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Nervous and Mental Illnesses”\n\t\t58\tBreath group as unite of composition\n\t\t64\tStress by enjambing & discussion of poems rhythm\n\t\t85\t“On Reading the Toronto Quarterly Review of Canadian Poetry for 1962”\n\t\t100\tDiscussion of above poem – a ‘burst of energy’\n\t\t114\tFondness of esoteric detail\n\t\t118\t“The Cold Spring Harbour Symposium on Quantitative Biology”\n\t\t178\tMatthews discusses his influences, eg) Creeley\n\t\t209\tElizabethan uses of language\n\t\t231\tIntro to next poem\n\t\t249\t“No Smoking”\n\t\t285\tStanza as narrative unit\n\t\t327\tIntro to short poems\n\t\t352\t“The intruders”\n\t\t362\t“The Western”\n\t\t377\tInfluences to “The Western” in particular Charles Olson\n\t\t392\tBreak in tape\n\t\t393\tReading resumes – willingness to use actual names in modern poetry – closeness to experience\n\t\t438\t“James Bond”\n\t\t449\t“The Apple”\n\t\t462\t“Sky Blue Trades”\n\t\t473\tDiscussion of “Sky Blue Trades” The problem of writing poetry”\n\t\t490\tHow do you get power in poetry\n\t\t515\t“Monday Morning”\n\t\t538\tRhymes in “Monday Morning”\n\t\t583\tMetaphor – as an obvious mechanism\n\t\t602\tPreference for simile\n\t\t628\tIntro to next poem\n\t\t671\tReading ends abruptly\n\t\t673\tRoma Murray begins in mid-poem\n\t\t693\t“The Poem”\n\t\t730\t“Yellow Square”\n\t\t765\t“Peacock Garden”\n\t\t788\t“Dance”\n\t\t815\tEnd of reading\nTwo\tChan.1\t04\tMarya Fiamengo begins with explanation of first poem\n\t\t18\t“The Quality of Halves”\n\t\t57\tIntro to next poem – play between East & West\n\t\t66\t“A Choice of Temperment”\n\t\t160\tNaturalism of next poem\n\t\t164\t“Truth of Love”\n\t\t183\tExperimentation with monologue\n\t\t188\t“For Ferdinand of Calabria on an Ordinary Day”\n\t\t237\tReading ends\n\t\t238\tNext begins – Jamie Reid\n\t\t247\t“I Liked To See When I Was Young”\n\t\t260\tExplanation of above poem – Is the poem real or ‘made up’\n\t\t307\tAn untitled poem – about an obsession with deer.  Sound movement\n\t\t351\tFurther explanation of sound/feeling/environment\n\t\t371\t“Toronto subway…”\n\t\t386\tCoherence of sound\n\t\t457\t“Here in the gathering darkness…”\n\t\t485\tRepetition in last poem – poetic sense of gathering\n\t\t546\tShapes of shadows – shapes of fantasys\n\t\t588\tReid questioned about word usage\n\t\t688\tFear of metaphor\n\t\t711\t“There were doorways…”\n\t\t750\t-objection of metaphor\n\t\t765\t-ends abruptly\n\t\t780\tMike Matthews – begins in mid reading\n\t\t\t-an untitled poem\n\t\t828\t“How To Prove The Train That Would Never Come Back Is Easy” (for John Keys)\n\t\t907\t“One says I am the sound of man shouting in a barrow…”\n\t\t961\tAn experiment in short sentence form\n\t\t\t-personal surrealistic data\n\t\t980\t“The shape of the Falling Light”\n\t\t1001\tEnd of reading"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Liner Notes: Dorothy Livesay Poems and Discussion Side one: with Mike Matthews Side 2: with Jamie Reid Marya Fiamengo\",\"type\":\"General\"}]"],"Related_works":["[]"],"_version_":1853670553110446080,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:57.525Z","score":5.145602}]