[{"id":"1302","cataloger_name":["Ali,Barillaro"],"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":["George Bowering, Home Recording, 3 March 1967"],"item_title_source":["Cataloguer"],"item_title_note":["Title does not follow the typical formula for this collection, as this reading did not take place at Sir George Williams University, but rather in Bowering's home."],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Home recording"],"item_series_title":["The Poetry Series"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"creator_names":["Bowering, George"],"creator_names_search":["Bowering, George"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/34469976\",\"name\":\"Bowering, George\",\"dates\":\"1935-\",\"notes\":\"Poet, novelist, anthologist and critic George Bowering was born in Penticton, British Columbia in 1935. In 1954 he served in the Royal Canadian Air Force until 1957, when he pursued a Bachelor’s degree in 1960 and a Master’s degree in 1963 from the University of British Columbia. With fellow poets Frank Davey, David Dawson, James Reid, Fred Wah and critic Warren Tallman, he founded Tish in 1961, a poetry newsletter which had monumental reverberations across Canada. This magazine, influenced by styles of the Black Mountain Poets and of the East Coast poetry of Louis Dudek, Raymond Souster and Irving Layton, brought a “new wave” of poetry to Canada. Bowering’s first collection of poetry began with Sticks and Stones (Tishbooks, 1962) with a preface written by Robert Creeley, and was followed by Points on the Grid (Contact Press, 1964) and Man in Yellow Boots (El Corno Emplumado, 1965). Bowering also founded the magazine Imago (1964-1974), which featured critical essays and poetry, and he also contributed to Open Letter as an editor. Bowering then moved eastwards, teaching at the University of Calgary from 1963-1966, enrolled in the Ph.D. program at the University of Western Ontario. A year later, Bowering accepted a position as the writer-in-residence in 1967 at Sir George Williams University (now Concordia University) in Montreal, becoming a lecturer in 1967-1971. Bowering joined the Sir George Williams University Poetry Reading Series Committee in the fall of 1967, which was being run by Roy Kiyooka, Stanton Hoffman and Howard Fink. In 1972 he left Montreal and began a long career teaching at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. He has published over fifty books of poetry, prose, short stories, essays, reviews, plays as well as pieces that combine and defy genres. A selection of his publications are as follows: Genève (Coach House Press, 1971), Autobiology (New Star Books, 1972), Curious (Coach House Press, 1973), In the Flesh (McClelland & Stewart, 1974), Allophanes (Coach House Press, 1976), Burning Water (Beaufort Books, 1980), Caprice (Penguin Books, 1988), Harry’s Fragments (Coach House Press, 1990), Rewriting my Grandfather (Nomados, 2005), Baseball Love (Talonbooks, 2006) and Shall I Compare: July 2006 (George Bowering, 2008). Bowering published his interview with Black Mountain poet Robert Duncan: An Interview, (Coach House Press, 1971), a book-length study on Canadian poet Al Purdy: Al Purdy (Copp Clark, 1970) along with editing several anthologies such as Vibrations: Poems from Youth (Cage, 1970), Fiction of Contemporary Canada (Coach House Press, 1980) and Likely Stories: A Postmodern Sampler (Coach House Oress, 1992). Bowering has won two Governor General Awards, for poetry in 1969 for Rocky Mountain Foot (McClelland & Stewart, 1968) and The Gangs Kosmos (Anasi, 1969); one for fiction in 1980 for Burning Water (Beaufort Books, 1980). 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"],"contents":["George Bowering\n00:00:00\nFirst of all, my apologies for being so late with the tape, and a footnote that the noise in the background, if there is any, will be my wife making supper. \n\nUnknown\n00:00:12\nAmbient sound.\n\nGeorge Bowering\n00:00:17\nFirst I'll read, first I'll read from my first book, Points on the Grid.\n\nUnknown\n00:00:27\n[Cut in tape].\n\nGeorge Bowering\n00:00:32\nThis book published in 1964, by Contact Press. The first poem I'll read is the one called \"Trail\" [feedback sounds].\n\nGeorge Bowering\n00:00:49\nReads \"Trail\" from Points on the Grid.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:01:36\n\"Locus Solus\".\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:01:40\nReads \"Locus Solus\" from Points on the Grid.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:02:42\nI might mention that the difference between this book and the other one is that more often you'll see on the page in this book that I've been working out certain ideas about poetics [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q835023], certain ideas about syntax [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37437], ideas about how to get the page down on the poem, all the things the Tish poets [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2384384] were working out in the early 1960s. As an example, the poem, \"Walking Poem\".