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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. Written mid to late 60s and published as a pamphlet prior to inclusion in poetry collection. Dedicated to John Sinclair. Discusses rock n roll political movements, MC5 in Detroit, the political party “Rainbow” which started as the White Panthers. Driving through America as Canadians, unused to seeing guns. Resonates well with the audience (laughter).\n- [00:25:51] Robert Kroetsch introductory remarks. Called post-modern writer in Canada, speaking on narrative because of the event theme and the academic concerns of the students in the audience.\n- [00:26:48] Sketches of a Lemon. Wary of notions of meaning, tried to pick an object lacking inherent meaning. Interjection: there is a lemon tree, deconstructs his poem for him.\n- [00:30:45] Seed Catalogue introduction. Shared text/tradition of seed catalogues, must engage with great garden poetry from Book of Genesis onward. Cabbages as an unexplored entry point. Only two seasons in Canada: winter and poor sledding. Reckoning with the false notion of spring, need to reinterpret our engagement with preconceptions of seasons inherited from British tradition. Interjection #1: Robert Kroetsch did fall off a horse standing still, while also playing with concept of fallen man. Interjection #2: second section picking up on oral tradition, in light of books/media that doesn’t reflect “us” (Canadians) we survive by telling each other stories. Laughter at father killing magpie. Interjection #3: Brome grass section came from telling a young female poet his difficulty in ending, and she told a Saskatchewan cowboy who sent a letter to Robert Kroetsch (the letter became the text).\n- [00:46:34] Four Questions for George George Bowering is a response to Kerrisdale Elegies. \n- [00:48:10] Question period. #1: George skipping over his bad French. How has multiple readings influenced their opinions of the poems – George Bowering: difference between composition and reading. Notation reflecting primary experience (reading). Explaining concept of notation. Robert Kroetsch: Movement away from speech model, dialoguing with George Bowering. #2: Prose and verse, is it clear which way a piece will go when writing. George Bowering: still imagines it being read out loud regardless of whether it is prose or verse. Robert Kroetsch: still reads as lyrical. Movement between writing the two is fluid.\n\n- * Dating determined to be approximately May 1986. Correspondence with Robert Kroetsch and Brian Edwards occurs only following the conference (591/96.6 4.42). George Bowering also corresponds with Edwards in 1984 and 1986 (correspondence housed at Library and Archives Canada). In the recording, a conference which Robert Kroetsch and George Bowering attended took place in Ottawa a “three weeks earlier” can be dated to April 25-27, 1986 (591/96.6 34.8). In another interview with Edwards, Robert Kroetsch references this conference in May (775/04.25 29.2).\n"],"contents":["George Bowering\n[00:01:04] \nPerforms \"Elegy Four\".\nGeorge Bowering\n[00:08:59]\nPerforms \"Elegy Ten\".\nGeorge Bowering\n[00:20:14]\nPerforms \"American Cops\". \nRobert Kroetsch\n[00:26:48]\nPerforms \"Sketches of a Lemon\". \nRobert Kroetsch \n[00:33:11]\nPerforms \"Seed Catalogue\".\nRobert Kroetsch \n[00:47:02]\n\"Four Questions for George Bowering\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"Bowering, Kerrisdale Elegies (1984). Kroetsch, Sketches of a Lemon (1980); Seed Catalogue (1977); Advice to My Friends (1985).\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558221205508,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.444Z","score":2.528552},{"id":"8306","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":["Poetry Reading at U.N.B. 1979 Writer’s Workshop"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Classroom recording"],"item_identifiers":["[3.1.2]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2029"],"creator_names":["Nowlan, Alden"],"creator_names_search":["Nowlan, Alden"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/61671170\",\"name\":\"Nowlan, Alden\",\"dates\":\"1933-1983\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Author\",\"Performer\"]}]"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[]}]"],"Performance_Date":[1979],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"A and B\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"Concertape\",\"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\":\"AN_523_92.21.3.1.2\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T00:43:43\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"80.05 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1979-07\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Dates taken from container and/or accompanying material.