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Long poem, Kerrisdale Elegies. Relationship with Rilke’s Duino Elegies, a rewriting for Vancouver in the 80s. The work consists of ten elegies, George Bowering reads #4 and #10.\n- [00:01:04] Elegy #4. Interjection #1: This poems speak to him, which is a true story, he did hear his father’s voice. Interjection #2: George Bowering chooses to skip over some French “because it’s so bad” (no laughter heard). Interjection #3: Poetry described by someone as “musical thought,” which George Bowering thought was “less than apt”\n- [00:08:59] Elegy #10. Relates to the concerns of the event – narrative influence. Interjection: “Really uplifting stuff, huh? Really sad.”\n- [00:18:55] Poem that George Bowering wants on his tombstone, “Oh lord if I have but one life to live, I hope this ain’t it” (laughter).\n- [00:19:25] Describes a new book of old poems, poems which are publically and socially oriented\n- [00:20:14] American Cops. 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Musical accompaniment through recording.\n- “I have a suspicion that we are all the novelists of our own lives”\n- The reader of Hawkes’ work is not Robert Kroetsch.\n- Robert Kroetsch discusses John Hawkes. The Lime Twig was set in Britain, Hawkes is rumoured never to have visited. It is a balance between control and loss of control, daydream, reverie, and fantasy. Erotic forces and language of erotics. The landscape and violence that intrudes upon it.\n- [00:08:45] Robert Kroetsch trying to wrestle with Canadian humour and the terrifying, and how those two can exist within each other. Innocence comes through loss. Comedy and terror flow together.\n- [00:16:24] Robert Kroetsch: blood and oranges both speak to fertility rites. Daydreaming of creating new self. In Hawkes the idea of self is replaced by idea of role – “we are each a bundle of contending and related roles”\n- [00:19:51] Robert Kroetsch: writers work to surprise. The translation of pure desire into complexity of love. The question of “who is safe?”\n- [00:21:54] Robert Kroetsch: We are obsessively in our own minds inventing the who/where of our lives. Hawkes as gothic writer: innocence, desire, self-deception, courage. “We make up the stories of our lives and then, in fear and laughter, act them out.”\n- Recording directed to the attention of Geraldine Sherman, State of the Arts."],"contents":["Robert Kroetsch\n[00:00:05]\nIntroduces the novels of John Hawkes, The Lime Twig (1961); The Blood Oranges (1971); Death, Sleep & the Traveler (1974). \nUnknown \n[00:01:57]\nReads from The Lime Twig. \nRobert Kroetsch\n[00:05:34]\nDiscusses The Lime Twig.\nUnknown \n[00:06:40]\nReads from The Lime Twig.\nRobert Kroetsch \n[00:08:45]\nDiscusses The Lime Twig. \nUnknown \n[00:09:26]\nReads from The Lime Twig.\nRobert Kroetsch\n[00:11:06]\nDiscusses The Lime Twig.\nUnknown \n[00:11:54]\nReads from The Blood Oranges.\nRobert Kroetsch\n[00:13:58]\nDiscusses The Blood Oranges.\nUnknown\n[00:14:18]\nReads from The Blood Oranges.\nRobert Kroetsch  \n[00:16:24]\nDiscusses The Blood Oranges.\nUnknown\n[00:17:21]\nReads from Death, Sleep and the Traveler.\nRobert Kroetsch \n[00:19:51]\nDiscusses Death, Sleep and the Traveler.\nUnknown\n[00:20:28]\nReads from Death, Sleep and the Traveler.\nRobert Kroetsch\n[00:21:54]\nDiscusses Death, Sleep and the Traveler."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"John Hawkes, The Lime Twig (1961); The Blood Oranges (1971); Death, Sleep & the Traveler (1974)\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558517952514,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":3.4930124},{"id":"8347","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Robert Kroetsch fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Robert Kroetsch fonds"],"collection_contributing_unit":["University of Calgary, Archives and Special Collections"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_id":[""],"persistent_url":["https://searcharchives.ucalgary.ca/robert-kroetsch-fonds"],"item_title":["Ida Babcock"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[29.9]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2034"],"creator_names":["Kroetsch, Robert"],"creator_names_search":["Kroetsch, Robert"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/120613489\",\"name\":\"Kroetsch, Robert\",\"dates\":\"1927-2011\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Author\",\"Performer\"]}]"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[]}]"],"Performance_Date":[1984],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"A and B\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"BASF\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Poor\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"\",\"physical_condition\":\"Good\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"\",\"other_physical_description\":\"Background noise significant.