\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:03:14\nReads \"Walking Poem\" from Points on the Grid.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:04:22\nI might mention, according to our poetics, or according to my poetics in that poem you'll see things operating such as a rhyme between the word 'shadow' and the word 'bashful'. \"Family\".\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:04:39\nReads \"Family\" from Points on the Grid.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:05:33\nThe following is the poem that I think is the best in the book, and that I think most people whom I've talked to agree this is the best poem in the book. \"Grandfather\".\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:05:47\nReads \"Grandfather\" from Points on the Grid.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:07:25\n\"For A.\".\n \nAnnotation\n00:07:28\nReads \"For A.\" from Points on the Grid.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:07:49\nOne thing that separates Western Canada [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1145847] from Eastern Canada [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q795077] is the Spanish names of Western Canada and the Spaniards [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q160894] left their names all the way up the coast, not only in California and Oregon. This poem, set partly in Vancouver [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24639] and partly on the rest of the B.C. coast is called \"Spanish B.C.\".\n\nGeorge Bowering\n00:08:11\nReads \"Spanish B.C\" from Points on the Grid.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:10:34\nI suppose I'd better read the title poem, \"Points on the Grid\".\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:10:42\nReads \"Points on the Grid\" from Points on the Grid.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:12:10\nI might mention, just for the record, that many of the things that I learned and tried to practice in that first book, I learned originally from poets such as Robert Duncan [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q964391], Robert Creeley [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q918620], Charles Olson [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q922978], all of whom visited Vancouver and helped the young poets in Vancouver out, very much, in learning about poetry. Now I plan to read from The Man in Yellow Boots, published this year, 1965, and in this book, I tend to move away from experimentation [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1384425], although I still retain many of the things that I tried to work out in the first book. In this book one of the things that I often do is turn to more social issues. First though, let me read the love poem that begins the book, this poem called \"To Cleave\".\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:13:14\nReads \"To Cleave\" from The Man in Yellow Boots.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:13:43\nThis book is a bilingual book, unfortunately not with French [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q150], but with Spanish [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1321] and just this once I'm going to see if I can read the Spanish version of the poem I just read. Spanish is called \"Penetrar\".\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:13:58\nReads \"Penetrar\" from The Man in Yellow Boots in Spanish.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:14:39\nIncidentally as a poetic note, some of that scratching and scrabbling noise in the background is my two small dogs beating each other up. This poem called \"Moon Shadow\".\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:14:54\nReads \"Moon Shadow\" from The Man in Yellow Boots.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:16:03\nThis then, is the other side of my poetry, this poem called \"Vox Crapulous\".\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:16:09\nReads \"Vox Crapulous\" from The Man in Yellow Boots.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:17:31\nFurther in that vein, this poem’s written October 16, 1964: a momentous day. This poem is called \"The Day Before the Chinese A-Bomb\".\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:17:46.49\nReads \"The Day Before the Chinese A-Bomb\" from The Man in Yellow Boots.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:18:29\nThis a longer poem, I think one of the two best poems in the book the other one being \"The Descent\", this poem's called \"For WCW\"\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:18:39\nReads \"For WCW\" from The Man in Yellow Boots.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:21:16\nThis poem, written during our visit to Mexico [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96] in 1964, called \"Esta Muy Caliente\" and the reason it's not called \"Hace Mucho Calor\" is because of something inherent in the Spanish language that those that know will understand.