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Quite a few of these recordings are unique copies, not to be found elsewhere."],"collection_source_collection_id":["MsC 199"],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["Gerry Gilbert reading at the College of New Caledonia, 1973 #222"],"item_title_source":["J-card and inventory"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["Gilbert, Gerry"],"creator_names_search":["Gilbert, Gerry"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/13554305\",\"name\":\"Gilbert, Gerry\",\"dates\":\"1936-2009\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]}]"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[]}]"],"Production_Date":[1973],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"../Uploads/7382/Readings in BC_MsC199_222.jpg\",\"other\":\"J-card\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"\",\"generations\":\"Second generation from Reel-to-Reel\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"Stereo\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Poor\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"\",\"physical_condition\":\"Excellent\",\"track_configuration\":\"2 track\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"Black and white clear jewel case with J card\",\"other_physical_description\":\"\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"playback_mode":["Stereo"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"222-side-1.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T01:12:35\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"73.3 MB \",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"},{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"222-side-2.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:46:22\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"46.8 MB \",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1973\",\"type\":\"Production Date\",\"notes\":\"\",\"source\":\"Inventory\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/443237227\",\"venue\":\"The College of New Caledonia\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\" Imperial Parking, 3330 22 Ave, Prince George, BC V2N 1P8\",\"latitude\":\"53.90687\",\"longitude\":\"-122.78621\"}]"],"Address":[" Imperial Parking, 3330 22 Ave, Prince George, BC V2N 1P8"],"Venue":["The College of New Caledonia"],"content_notes":["SFU BC Readings formatting"],"contents":["Side\tTrack\tNo.\tComments\nOne\t\t000\tReads “Shares”\n\t\t137\t“These poems were written after the death of my grandmother”\n\t\t140\t“She can wish you away…”\n\t\t142\t“Breathing stopped last night/peace…”\n\t\t147\t“Gulls on the water…”\n\t\t154\t“I really think that the era of tape recorders and cameras and snap shot albums is equivalent to the era of sonnets… or of popular verse forms…”\n\t\t175\t“These two poems were just done as (?) people told me…”\n\t\t177\t“Is nothing sacred?  Feel this…”\n\t\t183\t“In Rupert in 1943...”\n\t\t185\t“How to get a salmon out of a gill net…”\n\t\t190\t“Catch rock cod near shore/alive…”\n\t\t200\t“Net all the herring and you lose/the salmon…”\n\t\t209\t“You think you’ll sink?...”\n\t\t212\tHere’s a couple of short sets…\n\t\t221\t“Hot sweat breaks out…”\n\t\t226\t“Alphabet…”\n\t\t232\t“Scissors measure very nicely…”\n\t\t242\t“A sequence in which many of the poems are quite discrete…”\n\t\t246\t“Summer ‘71”\n\t\t252\t“It’s better to be at work than to wait for inspiration… what the poem becomes is receptacle for everything that could usefully be noted down, and sometimes even poems, in the sense of litte (?) lyrics.”\n\t\t262\tReads “I kept hearing Roy say ‘It’s this big!’”\n\t\t273\t“My boot heel got chewed in by the spoke/on this motorcycle wheel…”\n\t\t283\t“Love I want to grow home…”\n\t\t300\t“Eatin’ rice you get grain damage…”\n\t\t310\tSpeaks about stories\n\t\t319\tReads “A Tree of Knowledge,” a dream\n\t\t381\tReads “A rehearsal for a performance” (by dancer Yvonne Rainer)\n\t\t404\t“She hole he bang” (See Grounds)\n\t\t407\t“Crazy riding, sleeping, sweating…”\n\t\t410\tReads short pieces\n\t\t420\t“This was written at… a small beach near Long Beach, on the west coast of the island…”  Reads “I looked at the Pacific Ocean and fell asleep for a day…”\n\t\t433\t“Living is adventure.  Listen to everything…”\n\t\t444\t“Victor”\n\t\t457\t“I reach for something to break by throwing it…”\n\t\t463\tReads a poem for Robert Duncan: “Slow Dylan, Robert Duncan faint”\n\t\t500\t“This is [a poem about] the gentleman on the ferry who was lying down… his name was Johnny.”  Reads “We were coming from a John Wayne western, Max and me…”\n\t\t540\t“This is a biography of the wars I’ve heard about…”\n\t\t564\t“My favourite star is Anne Murray…”\n\t\t619\t“Here’s another piece of history: ‘November 19, ’71, Grey Cup broadcast’\n\t\t676\tSpeaks of poem in The Village Voice regarding Joel Oppenheimer’s love of a World War II plane the “Air Cuba”\n\t\t693\tReads “A letter to Joel Oppenheimer (and Clark Walton who wrote the poem)”\n\t\t734\tPause between 734 and 753\n\t\t753\t“Another daughter Tamsen/born 7”10 A.M.”\n\t\t766\t“Mine, the legacy, the other tradition…”\n\t\t770\t“Man Nuvalle”\n\t\t809\t“This poem’s from a book called “Phone Book” (Reads “Up to your nut in fucking shells…”)\n\t\t828\t“A Green Setting Sun…”\n\t\t839\t“Afterwords, wars…”\n\t\t850\t“Why don’t I come in out of the cold…”\n\t\t864\t“You can’t see the key, you have to reach for it…”\n\t\t879\t“This is for the Linda to remember by…”\n\t\t900\t“This is for the Hunchback of Notre Dame…”\n\t\t937\t“It is raining, come into the kitchen…”\n\t\t964\tThese are the words out of an era in London, 1964\n\t\t969\t“I heard of a man who cut his throat…”\n\t\t1013\t“This is written in New York on the way back from there (London) to here…”\n\t\t1018\tSoundbreaks off – end of side one\nTwo\t\t000\tBegins mid-poem: “…I want to lie and I can’t find any…”\n\t\t006\t“We are talking about going to Brasilia in 1973…”\n\t\t016\t“Babyland Blues”\n\t\t059\t“This was written on a bus going west across the prairies, called ‘Ticket’”\n\t\t081\t“I edit a small literary magazine called The British Columbia Monthly.  I’d like to read some of the things I’ve written in The B.C. Monthly.”\n\t\t091\t“A letter from Luke Warmwater, Sheriff of Element County…”\n\t\t096\t“How to make a movie…”\n\t\t105\t“A letter: how to lunch with a friend…”\n\t\t110\t“The Milky Way”\n\t\t130\t“I’ll finish with a section of “Lease”.”\n\t\t165\t“These are the poems… spring time poems.”\n\t\t187\t“Slugs are too fast”\n\t\t191\t“Fly away fly”\n\t\t197\tEnds"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Liner Notes: Gerry Gilbert Reading at The College of New Caledonia in 1973 \\nSide 1: 44:45 min \\nSide 2: 34:15 min \\nMuffled sound, noisy Dolby B\",\"type\":\"General\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670554194673666,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:58.590Z","score":2.6332896}]