\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"RK_Acc_775_04.25.29-9\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T01:32:39\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"1.49 GB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1984-09-19\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Dates taken from container and/or accompanying material.\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"Morden, Manitoba, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"Address":["Morden, Manitoba, Canada"],"content_notes":["Conversation, stories to Robert Kroetsch and others by Ida Babcock.\n- Recording of Robert Kroetsch and others interviewing Ida Babcock. Other interviewers are not identified. Trying to learn and (presumably) preserve Robert Kroetsch family history.\n- Stories of travelling through Alberta, including Heisler. Picking berries, hitchhiking, cooking in a bush camp near Smithers\n- Ida Babcock (née Robert Kroetsch) 1900-1996: widowed at 41, no children. Only educated to grade three. Family moved to Langdon, Alberta in 1910.\n- Babcock shows pictures to Robert Kroetsch et al.\n"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558520049665,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":3.4930124},{"id":"8376","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Robert Kroetsch fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Robert Kroetsch fonds"],"collection_contributing_unit":["University of Calgary, Archives and Special Collections"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_id":[""],"persistent_url":["https://searcharchives.ucalgary.ca/robert-kroetsch-fonds"],"item_title":["The Bards of March: Mar 15/86 Barbour/Prize Draw/Kroetsch (Nichol) Van Herk B Wiebe"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[29.10.1]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2036"],"creator_names":["Kroetsch, Robert"],"creator_names_search":["Kroetsch, Robert"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/120613489\",\"name\":\"Kroetsch, Robert\",\"dates\":\"1927-2011\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Author\",\"Performer\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Barbour, Doug","Nichol, B.P.","Van Herk, Aritha","Wiebe, Rudy"],"contributors_names_search":["Barbour, Doug","Nichol, B.P.","Van Herk, Aritha","Wiebe, Rudy"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Barbour, Doug \",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/76350280\",\"name\":\"Nichol, B.P.\",\"dates\":\"1944-1988\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/110789564\",\"name\":\"Van Herk, Aritha\",\"dates\":\"-1954\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/39385421\",\"name\":\"Wiebe, Rudy\",\"dates\":\"-1934\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]}]"],"performer_name":["Barbour, Doug ","Nichol, B.P.","Van Herk, Aritha","Wiebe, Rudy"],"Performance_Date":[1986],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"A and B\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"XHE\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Good\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"\",\"physical_condition\":\"Good\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"\",\"other_physical_description\":\"\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"RK_Acc_775_04.25.29.10-1\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T00:59:20\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"978.34 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1986-03-15\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Dates taken from container and/or accompanying material.\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"Edmonton [?], Alberta, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"Address":["Edmonton [?], Alberta, Canada"],"City":["Edmonton, Alberta"],"content_notes":["\nReadings as well as prize draws for the NeWest event.\n- Doug Barbour, two poems about jazz: “Alone on the Road” and “That Gone Tune”. “That Gone Tune” inspired by listening to Dave Holland Quintet at the Yardbird Suite (jazz club in Edmonton). Third poem “For a Branch of Almond Tree in Bloom, 1890” a sonnet responding to Vincent van Gogh’s iconic “Branch of Almond Tree in Bloom” (find now as “Almond Blossom”). Untitled mixing sound and poetry, begins with epigraph from review Smaro Kambourelli wrote of Phyllis Webb.\n- Recording includes prize draw by Jack Lewis (NeWest manager): Rudy Wiebe giving away his books (Wiebe helped organize the event), art prize.\n- Robert Kroetsch (read by bpNichol): Nichol qualifies to read Robert Kroetsch because his father was born in Alberta. Nichol notes that Kroestch seeks to displace the “I” in his poetry, and this is about as far as he can displace it. Reading from section Advice to My Friends, \"1: For a Poet Who Has Stopped Writing,\" \"14: I Find Myself Reading the Old Guys Now December 6th 1983,\" \"Sonnet #1,\" \"I'm Getting Old Now,\" \"Sonnet #5\"; reading from section Sounding the Name, \"Sonnet for My Daughters\"; reading from section The Poet's Mother \"1,\" \"3,\" \"Envoy, To Begin With.