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It also includes some student papers in bound volumes and 63 sound recordings (80 audio reels) mainly composed of poetry readings (see the Concordia SpokenWeb project which uses this material) but also a few lectures given at SGWU. There are also loose typed sheets describing some of the SGWU poetry readings."],"collection_source_collection_id":["I086"],"persistent_url":["http://archives.concordia.ca/I086"],"item_title":["Victor Coleman at Sir George Williams University, The Poetry Series,  3 March 1967"],"item_title_source":["Cataloguer"],"item_title_note":["\"VICTOR COLEMAN I006/SR159\" written on sticker on the spine of the tape's box. \"I006-11-159\" is written on a sticker on the tape reel"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_series_title":["The Poetry Series"],"item_subseries_title":["Poetry 1"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"creator_names":["Coleman, Victor","Bowering, George"],"creator_names_search":["Coleman, Victor","Bowering, George"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/38160442\",\"name\":\"Coleman, Victor\",\"dates\":\"1944-\",\"notes\":\"A self-educated poet and publisher, Victor Coleman was born in Toronto on September 11, 1944, and he lived in both Montreal and Toronto. By the end of 1964, he had met poet Raymond Souster and founded Island Magazine and Island Press, drawing the avant-garde poetry centre from the West Coast to Toronto. Mr. Coleman was a publishing assistant for the Oxford University Press in Toronto from 1966 to 1967, after which he served for almost ten years as the editor for Coach House Press. Coleman was influential in the creations of Is, Image Nation, The Goose & Duck and Open Letter magazines and journals. He published his own poetry in From Erik Satie’s Notes to the Music (Island Press, 1965),  One/eye/love (Coach House Press, 1967), Light Verse (Coach House Press, 1969), Old Friends’ Ghosts: Poems 1963-68 (Weed/Flower, 1970), along with a dozen other titles. Victor Coleman was the director of the “A Space” (1975-1978), “31 Mercer” (1975-1978), Nightingale Arts Council in Toronto, the editor and writer for the Association of Non-Profit Artist-Run Centres, and has served as the director of the National Film Theatre in Kingston, Ontario. The poet also taught Creative Writing at both Queen's and York Universities. In 1995, as Coach House Press struggled, Coleman and Stan Bevington created Coach House Books to save the Press. In 2001, Victor Coleman became the Editorial Director for the Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art, a website devoted to the promotion of Canadian artists and writers. Victor Coleman continues to promote the development of avant-garde or postmodernist Canadian writing.\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Author\",\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/34469976\",\"name\":\"Bowering, George\",\"dates\":\"1935-\",\"notes\":\"Mentioned, but missing from recording\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[]}]"],"contributors_names":["Francis, Wynne"],"contributors_names_search":["Francis, Wynne"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/77926194\",\"name\":\"Francis, Wynne\",\"dates\":\"1918-2000\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Presenter\",\"Series organizer\"]}]"],"Presenter_name":["Francis, Wynne"],"Series_organizer_name":["Francis, Wynne"],"Performance_Date":[1967],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/4 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"Scotch\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"Mono\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Excellent\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"Tape\",\"physical_condition\":\"\",\"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"],"playback_mode":["Mono"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1967 3 3\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Date specified in \\\"Georgantics\\\" by Bob Simco\",\"source\":\"Supplemental Material\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/22080570\",\"venue\":\"Hall Building Basement Theatre\",\"notes\":\"Location specified in printed announcement \\\"Georgantics\\\" by Bob Simco (Supplemental material)\",\"address\":\"1455, Boul de Maisonneuve Ouest, Montreal, Quebec, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"45.4972758\",\"longitude\":\"-73.57893043\"}]"],"Address":["1455, Boul de Maisonneuve Ouest, Montreal, Quebec, Canada"],"Venue":["Hall Building Basement Theatre"],"City":["Montreal, Quebec"],"content_notes":["Victor Coleman reads from One/eye/love (Coach House Press, 1967)."],"contents":["victor_coleman_i086.11-159.mp3\n\nWynne Francis\n00:00:00\nBy the way I must remember a most important announcement, there is to be no smoking in the theatre. You may smoke at intermission, but please do not smoke during the readings. Our first reader tonight is Mr. Victor Coleman [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23882910] who comes to us from Toronto [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q172]. Mr. Coleman is the publisher of Island Magazine [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15754909], and Is Magazine which is spelled 'i' 's' and looks like 'is' but is pronounced 'I’s', and he is also the publisher and editor of Island Press. He is a very active promoter of new Canadian poetry and he himself has published in several little magazines in Canada [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16] and he has made translations from Erik Satie's [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q187192] notes to the music, he has also been published in New Wave Canada, an anthology of new Canadian poets published by Contact Press, and edited by Raymond Souster [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q304129]. He is also affiliated, his press, Island Press, is affiliated with the Coach House Press [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5137585] in Toronto and through this press a book of his poems will be appearing this spring. He is our first reader and our second reader is Mr. George Bowering [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1239280], who has already published three books, the first one by Contact Press called Points On The Grid, the second one, The Silver Wire published by Quarry Press and the third one, A Man in Yellow Boots, by El Corno Emplumado which was done bilingually in Spanish and in English and which contains montages and illustrations by poet and artist Roy Kiyooka [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3445789]. Mr. Bowering is also editor of Imago Magazine, which emanated from Alberta [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1951] and which is devoted to the long poem or the longer poem, he is expecting to publish very shortly, in the spring I believe, a novel called The Mirror on the Floor. Mr. Coleman will read first, and then there will be a short intermission, and then Mr. Bowering will read to you.\n \nVictor Coleman\n00:02:49\nI like to make it a habit always at a reading to start off with something that somebody else wrote, simply to show you that my concerns lie elsewhere, then in my own self. This is something from A History of America by an American writer by the name of Bill Hutton and it's— well, I won't explain it to you.\n \nVictor Coleman\n00:03:35\nReads unnamed poem by Bill Hutton.\n \nVictor Coleman\n00:06:00\nI'll read a few short poems first, and then go into something from a sequence, a longer sequence. This is a poem dedicated to Bill Hutton, the author of that piece I just read, it's called \"Buff Hello, 6\".\n \nVictor Coleman\n00:06:33\nReads \"Buff Hello, 6\".\n \nVictor Coleman\n00:08:27\nI'm going to focus on that clock every once in a while, simply because I want to keep track of myself. If I might say, um, it's interesting that I'm reading with George Bowering and my general tenure at this time, uh, which I'm not really that self-conscious about which is interesting to me to be growing a beard at this time and that the last time that I started to grow a beard was the first time that I met George Bowering and it was about two years ago and we were sitting up in my attic which was a room and I said to him, \"How do you like my beard?\" and he says that \"It makes you look like an impotent D.H. Lawrence [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34970]”. [Audience laughter]. This is a poem called \"The Lady Vanishes\".\n \nVictor Coleman\n00:09:41\nReads \"The Lady Vanishes\".\n \nVictor Coleman\n00:11:14\nHere's a kind of poem that I can bug everybody with because it probably won't mean anything to you at all, but simply because it really is my occasion but rather than hide it away, um, I think that the sound of it is enough to carry to you, some measure of the poetry that I got from the occasion that I speak of. It's called \"For Basil Bunting\".\n \nVictor Coleman\n00:11:48\nReads \"For Basil Bunting\".\n \nVictor Coleman\n00:12:34\nI don't know whether any of you are familiar with a Japanese-English dictionary called Kenkyusha [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6389422], if not, all I can tell you is that it's a Japanese-English dictionary and that it has a strange quality to be able to predict the future, by chance operations in that it's very fat and you open it and you're like the guy with the funny hat at the track who really shouldn't be there because he can only guess and he just opens the racing form and sticks his finger on the horse and he bets on the horse and he usually loses. Kenkyusha is a little better than that because you're not trying to win anything, you're looking for some kind of instruction and the time I wrote these poems I was rather desperate for some kind of instruction, and uh, it's just a matter of opening the book, pointing and getting the epigraph for each poem from the Japanese-English dictionary. I'll just read a couple. \"Day Seven\", oh there are given days, that are sort of daily devotions.\n \nVictor Coleman\n00:14:09\nReads \"Day Seven\".\n \nVictor Coleman\n00:14:33\nReads \"Day Eight\".\n \nVictor Coleman\n00:15:19\nReads \"Day Ten\".\n \nVictor Coleman\n00:16:18\nMany of these relate to certain experiences with LSD also.\n \nVictor Coleman\n00:16:29\nReads \"Day Thirteen\".\n \nVictor Coleman\n00:16:49\nThe reason that the definitions, the English definitions in this section are so interesting and not like the ones we are accustomed to is because the characters that they represent go through their own changes and it's almost an ideogrammatic dictionary rather than a dictionary of definitions.\n \nVictor Coleman\n00:17:13\nResumes reading “Day Thirteen”.\n \nVictor Coleman\n00:20:17\nI need to get one of those spider clocks, can't read in this light.\n \nVictor Coleman\n00:20:39\nReads \"Day Twenty-One\" .\n \nVictor Coleman\n00:22:36\nReads \"Day Twenty-Two\".\n \nVictor Coleman\n00:24:56\nReads \"Day Twenty-Four\".\n \nVictor Coleman\n00:28:22\nThese next poems are the poems that are closest to me now. It's another long sequence called \"Separations\" and I don't think I need to give you any background on it. I'll not read the whole thing because it's quite long.\n \nVictor Coleman\n00:28:56\nReads \"Separations” [parts 4-8, 10-12, and 14].\n \nVictor Coleman\n00:37:00\nThank you.\n \nEND\n00:37:17\n"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"George Bowering is repeatedly mentioned on the tape and in printed announcements, but no supporting audio has been found. \",\"type\":\"General\"},{\"note\":\"Year-specific Information:\\n\\nOne/eye/love was published in 1967, and Coleman was working at Coach House Press.\\n\",\"type\":\"General\"},{\"note\":\"Local connections:\\n\\nVictor Coleman was very involved in the promotion of small presses and Canadian writers, specifically through his own presses and Coach House Press. Victor Coleman and George Bowering regularly corresponded (Archives Canada has these correspondences under George Bowering).\\n\",\"type\":\"General\"},{\"note\":\"Original transcript, research, introduction and edits by Celyn Harding-Jones\\n\\nAdditional research and edits by Faith Paré (2020) & Ali Barillaro (2021)\\n\",\"type\":\"Cataloguer\"},{\"note\":\"Reel-to-reel tape>CD>digital file\",\"type\":\"Preservation\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/contemporary-canadian-poem-anthology/oclc/802667762&referer=brief_results\",\"citation\":\"Bowering, George, ed. The Contemporary Canadian Poem Anthology. Toronto: Coach House \\nPress, 1984. \\n\"},{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/one-eye-love/oclc/461736&referer=brief_results\",\"citation\":\"Coleman, Victor. One/eye/love. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1967. \"},{\"url\":\"http://www.ccca.ca/history/ozz/english/authors/coleman_victor.html\",\"citation\":\"“Coleman, Victor (1944-  )”. 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You may smoke at intermission, but please do not smoke during the readings. Our first reader tonight is Mr. Victor Coleman [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23882910] who comes to us from Toronto [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q172]. Mr. Coleman is the publisher of Island Magazine [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15754909], and Is Magazine which is spelled 'i' 's' and looks like 'is' but is pronounced 'I’s', and he is also the publisher and editor of Island Press. He is a very active promoter of new Canadian poetry and he himself has published in several little magazines in Canada [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16] and he has made translations from Erik Satie's [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q187192] notes to the music, he has also been published in New Wave Canada, an anthology of new Canadian poets published by Contact Press, and edited by Raymond Souster [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q304129]. He is also affiliated, his press, Island Press, is affiliated with the Coach House Press [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5137585] in Toronto and through this press a book of his poems will be appearing this spring. He is our first reader and our second reader is Mr. George Bowering [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1239280], who has already published three books, the first one by Contact Press called Points On The Grid, the second one, The Silver Wire published by Quarry Press and the third one, A Man in Yellow Boots, by El Corno Emplumado which was done bilingually in Spanish and in English and which contains montages and illustrations by poet and artist Roy Kiyooka [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3445789]. Mr. Bowering is also editor of Imago Magazine, which emanated from Alberta [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1951] and which is devoted to the long poem or the longer poem, he is expecting to publish very shortly, in the spring I believe, a novel called The Mirror on the Floor. Mr. Coleman will read first, and then there will be a short intermission, and then Mr. Bowering will read to you.\\n \\nVictor Coleman\\n00:02:49\\nI like to make it a habit always at a reading to start off with something that somebody else wrote, simply to show you that my concerns lie elsewhere, then in my own self. This is something from A History of America by an American writer by the name of Bill Hutton and it's— well, I won't explain it to you.\\n \\nVictor Coleman\\n00:03:35\\nReads unnamed poem by Bill Hutton.\\n \\nVictor Coleman\\n00:06:00\\nI'll read a few short poems first, and then go into something from a sequence, a longer sequence. This is a poem dedicated to Bill Hutton, the author of that piece I just read, it's called \\\"Buff Hello, 6\\\".\\n \\nVictor Coleman\\n00:06:33\\nReads \\\"Buff Hello, 6\\\".\\n \\nVictor Coleman\\n00:08:27\\nI'm going to focus on that clock every once in a while, simply because I want to keep track of myself. If I might say, um, it's interesting that I'm reading with George Bowering and my general tenure at this time, uh, which I'm not really that self-conscious about which is interesting to me to be growing a beard at this time and that the last time that I started to grow a beard was the first time that I met George Bowering and it was about two years ago and we were sitting up in my attic which was a room and I said to him, \\\"How do you like my beard?\\\" and he says that \\\"It makes you look like an impotent D.H. Lawrence [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34970]”. [Audience laughter]. This is a poem called \\\"The Lady Vanishes\\\".\\n \\nVictor Coleman\\n00:09:41\\nReads \\\"The Lady Vanishes\\\".\\n \\nVictor Coleman\\n00:11:14\\nHere's a kind of poem that I can bug everybody with because it probably won't mean anything to you at all, but simply because it really is my occasion but rather than hide it away, um, I think that the sound of it is enough to carry to you, some measure of the poetry that I got from the occasion that I speak of. It's called \\\"For Basil Bunting\\\".\\n \\nVictor Coleman\\n00:11:48\\nReads \\\"For Basil Bunting\\\".\\n \\nVictor Coleman\\n00:12:34\\nI don't know whether any of you are familiar with a Japanese-English dictionary called Kenkyusha [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6389422], if not, all I can tell you is that it's a Japanese-English dictionary and that it has a strange quality to be able to predict the future, by chance operations in that it's very fat and you open it and you're like the guy with the funny hat at the track who really shouldn't be there because he can only guess and he just opens the racing form and sticks his finger on the horse and he bets on the horse and he usually loses. Kenkyusha is a little better than that because you're not trying to win anything, you're looking for some kind of instruction and the time I wrote these poems I was rather desperate for some kind of instruction, and uh, it's just a matter of opening the book, pointing and getting the epigraph for each poem from the Japanese-English dictionary. I'll just read a couple. \\\"Day Seven\\\", oh there are given days, that are sort of daily devotions.\\n \\nVictor Coleman\\n00:14:09\\nReads \\\"Day Seven\\\".\\n \\nVictor Coleman\\n00:14:33\\nReads \\\"Day Eight\\\".\\n \\nVictor Coleman\\n00:15:19\\nReads \\\"Day Ten\\\".\\n \\nVictor Coleman\\n00:16:18\\nMany of these relate to certain experiences with LSD also.\\n \\nVictor Coleman\\n00:16:29\\nReads \\\"Day Thirteen\\\".\\n \\nVictor Coleman\\n00:16:49\\nThe reason that the definitions, the English definitions in this section are so interesting and not like the ones we are accustomed to is because the characters that they represent go through their own changes and it's almost an ideogrammatic dictionary rather than a dictionary of definitions.\\n \\nVictor Coleman\\n00:17:13\\nResumes reading “Day Thirteen”.\\n \\nVictor Coleman\\n00:20:17\\nI need to get one of those spider clocks, can't read in this light.\\n \\nVictor Coleman\\n00:20:39\\nReads \\\"Day Twenty-One\\\" .\\n \\nVictor Coleman\\n00:22:36\\nReads \\\"Day Twenty-Two\\\".\\n \\nVictor Coleman\\n00:24:56\\nReads \\\"Day Twenty-Four\\\".\\n \\nVictor Coleman\\n00:28:22\\nThese next poems are the poems that are closest to me now. It's another long sequence called \\\"Separations\\\" and I don't think I need to give you any background on it. I'll not read the whole thing because it's quite long.\\n \\nVictor Coleman\\n00:28:56\\nReads \\\"Separations” [parts 4-8, 10-12, and 14].\\n \\nVictor Coleman\\n00:37:00\\nThank you.\\n \\nEND\\n00:37:17\\n\",\"notes\":\"Victor Coleman reads from One/eye/love (Coach House Press, 1967).\\n\\nList of Poems Read and Time Stamps [File 1 of 2]\\n0:00 - Introductions of Coleman and George Bowering (also reading the same night, but not on    this recording.) [INDEX: Island Magazine, Is Magazine, Island Press, new Canadian   poetry, translations of Eric Satie’s notes to music, New Wave Canada edited by Ramond Souster published by Contact Press, Coach House Press in Toronto. George Bowering: Contact Press published Points on the Grid, The Silver Wire, A Man in Yellow Boots by El Corno Emplumado in Spanish and English with drawings by Roy Kiyooka. 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This magazine, influenced by styles of the Black Mountain Poets and of the East Coast poetry of Louis Dudek, Raymond Souster and Irving Layton, brought a “new wave” of poetry to Canada. Bowering’s first collection of poetry began with Sticks and Stones (Tishbooks, 1962) with a preface written by Robert Creeley, and was followed by Points on the grid (Contact Press, 1964) and Man in Yellow Boots (El Corno Emplumado, 1965). Bowering also founded the magazine Imago (1964-1974), which featured critical essays and poetry, and he also contributed to Open Letter as an editor. Bowering then moved eastwards, teaching at the University of Calgary from 1963-1966, enrolled in the Ph.D. program at the University of Western Ontario. A year later, Bowering accepted a position as the writer-in-residence in 1967 at Sir George Williams University (now Concordia University) in Montreal, becoming a lecturer in 1967-1971. Bowering joined the Sir George Williams University Poetry Reading Series Committee in the fall of 1967, which was being run by Roy Kiyooka, Stanton Hoffman and Howard Fink. In 1972 he left Montreal and began a long career teaching at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. He has published over fifty books of poetry, prose, short stories, essays, reviews, plays as well as pieces that combine and defy genres. A selection of his publications are as follows: Genève (Coach House Press, 1971), Autobiology (New Star Books, 1972), Curious (Coach House Press, 1973), In the Flesh (McClelland & Stewart, 1974), Allophanes (Coach House Press, 1976), Burning Water (Beaufort Books, 1980), Caprice (Penguin Books, 1988),  Harry’s Fragments (Coach House Press, 1990), Rewriting my Grandfather (Nomados, 2005), Baseball Love (Talonbooks, 2006) and Shall I compare: July 2006 (George Bowering, 2008). Bowering published his interview with Black Mountain poet Robert Duncan: An Interview (Coach House Press, 1971), a book-length study on Canadian poet Al Purdy: Al Purdy (Copp Clark, 1970), along with editing several anthologies such as Vibrations: Poems from Youth (Cage, 1970), Fiction of Contemporary Canada (Coach House Press, 1980) and Likely Stories: A Postmodern Sampler (Coach House Press, 1992). Bowering has won two Governor General's Awards for poetry,  for Rocky Mountain Foot (McClelland & Stewart, 1968) and The Gangs Kosmos (House of Anansi, 1969), and one for fiction in 1980 for Burning Water (Beaufort Books, 1980). 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[Audience laughter]. I said I liked it Al. [Audience laughter]. I'm related to practically everybody here. I'll turn this off now. [Audience laughter].\n \nIntroducer\n00:04:12\n...I think that George Bowering  [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1239280] has read or done— or not done, or not written. On the back of [that book (?)], it says that he has two new books, one called Curious from Coach House Press [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5137585], and another In the Flesh, coming out with McClelland and Stewart [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6800322]. The one thing I can add to that is— has to do with baseball [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5369], about which I know much less than George. You still have your team?\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:04:51\nYes.\n \nIntroducer\n00:04:54\nOkay, it's occurred to me that George understands one thing that is rather important to understand that is that the difference between stepping up to the plate and hitting the ball out of the park, and going [unintelligible], on the one hand, and on the other, stepping up to the plate and being there when the bat does what it's supposed to do and the ball takes itself out of the park. And this applies to baseball, and it also applies to poems. And that's what George understands.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:05:48\nFor those that live in California [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q99], that's what Suzuki Roshi [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q572599] calls Zen Baseball. I'm really excited to be back here, this is really a burn for me, because, can you hear me if I talk at this level? I'm hearing an echo, but I— can you hear me? [Audience laughter]. I'm reading for the next three weeks back and forth but this is the first one so I haven't got stale with any of this stuff yet in the east. And I'm going to come back in a few minutes to Autobiology, because I've never read it in the east although I started writing it in Montreal [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q340] and finished it in Vancouver [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24639], but before I do I'm going to read a piece that is sort of representative of what I've been doing lately in Vancouver, called \"Desert Elm\", the desert being the Okanagan [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1812222] in this instance and the elm being the kind of tree that people planted there that wasn't there before and grew— they tried a lot of other ones and they didn't work. And it's a poem about my father and it deals with— it was begun with his heart attack he had in August and what happened after that, to me.