[{"id":"1280","cataloger_name":["Masoumeh,Zaare"],"partnerInstitution":["Concordia University"],"collection_source_collection":["SGWU Reading Series-Concordia University Department of English fonds"],"source_collection_label":["SGWU Reading Series-Concordia University Department of English fonds"],"collection_contributing_unit":["Records Management and Archives"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_description":["The fonds consists of some administrative records of the SGWU Department of English and the Concordia Department of English between 1971 and 2000. It also consists of some SGWU Department of English records related to student academic activities in the 1940s and to public readings and lectures, and a few interviews, produced between 1966 and 1972. The fonds mainly includes minutes of departmental meetings and some course timetables. It also includes some student papers in bound volumes and 63 sound recordings (80 audio reels) mainly composed of poetry readings (see the Concordia SpokenWeb project which uses this material) but also a few lectures given at SGWU. There are also loose typed sheets describing some of the SGWU poetry readings."],"collection_source_collection_id":["I086"],"persistent_url":["http://archives.concordia.ca/I086"],"item_title":["bill bissett at Sir George Williams University, The Poetry Series, 31 October 1969"],"item_title_source":["Cataloguer"],"item_title_note":["\"BILL BISSETT Recorded October 31, 1969 3.75 ips, on 1 mil. tape, 1/2 track\" written on sticker on the back of the tape's box. \"BILL BISSETT I006/SR83\" written on sticker on the spine of the tape's box. \"I006-11-083\" written on sticker on the reel"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_series_title":["The Poetry Series"],"item_subseries_title":["Poetry 4"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"creator_names":["Bissett, Bill"],"creator_names_search":["Bissett, Bill"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/96127023\",\"name\":\"Bissett, Bill\",\"dates\":\"1939-\",\"notes\":\"Poet, artist, painter and editor bill bissett was born in Halifax in 1939, but was most actively associated with the Vancouver poetry renaissance of the 60s. He has often been associated with bpNichol as a founder of the concrete poetry movement and a sound poetry practitioner. bissett has published dozens of collections of poems over thirty years, many of them self-published with his own art on the cover. A selection of his titles include we sleep inside each other all published in 1966 by Island press, which was followed by awake in the red desert (TalonBooks, 1968), selected poems: nobody owns th earth (House of Anansi Press, 1971), pomes for yoshi (blewointmentpress,1972), Medicine my mouths on fire (Oberon Press, 1974), Sailor (TalonBooks, 1978), Seagull on Yonge Street (TalonBooks, 1983), Canada gees mate for life (TalonBooks, 1985), Animal uproar (TalonBooks, 1987), Hard 2 beleev (TalonBooks, 1990), Th last photo uv th human soul (TalonBooks, 1993), Th influenza uv logik (TalonBooks, 1995). bissett founded Vancouver’s blewointmentpress in 1963. His poetry and alternative lifestyle often caused bissett to have legal problems, which rallied support from his community. what we have (TalonBooks, 1988) won the Milton Acorn People’s Poetry Award in 1989, and much of his art and activism privileges the democracy of poetry. He is most famous for his poetry readings, as his printed text lifts off the page through chanting, visual and sound poetry techniques. bissett currently lives in London, Ontario.