\"\n- Aritha Van Herk: Reading from No Fixed Address: something is playing in the background during the reading. Section pertains to characters going to poetry reading, feminist and ironic view of poetry by novelists.\n- Rudy Wiebe: Reading from The Temptation of Big Bear, the last and only speech of big Bear, post-conviction.\n"],"contents":["Doug Barbour  \n[00:00:56]\nReads \"Alone on the Road\".\nDoug Barbour\n[00:03:30]\nReads \"That Gone Tune\".\nDoug Barbour\n[00:08:25]\nReads \"For a Branch of Almond Tree in Bloom, 1890\".\nUnknown\n[00:09:45]\nUntitled [begins with epigraph from review Smaro Kambourelli wrote of Phyllis Webb].\nB.P. Nichol\n[00:20:15]\nReads \"1: For a Poet Who Has Stopped Writing\" by Robert Kroetsch.\nB.P. Nichol\n[00:21:30]\nReads \"14: I Find Myself Reading the Old Guys Now December 6th 1983\" by Robert Kroetsch.\nB.P. Nichol\n[00:22:31]\nReads \"Sonnet #1\" by Robert Kroetsch.\nB.P. Nichol\n[00:23:32]\nReads \"I'm Getting Old Now\" by Robert Kroetsch.\nB.P. Nichol\n[00:24:42]\nReads \"Sonnet #5\" by Robert Kroetsch.\nB.P. Nichol\n[00:25:15]\nReads \"Sonnet for My Daughters\" by Robert Kroetsch.\nB.P. Nichol\n[00:26:00]\nReads \"1\" by Robert Kroetsch.\nB.P. Nichol\n[00:26:31]\nReads \"3\" by Robert Kroetsch.\nB.P. Nichol\n[00:27:05]\nReads \"Envoy, To Begin With\" by Robert Kroetsch.\nAritha Van Herk\n[00:30:57]\nReads excerpt from No Fixed Address.\nRuby Wiebe\n[00:47:04]\nReads excerpt from The Temptation of Big Bear."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"Kroetsch, Advice to My Friends. Van Herk, No Fixed Address. Wiebe, The Tempation of Big Bear.\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558525292544,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":3.4930124},{"id":"8377","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Robert Kroetsch fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Robert Kroetsch fonds"],"collection_contributing_unit":["University of Calgary, Archives and Special Collections"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_id":[""],"persistent_url":["https://searcharchives.ucalgary.ca/robert-kroetsch-fonds"],"item_title":["Robert Kroetsch"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Professional box with marbled paper, embossed stamp, and leather embossed title."],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Classroom recording"],"item_identifiers":["[29.11]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2037"],"creator_names":["Kroetsch, Robert"],"creator_names_search":["Kroetsch, Robert"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/120613489\",\"name\":\"Kroetsch, Robert\",\"dates\":\"1927-2011\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Author\",\"Performer\"]}]"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[]}]"],"Performance_Date":[1987],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"A\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"Sony\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Good\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"\",\"physical_condition\":\"Good\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"\",\"other_physical_description\":\"Somewhat grainy.\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"RK_Acc_775_04.25.29-11\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T00:57:50\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"953.11 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1987-03-10\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Dates taken from item.\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"National Library of Canada\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"Ottawa, Ontario, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"Address":["Ottawa, Ontario, Canada"],"Venue":["National Library of Canada"],"City":["Ottawa, Ontario"],"content_notes":["Card inside box.\n- Introduction. Robert Kroetsch begins speaking at 2:11. The last time he was in the building was fifteen years ago doing research for Badlands, and is going to read from Badlands as a sort of thank you. First came upon the material by accident while travelling around Alberta, the kind of story he likes to parody in his writing, but through the archive came to have a sympathy for the men. Reads the beginning and the end, narrated by the daughter of William Dawe.\n- “Seed Catalogue”: Reflection on uncle asking “don’t you understand anything?” Robert Kroetsch notes that he’s been writing poems ever since trying to understand, and that perhaps he was right\n- “Delphi”: The only place where the oracle spoke in a human, female voice. There are four voices in this poem: Robert Kroetsch, quotes from Pausanias, commentary by Sir James Fraser, poem called “The Eggplant Poems.”