[{"id":"1263","cataloger_name":["Masoumeh,Zaare"],"partnerInstitution":["Concordia University"],"collection_source_collection":["SGWU Reading Series-Concordia University Department of English fonds"],"source_collection_label":["SGWU Reading Series-Concordia University Department of English fonds"],"collection_contributing_unit":["Records Management and Archives"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_description":["The fonds consists of some administrative records of the SGWU Department of English and the Concordia Department of English between 1971 and 2000. It also consists of some SGWU Department of English records related to student academic activities in the 1940s and to public readings and lectures, and a few interviews, produced between 1966 and 1972. The fonds mainly includes minutes of departmental meetings and some course timetables. It also includes some student papers in bound volumes and 63 sound recordings (80 audio reels) mainly composed of poetry readings (see the Concordia SpokenWeb project which uses this material) but also a few lectures given at SGWU. There are also loose typed sheets describing some of the SGWU poetry readings."],"collection_source_collection_id":["I086"],"persistent_url":["http://archives.concordia.ca/I086"],"item_title":["Margaret Atwood and Alden Nowlan at Sir George Williams University, The Poetry Series, 13 October 1967"],"item_title_source":["Cataloguer"],"item_title_note":["\"MARGARET ATWOOD & ALDEN NOWLAN Recorder October 13, 1967 3.75 ips on 1.mil tape, 1/2 track\" written on sticker on the back of the tape's box. \"ATWOOD & NOWLAN I006/SR36\" written on sticker on the spine of the tape's box. \"I006-11-036\" also written on sticker on the reel."],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_series_title":["The Poetry Series"],"item_subseries_title":["Poetry 2"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"creator_names":["Atwood, Margaret","Nowlan, Alden"],"creator_names_search":["Atwood, Margaret","Nowlan, Alden"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/109322990\",\"name\":\"Atwood, Margaret\",\"dates\":\"1939-\",\"notes\":\"Internationally acclaimed novelist, poet, critic and activist Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa, Ontario, November 18,  1939. She lived in Ottawa until 1946, when her family settled in Leaside, a suburb of Toronto. Atwood entered Victoria College, University of Toronto, graduating with honours in 1961. Her first published collection of short stories was Double Persephone (Hawkshead Press, 1961). By 1962 she had received her MA in English from Radcliffe College in the United States, working on further graduate work at Harvard University between 1962-3 and in 1965-7. Atwood published her second collection, The Circle Game (Anansi, 1966), which won the Governor General Award for Poetry. She wrote articles and reviews for Alphabet, Canadian Literature and Poetry among other publications, and poems for Kayak, Quarry and the Tamarack Review. Poems published in her book The Animals in That Country (Oxford University Press, 1968) won first prize in Canada’s 1967 Centennial Commission poetry competition. In 1970, she published three books, Procedures for Underground (Oxford University Press), Time, and The Journals of Susanna Moodie (Oxford University Press). Between 1971 and 1973, Atwood worked as an editor and on the board of directors for the House of Anansi press in Toronto, which in 1972 published Power Politics. Upon the discovery at Harvard that there was no published critical study of Canadian literature, she herself wrote and published Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (Anansi, 1971), which created a stir of controversy, but by 1982 it had sold more than 85,000 copies. Since 1973, she has lived with novelist and activist Graeme Gibson, producing one daughter, Eleanor Jess in 1967. Atwood taught and lectured at several Universities across Canada, the US and Australia, including University of British Columbia, University of Alberta, Sir George Williams University (now Concordia) (1967-68) and at York University, Toronto. A selection of her publications include Surfacing (Simon & Schuster, 1972), You Are Happy (Harper &Row, 1974), Selected Poems (Oxford University Press) in 1976, Two-Headed Poems (Simon & Schuster, 1978), True Stories (Oxford University Press, 1981) and Second Words (Anansi, 1982). Her 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale (McClelland & Stewart) became one of her most popular and critically acclaimed works. In 1986 she was appointed the Berg Chair at New York University, as well as serving as writer-in-residence at several other Universities. She co-founded and served as chair to the Writer’s Union of Canada in 1982-3, and served as president of the Canadian Centre of International PEN from 1984-6. She has subsequently published dozens of books, including Cat’s Eye (McClelland & Stewart, 1988), The Robber Bride (Doubleday, 1993), Alias Grace (Nan A. Talese, 1996), The Blind Assassin (Nan A. Talese, 2000), Oryx and Crake (2003), The Penelopiad (Canongate, 2005) and The Tent (Bloomsbury, 2006). Along with many other publications of her critical essays, Curious Pursuits: Occasional Writing 1970-2005 (Verago) came out in 2005. Her most recent novel, Year of the Flood was published in 2009 by Doubleday Press. Her many prizes and honours include the Booker Prize, the E.J. Pratt Medal (1961), The Radcliffe Medal (1980), the Commonwealth Writers Prize (1992), and she is a Companion of the Order of Canada. Atwood continues to work as spokesperson on behalf of human rights and the environment. \",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Author\",\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/61671170\",\"name\":\"Nowlan, Alden\",\"dates\":\"1933-1983\",\"notes\":\"Poet Alden Nowlan was born in 1933, in a small rural community near Windsor, Nova Scotia. Nowlan worked as a young man on farms, lumbermills and as a sawmill helper before he left Nova Scotia for New Brunswick to take a position as editor at The Heartland Observer and the night-news editor of the Saint John Telegraph-Journal. Nowlan published his first book of poetry, The rose and the puritan (New Brunswick University) in 1958, which was followed closely by A darkness in the earth (Hearse Press, 1959), Wind in a rocky country (Emblem Books, 1961), Under the ice (Ryerson Press, 1961) and The things which are (Contact Press,1962). In 1967 he was awarded the Governor General’s Award for his collection Bread, wine and salt (Clarke, Irwin). Nowlan was offered a writer-in-residence position at the University of New Brunswick, which he held until his death in 1983. His other publications include The mysterious naked man (Clarke, Irwin, 1969), Between tears and laughter (Clarke, Irwin, 1971), I’m a stranger here myself (Clarke, Irwin, 1974), Smoked glass (Clarke, Irwin, 1977) and I might not tell everybody this (Clarke, Irwin, 1982). Nowlan was also involved in theatre, and wrote three stage plays with Walter Learning: Frankenstein (Clarke, Irwin, 1976), The incredible murder of Cardinal Tosca (Learning Productions, 1978) and The dollar woman (Borealis Press, 1981). Nowlan was awarded a Doctor of Letters from the University of New Brunswick, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Nowlan has also published an autobiography, Various persons named Kevin O’Brien (Clarke, Irwin, 1973), a collection of short stories, Miracle at Indian River (Clarke, Irwin, 1968), a travel book Campobello, the outer island (Clarke, Irwin, 1975) and collected twenty-seven of his magazine articles in Double exposure (Brunswick Press, 1978). Numerous titles were published posthumously, including Alden Nowlan, early poems (Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 1983), The best of Alden Nowlan (Lancelot Press, 1993), Will ye let the mummers in? 