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:07:22\nReads \"Desert Elm\".\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:20:04\nThat's the longest one I'll read I think. I was going to go into Autobiology, but I'm just going to jump right now into one section of Curious, I'm going to read the Jack Spicer [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3805658] part for Artie [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4800979], and then I'll [unintelligible] Curious is a-—that's one of the books that's coming out this week, it's about, it's a book about poets, sort of, and this one's about Jack Spicer, who, Artie digs.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:20:43\nReads \"Jack Spicer\" from Curious.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:22:10\nHe was supposed to be moving— that was in the summer of '65, he was up in Vancouver and just decided to move up there so he wouldn't die, and because he would die if he stayed in San Francisco [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62], and then he said, well just before that I'll go down to the San Francisco Poetry Festival, and when that's over in three weeks I'll come up to Vancouver, and he died during the second week. Okay, this is— Autobiology is a book  that came out, two years ago this month, actually, 72, yeah. And I started writing it in Westmount [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q139497] as they say and finished it in Kitsilano [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4179275]. I started writing it in an expensive flat in Westmount, and finished it in a commune on the edge of the water in Vancouver and it's a story about, as it suggests, it's a story, it's a book, it's poetry, it's prose, it's something about things that have changed me in terms of my head but first in terms of chemicals and physiologically, changed my body literally and so on. So I'll just, I'll read portions of it. I toyed with the idea of reading the whole book, it's the sort of thing we do in Vancouver, like we sit down and read the whole book, and this was published the same day as Stan Persky's [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2330087] The Day, a book called The Day, and it's the same length, about a hundred pages, and he read The Day and we took a break, and I read Autobiology and then we took a break of a couple of hours and he read The Day again. But that's sort of— that happens a little— it's a little easier to take when everybody is kind of a volunteer anyway, when everybody in the audience has known all the time that this was being written and that it was going to be read, the whole book. So I'll just read parts of it so you get a taste of it. Each section is about one and a quarter foolscap pages when it's handwritten, long, approximately so it turns out to be about two of these pages. \"Chapter One\"— there's forty-eight chapters. \"Chapter One: The Raspberries\".\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:24:41 \nReads \"Chapter One: The Raspberries\" from Autobiology.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:26:06 \nDid that ever happen to--I'm sure these kinds of things must have happened to--the way I was telling [unintelligible] this afternoon that the way this book is written was I knew the general frame was things that changed me that way, from things put in my body, generally, or pieces of my body taken off, or whatever. Or pieces of my body going out into someone else's body or whatever. And I'd go home in my house in Westmount, from here, and I'd say 'I got it! Today I'm going to do the broken tool part' and I'd run home and I'd start controlling the thing and I'd throw it away, so all the pieces that are in here are the pieces that are not thrown away, the ones where I didn't know what I was going to write when I started writing. I have the sense that I tried to describe that afternoon as being simply equal to what was coming in the story. This is \"Chapter 2\", I'll read \"Chapter 1\" and 2 and 3 and 4 and then I'll skip. This is \"The Teeter Totter\".\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:27:05\nReads \"Chapter 2: The Teeter Totter\" from Autobiology.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:28:22\nReads \"Chapter 3: The Pollywogs\" from Autobiology.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:29:31\n\"The Flying Dream\". This is the origin of why I decided to write poetry I think, or at least I've always made that connection. \"The Flying Dream\".\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:29:40\nReads \"Chapter 4: The Flying Dream\" from Autobiology.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:30:54\nIt's the basis of that West Coast [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1974] elitism, Al. I— after I'd done this whole book I found out there's two chapters called \"The Breaks\", I'd totally forgotten that this chapter had written me this time. So this is the first chapter on “The Breaks”.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:31:15\nReads \"Chapter 8: The Breaks\" from Autobiology [audience laughter throughout].\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:32:34\nGee, there's one I've never read before, I mean, out loud [audience laughter]. I'm not going to anyway, heck with it. Oh, here's one that every once in a while there's, it comes to, the thing comes to writing itself or talking about the writing of itself, so here's one called \"Composition\", for those that are worried about the problem it'll be totally clear. I think. It defines composition. \"Composition\".\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:33:02\nReads \"Chapter 14: Composition\" from Autobiology.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:34:32\nHere's the other one called \"The Breaks\".\n \nGeorge Bowering \n00:34:35.49\nReads \"Chapter 20: The Breaks\" from Autobiology.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:35:53\nReads [“Chapter 21: Come’ from Autobiology].\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:37:13\nThis is one that, this is a favourite amongst the [serifs (?)] in Vancouver. The— I live in a community now as different from the community I lived in a couple of years ago of all https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5882404], Esalen [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5882404], encounters all the time and they're always talking about shrinkage and they're always telling me why don't you take shrinkage, and I say 'I don't feel like I need shrinkage' and they said 'that proves you need shrinkage'. Can't get out of it, you know, that's your problem— you don't think you need... So this one is sort of a reply to that, it's called \"The Childhood\".\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:37:56\nReads \"Chapter 26: The Childhood\" from Autobiology.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:39:05\nThis one's about the literary world, it's called \"St. Louis\", where, St. Louis is where William Burroughs [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q38022] and an earlier poet came from. T.S. Sandburn [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37767], I think his name was. [audience laughter.]\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:39:21\nReads \"Chapter 27: St. Louis\" from Autobiology.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:40:49\nThen there's a whole series of pieces on towns that I lived in which I'll skip over. Skip that one, skip that one, get to these ones at the end. Here's one called \"The Flesh\", which I guess was involved with at the time, writing a book of poems about the flesh.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:41:23\nReads \"Chapter 43: The Flesh\" from Autobiology.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:42:43\nI think I'll read the last couple in this one, and then see what time it is. \"The Operations\" everybody is my chance, right? Every vessel, living in a house with my mother talking about operations the last couple of weeks and she couldn't really do it. So I get my chance now, ‘cause I don't really get the chance— that's my mother on the cover of the book by the way, that's my mother and that's me. There she is.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:43:14\nReads \"Chapter 45: The Operations\" from Autobiology.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:44:53\nAnd the last two, this is \"The Scars\".\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:44:56\nReads \"Chapter 47: The Scars\" from Autobiology.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:46:24\nAnd the last one is called naturally, \"The Body\", Chapter 48.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:46:32\nReads \"Chapter 48: The Body\" from Autobiology.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:47:48\nThat was Autobiology, it's actually, can you imagine, a tetralogy. And the first volume was called Geneve and it was based on a found thing with the tarot pack [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q583269] and with the Geneva version of the French pack, Marseilles pack. The second one was Autobiology and the third one was Curious and the fourth one is— Dwight Gardiner wrote it, in a book called the Book of the Occasional. I was going to write it but he wrote it, so I didn't have to. It's just absolutely beautiful and if you see a Book of the Occasional, you'll see what I mean. It's just a gorgeous, gorgeous book. Oh, gee, I'd love to read— how long can I have now?\n \nUnknown\n00:48:45\n[Cut or edit made in tape].\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:48:46\n...Because I just suddenly remembered I'd love to read a piece I have called The Big Leagues. But then I also have a book called At War with the U.S. that I— was the first book of poems I've written in years, but maybe I'll just read The Big Leagues, that will probably take— and then maybe I'll read one or two pieces from Curious. This is a book—a thing called The Big Leagues and it's in a few- in five sections and maybe I'll get tired before I get to the fifth one, but I'll just see how— the first one is called \"The Detroit Tigers\" [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q650855].\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:49:21\nReads \"The Detroit Tigers\".\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:51:57\nThat was written in South Slocan, B.C. [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18379776] I think this is my favourite one, it's called \"The Dallas Cowboys\" [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q204862].\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:52:09\nReads \"The Dallas Cowboys\".\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:54:57\nThe next one's called \"The San Diego Padres\" [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q721134] but I'm going to skip that one because it's about getting dope [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60168] into— what happens is that Chance is coming back, he's now wearing the uniform that Slim Chance had before he died, a U.S. Army uniform that says \"Chance\" on it and \"U.S. Army\" and they're sneaking some dope into San Diego and it has to do with some Padres whose clothes are taken off so they can use them to hide the dope and everything. The next one's called \"The Buffalo Sabres\" [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131206].\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:55:32\nBegins reading \"The Buffalo Sabres\". \n\nGeorge Bowering\n00:55:37\nOh, by the way what happens is that I took four quotations from poetry, and three of them are taken from the normal Ohio academic American Poetry Anthology and one of them is taken from Robert Creeley [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q918620] at the end, and you can tell. I can't even remember what poets I took from, like all those guys sorta have the same thing, you know, Donald Hall [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q976924] Anthology Poets if you know what I mean.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:56:05\nResumes reading \"The Buffalo Sabres\".\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:59:06\nAnd this one is for a lot of friends of mine, it's called \"The Minnesota Twins\" [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q604879] and he's going on, he's leaving Buffalo [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40435] and going to— has anyone here been to— has anyone here been to Bemidji, Minnesota [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q730430]? You know what they got there right? That great big, blue Ox and the great big Paul Bunyan [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7149597] carved about 30 feet high or something like that. And other than that, it's a beautiful town, you know, it has the— it looks like the underground of another town turn upside-down, so the bottom is up above the ground, right? \"The Minnesota Twins\".