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Birney puts on a British accent for the BBC broadcaster within the poem.\n- \"For Imageorge & Imangela in Calgary” is addressed to George and Angela George Bowering after Birney visited them in Calgary.\n- Untitled - [00:08:26] is a double haiku for John and Elaine Gill, American poets.\n- \"If Only Someone Else Would Come\" is a translation of a Hungarian poem by Endre Ady (1877-1919), from work by Juditte Sarkany-Perret.\n- Untitled - [00:10:07] about the pleasure of reading Chaucer, put into Chaucerian language and rhythms. Birney pronounces the poem in accordance with Middle English (vowel shift).\n- \"In Purdy's Ameliasburg\" to Al Purdy, spending time in Purdy’s shack in Ameliasburgh when Purdy wrote many of his poems. Birney likens it to going to the Lake District after Wordsworth. It is both exhilarating and disappointing, realize that the place exists in the poet’s mind.\n- “The Mammoth Corridor” contains two styles: found poetry and formal poetry. Includes extracts from various Canadian guidebooks (Calgary, BC, Vancouver, etc.). In his reading, Birney indicates what portions are abstracts by reading in a lighter tone/faster pace. Whereas the “formal” sections are read as Birney would normally read.\n"],"contents":["Earle Birney  \n[00:00:24]  \nReads \"Alaska Passage\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:01:34]  \nReads \"Buildings\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:03:13]  \nReads \"Christmas Comes\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:06:01]  \nReads \"For Imageorge & Imangela in Calgary\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:08:10]  \nReads \"Haiku\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:08:26]  \nReads untitled.  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:09:05]  \nReads \"If Only Someone Else Would Come\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:10:07]  \nReads untitled.  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:12:08]  \nReads \"In Purdy's Ameliasburg\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:16:45]  \nReads \"I think you are a whole city...\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:17:56]  \nReads \"Like an eddy...\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:18:16]  \nReads \"There are delicacies in you...\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:18:35]  \nReads \"The Mammoth Corridor\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:28:01]  \nReads \"To Ikuko With a Single Chopstick\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"manuscript of Poems New or Revised\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558517952513,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":2.3113055},{"id":"8337","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Earle Birney fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Earle Birney 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/index.php/earle-birney-fonds"],"item_title":["Earle Birney reading an anti-Christmas poem written for Gaudy Night at Massey College"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Label of recording title. 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Birney indicates when he is reading quotes. Includes Gaudy Night prayer.\n- Birney also reads holiday prose poem \"Saved by Santa from a Poet's Death: A True Story,\" and two other poems \"Eaton's Men's Sportswear Department\" and \"Oil Refinery.\" “Oil Refinery” was written after Birney spent the night in an oil refinery on the Pacific coast, and it is cast in Anglo-Saxon meter and style.\n"],"contents":["Earle Birney  \n[00:00:00]  \nReads \"Anti-Christmas poem\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:12:50]  \nReads \"Saved by Santa from a Poet's Death: A True Story\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:20:12]  \nReads \"Eaton's Men's Sportswear Department\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:21:10]  \nReads \"Oil Refinery\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558517952515,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":2.3113055},{"id":"8340","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Earle Birney fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Earle Birney 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/index.php/earle-birney-fonds"],"item_title":["Earle Birney reading from Selected poems 1940-1966 (Tape 2)"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Label of recording title and included poems taped to box. 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Poem with gaps or slots to insert whatever cliché is operating at the moment. Anti-North American poem.\n- \"We are leaving the park now...\": coming out of Yellowstone National Park 1952, but could be applied to any park.\n- “Oldster”: Salt Lake City, 1952\n- \"Billboards build freedom of choice\": Driving down a road in Oregon, 1961-62, Birney’s favourite state. Obstructed view by signboards, Birney invents hitchhiker who he picks up to explain these signs to him. Birney puts on voices to indicate himself and the hitchhiker.\n- “Campus Theatre Steps”: audiovisual poem. University of Oregon theatre just before it opens for the evening.