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Alden Nowlan reads from Bread Wine and Salt (Clarke, Irwin & Company, 1967) along with some poems from unknown sources.  "],"contents":["margaret_atwood_alden_nowlan_i006-11-036.mp3\n\nMargaret Atwood\n00:00:00\nI should apologize to begin with for my voice. I don't usually sound quite this much like Tallulah Bankhead [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q255815]. I have the Montreal [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q340] plague. The first poem is called \"This is a Photograph of Me,\" and it's the first poem in The Circle Game [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7723073].\n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:00:22\nReads \"This is a Photograph of Me\" from The Circle Game.\n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:01:35\nThe next poem is called \"Camera,\" and is dedicated to somebody I knew who liked to take pictures. \n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:01:44\nReads \"Camera\" [from The Circle Game].\n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:03:24\nAnd a small poem called \"Carved Animals\".\n\nMargaret Atwood\n00:03:28\nReads \"Carved Animals\" [from The Circle Game].\n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:04:25\nNow some more recent poems, which I should explain were mostly written in the United States [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30] when I was living there recently. The first one called \"At the Tourist centre in Boston\". Now Canada [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16] does have a Tourist centre in Boston [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q100].\n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:04:50\nReads \"At the Tourist centre in Boston\" [published later in The Animals in that Country [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7713834]].\n\nMargaret Atwood\n00:06:48\nAnd a poem called \"The Green Man\", which is dedicated to the Boston Strangler [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2855440]. \n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:06:56\nReads \"The Green Man\".\n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:08:03\nThis poem called \"A Fortification\".\n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:08:08\nReads \"A Fortification\" [published later in The Animals in that Country].\n\nMargaret Atwood\n00:09:17\nAnd this is a poem dedicated to my landlady who didn't remain my landlady for very long, called \"The Landlady\".\n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:09:29\nReads \"The Landlady\" [published later in The Animals in that Country].\n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:10:47\nAnd this poem called, \"A Foundling\".\n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:10:52\nReads \"A Foundling\" [published later in The Animals in that Country].\n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:11:41\nAnd this poem, which has no title.\n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:11:49\nReads [\"Untitled\"].\n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:12:58\nAnd a poem called \"Chronology\", which I wrote in one of my more paranoid states of mind. \n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:13:06\nReads \"Chronology\".\n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:14:39\nAnd here's my love poem to the, our large, friendly neighbour to the south. \n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:14:50\nReads \"Backdrop addresses cowboy\" [published later in The Animals in that Country].\n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:16:28\nThen a slightly happier poem called \"A Voice\".\n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:16:36\nReads \"A Voice\" [published later in The Animals in that Country].\n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:17:40\nAnd this one called, \"An Elegy for the Giant Tortoises\", which I wrote when I heard that they were planning to use a certain South Pacific island for the building of an airstrip. \n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:17:59\nReads \"An Elegy for the Giant Tortoises\" [published later in The Animals in that Country].\n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:19:19\nAnd this poem called, \"It is Dangerous to Read Newspapers\".\n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:19:26\nReads \"It is Dangerous to Read Newspapers\" [published later in The Animals in that Country].\n\nMargaret Atwood\n00:20:49\nReads \"I was reading a scientific article\" [published later in The Animals in that Country].\n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:22:20\nAnd the last poem. \n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:22:25\nReads \"The Reincarnation of Captain Cook\" [published later in The Animals in that Country].\n \nMargaret Atwood\n00:23:44\nThank you.\n \nAudience\n00:23:46\nApplause [cut off abruptly].\n \nUnknown\n00:23:49\n[Cut or edit made in tape. Unknown amount of time elapsed]. \n \nRoy Kiyooka\n00:23:58\n...for quite a number of years as a journalist in the Maritimes [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q731613], and this evening he is here with his wife and son and will be reading to you. Ladies and gentlemen, Alden Nowlan [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4713563].\n \nAudience\n00:24:17\nApplause.\n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:24:26\nThank you, Roy [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3445789]. First of all, I want to reassure everyone that I'm not going to read everything that's in this. I feel that probably there are some who are terrified when they see this, you know. It's really basically laziness that I haven't shortened anything out, I simply have wads of things here. \n \nAudience\n00:24:55\nLaughter.\n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:24:56\nNo no, not that one, I'm not going to read them all, definitely, definitely not. \n \nUnknown\n00:25:09\nSilence [pause].\n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:25:19\nFirst of all I have a very, very bad poem that I can't resist reading. I realized that it's sort of a bad beginning to start off with a poem that the poet himself considers a very bad one, but I wrote this when I arrived here this afternoon. To the natural egotism of a poet, you see, I can't resist offering it to this sort of captive audience here. [Audience laughter]. \"Poem for the Ritz Carlton\". [Audience laughter].\n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:26:06\nReads \"Poem for the Ritz Carlton\" [audience laughter throughout].\n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:26:30\nThat isn't really as critical of the Ritz Carlton as it sounds, because I sort of like the crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173882], too, you see. [Audience laughter]. Next, I'd like to read some poems from my new book, Bread Wine and Salt, which is going to be published by Carter when, the first week in November, at three dollars and fifty cents. [Audience laughter]. That is the commercial.  \"I, Icarus\".\n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:27:15\nReads \"I, Icarus\" [from Bread, Wine and Salt].\n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:28:34\nReads \"Sailors\" [from Bread, Wine and Salt].