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AN speaking\n\t\t003\t“I’m in trouble,’ she said…”\n\t\t012\t“Junkets”\n\t\t018\t“Election song”\n\t\t030\t“The great Cape Breton cockfight”\n\t\t041\t“Song from the kettle drum”\n\t\t054\t“…I’ll read a few verses from my most recent published collection, I’m a stranger here myself...”\n\t\t059\t“Night flight to Montreal”\n\t\t073\t“We were younger then”\n\t\t102\t“The old gentleman”\n\t\t114\t“Answer to a small child’s question”\n\t\t120\t“Four o’clock in the morning”\n\t\t148\t“Parlor game”\n\t\t160\t“Poem for Barbara and Lindsay’s wedding”\n\t\t179\t“A night for hot punch”\n\t\t188\t“In the newsroom”\n\t\t197\t“Body and soul”\n\t\t214\t“Their first meeting”\n\t\t223\t“In the officers’ mess”\n\t\t259\t“A note on the public transportation system”\n\t\t274\t“This is a poem about the correspondence column of Penthouse magazine”\n\t\t282\t“There’ll be nothing more on television tonight…”\n\t\t292\t“The jelly bean man”\n\t\t313\t“Aftermath to a plane crash”\n\t\t320\t“The broadcaster’s poem”\n\t\t343\t“In praise of the great bull walrus”\n\t\t361\t“The night of the party”\n\t\t370\t“Now… I’ll read a few earlier poems…”\n\t\t379\t“The mysterious naked man”\n\t\t402\t“The married man’s poem”\n\t\t407\t“First lesson in theology”\n\t\t412\t“The people who are gone”\n\t\t445\t“Ypres 1915”\n\t\t515\tUnidentified voice asking for questions; question period follows\n\t\t523\tRe: poems based on personal experience\n\t\t540\tRe: Flat Earth Society\n\t\t562\tRe: a poem written after a nightmare\n\t\t575\tAre you pursuing a direction with your poems?\n\t\t595\tRe: justice\n\t\t620\tRe: revising poems – John Newlove\n\t\t640\tRE: Ideally in any work of literature, the measure of greatness is the number of depths in it\n\t\t665\tRe: criticism\n\t\t705\tRe: “taking words out: on rewriting\n\t\t722\tRe: editorial criteria for poetry  magazines\n\t\t773\t“How long have you been writing?”\n\t\t806\t“Were you writing when you were working in the forest?”\n\t\t830\tQuestion period and reading ends"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Alden Nowlan Reading at Malaspina College, Feb. 20, 1975 Side 1: 29:05 Side 2: 28:45 Echo was generated on the original tape. 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