\n- \"Looking from Oregon\": Written on the coast of Oregon August 7th, 1964. The day the American warships moved into the Gulf of Tonkin. Begins with quote from poet friend Robinson Jeffers.\n- \"Mammorial Stanzas for Aimee Semple McPherson\": Canada and California. Joycean celebration of forgotten Ontario heroine Aimee McPherson, evangelist who made significant money off of her evangelizing.\n"],"contents":["Earle Birney\n[00:00:00]\nReads \"El Greco: Espolio\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:01:58]\nReads \"The stick-thighed fellow…\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:02:55]\nReads \"Introvert\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:04:31]\nReads \"St Valentine is Past\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:06:56]\nReads \"Ellesmereland I\" and \"Ellesmereland II\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:10:22]\nReads \"Transcontinental\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:10:22]\nReads \"The Ballad of Mr. Chubb\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:13:03]\nReads \"An Appeal to a Lady with a Diaper\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:15:55]\nReads \"We are leaving the park now...\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:16:55]\nReads \"Oldster\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:18:08]\nReads \"Billboards build freedom of choice\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:21:05]\nReads \"Campus Theatre Steps\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:22:37]\nReads \"Looking from Oregon\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:25:31]\n\"Mammorial Stanzas for Aimee Semple McPherson\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"Selected Poems, 1940-1966\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558517952518,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":2.3113055},{"id":"8342","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Earle Birney fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Earle Birney 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/index.php/earle-birney-fonds"],"item_title":["Earle Birney reading from Selected poems 1940-1966 (Tape 3)"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Label of recording title and included poems taped to box. 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Fourth generation of runaway slaves living in the mountains. Written about a woman running a rest house (former plantation).\n- “Meeting of Strangers”: In Trinidad, had many wonderful experiences but through the perversity of a poet only wrote about a not so charming episode. Birney was down at the dock district at the wrong time.\n- “Caracas”: a strange and terrible city. Birney corrects himself when he misreads a line.\n- “Cartagena de Indias”: Visited strange place with long history but off the tourist path. Cartagena de Indias old pirate town (Spanish/French) named after Cartagena, Spain. The town was the focal point in 15th and 16th century for gathering of loot taken by Spain from the rest of South America. Galleons would come to port to take treasure back to Spain, and pirates would wait outside the port. Some forts still stand. Spanish poet J. M. Heredia wrote a poem about this place called “Ciudad triste, ayer reina de la mar” (Sad City, Once Queen of the Sea). Birney’s poem includes discussion of Luis Carlos Lopez (1879-1950) and a monument to his shoes. Birney translates Lopez’s sonnet “A Mi Ciudad Nativa” at the end of the reading."],"contents":["Earle Birney\n[00:00:00]\nReads \"Transistor\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:05:48]\nReads \"Meeting of Strangers\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:08:06]\nReads \"Curacao\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:08:48]\nReads \"Caracas\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:10:36]\nReads \"Cartagena des Indes\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:21:26]\nReads \"Barranquilla Bridge\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:23:44]\nReads \"Machu Picchu\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"Selected Poems, 1940-1966\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558520049664,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":2.3113055},{"id":"8348","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Earle Birney fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Earle Birney 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/index.php/earle-birney-fonds"],"item_title":["Earle Birney reading from Selected poems 1940-1966 (Tape 6)"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Label of recording title and included poems taped to box. 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First section “Montreal-Toronto” - [00:01:23] , “Toronto-Winnipeg” - [00:05:05] , “Winnipeg-Edmonton” - [00:06:39] , “Edmonton-Vancouver” - [00:09:11] .\n- “From the Hazel Bough”: Scarcely about Canada but happens to contain a memory and in Birney’s private mind is related to Toronto. Began writing in a military hospital in Toronto 1945, completed in Vancouver 1947. “Another way of putting it, all but the last stanza came to me in a half hour. It took me two years keeping the poem aside to get the last stanza the way I wanted it”\n- “The Ebb Begins from Dream”: Toronto, but could perhaps be any city. Begun in Toronto 1945, completed Bowen Island on the West Coast 1947.