\n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:30:06\nThis poem is entitled \"The Cinnamon Bears\", which sounds at first as if it were some sort of an animal cooking. But actually, what these cinnamon bears were, was back around the turn of the century in New Brunswick [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1965], as I've been told, there were all sorts of touring side-show type of things, you know, that, fortune tellers, and...people with a monkey, organ grinders with a monkey, and all this type of, sort of strolling pyres or wandering minstrels that existed up until the advent of radio and television. And it was a terrific thing, of course, in these backwoods communities. No doubt throughout Canada and the United States, when one of these people arrived. And among the, among these people were men who had trained bears, who, because of their colouration, were called cinnamon bears. And this poem actually is sort of a found poem, because it's not so much a creative thing as it is the transcription of a conversation which I happened to overhear between an old couple in northern New Brunswick. A man and his wife in their seventies, when they, suddenly something brought back these memories of these days of the organ grinders and the cinnamon bears. And as I say, I sort of made the poem more or less by simply transcribing the things which they said to one another, which it seemed to me was sort of a poetry, a form of poetry itself. \n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:32:20\nReads \"The Cinnamon Bears\" [from Bread, Wine and Salt].\n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:33:21\nReads \"Britain Street, St. John, New Brunswick” [published as “Britain Street” in Bread, Wine and Salt].\n\nAlden Nowlan\n00:34:22\nThis is another, sort of a found poem, I'm not really terribly convinced that it's a poem at all. Last year, when I had a quite serious illness, one afternoon I was in the waiting room at the doctor's office, and the only thing that seemed to lay at hand for me to read was a copy of one of these Confessions magazines entitled Secret Life. [Audience laughter]. And as I glanced through it, it seemed to me, all that I actually read of it, you know, were these sort of captions at the top of the articles, and some of the big type in it. But it seemed to me really, as I glanced through it, that it had, that it contained sort of a crazy poetry of its own. At least, in the mood that I was in at the time, I sort of responded to it as though it were a crazy sort of poetry. And so as I sat there I sort of jotted down some of these things from the magazine, and ever since I've been trying to pass it off as a poem. \n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:35:37\nReads \"Secret Life\" [from Bread, Wine and Salt; audience laughter throughout].\n \nAudience\n00:36:39\nLaughter. \n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:36:57\nReads \"In Our Time\" [from Bread, Wine and Salt].\n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:40:51\nReads \"The Changeling\" [from Bread, Wine and Salt].\n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:41:49\nReads \"The Hollow Men\" [from Bread, Wine and Salt].\n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:42:38\nThis poem is entitled \"Ancestral Memories Evoked by Attending the Opening of the Playhouse in Fredericton [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2138], New Brunswick\". And I'm a little afraid that many of you will feel that it is sort of pointless. I'm not sure really but what you'd have to be completely immersed in the atmosphere of New Brunswick to get the real point of it, but. But that said, not implying any superiority on the part of New Brunswickers, unfortunately. Anyway.\n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:43:26\nReads \"Ancestral Memories Evoked by Attending the Opening of the Playhouse in Fredericton, New Brunswick\" [from Bread, Wine and Salt].\n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:44:36\nReads \"Every Man Owes God a Death\" [from Bread, Wine and Salt].\n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:46:41\nThis poem, for no particular reason, is entitled \"The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner\". \n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:46:48\nReads \"The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner\" [from Bread, Wine and Salt].\n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:48:23\nThis is a poem that came out of a serious illness that I had last year, and it's entitled \"In the Operating Room\". \n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:48:38\nReads \"In the Operating Room\" [from Bread, Wine and Salt].\n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:50:05\nI have a few other recent poems I'll dig out of these. \n \nUnknown\n00:50:12\nAmbient Sound [pause; Nowlan turning pages].\n\nAlden Nowlan\n00:50:47\nAs I sort through these, I'm silently cursing myself for not having done this before I came here. \n \nUnknown\n00:50:52\nAmbient Sound [pause; Nowlan turning pages].\n\nAlden Nowlan\n00:51:20\nHere's a fairly recent poem which isn't a political poem at all, but a human poem. And one that I wrote as a result of watching on television the debates in the United Nations [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1065] on the Middle East [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7204] crisis. And one of the horrible things I felt as I watched it was how completely dehumanized it all was, that the real, human issues had been lost sight of, and sort of drowned in an ocean of resolutions and memos from embassies and all this sort of things. And one night when they televised these sessions through until about four o'clock, the ambassador of Saudi Arabia [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q851] spoke, and he delivered certainly a very bigoted speech, and one that as a speech I wouldn't have agreed with, but I felt an admiration for him, because it had seemed to me that he was the only really human thing that had happened there all day. You know, that certainly he was a bigoted old man, full of thousands of years of hatred, but it was a human hatred, expressed in a human manner, something that the rest of them had completely lost sight of. And as a result of this feeling I wrote this poem, \"For Jamil Baroody [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96384169], Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United Nations on the Occasion of his Address to the Security Council, June 1967\".\n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:53:21\nReads \"For Jamil Baroody, Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United Nations on the Occasion of his Address to the Security Council, June 1967\".\n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:56:26\nReads \"Fireworks\".\n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:57:34\nReads \"Two Poems for the Nova Scotia Department of Highways\".\n \nAlden Nowlan\n00:59:31\nFinally, this is a poem entitled \"State Visit\", and the motivation of it, like one of the earlier ones I read, was sort of this same feeling of frustration at the complete dehumanization of politics as we feel it today, and particularly, this sort of apotheosis of world leaders into some sort of a symbol, so they even, I think, begin to think of themselves in these sort of abstract terms, rather than as a human being. And out of--this is sort of, I suppose, perhaps to a degree sort of a bitter little poem, but it stemmed from an emotion which I'm sure many of us feel. \n \nAlden Nowlan\n01:00:27\nReads \"State Visit\".