\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ui/details.html?osmtype=W&osmid=19797954&class=amenity\",\"venue\":\"University of New Brunswick\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"3, Bailey Drive, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"[45.945530250000004]\",\"longitude\":\"[-66.64018313486694]\"}]"],"Address":["3, Bailey Drive, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada"],"Venue":["University of New Brunswick"],"content_notes":["- [00:00:00] Introduction of Alden Nowlan by male speaker. This workshop occurring during Alden Nowlan’s time as Writer in Residence at UNB.\n- [00:02:05] Alden Nowlan begins speaking\n- [00:06:36] Prefatory remarks, one of Alden Nowlan’s favourite poems. “A Picnic in Times Square”\n- [00:11:00] Prefatory remarks on zoos, Alden Nowlan finds them depressing places but this tiger struck him as different. “A Tiger in the Dublin Zoo”\n- [00:12:43] “He Grows in Understanding”\no - [00:13:20] Laughter and clapping at end of poem\n- [00:13:25] Prefatory remarks on how this poem is special to him and the epistolic form, written for his friend George Frederick Clarke. “A Poem for George Frederick Clarke”\no Reads final line as “and yes, / such reticence” instead of “yes, / and such reticence”\n- [00:19:18] Prefatory remarks on everyday people hijacking airplanes and his sympathy. “Night Flight from Montreal”\no Reads final line as “I must ask the police what / will happen to my luggage” instead of “Asking the police what / will happen to my luggage”\n- [00:21:15] Prefatory remarks on strange experience of being the subject of a documentary film; a new experience for him, he had naively assume that the camera would follow you around etc. Actually wanted you to perform as yourself, which is very difficult. “On Being the Subject of a Documentary”\n- [00:25:40] Prefatory remarks. “A Very Common Prescription”\n- [00:28:10] Prefatory remarks, trying to capture something of the power of expression of so-called ordinary people in very extraordinary situations. “The Red Wool Shirt”\n- [00:30:18] Prefatory remarks, it’s a found poem, something Alden Nowlan says he doesn’t do very often. “The Carpenter’s Misfortunes”\n- [00:31:45] Prefatory remarks on fifth Prime Minster of Canada and his being forgotten. “Election Song”\n- [00:32:58] Prefatory remarks on re-encountering people as an adult. “In the Blood”\n- [00:35:26] Prefatory remarks, wrote this poem a number of years ago and is recently revisiting and revising. In 1915, battle in a town in Belgium where poison gas was used for the first time by the Nazis. It appeared like something out of science fiction. Started to write this poem on Remembrance Day. “Ypres: 1915” \no A few differences from published version; Alden Nowlan himself acknowledges that he is working on its revision. Some removals or additions of words/phrases.\no Frenchmen leaving: “brandishing their swords, / weeping / for the dishonour of it all”\no The fisherman’s dialect is more colloquial: “and yup” instead of “yes”\no Billy MacNally: in this reading is specifically “from Britain Street from the South End of Saint John, New Brunswick”\n\n“I, Icarus” – “Picnic” published in Bread, Wine and Salt\n“Beggars” – “On Events” published in Between Tears and Laughter\n“Night Flight” – “Documentary” published in I’m a Stranger Here Myself\n“Prescription” – “In the Blood” published in Smoked Glass\n“Ypres: 1915” published in The Mysterious Naked Man\n"],"contents":["Alden Nowlan\n[00:02:55]\nReads \"I, Icarus\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:04:36]\nReads \"Daughter of Zion\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:06:36]\nReads \"A Picnic in Times Square\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:07:21]\nReads \"The Fresh-Ploughed Hill\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:08:18]\nReads \"The Beggars of Dublin\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:11:00]\nReads \"A Tiger in the Dublin Zoo\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:12:43]\nReads \"He Grows in Understanding\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:13:25]\nReads \"A Poem for George Frederick Clarke\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:16:05]\nReads \"Cornflowers\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:17:16]\nReads \"On Events of Varying Importance\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:19:18]\nReads \"Night Flight from Montreal\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:21:15]\nReads \"On Being the Subject of a Documentary\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:25:40]\nReads \"A Very Common Prescription\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:28:10]\nReads \"The Red Wool Shirt\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:30:18]\nReads \"The Carpenter’s Misfortunes\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:31:45]\nReads \"Election Song\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:32:58]\nReads \"In the Blood\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:35:26]\nReads \"Ypres: 1915\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"Bread, Wine and Salt (1967), Smoked Glass (1977), Between Tears and Laughter (1971), The Mysterious Naked Man (1969), I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1974)\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558436163586,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.646Z","score":2.528552},{"id":"8331","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":["Canada Council 25th Anniversary Maritime Writers Workshop, UNB; July 4, 1982 "],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Case label: Canada Council 25th Anniversary Maritime Writers Workshop, UNB July 4, 1982. 