\n \nAnnotation\n00:59:39\nReads \"The Minnesota Twins\".\n \nGeorge Bowering\n01:02:26\nI think I'll read like for ten minutes and that'll be for a total of an hour, five minutes or something like that. I'll just, I'll pick, this is Curious, which is a— that other book's coming out, it's called In the Flesh and it's maybe the last book of occasional, magazine book verse poetry I ever do. It deals with the experience of being in your 30s and finding out that the world isn't round after all and how sad you can be and how strong emotions can be. It has an introduction called \"I Never Felt Such Love\". But it's mainly lyric poetry, and I just, I've read so much of that that it's got to be too easy to read and write and everything. So I'll read a few of these. The poets who are mentioned in Curious, it happens that there are a lot of my friends who aren't in the book. Because, again, I wrote it that way, if you know, if that person did not come up, excuse me, from the other side of the page or however that feeling is to be described, if the voice wasn't there or something, for instance I really wanted to do a Roy Kiyooka [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3445789] poem, and you know, I just couldn't and it didn't come and I had wanted to but if I had tried that it just would have been screwed up. Some of these are American, some are Canadians, a couple are English and maybe one or two other things. And the first one is, naturally, Charles Olson [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q922978]. Olson, as you probably know, was about 6 ft 10 and weighed about 300 pounds. And I first met him— I was standing at the bottom of a flight of stairs and he was coming down them. So I said 'hello' to the knees of his sear-sucker suit.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n01:04:19\nReads \"Charles Olson\" from Curious.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n01:05:57\nI'll get some Canadians in here. Margaret Atwood [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q183492], she's the first Canadian to appear in here.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n01:06:16\nReads \"Margaret Atwood\" from Curious.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n01:07:36\nThere are some poets in here that you won't know that are more specifically Vancouver-oriented poets perhaps that aren't as well known out here so I'll skip those. This is \"bp Nichol\". Everybody knows bpNichol [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4953105], or everybody is bpNichol.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n01:07:57\nReads \"bp Nichol\" from Curious.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n01:09:40\n\"Stephen Spender\" [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q448764]. I was going to skip this one, but it has a few moments in it.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n01:09:53\nReads \"Stephen Spender\" from Curious.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n01:11:18\nThat's, boy, that's— like you're out on the West Coast where you've never seen a poet before in your life and the first one they bring you is this guy you've been reading in books and he's a white-haired— it's unbelievable. You know, John Newlove's [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6250356]? John Newlove, for those who know John Newlove.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n01:11:36\nReads \"John Newlove\" from Curious.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n01:13:08\nThat last part is from a title of one of his books. David McFadden [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5237344] is, this is the David McFadden piece and maybe I'll read it and a couple more. It's not my favourite but it's one that I like reading. David McFadden— well, it tells you what he's like, but David McFadden is a— he scared the hell out of Allen Ginsberg [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6711] because he writes really funny poems, like he literally has things, like he walks out into the backyard and sees the Archangel Gabriel [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q81989] or a space man and just talks to it and talks about it in the story of the poem a paragraph after he's talked about going out and buying some cigarettes or something like that and Ginsberg thought, wow, what a weird spaced out guy, so Victor Coleman [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23882910] took him down to Hamilton [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133116] to see David, David— he's got, as he said in the note of one of his books, \"I was born in 1940 and I comb my hair straight back\", and in his house, he's got an electric pendulum clock and you know that sort of thing. And Ginsberg took one look and said [inaudible ‘scared’ sound], and ran away. Just couldn't believe it, you know, it's unbelievable. So, David McFadden.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n01:14:30\nReads \"David McFadden\" from Curious.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n01:16:24\nThere wasn't a comma in there, that was the Indian food coming back. Now let's see…\n\nAudience Member 1\n01:16:31\nAddresses George Bowering [unintelligible; requests poem].\n\nGeorge Bowering\n01:16:33\nNo, he didn't get in there either, and I'm very sad about that, just people that got in that I wish didn't get in and there's people that didn't get in that I wish did get in. \n\nAudience Member 2\n01:16:44\n[Unintelligible]...Raymond Souster [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q304129].\n\nGeorge Bowering\n01:16:46\nYeah, I think I might have skipped over Raymond Souster, the Raymond Souster one is, as you might imagine the shortest one in the book.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n01:16:58\nReads \"Raymond Souster\" from Curious.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n01:17:59\nI got a Purdy one too, but Al weighs 210 pounds. No, I've always made it a policy not to read the ones of somebody that's there. I don't know if there are any other ones that I'm going to read.\n\nAudience Member 3\n01:18:25\nAddresses George Bowering [unintelligible; requests poem].\n\nGeorge Bowering\n01:18:26\nYeah, I don't know where the hell it is. I like the Lionel Kearns [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6555690] one actually...Oh I don't know what's happened to the Lionel Kearns one, it's one of my very favourites too. I think maybe, I'll see if I can find the Lionel one in a second then I'll read it and I'll finish off with the bill bissett [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4911496] one. If I just had the book with me it'd be a hell of a lot easier. I don't think I'm going to find the Kearns one. I can't find the Kearns one, it's all about how he can't find anything. This is the bissett one and then I'll finish off with that.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n01:19:30\nReads bill bissett\" from Curious.\n\nGeorge Bowering\n01:21:16\nThank you.\n\nAudience\n01:21:17\nApplause. \n\nEND\n01:21:29\n"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Year-specific Information:\\n\\nIn 1974, George Bowering had published At War with the U.S. (Talonbooks, 1974), Flycatcher & Other Stories (Oberon, 1974), In the Flesh (McClelland & Stewart, 1974) and the last issue of Imago: 20 (Talonbooks, 1974) and was teaching at Simon Fraser University.\",\"type\":\"General\"},{\"note\":\"Local connections:\\n\\nGeorge Bowering was very influential in promoting and enriching the Vancouver poetry scene in the early 1960s, through his magazines Tish and Imago as well as the hundreds of connections he made with other poets. His early connections with the Black Mountain Poets and the relationships he made with Canadian poets from Vancouver across Canada to Montreal have been essential because he bridged the gap of distance and made new types of poetry available to young poets. Montrealer Louis Dudek wrote that Bowering’s “most important contribution to the new generation of Montreal poets was the institution of a series of readings at Sir George [Williams University] which exposed them to the diverse experimentation that was taking place across Canada and the U.S.”\",\"type\":\"General\"},{\"note\":\"Original transcript, research, introduction and edits by Celyn Harding-Jones\\n\\nAdditional research and edits by Faith Paré (2020) & Ali Barillaro (2021)\\n\",\"type\":\"Cataloguer\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"https://montreal.spokenweb.ca/sgw-poetry-readings/george-bowering-at-sgwu-1974/\",\"citation\":\"“Bowering Back at SGWU”. The Georgian. 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[Audience laughter]. I said I liked it Al. [Audience laughter]. I'm related to practically everybody here. I'll turn this off now. [Audience laughter].\\n \\nIntroducer\\n00:04:12\\n...I think that George Bowering  [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1239280] has read or done— or not done, or not written. On the back of [that book (?)], it says that he has two new books, one called Curious from Coach House Press [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5137585], and another In the Flesh, coming out with McClelland and Stewart [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6800322]. The one thing I can add to that is— has to do with baseball [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5369], about which I know much less than George. 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I'm reading for the next three weeks back and forth but this is the first one so I haven't got stale with any of this stuff yet in the east. And I'm going to come back in a few minutes to Autobiology, because I've never read it in the east although I started writing it in Montreal [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q340] and finished it in Vancouver [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24639], but before I do I'm going to read a piece that is sort of representative of what I've been doing lately in Vancouver, called \\\"Desert Elm\\\", the desert being the Okanagan [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1812222] in this instance and the elm being the kind of tree that people planted there that wasn't there before and grew— they tried a lot of other ones and they didn't work. 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I was going to go into Autobiology, but I'm just going to jump right now into one section of Curious, I'm going to read the Jack Spicer [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3805658] part for Artie [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4800979], and then I'll [unintelligible] Curious is a-—that's one of the books that's coming out this week, it's about, it's a book about poets, sort of, and this one's about Jack Spicer, who, Artie digs.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:20:43\\nReads \\\"Jack Spicer\\\" from Curious.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:22:10\\nHe was supposed to be moving— that was in the summer of '65, he was up in Vancouver and just decided to move up there so he wouldn't die, and because he would die if he stayed in San Francisco [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62], and then he said, well just before that I'll go down to the San Francisco Poetry Festival, and when that's over in three weeks I'll come up to Vancouver, and he died during the second week. Okay, this is— Autobiology is a book  that came out, two years ago this month, actually, 72, yeah. And I started writing it in Westmount [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q139497] as they say and finished it in Kitsilano [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4179275]. I started writing it in an expensive flat in Westmount, and finished it in a commune on the edge of the water in Vancouver and it's a story about, as it suggests, it's a story, it's a book, it's poetry, it's prose, it's something about things that have changed me in terms of my head but first in terms of chemicals and physiologically, changed my body literally and so on. So I'll just, I'll read portions of it. I toyed with the idea of reading the whole book, it's the sort of thing we do in Vancouver, like we sit down and read the whole book, and this was published the same day as Stan Persky's [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2330087] The Day, a book called The Day, and it's the same length, about a hundred pages, and he read The Day and we took a break, and I read Autobiology and then we took a break of a couple of hours and he read The Day again. But that's sort of— that happens a little— it's a little easier to take when everybody is kind of a volunteer anyway, when everybody in the audience has known all the time that this was being written and that it was going to be read, the whole book. So I'll just read parts of it so you get a taste of it. Each section is about one and a quarter foolscap pages when it's handwritten, long, approximately so it turns out to be about two of these pages. \\\"Chapter One\\\"— there's forty-eight chapters. \\\"Chapter One: The Raspberries\\\".