\n \nEND\n01:01:39\n[Cut off abruptly]."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Year-Specific Information:\\n\\nIn 1967, Margaret Atwood had moved to Montreal and took a position at the Sir George Williams University English Department. She taught four courses, as well as working on The Animals in that Country, The Journals of Susanna Moodie, Procedures for Underground and finished The Edible Woman.\\n\\nIn 1967, Nowlan was awarded the Governor General’s Award for Bread Wine and Salt which was published the same year. He was also offered a position as writer-in-residence at the University of New Brunswick during this time.\",\"type\":\"General\"},{\"note\":\"Local Connections:\\n\\nAtwood became an important award-winning poet and critic in Canada by the late 60‘s. Sir George Williams English Department hired Atwood in 1967 as an English lecturer, after she had graduated from Harvard.  \\n\\nHis direct connection to Sir George Williams is unknown, but Nowlan was one of the most popular and important Maritime poets of the sixties and seventies.\",\"type\":\"General\"},{\"note\":\"Reel-to-reel tape>CD>digital file\",\"type\":\"Preservation\"},{\"note\":\"Original transcript, print catalogue, research, introduction and edits by Celyn Harding-Jones.\\n\\nAdditional research and edits by Ali Barillaro\",\"type\":\"Cataloguer\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"http://www.ccca.ca/history/ozz/english/authors/nowlan_alden.html\",\"citation\":\"“Alden Nolan (1933-1983)”. One Zero Zero: A Virtual Library of English Canadian Small      Presses, 1945-2044. Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art: The Canadian Art Database. 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I don't usually sound quite this much like Tallulah Bankhead [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q255815]. I have the Montreal [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q340] plague. The first poem is called \\\"This is a Photograph of Me,\\\" and it's the first poem in The Circle Game [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7723073].\\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:00:22\\nReads \\\"This is a Photograph of Me\\\" from The Circle Game.\\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:01:35\\nThe next poem is called \\\"Camera,\\\" and is dedicated to somebody I knew who liked to take pictures. \\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:01:44\\nReads \\\"Camera\\\" [from The Circle Game].\\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:03:24\\nAnd a small poem called \\\"Carved Animals\\\".\\n\\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:03:28\\nReads \\\"Carved Animals\\\" [from The Circle Game].\\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:04:25\\nNow some more recent poems, which I should explain were mostly written in the United States [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30] when I was living there recently. 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Now Canada [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16] does have a Tourist centre in Boston [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q100].\\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:04:50\\nReads \\\"At the Tourist centre in Boston\\\" [published later in The Animals in that Country [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7713834]].\\n\\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:06:48\\nAnd a poem called \\\"The Green Man\\\", which is dedicated to the Boston Strangler [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2855440]. \\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:06:56\\nReads \\\"The Green Man\\\".\\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:08:03\\nThis poem called \\\"A Fortification\\\".\\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:08:08\\nReads \\\"A Fortification\\\" [published later in The Animals in that Country].\\n\\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:09:17\\nAnd this is a poem dedicated to my landlady who didn't remain my landlady for very long, called \\\"The Landlady\\\".\\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:09:29\\nReads \\\"The Landlady\\\" [published later in The Animals in that Country].\\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:10:47\\nAnd this poem called, \\\"A Foundling\\\".\\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:10:52\\nReads \\\"A Foundling\\\" [published later in The Animals in that Country].\\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:11:41\\nAnd this poem, which has no title.\\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:11:49\\nReads [\\\"Untitled\\\"].\\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:12:58\\nAnd a poem called \\\"Chronology\\\", which I wrote in one of my more paranoid states of mind. \\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:13:06\\nReads \\\"Chronology\\\".\\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:14:39\\nAnd here's my love poem to the, our large, friendly neighbour to the south. \\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:14:50\\nReads \\\"Backdrop addresses cowboy\\\" [published later in The Animals in that Country].\\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:16:28\\nThen a slightly happier poem called \\\"A Voice\\\".\\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:16:36\\nReads \\\"A Voice\\\" [published later in The Animals in that Country].\\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:17:40\\nAnd this one called, \\\"An Elegy for the Giant Tortoises\\\", which I wrote when I heard that they were planning to use a certain South Pacific island for the building of an airstrip. \\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:17:59\\nReads \\\"An Elegy for the Giant Tortoises\\\" [published later in The Animals in that Country].\\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:19:19\\nAnd this poem called, \\\"It is Dangerous to Read Newspapers\\\".\\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:19:26\\nReads \\\"It is Dangerous to Read Newspapers\\\" [published later in The Animals in that Country].\\n\\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:20:49\\nReads \\\"I was reading a scientific article\\\" [published later in The Animals in that Country].\\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:22:20\\nAnd the last poem. \\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:22:25\\nReads \\\"The Reincarnation of Captain Cook\\\" [published later in The Animals in that Country].\\n \\nMargaret Atwood\\n00:23:44\\nThank you.\\n \\nAudience\\n00:23:46\\nApplause [cut off abruptly].\\n \\nUnknown\\n00:23:49\\n[Cut or edit made in tape. Unknown amount of time elapsed]. \\n \\nRoy Kiyooka\\n00:23:58\\n...for quite a number of years as a journalist in the Maritimes [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q731613], and this evening he is here with his wife and son and will be reading to you. Ladies and gentlemen, Alden Nowlan [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4713563].\\n \\nAudience\\n00:24:17\\nApplause.\\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:24:26\\nThank you, Roy [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3445789]. First of all, I want to reassure everyone that I'm not going to read everything that's in this. I feel that probably there are some who are terrified when they see this, you know. It's really basically laziness that I haven't shortened anything out, I simply have wads of things here. \\n \\nAudience\\n00:24:55\\nLaughter.