\n- “Way to the West”: Moved as far west and north from Toronto as the mining district of northern Ontario. On TransCanada highway 1965.\n- “North of Superior”: Much the same country, further along the celebrated Laurentian Shield. One of his earliest poems in the beginnings but not finished until 1946, notes from 1926. From old-time CPR train coming east to Toronto for the first time. Makes note to English Literature students – listen closely for references to examination classics.\n- “Winter Saturday”: Moving to the prairies, August 1947.\n- “Decomposition”: Explanation comes after reading. An early piece from 1921, touched up in 1941.\n- “Holiday in the Foothills”: Written on the foothills on the western edge of the prairies, jotted down in 1921 and revised in Calgary in 1940."],"contents":["Earle Birney\n[00:00:00]\nReads \"Page of Gaspé\" from section \"Canada: Case History\",\nEarle Birney\n[00:01:23]\nReads \"North Star West\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:11:07]\nReads \"From the Hazel Bough\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:12:40]\nReads \"The Ebb Begins from Dream\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:16:02]\nReads \"Way to the West\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:19:58]\nReads \"North of Superior\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:25:04]\nReads \"Winter Saturday\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:26:32]\nReads \"Decomposition\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:27:08]\nReads \"Holiday in the Foothills\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"Selected Poems, 1940-1966\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558520049666,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":2.3113055},{"id":"8349","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Earle Birney fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Earle Birney 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/index.php/earle-birney-fonds"],"item_title":["Earle Birney reading from Selected poems 1940-1966 (Tape 7)"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Label of recording title and included poems taped to box. 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Climbing takes place in mountains immediately north of city of Vancouver.\n- “Images in Place of Logging”: Written on Vancouver Island 1948.\n- “Slug in Woods”: One of his earliest completed poems, written in Crescent Beach, B. C. 1928.\n- “Aluroid”: Written in back garden in Vancouver 1948. Birney had a Siamese cat called Bast after the Egyptian cat goddess. ‘aluroid’ is a funny dictionary name for cat-like, Birney prefers ‘aluroid’ because it sounds like a sounds his Siamese cat made, his cat was “really far out of this world, more sci-fi type, they are humanoid so they also must be aluroid.”\n- “Haiku for a Young Waitress”: Vancouver 1960.\n- “Gulf of Georgia”: Vancouver 1945, small lyrical poem.\n- “November Walk Near False Creek Mouth”: Begun in 1961 in Vancouver, completed in 1963 in Ametia, Spain - [? cannot find] ."],"contents":["Earle Birney  \n[00:00:00]  \nReads \"First Tree for Frost\" [Section title Canada: Case History].  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:02:29]  \nReads \"Bushed\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:04:16]  \nReads \"Biography\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:06:10]  \nReads \"Takkakaw Falls\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:07:45]  \nReads \"Climbers\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:09:48]  \nReads \"Images in Place of Logging\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:11:25]  \nReads \"Slug in Woods\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:13:12]  \nReads \"Aluroid\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:15:21]  \nReads \"Haiku for a Young Waitress\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:15:39]  \nReads \"Gulf of Georgia\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:16:39]  \nReads \"November Walk Near False Creek Mouth\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"Selected Poems, 1940-1966\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558520049667,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":2.3113055},{"id":"8351","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Earle Birney fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Earle Birney 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/index.php/earle-birney-fonds"],"item_title":["Earle Birney reading from Selected poems 1940-1966 (Tape 8)"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Label of recording title and included poems taped to box. 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First is more pessimistic mood, other perhaps compensatory optimistic.\n- “Time Bomb”: Written in the last year of the war from military hospital in Watford, England, suffering from diphtheria.