\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:24:41 \\nReads \\\"Chapter One: The Raspberries\\\" from Autobiology.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:26:06 \\nDid that ever happen to--I'm sure these kinds of things must have happened to--the way I was telling [unintelligible] this afternoon that the way this book is written was I knew the general frame was things that changed me that way, from things put in my body, generally, or pieces of my body taken off, or whatever. Or pieces of my body going out into someone else's body or whatever. And I'd go home in my house in Westmount, from here, and I'd say 'I got it! 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This is the origin of why I decided to write poetry I think, or at least I've always made that connection. \\\"The Flying Dream\\\".\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:29:40\\nReads \\\"Chapter 4: The Flying Dream\\\" from Autobiology.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:30:54\\nIt's the basis of that West Coast [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1974] elitism, Al. I— after I'd done this whole book I found out there's two chapters called \\\"The Breaks\\\", I'd totally forgotten that this chapter had written me this time. So this is the first chapter on “The Breaks”.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:31:15\\nReads \\\"Chapter 8: The Breaks\\\" from Autobiology [audience laughter throughout].\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:32:34\\nGee, there's one I've never read before, I mean, out loud [audience laughter]. I'm not going to anyway, heck with it. Oh, here's one that every once in a while there's, it comes to, the thing comes to writing itself or talking about the writing of itself, so here's one called \\\"Composition\\\", for those that are worried about the problem it'll be totally clear. I think. It defines composition. \\\"Composition\\\".\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:33:02\\nReads \\\"Chapter 14: Composition\\\" from Autobiology.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:34:32\\nHere's the other one called \\\"The Breaks\\\".\\n \\nGeorge Bowering \\n00:34:35.49\\nReads \\\"Chapter 20: The Breaks\\\" from Autobiology.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:35:53\\nReads [“Chapter 21: Come’ from Autobiology].\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:37:13\\nThis is one that, this is a favourite amongst the [serifs (?)] in Vancouver. The— I live in a community now as different from the community I lived in a couple of years ago of all https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5882404], Esalen [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5882404], encounters all the time and they're always talking about shrinkage and they're always telling me why don't you take shrinkage, and I say 'I don't feel like I need shrinkage' and they said 'that proves you need shrinkage'. Can't get out of it, you know, that's your problem— you don't think you need... So this one is sort of a reply to that, it's called \\\"The Childhood\\\".\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:37:56\\nReads \\\"Chapter 26: The Childhood\\\" from Autobiology.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:39:05\\nThis one's about the literary world, it's called \\\"St. Louis\\\", where, St. Louis is where William Burroughs [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q38022] and an earlier poet came from. T.S. Sandburn [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37767], I think his name was. [audience laughter.]\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:39:21\\nReads \\\"Chapter 27: St. Louis\\\" from Autobiology.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:40:49\\nThen there's a whole series of pieces on towns that I lived in which I'll skip over. Skip that one, skip that one, get to these ones at the end. Here's one called \\\"The Flesh\\\", which I guess was involved with at the time, writing a book of poems about the flesh.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:41:23\\nReads \\\"Chapter 43: The Flesh\\\" from Autobiology.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:42:43\\nI think I'll read the last couple in this one, and then see what time it is. \\\"The Operations\\\" everybody is my chance, right? Every vessel, living in a house with my mother talking about operations the last couple of weeks and she couldn't really do it. So I get my chance now, ‘cause I don't really get the chance— that's my mother on the cover of the book by the way, that's my mother and that's me. There she is.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:43:14\\nReads \\\"Chapter 45: The Operations\\\" from Autobiology.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:44:53\\nAnd the last two, this is \\\"The Scars\\\".\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:44:56\\nReads \\\"Chapter 47: The Scars\\\" from Autobiology.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:46:24\\nAnd the last one is called naturally, \\\"The Body\\\", Chapter 48.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:46:32\\nReads \\\"Chapter 48: The Body\\\" from Autobiology.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:47:48\\nThat was Autobiology, it's actually, can you imagine, a tetralogy. And the first volume was called Geneve and it was based on a found thing with the tarot pack [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q583269] and with the Geneva version of the French pack, Marseilles pack. The second one was Autobiology and the third one was Curious and the fourth one is— Dwight Gardiner wrote it, in a book called the Book of the Occasional. I was going to write it but he wrote it, so I didn't have to. It's just absolutely beautiful and if you see a Book of the Occasional, you'll see what I mean. It's just a gorgeous, gorgeous book. Oh, gee, I'd love to read— how long can I have now?\\n \\nUnknown\\n00:48:45\\n[Cut or edit made in tape].\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:48:46\\n...Because I just suddenly remembered I'd love to read a piece I have called The Big Leagues. But then I also have a book called At War with the U.S. that I— was the first book of poems I've written in years, but maybe I'll just read The Big Leagues, that will probably take— and then maybe I'll read one or two pieces from Curious. This is a book—a thing called The Big Leagues and it's in a few- in five sections and maybe I'll get tired before I get to the fifth one, but I'll just see how— the first one is called \\\"The Detroit Tigers\\\" [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q650855].\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:49:21\\nReads \\\"The Detroit Tigers\\\".\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:51:57\\nThat was written in South Slocan, B.C. [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18379776] I think this is my favourite one, it's called \\\"The Dallas Cowboys\\\" [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q204862].\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:52:09\\nReads \\\"The Dallas Cowboys\\\".\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:54:57\\nThe next one's called \\\"The San Diego Padres\\\" [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q721134] but I'm going to skip that one because it's about getting dope [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60168] into— what happens is that Chance is coming back, he's now wearing the uniform that Slim Chance had before he died, a U.S. Army uniform that says \\\"Chance\\\" on it and \\\"U.S. Army\\\" and they're sneaking some dope into San Diego and it has to do with some Padres whose clothes are taken off so they can use them to hide the dope and everything. The next one's called \\\"The Buffalo Sabres\\\" [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131206].\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:55:32\\nBegins reading \\\"The Buffalo Sabres\\\". \\n\\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:55:37\\nOh, by the way what happens is that I took four quotations from poetry, and three of them are taken from the normal Ohio academic American Poetry Anthology and one of them is taken from Robert Creeley [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q918620] at the end, and you can tell. I can't even remember what poets I took from, like all those guys sorta have the same thing, you know, Donald Hall [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q976924] Anthology Poets if you know what I mean.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:56:05\\nResumes reading \\\"The Buffalo Sabres\\\".\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:59:06\\nAnd this one is for a lot of friends of mine, it's called \\\"The Minnesota Twins\\\" [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q604879] and he's going on, he's leaving Buffalo [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40435] and going to— has anyone here been to— has anyone here been to Bemidji, Minnesota [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q730430]? You know what they got there right? That great big, blue Ox and the great big Paul Bunyan [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7149597] carved about 30 feet high or something like that. And other than that, it's a beautiful town, you know, it has the— it looks like the underground of another town turn upside-down, so the bottom is up above the ground, right? \\\"The Minnesota Twins\\\".\\n \\nAnnotation\\n00:59:39\\nReads \\\"The Minnesota Twins\\\".\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n01:02:26\\nI think I'll read like for ten minutes and that'll be for a total of an hour, five minutes or something like that. I'll just, I'll pick, this is Curious, which is a— that other book's coming out, it's called In the Flesh and it's maybe the last book of occasional, magazine book verse poetry I ever do. It deals with the experience of being in your 30s and finding out that the world isn't round after all and how sad you can be and how strong emotions can be. It has an introduction called \\\"I Never Felt Such Love\\\". But it's mainly lyric poetry, and I just, I've read so much of that that it's got to be too easy to read and write and everything. So I'll read a few of these. The poets who are mentioned in Curious, it happens that there are a lot of my friends who aren't in the book. Because, again, I wrote it that way, if you know, if that person did not come up, excuse me, from the other side of the page or however that feeling is to be described, if the voice wasn't there or something, for instance I really wanted to do a Roy Kiyooka [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3445789] poem, and you know, I just couldn't and it didn't come and I had wanted to but if I had tried that it just would have been screwed up. Some of these are American, some are Canadians, a couple are English and maybe one or two other things. And the first one is, naturally, Charles Olson [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q922978]. Olson, as you probably know, was about 6 ft 10 and weighed about 300 pounds. And I first met him— I was standing at the bottom of a flight of stairs and he was coming down them. 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I was going to skip this one, but it has a few moments in it.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n01:09:53\\nReads \\\"Stephen Spender\\\" from Curious.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n01:11:18\\nThat's, boy, that's— like you're out on the West Coast where you've never seen a poet before in your life and the first one they bring you is this guy you've been reading in books and he's a white-haired— it's unbelievable. You know, John Newlove's [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6250356]? John Newlove, for those who know John Newlove.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n01:11:36\\nReads \\\"John Newlove\\\" from Curious.