\\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:24:56\\nNo no, not that one, I'm not going to read them all, definitely, definitely not. \\n \\nUnknown\\n00:25:09\\nSilence [pause].\\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:25:19\\nFirst of all I have a very, very bad poem that I can't resist reading. I realized that it's sort of a bad beginning to start off with a poem that the poet himself considers a very bad one, but I wrote this when I arrived here this afternoon. To the natural egotism of a poet, you see, I can't resist offering it to this sort of captive audience here. [Audience laughter]. \\\"Poem for the Ritz Carlton\\\". [Audience laughter].\\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:26:06\\nReads \\\"Poem for the Ritz Carlton\\\" [audience laughter throughout].\\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:26:30\\nThat isn't really as critical of the Ritz Carlton as it sounds, because I sort of like the crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173882], too, you see. [Audience laughter]. Next, I'd like to read some poems from my new book, Bread Wine and Salt, which is going to be published by Carter when, the first week in November, at three dollars and fifty cents. [Audience laughter]. That is the commercial.  \\\"I, Icarus\\\".\\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:27:15\\nReads \\\"I, Icarus\\\" [from Bread, Wine and Salt].\\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:28:34\\nReads \\\"Sailors\\\" [from Bread, Wine and Salt].\\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:30:06\\nThis poem is entitled \\\"The Cinnamon Bears\\\", which sounds at first as if it were some sort of an animal cooking. But actually, what these cinnamon bears were, was back around the turn of the century in New Brunswick [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1965], as I've been told, there were all sorts of touring side-show type of things, you know, that, fortune tellers, and...people with a monkey, organ grinders with a monkey, and all this type of, sort of strolling pyres or wandering minstrels that existed up until the advent of radio and television. And it was a terrific thing, of course, in these backwoods communities. No doubt throughout Canada and the United States, when one of these people arrived. And among the, among these people were men who had trained bears, who, because of their colouration, were called cinnamon bears. And this poem actually is sort of a found poem, because it's not so much a creative thing as it is the transcription of a conversation which I happened to overhear between an old couple in northern New Brunswick. A man and his wife in their seventies, when they, suddenly something brought back these memories of these days of the organ grinders and the cinnamon bears. And as I say, I sort of made the poem more or less by simply transcribing the things which they said to one another, which it seemed to me was sort of a poetry, a form of poetry itself. \\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:32:20\\nReads \\\"The Cinnamon Bears\\\" [from Bread, Wine and Salt].\\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:33:21\\nReads \\\"Britain Street, St. John, New Brunswick” [published as “Britain Street” in Bread, Wine and Salt].\\n\\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:34:22\\nThis is another, sort of a found poem, I'm not really terribly convinced that it's a poem at all. Last year, when I had a quite serious illness, one afternoon I was in the waiting room at the doctor's office, and the only thing that seemed to lay at hand for me to read was a copy of one of these Confessions magazines entitled Secret Life. [Audience laughter]. And as I glanced through it, it seemed to me, all that I actually read of it, you know, were these sort of captions at the top of the articles, and some of the big type in it. But it seemed to me really, as I glanced through it, that it had, that it contained sort of a crazy poetry of its own. At least, in the mood that I was in at the time, I sort of responded to it as though it were a crazy sort of poetry. And so as I sat there I sort of jotted down some of these things from the magazine, and ever since I've been trying to pass it off as a poem. \\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:35:37\\nReads \\\"Secret Life\\\" [from Bread, Wine and Salt; audience laughter throughout].\\n \\nAudience\\n00:36:39\\nLaughter. \\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:36:57\\nReads \\\"In Our Time\\\" [from Bread, Wine and Salt].\\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:40:51\\nReads \\\"The Changeling\\\" [from Bread, Wine and Salt].\\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:41:49\\nReads \\\"The Hollow Men\\\" [from Bread, Wine and Salt].\\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:42:38\\nThis poem is entitled \\\"Ancestral Memories Evoked by Attending the Opening of the Playhouse in Fredericton [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2138], New Brunswick\\\". And I'm a little afraid that many of you will feel that it is sort of pointless. I'm not sure really but what you'd have to be completely immersed in the atmosphere of New Brunswick to get the real point of it, but. But that said, not implying any superiority on the part of New Brunswickers, unfortunately. Anyway.\\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:43:26\\nReads \\\"Ancestral Memories Evoked by Attending the Opening of the Playhouse in Fredericton, New Brunswick\\\" [from Bread, Wine and Salt].\\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:44:36\\nReads \\\"Every Man Owes God a Death\\\" [from Bread, Wine and Salt].\\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:46:41\\nThis poem, for no particular reason, is entitled \\\"The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner\\\". \\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:46:48\\nReads \\\"The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner\\\" [from Bread, Wine and Salt].\\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:48:23\\nThis is a poem that came out of a serious illness that I had last year, and it's entitled \\\"In the Operating Room\\\". \\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:48:38\\nReads \\\"In the Operating Room\\\" [from Bread, Wine and Salt].\\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:50:05\\nI have a few other recent poems I'll dig out of these. \\n \\nUnknown\\n00:50:12\\nAmbient Sound [pause; Nowlan turning pages].\\n\\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:50:47\\nAs I sort through these, I'm silently cursing myself for not having done this before I came here. \\n \\nUnknown\\n00:50:52\\nAmbient Sound [pause; Nowlan turning pages].