\n- “Each Lie”: Written on a hospital ship coming back from England. Much longer in the first published version and then some years later, Paris 1953, shortened down to two stanzas.\n- Two translations from Attila József: Done with the assistance of native Hungarian Ilona Duczynska, completed around 1960. “On the City’s Rim” written in 1930s in Budapest shortly before Attila’s suicide.\n- Two translations from Mao Tse-tung: From literal translation and convocation with Chinese scholar at UBC Ping Ti-ho. First poem about Tse-tung’s youth, when he decides to become young Communist revolutionary. Second poem is after he has successfully built revolutionary army, holds the north, and knows he holds the victory. Going to meet Chiang Kai-shek, his first trip on an airplane. Enchanted with what he sees, also thinking back on the previous leaders of China and flattering himself as the first good poet to rule China.\n- “Answers to a Grade-school Biology Test”: Responding to an exam paper for grade six biology. Also had read an article in Harper’s from scientist speculating what species was best to take over the world after man had ended.\n- “Vitus Bering”: Scandinavian explorer in service of Russian tsarist government in eighteenth century, Bering Strait and Bering Sea named after him. "],"contents":["Earle Birney  \n[00:00:00]  \nReads \"Pacific Door\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:02:08]  \nReads \"Remarks Decoded from Outer Space\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:03:30]  \nReads \"Man is a Snow\" and \"Or a Wind\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:06:56]  \nReads \"Time Bomb\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:07:48]  \nReads \"Each Lie\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:08:41]  \nReads \"Five Poor Men Speak\"\nEarle Birney  \n[00:11:36]\n\"On the City's Rim\". \nEarle Birney  \n[00:17:21]\nReads \"Midstream\".\nEarle Birney  \n[00:20:40]  \nReads \"Snowscape from a Plane\".   \n[00:22:33]  \nReads \"Answers to a Grade-school Biology Test\".   \nEarle Birney  \n[00:24:13]  \nReads \"Vitus Bering\" from Ice, Cod, Bell or Stone."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"Selected Poems, 1940-1966; Ice, Cod, Bell or Stone\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558520049669,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":2.3113055},{"id":"8352","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Earle Birney fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Earle Birney 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/index.php/earle-birney-fonds"],"item_title":["Earle Birney reading from Ice, cod, bell or stone and Near False Creek mouth."],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Label of recording title and included poems taped to box. 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Narrow deep canyons called barancas, can look down into jungle villages. Amongst these villages bright schoolhouses or factories appear, appear as irrationality in an otherwise harmonious landscape\n- “Francisco Tresguerra”: Born in Solea, Mexico (1759-1833), Tresguerra was a self-taught architect, sculptor, engraver, and poet who introduced neoclassical form into the churches in his town in opposition to the elaborate rococo style. One church remains which his Last Judgement, which is a self-portrait.\n- “Salt Fish and Akee”: Written after a dinner in Jamaica. Birney notices that you can now buy preserved akee fruit in Toronto now. Proper way to eat this delicacy is with salt fish (salted Newfoundland cod).\n- “Professor”: Written in Jamaica.\n- “On the Beach”: Written in West Indies.\n- “Turbonave Magnolia”: Voyage on a terrible Spanish passenger ship from Trinidad to Spain.\n- “Guadelupe”: Shrine on the edge of Mexico City. Traditional place to go for penance, for the last half-mile/mile penitents travel on their knees to the shrine.\n- “Prosperity”: Oil found near a small jungle village.\n- “Caribbean”: Poems have been circling around Caribbean Sea and now back in flowering islands.\n- “Toronto”: October 1962, the day after the world was supposed to end – Khrushchev and Kennedy and the Cuba crisis. Chartered plane of Toronto Board (60 or 120 people) arrived and upstaged Birney. Birney was invited to the reception at largest club in Chile (Union Club, Santiago de Chile). His poet’s revenge was recording one half of a conversation he overheard.\n"],"contents":["Earle Birney\n[00:00:00]\nReads \"Njarit\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:02:27]\nReads \"Francisco Treguerras\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:04:45]\nReads \"Beldams of Tepoztlán\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:05:30]\nReads \"Conducted Ritua: San Juan de Ulúa\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:06:48]\nReads \"Salt Fish and Akee\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:09:00]\nReads \"Professor of Middle English Confronts Monster\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:09:50]\nReads \"On the Beach\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:10:37]\nReads \"Turbonave Magnolia\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:15:11]\nReads \"Advice to a Hamilton (Ont.) lady about to travel