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Laughter throughout.\n- [00:29:17] “Ghost Stories”. Laughter at - [00:29:40] .\n- [00:32:06] Introduces poem and then reads, - [00:32:54] “He Visits the Shrine of a Saint”\n- [00:35:52] “The Secretive Fisherman”\n- [00:38:33] “Only When My Heart Freezes”\n- [00:39:56] introduces poem and then reads “Legacy.” Recording ends here."],"contents":["Laurel Boone\n[00:00:11]\nIntroduces \"7th Annual Maritime Writers workshop\".\nRobert Gibbs\n[00:01:11]\nIntroduces Alfred Bailey.\nAlfred Bailey\n[00:05:00]\nReads \"The Night Country\".\nAlfred Bailey\n[00:09:15]\nReads \"Queen’s Park\".\nAlfred Bailey\n[00:11:24]\nReads \"Gluskap’s Daughter\".\nAlfred Bailey\n[00:12:56]\nReads \"Colour Chart\".\nBob Gibbs\n[00:14:25]\nConcludes Alfred Bailey readings and introduces Alden Nowlan.\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:18:49]\nReads \"My Beard, Once Lionheart Red\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:23:29]\nReads \"What Happened When He Went to the Store for Bread\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:26:30]\nReads \"Word from the Losers\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:28:17]\nReads \"And Now the Good News\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:29:17]\nReads \"Ghost Stories\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:32:54]\nReads \"He Visits the Shrine of a Saint\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:35:52]\nReads \"The Secretive Fisherman\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:38:33]\nReads \"Only When My Heart Freezes\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:39:56]\nReads \"Legacy\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"Bailey, poems published in various venues including special issue of Canadian Literature (1979) [\\\"The Night Country\\\"]. 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For Robert Robert Kroetsch. Joy W. Oct 15/86\n- Kerr “Aware”: poems in praise of alcohol. In Saskatchewan a television campaign called the Aware Program, promoting abstinence. \n- “Spirit”: Poem in praise of Edmonton, notes there probably aren’t many of those.\n- Going: Poems about good taste and against mass production.\n- “Transcript”: Poem for university students.\n- “Fight”: Based on the ‘fight for the family farm’, the most used political slogan in Saskatchewan.\n- Kreisel: A trip to Fiji, attempting to find his hotel reservation at the airport. Staying at a guest house and visiting with locals. Second excerpt on attending delegation on Indigenous rights.\n- Kamboureli: immigrant experience, in the form of a journal.\n- Sproxton: a head frame is a part of a mine, he feels the need to explain as many have incorrectly titled or discussed his book title. 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The casette is enclosed in an envelope with the University of Lethbridge Department of English stamped on it\n- The file contains a full transcription of the interview.\n- Begins mid-sentence with introduction by Marguerite McDonald\n- Robert Kroetsch and Wiebe are at a piano with Collie Banks, they didn’t know they were already being recorded.\n- Rudy was a singer – he sings “Amazing Grace” then Robert Kroetsch sings “Wild, Wild Women”\n- [00:03:07] interview on approach to prairie writing\n- Beer parlours and prairie stories – Wiebe says there are only certain types of stories that you can hear at parlours\n- Space and the prairies – W “space has everything in it” you just have to look\n- Always in relationship with the landscape/earth and the prairies make you aware of this relationship\n- W – man is vertical compared to flatness of prairies, man moves while landscape remains immutable\n- K – why movement across prairies so important to novels\n- K – doesn’t like generalizations about the prairies\n- K – as writers we accept the prairies – earlier writers (Grove, Ross) trying to resist the prairies – trying to impose another cultural pattern onto it\n- W – old writers had a sense that somehow the prairies had to be improved, whereas current writers now live and move within the prairie space and work with it\n- W – When writing Big Bear travelled his prairie routes. Wiebe didn’t try to write notes during the journey, wanted to feel the experience\n- K – did the same for Badlands – a week on Red Deer River\n- Commenting on the quote about Canadian literature that “it’s by our lack of ghosts we’re haunted”: W – disagrees, gives examples of buffalo jumps which are over 4000 years old. 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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":2.528552}]