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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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Paper noting poems read and the time they begin on the recording included inside container, printed on Lord Elgin Hotel notepaper. Title based on contents of file. Contents of file handwritten on container in addition to label.\n- Seven poems from Selected Poems (1966). – Ellesmereland is two poems.\n- Birney is recording this while the Centennial Writer-in-Residence at the University of Waterloo.\n- “Billboards”: Driving down the coastal highway in Oregon.\n- “Irapuato”: Takes place in a little town in Mexico in 1955\n- “Hazel”: Written in military hospital 1945. Has nothing to do with the military but with the basic themes of love and death.\n"],"contents":["Earle Birney  \n[00:00:54]  \nReads \"Ellesmereland\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:01:26]  \nReads \"Pacific Door\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:03:40]  \nReads \"Billboards Build Freedom of Choice\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:06:13]  \nReads \"Plaza de Inquisicion\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:07:02]  \nReads \"Irapuato\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:07:45]  \nReads \"From the Hazel Bough\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"Selected Poems, 1940-1966 (McClelland and Stewart, 1966)\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558524243971,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":2.4542046},{"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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