again\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:16:29]\nReads \"Guadelupe\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:17:40]\nReads \"Prosperity in Poza Rica\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:18:33]\nReads \"Caribbean Kingdoms\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:21:05]\nReads \"Toronto Board of Trade goes abroad\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"Ice, Cod, Bell or Stone; Near False Creek Mouth\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558520049670,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":2.3113055},{"id":"8353","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Earle Birney fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Earle Birney 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/index.php/earle-birney-fonds"],"item_title":["Earle Birney reading from Ice, cod, bell or stone and Near False Creek mouth."],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Label of recording title and included poems taped to box. 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Includes poetic speaker in addition to Birney, an old farmer (?).\n- The rest of the poems have to do with the Second World War.\n- “For Steve”: Elegy for his friend Steve Cutwright. They trained together before Steve joined the Air Force. Died as Birney was preparing to ship over to Europe. Written in 1943.\n- “And the Earth”: Written in Ash, Surrey, England. The title line comes from a poem by Shelley.\n- “Invasion”: Next spring (from the previous poem), in southern England 1944. Just before D-Day, when bombers were flying overhead at a rate of one thousand a day. Written for Margaret Crossland.\n- “D-Day”: Written on the evening of D-Day in Surrey. Birney “feeling very much out of it.”\n- “Caverned”: Written later that same year (1944), when in Belgium. Written for two Belgians who hosted Birney, were compelled to host Birney but were not compelled to be his friends. Wrote this poem for them when he left for Holland.\n- “VE-Night”: Back in England after hospitalization. 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Written when Birney was an undergraduate student. Refers to a cove in the farthest reaches of Burrard Inlet, where an old girlfriend’s family had a cabin.\n- “Eagle”: Coastal terrain of Vancouver. At the time of writing, Eagle Island had only two cabins and could only be accessed with a small boat or swimming. Birney wrote this while nostalgic in Toronto. After reading poem notes, “Yes, I was an unregenerate Westerner in those days.”\n- “European”: Moving into wartime poems again.\n- “France”: The beginning of the de Gaul movement of resistance in conquered France.\n- “On Going”: Ended the book. Written to his wife. Birney starts the reading over after a few lines.\n- “Villanelle”: Early vintage piece. Birney’s voice begins higher, and then becomes normal again.\n"],"contents":["Earle Birney\n[00:00:00]\nReads \"Man on a Tractor\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:06:55]\nReads \"World War III\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:09:34]\nReads \"West Vancouver Ferry\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:11:17]\nReads \"October in Utah\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:12:30]\nReads \"Grey-Rocks\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:14:01]\nReads \"Eagle Island\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:19:25]\nReads \"Kootenay Still-Life\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:20:05]\nReads \"These with Winds\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:20:58]\nReads \"Monody of a Century\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:21:40]\nReads \"European Nocturne\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:22:40]\nReads \"France 1941\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:23:28]\nReads \"On Going to the Wars\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:37:40]\nReads \"Villanelle\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"The Strait of Anian; David, and Other Poems\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558522146819,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":2.3113055},{"id":"8357","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Earle Birney fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Earle Birney 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/index.php/earle-birney-fonds"],"item_title":["Earle Birney reading uncollected poems (Tape 1)"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Label of recording title and included poems taped to box."],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Studio recording"],"item_identifiers":["[8.1-1]"],"rights":["The Public Domain Mark (PDM)"],"creator_names":["Birney, Earle"],"creator_names_search":["Birney, Earle"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/97679781\",\"name\":\"Birney, Earle\",\"dates\":\"1904-1995\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Author\",\"Performer\"]}]"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[]}]"],"Performance_Date":[1966],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/4 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"CBC Radio - Canada\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"7 1/2 ips\",\"sound_quality\":\"Excellent\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"\",\"physical_condition\":\"Good\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"Reel to Reel\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"\",\"other_physical_description\":\"\"}]"],"material_designations":["Reel to Reel"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"Birney_MsC_13.8.1-1\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T00:28:49\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"474.91 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1966\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Dates supplied through research for copyright.