\\n\\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:51:20\\nHere's a fairly recent poem which isn't a political poem at all, but a human poem. And one that I wrote as a result of watching on television the debates in the United Nations [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1065] on the Middle East [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7204] crisis. And one of the horrible things I felt as I watched it was how completely dehumanized it all was, that the real, human issues had been lost sight of, and sort of drowned in an ocean of resolutions and memos from embassies and all this sort of things. And one night when they televised these sessions through until about four o'clock, the ambassador of Saudi Arabia [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q851] spoke, and he delivered certainly a very bigoted speech, and one that as a speech I wouldn't have agreed with, but I felt an admiration for him, because it had seemed to me that he was the only really human thing that had happened there all day. You know, that certainly he was a bigoted old man, full of thousands of years of hatred, but it was a human hatred, expressed in a human manner, something that the rest of them had completely lost sight of. And as a result of this feeling I wrote this poem, \\\"For Jamil Baroody [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96384169], Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United Nations on the Occasion of his Address to the Security Council, June 1967\\\".\\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:53:21\\nReads \\\"For Jamil Baroody, Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United Nations on the Occasion of his Address to the Security Council, June 1967\\\".\\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:56:26\\nReads \\\"Fireworks\\\".\\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:57:34\\nReads \\\"Two Poems for the Nova Scotia Department of Highways\\\".\\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n00:59:31\\nFinally, this is a poem entitled \\\"State Visit\\\", and the motivation of it, like one of the earlier ones I read, was sort of this same feeling of frustration at the complete dehumanization of politics as we feel it today, and particularly, this sort of apotheosis of world leaders into some sort of a symbol, so they even, I think, begin to think of themselves in these sort of abstract terms, rather than as a human being. And out of--this is sort of, I suppose, perhaps to a degree sort of a bitter little poem, but it stemmed from an emotion which I'm sure many of us feel. \\n \\nAlden Nowlan\\n01:00:27\\nReads \\\"State Visit\\\".\\n \\nEND\\n01:01:39\\n[Cut off abruptly].\",\"notes\":\"Margaret Atwood reads from The Circle Game (House of Anansi, 1966) as well as poems later published in The Animals in that Country (Oxford University Press, 1968). Nowlan reads from Bread Wine and Salt (Clarke, Irwin & Company, 1967) along with some poems from unknown sources.  \\n\\n00:00- Atwood introduces “This is a Photograph of Me”. [INDEX: Montreal plague, Tallula Bankhead, The Circle Game; from The Circle Game.]\\n00:22- Reads “This is a Photograph of Me”.\\n01:35- Introduces “The Camera”. [INDEX: dedication; published as “Camera” in The Circle \\tGame]\\n01:44- Reads “Camera”.\\n03:28- Reads “Carved Animals”. [INDEX: from The Circle Game, part III of “Some Objects of Wood and Stone”.]\\n04:25- Introduces “At the tourist center in Boston”. [INDEX: recent poems, written in the   United States, Canada’s Tourist Center in Boston; from The Animals in that Country.]\\n04:50- Reads “At the tourist centre in Boston”.\\n06:48- Introduces “The Green Man” [INDEX: dedicated to the Boston Strangler; from   unknown source.]\\n06:56- Reads “The Green Man”.\\n08:03- Reads “A fortification”. [INDEX: from The Animals in that Country]\\n09:17- Introduces “The landlady”. [INDEX: dedicated to Atwood’s landlady; from The Animals in that Country.]\\n09:29- Reads “The landlady”.\\n10:47- Reads “A foundling”. [INDEX: from The Animals in that Country.]\\n11:41- Reads “Untitled”.\\n12:58- Introduces “Chronology”. [INDEX: written in a paranoid state of mind; from unknown source.]\\n13:06- Reads “Chronology”.\\n14:39- Introduces “Backdrop addresses cowboy”. [INDEX: U.S.A.]\\n14:50- Reads “Backdrop addresses cowboy”. [INDEX: from The Animals in that Country.]\\n16:36- Reads “A voice”. [INDEX: from The Animals in that Country.]\\n17:40- Introduces “Elegy for giant tortoises”. [INDEX: South Pacific Island as airstrip; from The Animals in that Country.]\\n17:59- Reads “Elegy for giant tortoises”.\\n19:19- Reads “It’s dangerous to read newspapers”. [INDEX: from The Animals in that        Country.]\\n20:49- Reads “I was reading a scientific article”. [INDEX: from The Animals in that Country.]\\n22:25- Reads “The reincarnation of Captain Cook”. [INDEX: from The Animals in that      Country.]\\n23:44- End of Atwood’s Reading.\\n23:49- CUT in recording.\\n23:58- Roy Kiyooka introduces Alden Nowlan (recording starts mid-introduction). [INDEX: Journalist from the Maritimes, with wife and son.]\\n24:26- Alden Nowlan introduces the reading. [INDEX: shortened poems, poems for reading.]\\n25:19- Introduces “Poem for the Rich Carlton”. [INDEX: bad poem, written upon arrival in Montreal, egotism of poet, audience.]\\n26:06- Reads “Poem for the Rich Carlton”.\\n26:30- Explains “Poem for the Rich Carlton”. [INDEX: crypt of St Paul’s Cathedral.]\\n26:43- Introduces “I, Icarus”. [INDEX: from new book, Bread Wine and Salt, published by Carter at $3.50.]\\n27:15- Reads “I, Icarus”.\\n28:34- Reads “Sailors” [INDEX: from Bread, Wine and Salt.]\\n30:06- Introduces “The Cinnamon Bears”. [INDEX: animal cooking, turn of the century, New Brunswick, touring side-show, fortune tellers, monkey, organ grinders, strolling pyres, wandering minstrels, advent of radio and television, Canada, United States, trained bears, found poem, creative, transcription of a conversation, northern New Brunswick, form of poetry; from Bread, Wine and Salt.]\\n32:30- Reads “The Cinnamon Bears”.\\n33:21- Reads “Britain Street, St. John, New Brunswick”. 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The night remembering Alden Nowlan.\n- [00:01:50] Premier Frank McKenna\n- [00:05:12] Amos\n- [00:09:38] Bob Gibbs, reads from a letter - [00:11:06] , discussion of The Wanton Troopers published posthumously in 1988. Significant laughter - [00:16:25] , applause at end - [00:17:25] \n- [00:17:30] female speaker (Janet)\n- [00:18:33] David Adams Richards\n- [00:19:33] Richards reads “Ypres: 1915”. Laughter - [00:22:25] , applause at end - [00:22:37] \n- [00:22:47] female speaker (Janet)\n- [00:24:28] Richard Hatfield, applause at his coming onto the stage. Laughter - [00:25:58] , and increases - [26:08-15] . Laughter - [00:26:47] - [00:30:30] - [00:34:50] , applause at end - [00:35:16] \n- Recording loops at - [00:31:12] \n- Amos introduces play the audience will be seeing tonight, Lockhartville written by Paul Hanna, adapted from Alden Nowlan’s book of the same name\n- [00:36:20] John Clemmer from Imperial Oil (sponsor of the play and the dinner)\n- [00:38:48] cut in recording. 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Discussion of martyrdom in Alden Nowlan’s verse. Dignity as part of the human character. Alden Nowlan appreciates those who know how to die well.\n- [00:04:05] Discussion of Alden Nowlan’s poem “Britain Street,” with the lines “On this street, / even the dogs / would rather fight / than eat”\no Alden Nowlan resists the interviewer’s desire for him to explain the meaning/intention of the poem. He wants readers to do this work and sees danger in the poet himself telling people what this meaning is.\n- [00:08:53] Discussion of gifts based on one of Alden Nowlan’s lines “the purest of gifts, those that consist only in giving.” A young woman at a reading brought Alden Nowlan flower seeds, it was a gift of understanding.\n- [00:10:37] Discussion of “The Sister of Zion” and religion. 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Speaker is likely Walter Learning.\n- Discussion of Frankenstein radio play.\n- At - [00:05:36] tape stops and restarts, and now Alden Nowlan is present and discussing with Learning.\n- [00:15:45] recording stops and restarts; Alden Nowlan testing recording equipment.