\n- Excerpts: Using country music, the “hurting song.” Short prose entries that look like diary entries, intrigued by the authority that we grant to the diary entry.\n- Excerpts: anecdote on writers spending a good deal of their time travelling - [00:40:40] \n- Advice: Suppressed stories of his mother, a photograph given to him of his mother produced all these poems.\n- Question period: The questions are not very discernable. First question about what he is writing, Robert Kroetsch answers “not really,” that he is writing a novel that is unendable and not about the prairies, also his study of narrative. Second question, going back to Athens and Greece. Notes that he goes back quite frequently as he is married to a Greek woman. Third question about Advice as very different from his other writing. Robert Kroetsch responds that his voice between Field Notes (as personal) and Advice (as a persona) are in fact very different. Fourth question indiscernible, Robert Kroetsch responds that he doesn’t believe that poetry is dead, that poetry ought to be accessible to all. Fifth question indiscernible, Robert Kroetsch responds that this period of reading may be an aberration in the history of language and that we may go back to more elaborate readings. A return to the hearing of poems instead of the reading of poems.\n"],"contents":["Robert Kroetsch\n[00:04:33]\nReads excerpts from Badlands.\nRobert Kroetsch\n[00:14:20]\nReads excerpts from Field Notes.\nRobert Kroetsch\n[00:15:30]\nReads from \"Seed Catalogue\".\nRobert Kroetsch\n[00:20:30]\nReads from \"Delphi Commentary\".\nRobert Kroetsch\n[00:35:27]\nReads excerpts from the Real World.\nRobert Kroetsch\n[00:44:12]\nReads excerpts from the end of Advice to My Friends."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"Badlands; Field Notes; Excerpts from the Real World; Advice to My Friends\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558525292545,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":3.4930124},{"id":"8379","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Robert Kroetsch fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Robert Kroetsch fonds"],"collection_contributing_unit":["University of Calgary, Archives and Special Collections"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_id":[""],"persistent_url":["https://searcharchives.ucalgary.ca/robert-kroetsch-fonds"],"item_title":["Robert Kroetsch Poetry Reading"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["List of readers."],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[29.13]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2041"],"creator_names":["Kroetsch, Robert"],"creator_names_search":["Kroetsch, Robert"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/120613489\",\"name\":\"Kroetsch, Robert\",\"dates\":\"1927-2011\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Author\",\"Performer\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["McMaster, Sheila","Vaira, Ursula","Jenkins, Kay","Dingwald, Mairi","Mann, Elizabeth","Marlin, Linda"],"contributors_names_search":["McMaster, Sheila","Vaira, Ursula","Jenkins, Kay","Dingwald, Mairi","Mann, Elizabeth","Marlin, Linda"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/106146938\",\"name\":\"McMaster, Sheila\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/35687029\",\"name\":\"Vaira, Ursula\",\"dates\":\"1952-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Jenkins, Kay\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Dingwald, Mairi\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Mann, Elizabeth \",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Marlin, Linda\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]}]"],"performer_name":["McMaster, Sheila","Vaira, Ursula","Jenkins, Kay","Dingwald, Mairi","Mann, Elizabeth ","Marlin, Linda"],"Performance_Date":[1988],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"A\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"Memorex\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Good\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"\",\"physical_condition\":\"Good\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"\",\"other_physical_description\":\"\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"RK_Acc_775_04.25.29-13\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T00:44:21\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"1.43 GB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1988\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Dates taken from container and/or accompanying material.\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"content_notes":["- A weeklong poetry workshop in August 1991. 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