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Letter to Apollonia Steele from Eric L. 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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. Returns to Amos.\n- [00:40:56] Jim Stewart, plays music; applause to his coming onto the stage. Applause at end - [00:43:22] \n- Event ends, recording catches end of event conversation."],"contents":["Alden Nowlan\n\"Ypres: 1915\""],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"The Mysterious Naked Man (1969)\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558224351241,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.444Z","score":2.4542046},{"id":"8336","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Robert Kroetsch fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Robert Kroetsch 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/robert-kroetsch-fonds"],"item_title":["1+2 - Author, author"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Broadcast"],"item_identifiers":["[29.3]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2058"],"creator_names":["Kroetsch, Robert"],"creator_names_search":["Kroetsch, Robert"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/120613489\",\"name\":\"Kroetsch, Robert\",\"dates\":\"1927-2011\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Author\",\"Performer\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Hawkes, John"],"contributors_names_search":["Hawkes, John"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Hawkes, John \",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]}]"],"performer_name":["Hawkes, John "],"Performance_Date":[1988],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"A\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"Scotch\",\"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\":\"Includes music and sound effects.\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"RK_Acc_775_04.25.29-3\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T00:23:30\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"387.26 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1988\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Dates supplied through research for copyright.\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"CBC Radio\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"Address":["Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada"],"Venue":["CBC Radio"],"City":["Winnipeg, Manitoba"],"content_notes":["Readings are excerpts of Hawkes' novels with and introductions/interpretations by Robert Kroetsch. \n- Opens with introduction by Robert Kroetsch. Musical accompaniment through recording.\n- “I have a suspicion that we are all the novelists of our own lives”\n- The reader of Hawkes’ work is not Robert Kroetsch.\n- Robert Kroetsch discusses John Hawkes. The Lime Twig was set in Britain, Hawkes is rumoured never to have visited. It is a balance between control and loss of control, daydream, reverie, and fantasy. Erotic forces and language of erotics. The landscape and violence that intrudes upon it.\n- [00:08:45] Robert Kroetsch trying to wrestle with Canadian humour and the terrifying, and how those two can exist within each other. Innocence comes through loss. Comedy and terror flow together.\n- [00:16:24] Robert Kroetsch: blood and oranges both speak to fertility rites. Daydreaming of creating new self. In Hawkes the idea of self is replaced by idea of role – “we are each a bundle of contending and related roles”\n- [00:19:51] Robert Kroetsch: writers work to surprise. The translation of pure desire into complexity of love. The question of “who is safe?”\n- [00:21:54] Robert Kroetsch: We are obsessively in our own minds inventing the who/where of our lives. Hawkes as gothic writer: innocence, desire, self-deception, courage. “We make up the stories of our lives and then, in fear and laughter, act them out.”\n- Recording directed to the attention of Geraldine Sherman, State of the Arts."],"contents":["Robert Kroetsch\n[00:00:05]\nIntroduces the novels of John Hawkes, The Lime Twig (1961); The Blood Oranges (1971); Death, Sleep & the Traveler (1974). \nUnknown \n[00:01:57]\nReads from The Lime Twig. \nRobert Kroetsch\n[00:05:34]\nDiscusses The Lime Twig.\nUnknown \n[00:06:40]\nReads from The Lime Twig.\nRobert Kroetsch \n[00:08:45]\nDiscusses The Lime Twig. \nUnknown \n[00:09:26]\nReads from The Lime Twig.\nRobert Kroetsch\n[00:11:06]\nDiscusses The Lime Twig.\nUnknown \n[00:11:54]\nReads from The Blood Oranges.\nRobert Kroetsch\n[00:13:58]\nDiscusses The Blood Oranges.\nUnknown\n[00:14:18]\nReads from The Blood Oranges.\nRobert Kroetsch  \n[00:16:24]\nDiscusses The Blood Oranges.\nUnknown\n[00:17:21]\nReads from Death, Sleep and the Traveler.\nRobert Kroetsch \n[00:19:51]\nDiscusses Death, Sleep and the Traveler.\nUnknown\n[00:20:28]\nReads from Death, Sleep and the Traveler.\nRobert Kroetsch\n[00:21:54]\nDiscusses Death, Sleep and the Traveler."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"John Hawkes, The Lime Twig (1961); 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Somewhere with a beach (British Columbia?)\n- “I Spoke”: fascinated by the act of naming, by naming something it will exist. Also about chickens.\n- Robert Kroetsch on Kay – she is a successful watercolour painter who has decided to write poems\n- Dingwald – comparatively late to writing, she considers it verse rather than poetry. Living as a learning process.\n- “Song”: “I would not have read tonight except Robert read it and said ‘why not?’”\n- Robert Kroetsch on Mann – poet from the interior\n- Mann: difficulties of building and sustaining a ranch, as well as women’s condition\n- Martin recording is not part of the workshop recording.\n"],"contents":["Sheila McMaster\n[00:00:00]\nReads \"Selene\".\nSheila McMaster\n[00:01:12]\nReads \"Freedom\".\nSheila McMaster\n[00:01:27]\nReads \"His Friend\".\nSheila McMaster\n[00:02:05]\nReads \"Shadow of a Shaman\".\nSheila McMaster\n[00:02:45]\nReads \"Slight of Hand\".\nSheila McMaster\n[00:03:10]\nReads \"Hibiscus\".\nSheila McMaster\n[00:03:26]\nReads \"To Have Known More of You\".\nUrsula Vaira\n[00:05:10]\nReads \"Under a Blue Moon at Midnight\".\nUrsula Vaira\n[00:06:28]\nReads \"The Apple Tree\".\nUrsula Vaira\n[00:08:40]\nReads \"Snapshot Motel 6\".\nUrsula Vaira\n[00:11:08]\nReads \"Cadillac\".\nUrsula Vaira\n[00:12:10]\nReads \"I Spoke the Word and It Rained\".\nUrsula Vaira\n[00:13:00]\nReads \"untitled\".\nKay Jenkins\n[00:14:35]\nReads \"Morocco\".\nKay Jenkins\n[00:15:19]\nReads \"untitled\".\nKay Jenkins\n[00:16:07]\nReads \"Lover\".\nKay Jenkins\n[00:16:30]\nReads \"On Richard Street\".\nKay Jenkins\n[00:17:24]\nReads \"Our Love\".\nKay Jenkins\n[00:18:00]\nReads \"Taped\".\nMairi Dingwald\n[00:20:00]\nReads \"In Defense of Men\".\nMairi Dingwald\n[00:23:00]\nReads \"The Golden Rule in 1991\".\nMairi Dingwald\n[00:25:10]\nReads \"Song of a Wanderer\".\nElizabeth Mann\n[00:30:40]\nReads \"You See No More\".\nElizabeth Mann\n[00:31:32]\nReads \"A Change of Colour\".\nElizabeth Mann\n[00:32:05]\nReads \"I Heard Your Voice\".\nElizabeth Mann\n[00:33:15]\nReads \"Who Is This?\".\nElizabeth Mann\n[00:34:33]\nReads \"Too Hard\".\nElizabeth Mann\n[00:35:02]\nReads \"Leaving\".\nElizabeth Mann\n[00:35:47]\nReads \"First Spring Day\".\nLinda Marlin\n[00:37:02]\nReads \"untitled\".\nLinda Marlin\n[00:39:15]\nReads \"She Had a Cottage\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"n/a. 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