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:21:35\nReads \"Esta Muy Caliente\" from The Man in Yellow Boots.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:23:09\nI think the following is the best poem in this book, it's called \"The Descent\", the title taken from a William Carlos Williams [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q178106] poem of course.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:23:18.83\nReads \"The Descent\" from The Man in Yellow Boots.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:29:09\nAnd the last poem in the book, \"Breaking Up, Breaking Out\".\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:29:14\nReads \"Breaking Up, Breaking Out\" from The Man in Yellow Boots.\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:30:03\nNow, some newer poems, while there's time. This newest one called \"The Oil\", written after a drive to Edmonton [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2096] and back from Calgary [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36312].\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:30:14\nReads \"The Oil\" [published later in Rocky Mountain Foot: a lyric, a memoir].\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:32:03\nHere's a short poem called \"I Saw\".\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:32:07\nReads \"I Saw\".\n \nGeorge Bowering\n00:32:20\nOkay, when I've just about come to the end of this side of the tape and I don't think I'll use the other side so that you can use it for somebody else, and once again I'm terribly sorry for being so late with this tape, and also if that does seem a loss, I'm sorry for not saying more things about poetry, I've been doing that less and less the further and further I've been getting away from Vancouver. So, Merry Christmas!\n \nEND\n00:32:58\n"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Year-specific Information:\\n\\nIn 1967, George Bowering had been hired at Sir George Williams University and was on the Reading Series Committee. Bowering was also editing his magazine Imago in Montreal.\",\"type\":\"General\"},{\"note\":\"Local connections:\\n\\nGeorge Bowering was very influential in promoting and enriching the Vancouver poetry scene in the early 1960s, through his magazines Tish and Imago as well as the hundreds of connections he made with other poets. His early connections with the Black Mountain Poets and the relationships he made with Canadian poets from Vancouver across Canada to Montreal  have been essential because he bridged the gap of distance and made new types of poetry available to young poets. Montrealer Louis Dudek wrote that Bowering’s “most important contribution to the new generation of Montreal poets was the institution of a series of readings at Sir George [Williams University] which exposed them to the diverse experimentation that was taking place across Canada and the U.S.”[1] . Bowering has anthologized many Canadian poets, as well as publishing over fifty books of his own writing, establishing himself as an important figure in Canadian poetry. \",\"type\":\"General\"},{\"note\":\"Original transcript, research, introduction and edits by Celyn Harding-Jones\\n\\nAdditional research and edits by Faith Paré (2020) & Ali Barillaro (2021)\\n\",\"type\":\"Cataloguer\"},{\"note\":\"Reel-to-reel tape>CD>digital file\",\"type\":\"Preservation\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/rocky-mountain-foot-a-lyric-a-memoir/oclc/962929125&referer=brief_results\",\"citation\":\"Bowering, George. Rocky Mountain Foot: a lyric, a memoir. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1968. \"},{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/concrete-island-montreal-poems-1967-1971/oclc/15849512&referer=brief_results\",\"citation\":\"Bowering, George. The Concrete Island: Montreal poems, 1967-1971. Montreal: Vehicule Press, 1977. \"},{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/points-on-the-grid/oclc/3391688&referer=brief_results\",\"citation\":\"Bowering, George. Points on the Grid. Toronto: Contact Press, 1964. \"},{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/contemporary-canadian-poem-anthology/oclc/802667762&referer=brief_results\",\"citation\":\"Bowering, George. (ed). The Contemporary Canadian Poem Anthology. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1984. \"},{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/montreal-english-poetry-of-the-seventies/oclc/757254674&referer=brief_results\",\"citation\":\"Farkas, Andre & Ken Norris, ed. Montreal English Poetry of the Seventies. Montreal: Vehicule Press, 1977.\"},{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/15-canadian-poets-times-2/oclc/622296707&referer=brief_results\",\"citation\":\"Geddes, Gary (ed). Fifteen Canadian Poets Times Two. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1990. \"},{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/poets-of-contemporary-canada-1960-1970-edited-and-with-an-introduction-by-eli-mandel/oclc/1202953921&referer=brief_results\",\"citation\":\"Mandel, Eli (ed). Poets of Contemporary Canada 1960-1970. Montreal: McClelland and Stewart, 1972. \"},{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/encyclopedia-of-post-colonial-literatures-in-english-volume-1/oclc/636622714&referer=brief_results\",\"citation\":\"Miki, Roy. “Bowering, George (1935-)”. Routledge Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English. Ed. Benson, Eugene; Conolly, L.W. London: Routledge, 1994. \"},{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/record-of-writing-an-annotated-and-illustrated-bibliography-of-george-bowering/oclc/797558365&referer=brief_results\",\"citation\":\"Miki, Roy. A Record of Writing: an annotated and illustrated bibliography of George Bowering. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1990. \"},{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/canadian-writers-since-1960-first-series/oclc/883361320&referer=brief_results\",\"citation\":\"Quartermain, Peter and Meredith. \\\"George Bowering.\\\" Canadian Writers Since 1960: \\nFirst Series. Ed. William H. New. Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 53. Detroit: Gale Research, 1986. \"},{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/from-there-to-here-a-guide-to-english-canadian-literature-since-1960/oclc/962929534&referer=brief_results\",\"citation\":\"Davey, Frank. From There to Here: A Guide to English-Canadian Literature Since 1960. Ontario: Press Porcepic, 1974 .\"},{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/man-in-the-yellow-boots-el-hombre-de-las-botas-amarillas/oclc/1150284247&referer=brief_results\",\"citation\":\"Bowering, George and Sergio Mondragon. The Man in Yellow Boots. Mexico: El Corno Emplumado, 1965. \"}]"],"_version_":1853670548964376576,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:53.477Z","digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"00:32:58\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"George Bowering\\n00:00:00\\nFirst of all, my apologies for being so late with the tape, and a footnote that the noise in the background, if there is any, will be my wife making supper. \\n\\nUnknown\\n00:00:12\\nAmbient sound.\\n\\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:00:17\\nFirst I'll read, first I'll read from my first book, Points on the Grid.\\n\\nUnknown\\n00:00:27\\n[Cut in tape].\\n\\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:00:32\\nThis book published in 1964, by Contact Press. The first poem I'll read is the one called \\\"Trail\\\" [feedback sounds].\\n\\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:00:49\\nReads \\\"Trail\\\" from Points on the Grid.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:01:36\\n\\\"Locus Solus\\\".\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:01:40\\nReads \\\"Locus Solus\\\" from Points on the Grid.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:02:42\\nI might mention that the difference between this book and the other one is that more often you'll see on the page in this book that I've been working out certain ideas about poetics [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q835023], certain ideas about syntax [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37437], ideas about how to get the page down on the poem, all the things the Tish poets [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2384384] were working out in the early 1960s. As an example, the poem, \\\"Walking Poem\\\".\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:03:14\\nReads \\\"Walking Poem\\\" from Points on the Grid.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:04:22\\nI might mention, according to our poetics, or according to my poetics in that poem you'll see things operating such as a rhyme between the word 'shadow' and the word 'bashful'. \\\"Family\\\".\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:04:39\\nReads \\\"Family\\\" from Points on the Grid.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:05:33\\nThe following is the poem that I think is the best in the book, and that I think most people whom I've talked to agree this is the best poem in the book. \\\"Grandfather\\\".\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:05:47\\nReads \\\"Grandfather\\\" from Points on the Grid.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:07:25\\n\\\"For A.\\\".\\n \\nAnnotation\\n00:07:28\\nReads \\\"For A.\\\" from Points on the Grid.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:07:49\\nOne thing that separates Western Canada [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1145847] from Eastern Canada [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q795077] is the Spanish names of Western Canada and the Spaniards [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q160894] left their names all the way up the coast, not only in California and Oregon. This poem, set partly in Vancouver [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24639] and partly on the rest of the B.C. coast is called \\\"Spanish B.C.