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Author\",\"Performer\"]}]"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[]}]"],"Performance_Date":[1969],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/4 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"Scotch\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"Mono\",\"playing_speed\":\"3 3/4 ips\",\"sound_quality\":\"Good\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"\",\"physical_condition\":\"\",\"track_configuration\":\"Half-track\",\"material_designation\":\"Reel to Reel\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"\",\"other_physical_description\":\"\"}]"],"material_designations":["Reel to Reel"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"playback_mode":["Mono"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1969 10 31\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Date written on sticker on the back of the tape's box.\",\"source\":\"Accompanying Material\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/22080570\",\"venue\":\"Possibly, Hall Building Room H-651\",\"notes\":\"Location specified in previous written announcement \\\"Poetry Four: Sir George Williams Poetry Series,\\\" but not confirmed\",\"address\":\"1455, Boul de Maisonneuve Ouest, Montreal, Quebec, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"45.4972758\",\"longitude\":\"-73.57893043\"}]"],"Address":["1455, Boul de Maisonneuve Ouest, Montreal, Quebec, Canada"],"Venue":["Possibly, Hall Building Room H-651"],"City":["Montreal, Quebec"],"content_notes":["bill bissett reads and performs poems from Awake in th red desert! (1968),\nOf Th Land Divine Service (Weed/Flower Press, 1968), lost angel mining company (Blew Ointment Press, 1969), Liberating Skies (1969), and Nobody Owns th Earth (House of Anansi Press, 1971), some of which were later collected in Selected Poems: Beyond Even Faithful Legends (Talonbooks, 1980)."],"contents":["bill_bisset_i006-11-083.mp3\n\nbill bissett\n00:00:00\nReads “3. i have evn herd uv thee” [from Of Th Land Divine Service]. \n\nbill bissett\n00:01:12\nPerforms “4” [from Of Th Land Divine Service]. \n\nbill bissett\n00:04:44\nReads \"The molecular robbery\" [from lost angel mining company]. \n\nbill bissett\n00:11:09\nReads unnamed poem.\n\nbill bissett\n00:13:40\nReads \"Killer Whale\" [from lost angel mining company].\n\nbill bissett\n00:18:04\nPerforms “5. And that light is in thee is in thee and” [from Of Th Land Divine Service].\n\nbill bissett\n00:19:20\nPerforms “6. And in all things did even as Adam had done” [from Of Th Land Divine Service].\n\nbill bissett\n00:20:48\nPerforms “and the green wind is mooving thru th summr trees” [from awake in th red desert]. \n\nbill bissett\n00:22:54\nReads “Circles in th Sun” [from lost angel mining company].\n\nbill bissett\n00:24:13\nPerforms “Walrus Song” [from lost angel mining company].\n\nbill bissett\n00:33:09\nReads unnamed poem [from lost angel mining company].\n\nbill bissett\n00:37:14\nReads [“the flaming end: 8 beautiful people on a bus”].\n\nUnknown\n00:47:44\n[Cut or edit made in tape. Unknown amount of time elapsed].\n\nbill bissett\n00:47:44\nResumes reading [possibly still “the flaming end: 8 beautiful people on a bus”].\n\nbill bissett\n00:50:25\nReads unnamed poem.\n\nbill bissett\n00:51:09\nReads [\"Another 100 warrants issued\" from Nobody Owns th Earth].\n\nbill bissett\n00:53:36\nPerforms \"th water falls in yr mind nd yu get wet tooo\" [from liberating skies].\n\nbill bissett\n00:58:25\nPerforms unnamed poem.\n\nbill bissett\n01:02:02\nReads unnamed poem.\n\nbill bissett\n01:02:32\nPerforms “tarzan collage” [from drifting into war]. \n\nAudience\n01:04:37\nApplause.\n\nbill bissett\n01:05:08\nJust as you leave I'll just do this little thing, just keep going though.  \n\nbill bissett\n01:05:11\nPerforms unnamed poem.\n\nbill bissett\n01:06:18\nPerforms [“moss song” from Of Th Land Divine Service].\n\nEND\n01:14:13\n"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Year-Specific Information:\\n\\nIn 1969, bissett published Liberating Skies (Blewointment Press), Lost Angel Mining Company (Blewointment Press), and Sunday Work? (Blewointment Press). He was working on S the Story I to (Blewointment Press, 1970), Blew Trewz, Nobody Owns th Earth both published by Blewointment Press in 1971, along with Dragonfly (Weed/Flower Press, 1971), Drifting into War (Talonbooks, 1971), I.B.M. (Blewointment Press, 1971), Tuff Shit: Love Pomes (Bandit/Black Moss Press, 1971), and Rush (Blewointmeint Press, 1971).