Bough\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:17:24]  \nReads \"The Leven Bolt\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558523195396,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":2.9127333},{"id":"8364","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Earle Birney fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Earle Birney 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/index.php/earle-birney-fonds"],"item_title":["Earle Birney reading short stories"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Writing on back of container. 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He was haunted by what he saw and couldn’t write anything about his experiences, eventually wrote “The Bear” about men trying to teach a bear to dance. The men probably saved all their money to buy this bear, and are therefore completely reliant on this bear, symbiosis.\n- “Epidaurus”: Birney visited Epidaurus on the day headlines across the world were preoccupied with the H-Bomb scare. Birney is trying to imagine when this theatre was new. At Epidaurus, there is a guide who will send you to the top of the orchestra and drop a pin on the stage so that you can hear it.\n- “El Greco Espolio” is about the curious nature of craftsmanship.\n"],"contents":["Earle Birney\n[00:01:41]\nReads \"The Bear on the Delhi Road\". \nEarle Birney\n[00:01:41]  \nReads \"Twenty-Third Flight\".  \nEarle Birney\n[00:04:12]  \nReads \"Captain Cook\". \nEarle Birney\n[00:06:58]  \nReads \"Honolulu\". \nEarle Birney\n[00:08:41]  \nReads \"Wake Island\". \nEarle Birney\n[00:10:07]  \nReads \"Wind-chimes in a Temple Ruin\". \nEarle Birney\n[00:10:52]  \nReads \"A Walk in Kyoto\".  \nEarle Birney\n[00:14:40]  \nReads \"Bankok Boy\". \nEarle Birney\n[00:17:52]  \nReads \"The Bear on the Delhi Road\".  \nEarle Birney\n[00:22:14]  \nReads \"Tavern by the Hellespont\". \nEarle Birney\n[00:25:28]  \nReads \"Epidaurus\".  \nEarle Birney\n[00:28:08]  \nReads \"Plaza de Inquisicion\".  \nEarle Birney\n[00:28:58]  \nReads \"El Greco: Espolio\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"Selected Poems, 1940-1966\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558527389699,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":2.9127333},{"id":"8344","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Earle Birney fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Earle Birney 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/index.php/earle-birney-fonds"],"item_title":["Earle Birney reading from Selected poems 1940-1966 (Tape 4)"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Label of recording title and included poems taped to box. 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Two streets in Toronto, Yorkville and Cumberland Streets, which in early days of Second World War were slums streets noted in the press because although they were the worst looking streets in Toronto, seemed proud of the fact that they never rented to Jewish or black people. They were a “pure” Anglo-Saxon street. Birney writes in old Anglo-Saxon meter.\n- “War Winters”: Written in winter 1942, in Anglo-Saxon meter.\n- “Conference of Heads”: Written in 1943 on troop ship going from Halifax to England.\n- “Lines for a Peace”: Written in 1943 from London.\n- “This Page My Pigeon”: Sent to Birney’s wife from Portsmouth in 1944 as he was about to sail on a submarine to continent. The page is those airmail blues that soldiers sent in the war, they were allowed one a week.\n- “The Road to Nijmegen”: Written in Holland, January 1945. Written to a friend."],"contents":["Earle Birney\n[00:00:00]\nReads \"Letter from a Cuzco Priest\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:04:55]\nReads section three War Winters  \"Hands\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:08:27]\nReads \"Vancouver Lights\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:12:26]\nReads \"Dusk on the Bay\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:15:36]\nReads \"In This Verandah\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:17:10]\nReads \"Anglosaxon Street\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:20:35]\nReads \"War Winters\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:21:48]\nReads \"Conference of Heads\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:22:30]\nReads \"Lines For a Peace\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:23:53]\nReads \"This Page My Pigeon\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:26:06]\nReads \"The Road to Nijmegen\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"Selected Poems, 1940-1966\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558527389703,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":2.9127333},{"id":"8346","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Earle Birney fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Earle Birney 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/index.php/earle-birney-fonds"],"item_title":["Earle Birney reading from Selected poems 1940-1966 (Tape 5)"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Label of recording title and included poems taped to box. 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And if he could still remember and think and still hear he would be hearing the volley of muskets being fired over him, in his honour, and he would also hear the intoning of the so-called ‘Shortened Service for the Burial of the Dead as Approved for Use in the Canadian Army’. Which is very much like the Anglican - [?] service, but shorter. In the poem, then, you will hear bit by bit the phrases of the burial service with each phrase evoking in the dead soldier’s presumed memory what he ties in, how his mind would lead from that phrase if he were still alive and had a mind.”\n- “Mappemounde”: Written at the end of the war in Europe in 1945. Written in hospital in England, finished on hospital ship, ‘El Neil’, in the Atlantic sometime in May or June. Written in Anglo-Saxon meter. ‘Mappemounde’ is a Chaucerian word meaning ‘map of the world’ but it refers to the maps of Chaucer’s time which were square, had Europe and a bit of Asia completely surrounded by water, and depicted fierce mythological creatures in the corners of the map.\n- “Young Veterans”: Written in Toronto, summer 1945.\n- “Ulysses”: Toronto 1946. End of section “World Winters”\n- Section and title poem “Canada: Case History”: Section #4 in Selected Poems, series of poems from East to West across Canada. Written in Ottawa 1945.\n- “Maritime Faces”: “coming out of the deep Atlantic and approaching Halifax.” Written in 1945, as was last poem (“Atlantic Door”).\n- “Arrivals”: travelling on a small two-car train from Halifax to Wolfville, Nova Scotia in 1962. Incident which caused train to be thirty minutes late. The title is taken from signboard at Wolfville station, only indication something had happened recorded in the station was “Arrivals Wolfville – Locals from Halifax 30 Mins Late”.\n- “Québec May”: Written in 1943."],"contents":["Earle Birney\n[00:00:00]\n\"Joe Harris, 1913-1942\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:11:53]\nReads \"Mappemounde\". \nEarle Birney\n[00:14:09]\n\"Young Veterans\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:15:53]\n\"Ulysses\". \nEarle Birney\n[00:17:08] \n\"Canada: Case History\" [Section and poem title Canada: Case History].\nEarle Birney\n[00:18:42]\n\"Atlantic Door\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:20:36]\n\"Maritime Faces\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:22:09]\n\"Arrivals\".\nEarle Birney \n[00:28:06]\n\"Québec May”."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"Selected Poems, 1940-1966\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558528438273,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":2.9127333}]