\n- [00:16:15] recording of CBC Showcase Anthology Series. Remembrance Day program with writing by Canadian writers on the first and second world wars. 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Two line fragments now missing from the poem reading (“…human gesture / I’m reminded of how Xerxes felt when…”).\n- [00:36:12] prefatory remarks from Alden Nowlan, trying to capture the speech patterns of “ordinary” people in various parts of Atlantic Canada\no - [00:36:48] “The Red Wool Shirt”. Reads “pegs” instead of “pins” in line 4.\n- [00:39:07] “Election Song”. Includes prefatory remarks, poem is in memory of the 5th Prime Minister of Canada, “now remembered chiefly for having been totally forgotten”\n- [00:41:36] “Decline and Fall”. Recording begins on line 2 of poem.\n- [00:47:25] “Interview”\no - [00:48:46] Alden Nowlan reflects on his experiences with interviews—both as a journalist and as an interviewee. “I long ago concluded that an interview is much more the product of the interviewer than it is of the person being interviewed. In fact, an interview is the product of the interviewer almost in a way that a poem is the product of the poet, because the answers are shaped to such a large extent by the question. And I think this is truer with the electronic media than it is with the print media, because you can take the beginning of a sentence that the person in the interview said at 7 o’clock and connect it with the end of a sentence that he said at 11, and make a completely new sentence neither actually said.”\n- [00:50:17] prefaces by saying it’s a silly little poem. “Plot for a Science Fiction Novel”\n- [00:56:50] Reflections on being a rogue when sick (paraphrasing Samuel Johnson). “X-ray”\n\n- “God sour…” – “Poem” published in Wind in a Rocky Country\n- “Beginning” – “Homecoming” published in Under the Ice\n- “Stars” and “Palomino” published in Playing the Jesus Game\n- “Bull Moose” – “The Execution” published in The Things Which Are\n- “Icarus” and “Footsteps” published in Bread, Wine and Salt\n- “Beard” – “Sits” published in I Might Not Tell Everybody This\n- “Red Wool” – “It’s Good” published in Smoked Glass\n- “Decline” – “Science Fiction” published in Between Tears and Laughter\n- “Mysterious” – “X-ray” published in The Mysterious \n- “Beginning” – “Homecoming” published in Under the Ice\n- “Stars” and “Palomino” published in Playing the Jesus Game\n- “Bull Moose” – “The Execution” published in The Things Which Are\n- “Icarus” and “Footsteps” published in Bread, Wine and Salt\n- “Beard” – “Sits” published in I Might Not Tell Everybody This\n- “Red Wool” – “It’s Good” published in Smoked Glass\n- “Decline” – “Science Fiction” published in Between Tears and Laughter\n- “Mysterious” – “X-ray” published in The Mysterious Naked Man\n\nSignificant pauses between poems. Can hear Alden Nowlan resting and readjusting in his seat, flipping pages in his book."],"contents":["Alden Nowlan\n[00:00:00]\nReads \"God sour the milk of the knacking wench\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:00:45]\nReads \"Marian at the Pentecostal Meeting\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:01:18]\nReads \"For Nicholas of All the Russias\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:02:33]\nReads \"Poem [for Helen and Martha Knox]\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:03:25]\nReads \"Beginning\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:04:27]\nReads \"Aunt Jane\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:05:12]\nReads \"The Anatomy of Angels\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:05:59]\nReads \"Looking for Nancy\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:06:49]\nReads \"Homecoming\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:07:27]\nReads \"Stars\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:08:22]\nReads \"The Bull Moose\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:10:49]\nReads \"Dancer\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:12:16]\nReads \"The Execution\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:13:19]\nReads \"I, Icarus\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:15:09]\nReads \"Footsteps in the Dark\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:16:44]\nReads \"The Palomino Stallion\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:17:29]\nReads \"My Beard, Once Lionheart Red\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:21:30]\nReads \"Word From the Losers\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:23:37]\nReads \"'Why So Sad My Dear?' Said Queen Anne\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:25:05]\nReads \"He Visits the Shrine of a Saint\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:28:57]\nReads \"He Attempts to Love His Neighbours\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:31:24]\nReads \"He Sits down on the Floor of a School for the Retarded\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:36:48]\nReads \"The Red Wool Shirt\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:39:07]\nReads \"Election Song\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:40:24]\nReads \"It’s Good to Be Here\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:41:36]\nReads \"Decline and Fall\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:42:48]\nReads \"Fair Warning\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:43:50]\nReads \"A Tiger in the Dublin Zoo\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:44:55]\nReads \"He Grows in Understanding\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:45:38]\nReads \"Survival\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:46:42]\nReads \"The Married Man’s Poem\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:47:25]\nReads \"Interview\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:50:17]\nReads \"Plot for a Science Fiction Novel\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:50:49]\nReads \"The Mysterious Naked Man\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:52:44]\nReads \"Absolution\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:53:29]\nReads \"For Claudine Because I Love Her\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:55:10]\nReads \"A Poem About Miracles\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:56:50]\nReads \"X-ray\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"Wind in a Rocky Country (1960), Under the Ice (1961), Playing the Jesus Game (1970), The Things Which Are (1962), Bread, Wine and Salt (1967), I Might Not Tell Everybody This (1982), Smoked Glass (1977), Between Tears and Laughter (1971), The Mysterious Naked Man (1969)\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558519001092,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":3.1369812},{"id":"8370","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Alden Nowlan fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Alden Nowlan 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/alden-nowlan-fonds"],"item_title":["Loute (?) numbers by Inner (?) 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Interviewing locals.\n- [00:43:12] Poem about St. John called “Incident”.\n- [00:50:16] Another poem “Where’s the port of grey St. John…”\n- [01:02:36] credits for radio program."],"contents":["Alden Nowlan \n[0:00] \nDiscusses audio levels and volume, introduction to CBC Radio Anthology series plays. \nUnknown [multiple voices]\n[00:01:48]\nRead \"Gardens of the wind\".\nAnthology series Team [Ruth Springford, John Scott, Richard Davidson, Andrew Allan]\n[00:15:23]\nAnnounces credits for production of show."