\",\"type\":\"General\"},{\"note\":\"Local Connections:  \\n\\nbissett’s blewointment press and its magazine has published (then) up-and-coming Vancouver poets Gerry Gilbert and Maxine Gadd. His own work was first published by Eli Mandel, and anthologized by Margaret Atwood and Dennis Lee. Though his poetry was radical and a rejection of conventional styles, bissett has become an important figure in Canada’s literary history. He was also connected to George Bowering from Sir George Williams University through the Vancouver poetry scene in the early 1960’s.\",\"type\":\"General\"},{\"note\":\"Original transcript, research, introduction and edits by Celyn Harding-Jones\\n\\nAdditional research and edits by Faith Paré (2020) and Ali Barillaro (2021)\\n\",\"type\":\"Cataloguer\"},{\"note\":\"Reel-to-reel tape>2 CDs>digital file\",\"type\":\"Preservation\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/liberating-skies/oclc/1053976136?referer=di&ht=edition\",\"citation\":\"bissett, bill. Liberating skies. Vancouver: Blew Ointment Press, 1969.\"},{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/selected-poems-beyond-even-faithful-legends/oclc/7717248&referer=brief_results\",\"citation\":\"bissett, bill. Selected Poems: Beyond Even Faithful Legends. 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Timestamps reflect the single recording. \\n\\nList of Poems Read and Time Stamps [Part 1]\\n00:00 - Recording starts mid-sentence, reading “3. i have evn herd uv thee” [INDEX: from OF TH LAND DIVINE SERVICE,  line “...I had even heard of thee, that the spirit of the gods is in thee...”]\\n01:12 - Reads “4” [INDEX: from OF TH LAND DIVINE SERVICE, first line “a chain of gold which art of the children...”.]\\n04:44 - Reads “The molecular robbery” [INDEX: from lost angel mining company]\\n11:09 - Reads first line “Sung to the tune of Michael rowed his boat ashore...”\\n13:40 - Reads “Killer Whale”\\n18:04 - Reads “5. And that light is in thee is in thee and” [INDEX: from OF TH LAND DIVINE SERVICE.]\\n19:20 - Reads “6. And in all things did even as Adam had done” [INDEX: from OF TH LAND DIVINE SERVICE.]\\n20:48 - Reads “and the green wind is mooving thru th summr trees” [INDEX: from lost angel mining company and from OF TH LAND DIVINE SERVICE.]\\n22:36 - Reads “Circles in th Sun” [INDEX: from lost angel mining company, first line “In the mushroom village, all the little children, brightly smiling...”]\\n24:13 - Reads “Walrus Song” [INDEX: from lost angel mining company, first line “Drink all the lime you can...”.]\\n33:09 - Reads first line “So that even yourself becomes a serene stranger...”\\n37:14.17 - END OF RECORDING\\n\\nList of Poems Read and Time Stamps [Part 2]\\n00:00 - Reads first line “The flaming end, eight beautiful people on a bus...”\\n10:30 - [CUT] continues reading “...absolutely nothing there but to do with living...”\\n13:11 - Reads first line “Could we grow [inaudible] in the bomb shelter?...”\\n13:55 - Reads “Another 100 warrants issued” from NOBODY OWNS TH EARTH\\n16:21 - Reads first line “The water falls in your mind and you get wet too...”\\n21:11 - Reads  first line “The moon is [inaudible] she screamed, listen closely she said...”\\n24:48 - Reads first line “Sparrows dream of the endless sun...”\\n25:17- Reads “tarzan collage” from drifting into war, first line “Speaking, speaking, speaking, the I is speaking...”\\n27:48 - Reads first line “Bright, yellow, sky...”\\n29:04 - Reads “moss song” from OF TH LAND DIVINE SERVICE , first line “See the berries ripen in the trees...”\\n36:59 - END OF RECORDING.\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"Sound Recording\",\"featured\":\"Yes\",\"public_access_url\":\"https://montreal.spokenweb.ca/sgw-poetry-readings/bill-bissett-at-sgwu-1969/\"}]"],"score":4.5827217}]