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n01:13:08\\nThat last part is from a title of one of his books. David McFadden [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5237344] is, this is the David McFadden piece and maybe I'll read it and a couple more. It's not my favourite but it's one that I like reading. David McFadden— well, it tells you what he's like, but David McFadden is a— he scared the hell out of Allen Ginsberg [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6711] because he writes really funny poems, like he literally has things, like he walks out into the backyard and sees the Archangel Gabriel [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q81989] or a space man and just talks to it and talks about it in the story of the poem a paragraph after he's talked about going out and buying some cigarettes or something like that and Ginsberg thought, wow, what a weird spaced out guy, so Victor Coleman [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23882910] took him down to Hamilton [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133116] to see David, David— he's got, as he said in the note of one of his books, \\\"I was born in 1940 and I comb my hair straight back\\\", and in his house, he's got an electric pendulum clock and you know that sort of thing. And Ginsberg took one look and said [inaudible ‘scared’ sound], and ran away. Just couldn't believe it, you know, it's unbelievable. So, David McFadden.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n01:14:30\\nReads \\\"David McFadden\\\" from Curious.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n01:16:24\\nThere wasn't a comma in there, that was the Indian food coming back. Now let's see…\\n\\nAudience Member 1\\n01:16:31\\nAddresses George Bowering [unintelligible; requests poem].\\n\\nGeorge Bowering\\n01:16:33\\nNo, he didn't get in there either, and I'm very sad about that, just people that got in that I wish didn't get in and there's people that didn't get in that I wish did get in. \\n\\nAudience Member 2\\n01:16:44\\n[Unintelligible]...Raymond Souster [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q304129].\\n\\nGeorge Bowering\\n01:16:46\\nYeah, I think I might have skipped over Raymond Souster, the Raymond Souster one is, as you might imagine the shortest one in the book.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n01:16:58\\nReads \\\"Raymond Souster\\\" from Curious.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n01:17:59\\nI got a Purdy one too, but Al weighs 210 pounds. No, I've always made it a policy not to read the ones of somebody that's there. I don't know if there are any other ones that I'm going to read.\\n\\nAudience Member 3\\n01:18:25\\nAddresses George Bowering [unintelligible; requests poem].\\n\\nGeorge Bowering\\n01:18:26\\nYeah, I don't know where the hell it is. I like the Lionel Kearns [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6555690] one actually...Oh I don't know what's happened to the Lionel Kearns one, it's one of my very favourites too. I think maybe, I'll see if I can find the Lionel one in a second then I'll read it and I'll finish off with the bill bissett [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4911496] one. If I just had the book with me it'd be a hell of a lot easier. I don't think I'm going to find the Kearns one. I can't find the Kearns one, it's all about how he can't find anything. This is the bissett one and then I'll finish off with that.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n01:19:30\\nReads bill bissett\\\" from Curious.\\n\\nGeorge Bowering\\n01:21:16\\nThank you.\\n\\nAudience\\n01:21:17\\nApplause. \\n\\nEND\\n01:21:29\\n\",\"notes\":\"George Bowering reads from Autobiology (New Star Books, 1972) and Curious (Coach House Press, 1973), as well as a few poems from unknown sources.\\n\\nList of Poems Read and Time Stamps:\\nPart 1\\n00:00 - Background noise, setting up microphone\\n01:54 - George Bowering introduces reading [INDEX: Al Purdy, review of his book of poems, Al Purdy in the audience]\\n04:12 - Unknown male introduces Bowering [INDEX: Curious published by Coach House Press; In the Flesh; baseball]\\n05:48 - George Bowering introduces “Desert Elm” [INDEX: California, Suzuki Roshi ‘Zen Baseball’; reading tour, Autobiology: written in Montreal, finished in Vancouver; Okanagan region in B.C., elm tree; father’s heart attack]\\n07:22 - Reads “Desert Elm”\\n20:04 - Introduces “Jack Spicer” from Curious [INDEX: Autobiology; reading from Curious, reading for Artie Gold, book about poets]\\n20:43 - Reads “Jack Spicer”\\n22:10 - Explains “Jack Spicer” and introduces “Chapter One: The Raspberries” from Autobiology. [INDEX: Jack Spicer, Summer of 1965, moving to Vancouver, San        \\tFrancisco Poetry Festival, Spicer’s death; Autobiology (about it), writing started in  \\tWestmount (Montreal) and finished in Kitsolano (Vancouver), published the same \\nday as Stan Perksy’s The Day, readings in Vancouver; handwritten page length of Autobiology]\\n24:41 - Reads “Chapter One: The Raspberries”\\n26:06 - Introduces “Chapter Two: The Teeter Totter” [INDEX: artistic process of writing Autobiology; Westmount]\\n27:05 - Reads “Chapter Two: The Teeter Totter”\\n28:22 - Reads “Chapter Three: The Pollywogs”\\n29:31 - Introduces “ Chapter Four: The Flying Dream” [INDEX: reason he started writing poetry]\\n29:40 - Reads “Chapter Four: The Flying Dream”\\n30:54 - Introduces “Chapter Eight: The Breaks” [INDEX: Two sections called “The Breaks”; West-Coast elitism]\\n31:15 - Reads “Chapter Eight: The Breaks”\\n32:24 - Introduces “Chapter Fourteen: Composition”\\n33:02 - Reads “Chapter Fourteen: Composition”\\n34:32 - Reads “Chapter Twenty: The Breaks” [First line “I broke my nose on a girl’s heel...”]\\n35:53 - Reads “Chapter Twenty-One: Come”\\n37:13 - Introduces “Chapter Twenty-Six: The Childhood” [INDEX: Vancouver, community living, Cold Mountain, Esalen, [?] shrinkage]\\n37:56 - Reads “Chapter Twenty-Six: The Childhood”\\n39:05 - Introduces “Chapter Twenty-Seven: St Louis” [INDEX: William Burroughs, T.S. Eliot]\\n39:21 - Reads “Chapter Twenty-Seven: St Louis”\\n40:49 - Introduces “Chapter Forty-Three: The Flesh” [INDEX: series of poems about towns \\tGeorge Bowering lived in]\\n41:23 - Reads “Chapter Forty-Three: The Flesh”\\n42:43 - Introduces “The Operations” [INDEX: Operations, chance, living with his mother; cover of the book is a photo of George and his mother]\\n43:14 - Reads “Chapter Forty-Five: The Operations”\\n44:53 - Reads “Chapter Forty-Seven: The Scars”\\n46:24 - Reads “Chapter Forty-Eight: The Body”\\n47:48 - Talks about Autobiology [INDEX: Tetrology: 1st volume: Geneve: based on a found poem in the Geneve version of the tarot card pack, 2nd volume: Autobiology, 3rd volume: written by Dwight Gardener Book of the Occasional]\\n48:45.59 - END OF RECORDING.\\n\\nPart 2\\n00:00 - George Bowering introduces “The Detroit Tigers” [INDEX: wants to read “The Big Leagues”, book At War with the U.S.; book Curious]\\n00:35 - Reads “The Detroit Tigers”\\n03:11 - Introduces “The Dallas Cowboys” [INDEX: “The Detroit Tigers” written in South       Slocan, B.C.]\\n03:23 - Reads “The Dallas Cowboys”\\n06:11 - Introduces “The Buffalo Sabers” [INDEX: “The San Diego Padres” about smuggling dope into San Diego, Slim Chance (Character), U.S. Army uniform]\\n06:46 - Reads “The Buffalo Sabers”\\n06:52 - Interrupts reading with explanation [INDEX: quotations taken from anthologies of       American poetry, Ohio, Great Anthology: New Poets of England and America edited by Donald Hall; Robert Creeley]\\n07:19 - Resumes reading “The Buffalo Sabers”.\\n10:21 - Introduces “The Minnesota Twins” [INDEX: leaving Buffalo going to Bemidji, Minnesota; Blue Ox and Paul Bunyan statues]\\n10:54 - Reads “The Minnesota Twins”\\n13:40 - Introduces “Charles Olson” from Curious. [INDEX: In the Flesh, Curious: book of the occasional, magazine verse, how strong emotions can be, Introduction: “I Never Felt Such Love”, about poets, how he chose what poets to put in the book, Roy Kiyooka, American, Canadian and British poets; Charles Olson and his first meeting with]\\n15:33 - Reads “Charles Olson”\\n17:11 - Introduces “Margaret Atwood” [INDEX: introduced as “Peggy Has”, Margaret Atwood]\\n17:31 - Reads “Margaret Atwood”\\n18:50 - Introduces “bp Nichol” [INDEX: Vancouver-oriented poets]\\n19:11 - Reads “bp Nichol”\\n20:55 - Introduces “Stephen Spender”\\n21:07 - Reads “Stephen Spender”\\n22:32 - Introduces “John Newlove” [INDEX: explains his first meeting with Stephen Spender]\\n24:23 - Reads “John Newlove”\\n24:23 - Introduces “David McFadden” [INDEX: tells story about how McFadden scared Allen Ginsberg, Victor Coleman]\\n25:44 - Reads “David McFadden”\\n27:28 - Introduces “Raymond Souster”\\n28:13 - Reads “Raymond Souster”\\n29:13 - Introduces “Bill Bissett” [INDEX: Al Purdy poem, Lionel Kearns]\\n30:44 - Reads “Bill Bissett”.\\n32:43.73 - END OF RECORDING.\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"Sound Recording\",\"featured\":\"Yes\",\"public_access_url\":\"https://montreal.spokenweb.ca/sgw-poetry-readings/george-bowering-at-sgwu-1974/\"}]"],"score":4.729413},{"id":"1302","cataloger_name":["Ali,Barillaro"],"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":["George Bowering, Home Recording, 3 March 1967"],"item_title_source":["Cataloguer"],"item_title_note":["Title does not follow the typical formula for this collection, as this reading did not take place at Sir George Williams University, but rather in Bowering's home."],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Home recording"],"item_series_title":["The Poetry Series"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"creator_names":["Bowering, George"],"creator_names_search":["Bowering, George"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/34469976\",\"name\":\"Bowering, George\",\"dates\":\"1935-\",\"notes\":\"Poet, novelist, anthologist and critic George Bowering was born in Penticton, British Columbia in 1935. In 1954 he served in the Royal Canadian Air Force until 1957, when he pursued a Bachelor’s degree in 1960 and a Master’s degree in 1963 from the University of British Columbia. With fellow poets Frank Davey, David Dawson, James Reid, Fred Wah and critic Warren Tallman, he founded Tish in 1961, a poetry newsletter which had monumental reverberations across Canada. This magazine, influenced by styles of the Black Mountain Poets and of the East Coast poetry of Louis Dudek, Raymond Souster and Irving Layton, brought a “new wave” of poetry to Canada. Bowering’s first collection of poetry began with Sticks and Stones (Tishbooks, 1962) with a preface written by Robert Creeley, and was followed by Points on the Grid (Contact Press, 1964) and Man in Yellow Boots (El Corno Emplumado, 1965). Bowering also founded the magazine Imago (1964-1974), which featured critical essays and poetry, and he also contributed to Open Letter as an editor. Bowering then moved eastwards, teaching at the University of Calgary from 1963-1966, enrolled in the Ph.D. program at the University of Western Ontario. A year later, Bowering accepted a position as the writer-in-residence in 1967 at Sir George Williams University (now Concordia University) in Montreal, becoming a lecturer in 1967-1971. Bowering joined the Sir George Williams University Poetry Reading Series Committee in the fall of 1967, which was being run by Roy Kiyooka, Stanton Hoffman and Howard Fink. In 1972 he left Montreal and began a long career teaching at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. He has published over fifty books of poetry, prose, short stories, essays, reviews, plays as well as pieces that combine and defy genres. A selection of his publications are as follows: Genève (Coach House Press, 1971), Autobiology (New Star Books, 1972), Curious (Coach House Press, 1973), In the Flesh (McClelland & Stewart, 1974), Allophanes (Coach House Press, 1976), Burning Water (Beaufort Books, 1980), Caprice (Penguin Books, 1988), Harry’s Fragments (Coach House Press, 1990), Rewriting my Grandfather (Nomados, 2005), Baseball Love (Talonbooks, 2006) and Shall I Compare: July 2006 (George Bowering, 2008). Bowering published his interview with Black Mountain poet Robert Duncan: An Interview, (Coach House Press, 1971), a book-length study on Canadian poet Al Purdy: Al Purdy (Copp Clark, 1970) along with editing several anthologies such as Vibrations: Poems from Youth (Cage, 1970), Fiction of Contemporary Canada (Coach House Press, 1980) and Likely Stories: A Postmodern Sampler (Coach House Oress, 1992). Bowering has won two Governor General Awards, for poetry in 1969 for Rocky Mountain Foot (McClelland & Stewart, 1968) and The Gangs Kosmos (Anasi, 1969); one for fiction in 1980 for Burning Water (Beaufort Books, 1980). 