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"Poem commissioned for this radio programme.\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558524243976,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":3.1369812},{"id":"8374","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Alden Nowlan fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Alden Nowlan 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/alden-nowlan-fonds"],"item_title":["Tape of First Session (Alden Nowlan and Walter Learning) on \"La Svengali\" Radio Play 1981-1982"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Accompanying paper from archivist describing sides of cassettes. 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Conversation is audible in the background.\n- [00:04:00] radio reporting of Nova Scotia by-election.\n- [00:04:17] “Miracle at Indian River” radio play on CBC. Begins with singing (scene opens in a congregation worship service). Focuses on the town of Indian River, through the church, and the “crisis” of unmarried young people in Indian River.\n- [00:35:55] cuts to Nova Scotia by-election updates\n- [00:36:29] Returns to “Miracle”\n- [00:38:27] cuts to Nova Scotia by-election results\n- [00:38:46] Returns to “Miracle”\n- [00:50:52] End credits. Dramatized by Noel Stone and presented on CBC Tuesday Night. Jake Creeley starred as Reverend Horace Zwicker. Other credits: Frank Aldice, Bruce Armstrong, Joe Austin, Jim Barron, Marcia Diamond, Alan Deramos, Peg Dickson, Alice Hill, Corinne Langston, Claude Ray, Ruth Springford, and Marie Westgate. Music and arrangement by Carl Taffscott. Sound effects by Bill Robinson. Technical operations by Gary Stubbs. Introduction and broadcast announcer, Jim Chorley.\n- [00:51:33] cuts to Alden reading poems “for Wynn Fracis”\n- [00:51:56] “I, Icarus”\n- [00:53:29] “Daughter of Zion”\n- [00:55:04] “Husband and Wife”\n- [00:55:53] “Britain Street, St. John’s New Brunswick”\n- [00:56:57] “A Picnic in Times Square”\n- [00:57:21] “Secret Life”\n- [00:58:16] “O”\n- [00:59:04] “Verbal Transcription at the Legion Hall in Hartland, New Brunswick”\n- [00:59:45] “The Fresh Ploughed Hill”\n- [01:00:22] “Footsteps in the Dark”\n- [01:01:16] “Remembrance of Things Past”\n- [01:01:57] “The Hollow Men”\n- [01:02:35] “A Treaty to be Signed with Guests”\n- [01:03:00] “The Guide,” a short story\n- [01:11:34] Cut in recording. Can hear voices in the background. A collection of poems from The Mysterious Naked Man. - [01:11:59] “The Mysterious Naked Man”.\n- [01:13:21] Cut in recording. “Ypres: 1915”. Can hear music in the background.\n- [01:17:15] “Brandy of the Damned”\n- [01:19:21] “Absolution”\n- [01:19:38] “Hymn to Dionysius”\n- [01:19:58] “Greatness”\n- [01:20:16] “The Last Leper in Canada”\n- [01:21:25] “Snapshot”\n- [01:22:00] “The Atheist Praying”\n- [01:22:28] “For Claudine Because I Love Her”\n- [01:23:13] “Danse Macabre”\n- [01:24:01] “In an Irish Village”\n- [01:24:37] “A Signboard in Soho”\n- [01:26:26] “Points of Contact”\n- [01:27:40] Cut in recording. “The Barmaid’s Daughter”\n- [01:28:18] “The Dream of the Chocolate Dog”\n- [01:29:42] “A Mime for Lovers”\n- [01:30:39] “Apology”\n- [01:30:56] “A Million Years Ago”\n- [01:31:26] “Dream of Man, Whale and Tiger”\n- [01:32:48] “On the Nature of Human Compassion”\n- [01:33:40] “The Saint’s Apprentice”\n- [01:34:35] “The Backbiters”\n- [01:35:25] Note from Alden Nowlan that he will end with a few older poems. “In the Hainesville Cemetery”\n- [01:36:15] “Lament for James Talbot”\n- [01:37:37] “The Bull Moose”\n- [01:39:38] “The Execution”"],"contents":["Unknown\n[00:04:17]\nReads \"Miracle at Indian River\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:51:56]\nReads \"I, Icarus\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:53:29]\nReads \"Daughter of Zion\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:55:04]\nReads \"Husband and Wife\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:55:53]\nReads \"Britain Street, St. John’s New Brunswick\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:56:57]\nReads \"A Picnic in Times Square\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:57:21]\nReads \"Secret Life\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:58:16]\nReads \"O\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:59:04]\nReads \"Verbal Transcription at the Legion Hall in Hartland, New Brunswick\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:59:45]\nReads \"The Fresh Ploughed Hill\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[01:00:22]\nReads \"Footsteps in the Dark\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[01:01:16]\nReads \"Remembrance of Things Past\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[01:01:57]\nReads \"The Hollow Men\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[01:02:35]\nReads \"A Treaty to be Signed with Guests\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[01:03:00]\nReads \"The Guide\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[01:11:59]\nReads \"The Mysterious Naked Man\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[01:13:21]\nReads \"Ypres: 1915\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[01:17:15]\nReads \"Brandy of the Damned\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[01:19:21]\nReads \"Absolution\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[01:19:38]\nReads \"Hymn to Dionysius\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[01:19:58]\nReads \"Greatness\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[01:20:16]\nReads \"The Last Leper in Canada\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[01:21:25]\nReads \"Snapshot\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[01:22:00]\nReads \"The Atheist Praying\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[01:22:28]\nReads \"For Claudine Because I Love Her\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[01:23:13]\nReads \"Danse Macabre\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[01:24:01]\nReads \"In an Irish Village\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[01:24:37]\nReads \"A Signboard in Soho\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[01:26:26]\nReads \"Points of Contact\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[01:27:40]\nReads \"The Barmaid’s Daughter\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[01:28:18]\nReads \"The Dream of the Chocolate Dog\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[01:29:42]\nReads \"A Mime for Lovers\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[01:30:39]\nReads \"Apology\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[01:30:56]\nReads \"A Million Years Ago\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[01:31:26]\nReads \"Dream of Man, Whale and Tiger\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[01:32:48]\nReads \"On the Nature of Human Compassion\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[01:33:40]\nReads \"The Saint’s Apprentice\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[01:34:35]\nReads \"The Backbiters\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[01:35:25]\nReads \"In the Hainesville Cemetery\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[01:36:15]\nReads \"Lament for James Talbot\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[01:37:37]\nReads \"The Bull Moose\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[01:39:38]\nReads \"The Execution\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"Miracle at Indian River (1982)\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558527389700,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":3.1369812}]