\\\".\\n\\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:08:11\\nReads \\\"Spanish B.C\\\" from Points on the Grid.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:10:34\\nI suppose I'd better read the title poem, \\\"Points on the Grid\\\".\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:10:42\\nReads \\\"Points on the Grid\\\" from Points on the Grid.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:12:10\\nI might mention, just for the record, that many of the things that I learned and tried to practice in that first book, I learned originally from poets such as Robert Duncan [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q964391], Robert Creeley [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q918620], Charles Olson [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q922978], all of whom visited Vancouver and helped the young poets in Vancouver out, very much, in learning about poetry. Now I plan to read from The Man in Yellow Boots, published this year, 1965, and in this book, I tend to move away from experimentation [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1384425], although I still retain many of the things that I tried to work out in the first book. In this book one of the things that I often do is turn to more social issues. First though, let me read the love poem that begins the book, this poem called \\\"To Cleave\\\".\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:13:14\\nReads \\\"To Cleave\\\" from The Man in Yellow Boots.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:13:43\\nThis book is a bilingual book, unfortunately not with French [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q150], but with Spanish [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1321] and just this once I'm going to see if I can read the Spanish version of the poem I just read. Spanish is called \\\"Penetrar\\\".\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:13:58\\nReads \\\"Penetrar\\\" from The Man in Yellow Boots in Spanish.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:14:39\\nIncidentally as a poetic note, some of that scratching and scrabbling noise in the background is my two small dogs beating each other up. This poem called \\\"Moon Shadow\\\".\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:14:54\\nReads \\\"Moon Shadow\\\" from The Man in Yellow Boots.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:16:03\\nThis then, is the other side of my poetry, this poem called \\\"Vox Crapulous\\\".\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:16:09\\nReads \\\"Vox Crapulous\\\" from The Man in Yellow Boots.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:17:31\\nFurther in that vein, this poem’s written October 16, 1964: a momentous day. This poem is called \\\"The Day Before the Chinese A-Bomb\\\".\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:17:46.49\\nReads \\\"The Day Before the Chinese A-Bomb\\\" from The Man in Yellow Boots.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:18:29\\nThis a longer poem, I think one of the two best poems in the book the other one being \\\"The Descent\\\", this poem's called \\\"For WCW\\\"\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:18:39\\nReads \\\"For WCW\\\" from The Man in Yellow Boots.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:21:16\\nThis poem, written during our visit to Mexico [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96] in 1964, called \\\"Esta Muy Caliente\\\" and the reason it's not called \\\"Hace Mucho Calor\\\" is because of something inherent in the Spanish language that those that know will understand.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:21:35\\nReads \\\"Esta Muy Caliente\\\" from The Man in Yellow Boots.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:23:09\\nI think the following is the best poem in this book, it's called \\\"The Descent\\\", the title taken from a William Carlos Williams [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q178106] poem of course.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:23:18.83\\nReads \\\"The Descent\\\" from The Man in Yellow Boots.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:29:09\\nAnd the last poem in the book, \\\"Breaking Up, Breaking Out\\\".\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:29:14\\nReads \\\"Breaking Up, Breaking Out\\\" from The Man in Yellow Boots.\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:30:03\\nNow, some newer poems, while there's time. This newest one called \\\"The Oil\\\", written after a drive to Edmonton [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2096] and back from Calgary [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36312].\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:30:14\\nReads \\\"The Oil\\\" [published later in Rocky Mountain Foot: a lyric, a memoir].\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:32:03\\nHere's a short poem called \\\"I Saw\\\".