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"],"contents":["George Bowering\n00:00:00\nFirst of all, my apologies for being so late with the tape, and a footnote that the noise in the background, if there is any, will be my wife making supper. \n\nUnknown\n00:00:12\nAmbient sound.\n\nGeorge Bowering\n00:00:17\nFirst I'll read, first I'll read from my first book, Points on the Grid.\n\nUnknown\n00:00:27\n[Cut in tape].\n\nGeorge Bowering\n00:00:32\nThis book published in 1964, by Contact Press. The first poem I'll read is the one called \"Trail\" [feedback sounds].\n\nGeorge Bowering\n00:00:49\nReads \"Trail\" from Points on the Grid.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:01:36\n\"Locus Solus\".\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:01:40\nReads \"Locus Solus\" from Points on the Grid.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:02:42\nI might mention that the difference between this book and the other one is that more often you'll see on the page in this book that I've been working out certain ideas about poetics [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q835023], certain ideas about syntax [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37437], ideas about how to get the page down on the poem, all the things the Tish poets [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2384384] were working out in the early 1960s. As an example, the poem, \"Walking Poem\".\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:03:14\nReads \"Walking Poem\" from Points on the Grid.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:04:22\nI might mention, according to our poetics, or according to my poetics in that poem you'll see things operating such as a rhyme between the word 'shadow' and the word 'bashful'. \"Family\".\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:04:39\nReads \"Family\" from Points on the Grid.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:05:33\nThe following is the poem that I think is the best in the book, and that I think most people whom I've talked to agree this is the best poem in the book. \"Grandfather\".\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:05:47\nReads \"Grandfather\" from Points on the Grid.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:07:25\n\"For A.\".\n \nAnnotation\n00:07:28\nReads \"For A.\" from Points on the Grid.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:07:49\nOne thing that separates Western Canada [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1145847] from Eastern Canada [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q795077] is the Spanish names of Western Canada and the Spaniards [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q160894] left their names all the way up the coast, not only in California and Oregon. This poem, set partly in Vancouver [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24639] and partly on the rest of the B.C. coast is called \"Spanish B.C.\".\n\nGeorge Bowering\n00:08:11\nReads \"Spanish B.C\" from Points on the Grid.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:10:34\nI suppose I'd better read the title poem, \"Points on the Grid\".\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:10:42\nReads \"Points on the Grid\" from Points on the Grid.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:12:10\nI might mention, just for the record, that many of the things that I learned and tried to practice in that first book, I learned originally from poets such as Robert Duncan [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q964391], Robert Creeley [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q918620], Charles Olson [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q922978], all of whom visited Vancouver and helped the young poets in Vancouver out, very much, in learning about poetry. Now I plan to read from The Man in Yellow Boots, published this year, 1965, and in this book, I tend to move away from experimentation [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1384425], although I still retain many of the things that I tried to work out in the first book. In this book one of the things that I often do is turn to more social issues. First though, let me read the love poem that begins the book, this poem called \"To Cleave\".\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:13:14\nReads \"To Cleave\" from The Man in Yellow Boots.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:13:43\nThis book is a bilingual book, unfortunately not with French [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q150], but with Spanish [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1321] and just this once I'm going to see if I can read the Spanish version of the poem I just read. Spanish is called \"Penetrar\".\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:13:58\nReads \"Penetrar\" from The Man in Yellow Boots in Spanish.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:14:39\nIncidentally as a poetic note, some of that scratching and scrabbling noise in the background is my two small dogs beating each other up. This poem called \"Moon Shadow\".\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:14:54\nReads \"Moon Shadow\" from The Man in Yellow Boots.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:16:03\nThis then, is the other side of my poetry, this poem called \"Vox Crapulous\".\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:16:09\nReads \"Vox Crapulous\" from The Man in Yellow Boots.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:17:31\nFurther in that vein, this poem’s written October 16, 1964: a momentous day. This poem is called \"The Day Before the Chinese A-Bomb\".\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:17:46.49\nReads \"The Day Before the Chinese A-Bomb\" from The Man in Yellow Boots.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:18:29\nThis a longer poem, I think one of the two best poems in the book the other one being \"The Descent\", this poem's called \"For WCW\"\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:18:39\nReads \"For WCW\" from The Man in Yellow Boots.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:21:16\nThis poem, written during our visit to Mexico [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96] in 1964, called \"Esta Muy Caliente\" and the reason it's not called \"Hace Mucho Calor\" is because of something inherent in the Spanish language that those that know will understand.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:21:35\nReads \"Esta Muy Caliente\" from The Man in Yellow Boots.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:23:09\nI think the following is the best poem in this book, it's called \"The Descent\", the title taken from a William Carlos Williams [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q178106] poem of course.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:23:18.83\nReads \"The Descent\" from The Man in Yellow Boots.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:29:09\nAnd the last poem in the book, \"Breaking Up, Breaking Out\".\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:29:14\nReads \"Breaking Up, Breaking Out\" from The Man in Yellow Boots.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:30:03\nNow, some newer poems, while there's time. This newest one called \"The Oil\", written after a drive to Edmonton [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2096] and back from Calgary [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36312].\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:30:14\nReads \"The Oil\" [published later in Rocky Mountain Foot: a lyric, a memoir].\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:32:03\nHere's a short poem called \"I Saw\".\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:32:07\nReads \"I Saw\".\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:32:20\nOkay, when I've just about come to the end of this side of the tape and I don't think I'll use the other side so that you can use it for somebody else, and once again I'm terribly sorry for being so late with this tape, and also if that does seem a loss, I'm sorry for not saying more things about poetry, I've been doing that less and less the further and further I've been getting away from Vancouver. So, Merry Christmas!\n \nEND\n00:32:58\n"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Year-specific Information:\\n\\nIn 1967, George Bowering had been hired at Sir George Williams University and was on the Reading Series Committee. Bowering was also editing his magazine Imago in Montreal.\",\"type\":\"General\"},{\"note\":\"Local connections:\\n\\nGeorge Bowering was very influential in promoting and enriching the Vancouver poetry scene in the early 1960s, through his magazines Tish and Imago as well as the hundreds of connections he made with other poets. His early connections with the Black Mountain Poets and the relationships he made with Canadian poets from Vancouver across Canada to Montreal  have been essential because he bridged the gap of distance and made new types of poetry available to young poets. Montrealer Louis Dudek wrote that Bowering’s “most important contribution to the new generation of Montreal poets was the institution of a series of readings at Sir George [Williams University] which exposed them to the diverse experimentation that was taking place across Canada and the U.S.”[1] . Bowering has anthologized many Canadian poets, as well as publishing over fifty books of his own writing, establishing himself as an important figure in Canadian poetry. \",\"type\":\"General\"},{\"note\":\"Original transcript, research, introduction and edits by Celyn Harding-Jones\\n\\nAdditional research and edits by Faith Paré (2020) & Ali Barillaro (2021)\\n\",\"type\":\"Cataloguer\"},{\"note\":\"Reel-to-reel tape>CD>digital file\",\"type\":\"Preservation\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/rocky-mountain-foot-a-lyric-a-memoir/oclc/962929125&referer=brief_results\",\"citation\":\"Bowering, George. Rocky Mountain Foot: a lyric, a memoir. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1968. \"},{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/concrete-island-montreal-poems-1967-1971/oclc/15849512&referer=brief_results\",\"citation\":\"Bowering, George. The Concrete Island: Montreal poems, 1967-1971. Montreal: Vehicule Press, 1977. \"},{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/points-on-the-grid/oclc/3391688&referer=brief_results\",\"citation\":\"Bowering, George. Points on the Grid. Toronto: Contact Press, 1964. \"},{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/contemporary-canadian-poem-anthology/oclc/802667762&referer=brief_results\",\"citation\":\"Bowering, George. (ed). The Contemporary Canadian Poem Anthology. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1984. \"},{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/montreal-english-poetry-of-the-seventies/oclc/757254674&referer=brief_results\",\"citation\":\"Farkas, Andre & Ken Norris, ed. Montreal English Poetry of the Seventies. 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London: Routledge, 1994. \"},{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/record-of-writing-an-annotated-and-illustrated-bibliography-of-george-bowering/oclc/797558365&referer=brief_results\",\"citation\":\"Miki, Roy. A Record of Writing: an annotated and illustrated bibliography of George Bowering. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1990. \"},{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/canadian-writers-since-1960-first-series/oclc/883361320&referer=brief_results\",\"citation\":\"Quartermain, Peter and Meredith. \\\"George Bowering.\\\" Canadian Writers Since 1960: \\nFirst Series. Ed. William H. New. Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 53. Detroit: Gale Research, 1986. \"},{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/from-there-to-here-a-guide-to-english-canadian-literature-since-1960/oclc/962929534&referer=brief_results\",\"citation\":\"Davey, Frank. From There to Here: A Guide to English-Canadian Literature Since 1960. Ontario: Press Porcepic, 1974 .\"},{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/man-in-the-yellow-boots-el-hombre-de-las-botas-amarillas/oclc/1150284247&referer=brief_results\",\"citation\":\"Bowering, George and Sergio Mondragon. The Man in Yellow Boots. Mexico: El Corno Emplumado, 1965. \"}]"],"_version_":1853670548964376576,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:53.477Z","digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"00:32:58\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"George Bowering\\n00:00:00\\nFirst of all, my apologies for being so late with the tape, and a footnote that the noise in the background, if there is any, will be my wife making supper. \\n\\nUnknown\\n00:00:12\\nAmbient sound.\\n\\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:00:17\\nFirst I'll read, first I'll read from my first book, Points on the Grid.\\n\\nUnknown\\n00:00:27\\n[Cut in tape].\\n\\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:00:32\\nThis book published in 1964, by Contact Press. The first poem I'll read is the one called \\\"Trail\\\" [feedback sounds].\\n\\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:00:49\\nReads \\\"Trail\\\" from Points on the Grid.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:01:36\\n\\\"Locus Solus\\\".\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:01:40\\nReads \\\"Locus Solus\\\" from Points on the Grid.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:02:42\\nI might mention that the difference between this book and the other one is that more often you'll see on the page in this book that I've been working out certain ideas about poetics [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q835023], certain ideas about syntax [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37437], ideas about how to get the page down on the poem, all the things the Tish poets [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2384384] were working out in the early 1960s. As an example, the poem, \\\"Walking Poem\\\".\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:03:14\\nReads \\\"Walking Poem\\\" from Points on the Grid.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:04:22\\nI might mention, according to our poetics, or according to my poetics in that poem you'll see things operating such as a rhyme between the word 'shadow' and the word 'bashful'. \\\"Family\\\".\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:04:39\\nReads \\\"Family\\\" from Points on the Grid.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:05:33\\nThe following is the poem that I think is the best in the book, and that I think most people whom I've talked to agree this is the best poem in the book. \\\"Grandfather\\\".\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:05:47\\nReads \\\"Grandfather\\\" from Points on the Grid.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:07:25\\n\\\"For A.\\\".\\n \\nAnnotation\\n00:07:28\\nReads \\\"For A.\\\" from Points on the Grid.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:07:49\\nOne thing that separates Western Canada [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1145847] from Eastern Canada [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q795077] is the Spanish names of Western Canada and the Spaniards [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q160894] left their names all the way up the coast, not only in California and Oregon. This poem, set partly in Vancouver [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24639] and partly on the rest of the B.C. coast is called \\\"Spanish B.C.\\\".\\n\\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:08:11\\nReads \\\"Spanish B.C\\\" from Points on the Grid.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:10:34\\nI suppose I'd better read the title poem, \\\"Points on the Grid\\\".\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:10:42\\nReads \\\"Points on the Grid\\\" from Points on the Grid.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:12:10\\nI might mention, just for the record, that many of the things that I learned and tried to practice in that first book, I learned originally from poets such as Robert Duncan [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q964391], Robert Creeley [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q918620], Charles Olson [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q922978], all of whom visited Vancouver and helped the young poets in Vancouver out, very much, in learning about poetry. Now I plan to read from The Man in Yellow Boots, published this year, 1965, and in this book, I tend to move away from experimentation [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1384425], although I still retain many of the things that I tried to work out in the first book. In this book one of the things that I often do is turn to more social issues. First though, let me read the love poem that begins the book, this poem called \\\"To Cleave\\\".\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:13:14\\nReads \\\"To Cleave\\\" from The Man in Yellow Boots.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:13:43\\nThis book is a bilingual book, unfortunately not with French [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q150], but with Spanish [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1321] and just this once I'm going to see if I can read the Spanish version of the poem I just read. Spanish is called \\\"Penetrar\\\".\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:13:58\\nReads \\\"Penetrar\\\" from The Man in Yellow Boots in Spanish.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:14:39\\nIncidentally as a poetic note, some of that scratching and scrabbling noise in the background is my two small dogs beating each other up. This poem called \\\"Moon Shadow\\\".\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:14:54\\nReads \\\"Moon Shadow\\\" from The Man in Yellow Boots.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:16:03\\nThis then, is the other side of my poetry, this poem called \\\"Vox Crapulous\\\".\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:16:09\\nReads \\\"Vox Crapulous\\\" from The Man in Yellow Boots.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:17:31\\nFurther in that vein, this poem’s written October 16, 1964: a momentous day. This poem is called \\\"The Day Before the Chinese A-Bomb\\\".\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:17:46.49\\nReads \\\"The Day Before the Chinese A-Bomb\\\" from The Man in Yellow Boots.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:18:29\\nThis a longer poem, I think one of the two best poems in the book the other one being \\\"The Descent\\\", this poem's called \\\"For WCW\\\"\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:18:39\\nReads \\\"For WCW\\\" from The Man in Yellow Boots.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:21:16\\nThis poem, written during our visit to Mexico [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96] in 1964, called \\\"Esta Muy Caliente\\\" and the reason it's not called \\\"Hace Mucho Calor\\\" is because of something inherent in the Spanish language that those that know will understand.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:21:35\\nReads \\\"Esta Muy Caliente\\\" from The Man in Yellow Boots.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:23:09\\nI think the following is the best poem in this book, it's called \\\"The Descent\\\", the title taken from a William Carlos Williams [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q178106] poem of course.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:23:18.83\\nReads \\\"The Descent\\\" from The Man in Yellow Boots.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:29:09\\nAnd the last poem in the book, \\\"Breaking Up, Breaking Out\\\".\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:29:14\\nReads \\\"Breaking Up, Breaking Out\\\" from The Man in Yellow Boots.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:30:03\\nNow, some newer poems, while there's time. This newest one called \\\"The Oil\\\", written after a drive to Edmonton [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2096] and back from Calgary [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36312].\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:30:14\\nReads \\\"The Oil\\\" [published later in Rocky Mountain Foot: a lyric, a memoir].\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:32:03\\nHere's a short poem called \\\"I Saw\\\".\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:32:07\\nReads \\\"I Saw\\\".\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:32:20\\nOkay, when I've just about come to the end of this side of the tape and I don't think I'll use the other side so that you can use it for somebody else, and once again I'm terribly sorry for being so late with this tape, and also if that does seem a loss, I'm sorry for not saying more things about poetry, I've been doing that less and less the further and further I've been getting away from Vancouver. So, Merry Christmas!\\n \\nEND\\n00:32:58\\n\",\"notes\":\"George Bowering reads from Points on the Grid (Contact, 1964), The Man in Yellow Boots (El Corno Emplumado, 1965) as well as one poem published later in Rocky Mountain Foot: a lyric, a memoir (1968). \\n\\nList of Poems Read and Time Stamps:\\n00:00 - George Bowering introduces reading [INDEX: Points on the Grid ]\\n00:49 - Reads “Trail”\\n01:36 - Reads “Locus Solus” [INDEX: not on Howard Fink list of poems]\\n02:42 - Introduces “Walking Poem” [INDEX: Points on the Grid, Man in Yellow Boots, poetics, syntax, Tish poets in the early 1960’s]\\n03:14 - Reads “Walking Poem”\\n04:22 - Introduces “Family” [INDEX: poetics: rhyme]\\n04:39 - Reads “Family”\\n05:33 - Introduces “Grandfather”\\n05:47 - Reads “Grandfather”\\n07:25 - Reads “For A.”\\n07:49 - Introduces “Spanish B.C.” [INDEX: differences between Eastern and Western Canada, Spaniards on West Coast of North America, Vancouver]\\n08:11 - Reads “Spanish B.C.”\\n10:34 - Reads “Points on the Grid”\\n12:10 - Introduces “To Cleave” [INDEX: Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, young poets in Vancouver, The Man in Yellow Boots, experimentation in poetry]\\n13:14 - Reads “To Cleave”\\n13:43 - Introduces “Penetrar” [INDEX: not on Howard Fink List.]\\n13:58 - Reads “Penetrar”\\n14:39 - Introduces “Moon Shadow”\\n14:54 - Reads “Moon Shadow”\\n16:03 - Introduces “Vox Crappulous”\\n16:09 - Reads “Vox Crappulous”\\n17:31 - Introduces “The Day Before the Chinese A-Bomb” [INDEX: October 16, 1964]\\n17:46 - Reads “The Day Before the Chinese A-Bomb”\\n18:29 - Introduces “For W.C.W.” [INDEX: “The Descent”, William Carlos Williams]\\n18:39 - Reads “For W.C.W.”\\n21:16 - Introduces “Esta Muy Caliente” [INDEX: written during trip to Mexico in 1964, Spanish language]\\n23:09 - Reads “Esta Muy Caliente”\\n23:09 - Introduces “The Descent” [INDEX: William Carlos Williams poem]\\n23:18 - Reads “The Descent”\\n29:09 - Introduces “Breaking Up, Breaking Out”\\n29:14 - Reads “Breaking Up, Breaking Out”\\n30:03 - Introduces “The Oil” [INDEX: drive from Edmonton to Calgary, poem from \\nunknown source]\\n32:03 - Reads “The Oil”\\n32:03 - Reads “I Saw” [INDEX: poem from unknown source]\\n32:20 - George Bowering closes the reading [INDEX: talking about poetry, being away from Vancouver, Merry Christmas!]\\n\\nHoward Fink List of Poems:\\n“George Bowering” reading his own poetry\\nMarch 3, 1967\\nreel info: one, 5” tape, 3 3/4 ips, mono, one track, lasting 25 mins.\\n*note: some poems are missing from this list*\\n“Steps of love” is noted as being between “Walking Poem” and “Family”\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"Sound Recording\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"},{\"file_url\":\"https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-0cAe1GF8xZsc62jpUDXwgvyCd6ZmvSw\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"I0086_11_0006_back.jpg\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"George Bowering Tape Box 1 - Back\",\"credit\":\"Drew Bernet\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"Photograph\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"},{\"file_url\":\"https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-0cAe1GF8xZsc62jpUDXwgvyCd6ZmvSw\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"I0086_11_0006_front.jpg\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"George Bowering Tape Box 1 - Front\",\"credit\":\"Drew Bernet\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"Photograph\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"},{\"file_url\":\"https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-0cAe1GF8xZsc62jpUDXwgvyCd6ZmvSw\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"I0086_11_0006_side.jpg\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"George Bowering Tape Box 1 - Spine\",\"credit\":\"Drew Bernet\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"Photograph\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"},{\"file_url\":\"https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-0cAe1GF8xZsc62jpUDXwgvyCd6ZmvSw\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"I0086_11_0006_tape.jpg\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"George Bowering Tape Box 1 - Reel\",\"credit\":\"Drew Bernet\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"Photograph\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"score":4.729413}]