\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:32:07\\nReads \\\"I Saw\\\".\\n \\nGeorge Bowering\\n00:32:20\\nOkay, when I've just about come to the end of this side of the tape and I don't think I'll use the other side so that you can use it for somebody else, and once again I'm terribly sorry for being so late with this tape, and also if that does seem a loss, I'm sorry for not saying more things about poetry, I've been doing that less and less the further and further I've been getting away from Vancouver. 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He asks the audience to imagine that he has started to write a poem that he is one quarter to halfway through and invites questions on the process of this poem and how he would treat a poem he was starting now\n\t\t093\tSomeone asks what Spicer is worried about\n\t\t094\tQuestions begin before the reading of the poem-in-process beginning with someone asking if he wants the audience to write his poem.  Spicer responds, no, but that it is a possible problem when reading an unfinished work\n\t\t095\tSpicer responds with a discussion of the previous Vancouver poems he wrote, one of which was a section of a long poem called The Book of Magazine Verse\n\t\t122\tSpicer describes his numbering and sectioning process\n\t\t145\tSpicer thought of writing poems for magazines that wouldn’t print them.  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Spicer reflects on not wanting to leave Vancouver, not having a job, his reluctance to return to Berkeley\n\t\t217\tResponding to a question about a transition he is undergoing in his writing, Spicer uses radio metaphor to explain that one cannot separate writing from living\n\t\t226\tA question asking when Heads of the Town was written and several comments follow, including one by Dorothy Livesay, which agree that it seemed a different poem from others\n\t\t242\tA question on Spicer’s change of writing as it is affected by change in lifestyle\n\t\t245\tSpicer explains\n\t\t286\tEllen Tallman says the last part of the Vancouver festival poetry makes her feel that the questions and warnings that exist in Spicer’s other poems aren’t there in the last three poems\n\t\t292\tSpicer agrees that it scares him too\n\t\t294\tAn outburst of discussion on this point\n\t\t309\tQ: This change of geography – is it important to most poets and to yourself?\n\t\t317\tSpicer responds that gait is more important than measure to changes in geography\n\t\t333\tAnecdote about Valery going to a lecture about his own poems.  “I felt as though they were talking about a ghost of myself”\n\t\t345\tQuestioner returns to his inquiry into the tragic dimension of poetry and wants to pursue the discussion into what he sees as the comic dimension of Spicer’s poems\n\t\t348\tSpicer quotes Ogden Nash in response\n\t\t372\tA question about the lines of distinction between Spicer and the ghosts\n\t\t380\tSpicer complains that no one believes his belief in the ghost, that what he writes is outside of, rather than in his head\n\t\t383\tSomeone responds that it is not so much disbelief as the Vancouver writing community’s preoccupation with the handling of the language as prior, whereas Spicer’s method seems to reverse that\nSide\tTrack\tNo.\tComments\nOne\t\t397\tSide One ends in the middle of this discussion\nTwo\t\t006\tSide Two begins in the middle of a discussion about Spicer’s messages in his work\n\t\t050\tQ: At what point did Spicer begin to receive these messages\n\t\t056\tSpicer said they began halfway through the Lorca poems; before that he just wrote poems\n\t\t078\tLivesay questions Spicer about the importance of these messages to either Spicer or his readers wince Spicer says the messages are not important\n\t\t084\tSpicer qualifies his use of the term unimportant.  They are important to your life since you live it as something more than a human being\n\t\t107\tSpicer is asked if he is writing with any special purposes.  A debate ensues over Yeats\n\t\t156\tWarren Tallman asks if former poets can be part of the outside\n\t\t163\tSpicer discusses Dunbar’s Lament fort the Makers.  Says he got Lorca directly on the phone from the past.  But it’s difficult to know what is your reading of English literature and what is ghosts\n\t\t194\tSpicer describes Blaser’s ghosts and is less sure about Duncan’s ghosts\n\t\t213\tQuestion asked if the ghosts must be from or in the locale in which the writer works\n\t\t214\tSpicer says this makes sense.  A discussion of Lorca and Duende begins moving into a story about Billie Holiday\n\t\t311\tSpicer talks about TISH\n\t\t338\tTallman says that also in the summer of ’63 Olson had a visit from his angel – Did this make sense to Spicer?\n\t\t341\tSpicer says angel means messenger in Hebrew\n\t\t350\tLivesay asks if this is the same for Rilke’s angels\n\t\t351\tSpicer says Rilke’s angels come from things rather than the opposite way of Jacob’s wrestlers\n\t\t409\tSpicer invites one last question and is asked who he thinks will win the pennant.  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