\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"content_notes":["- Epigrams: uncollected poems, some as early as 1923. Includes a title piece about epigrams.\n- “Kootenay”: also titled “Creston October” and “Foothills October,” he never made his mind up.\n- “Aubade”: Verses begun in 1926 while living briefly and unhappily in University of Toronto fraternity house. Revised after Second World War.\n- “Stanzas”: Writing on strange animals.\n- “Crow”: Birney can’t remember which academic he is liabling or perhaps he really was looking at a crow\n- “These”: begun 1937, finished later. For a girl named Jessie.\n- “Skull”: After seeing photo of scalped Indigenous skull in prairie grass\n- “Ballad”: Kootenay Brown was an Oxford man, adventurer, pony express rider, Indian trader, owned most of Waterton, won his Cree wife in a horse race. Legend that on his deathbed he told his wife he would come back as an eagle, when the first plane landed in Waterton the next summer she believed it was her husband and ran into the propeller blades.\n- “Moon”: event from 1917, Elphinstone is mountain near Vancouver which was a hideout for draft dodgers. True story of Jim and Harry.\n- “Valentine”: 1929 valentine piece in Chaucerian, based on legend of St. Valentine.\n- “Thanks”: 1929 Chaucerian, written after given homemade doll of Wife of Bath by student Gillian.\n- “Alberni”: story of Pedro Alberni and Charles W. Barkley (Alberni canal and Barkley sound). Written in 1934 when Birney was on SS Philly bound from West coast of Canada to Hull with wheat.\n"],"contents":["Earle Birney  \n[00:00:00]  \nReads \"In This Verandah of the August Heart\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:02:04]  \nReads \"Montreal\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:02:49]  \nReads \"Toronto\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:03:19]  \nReads \"Per Ardua ad Astra\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:03:40]  \nReads \"Rara avis\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:03:58]  \nReads \"Oregon\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:04:17]  \nReads \"Why the Churches Declined\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:04:35]  \nReads \"Kootenay October\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:05:45]  \nReads \"Aubade for a Fraternity\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:08:16]  \nReads \"Stanzas on Certain Politicians\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:08:53]  \nReads \"Lines Expressing Confidence in the Future of Canadian Literature\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:09:35]  \nReads \"Crow\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:10:23]  \nReads \"These With Wind\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:11:26]  \nReads \"Skull in Grass\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:12:31]  \nReads \"Ballad of Kootenay Brown\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:18:40]  \nReads \"Moon Down Elphinstone\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:22:10]  \nReads \"Valentine After Chaucer\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:23:26]  \nReads \"Thanks to Gillian\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:24:42]  \nReads \"Alberni Canal\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558522146820,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":2.3113055},{"id":"8358","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Earle Birney fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Earle Birney 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/index.php/earle-birney-fonds"],"item_title":["Earle Birney reading uncollected poems (Tape 2)"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Writing on back of container. 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Poem is “somewhat poetic” comments on the diary of a girl Birney met in London during the war, diary begun in 1935 when she was 15. Dedicated to Margaret Crossland, the girl and now a poet in London.\n- “Tea”: 1920s, result of visit with Shetland aunt, upset by sparrows on her roof.\n- “Gabardine Fireman”: anecdote written from friend Eric Nickle’s Vancouver column. Birney restarts the poem when reading.\n"],"contents":["Earle Birney  \n[00:00:00]  \nReads \"The Doukhobor\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:02:09]  \nReads \"Night\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:04:05]  \nReads \"On a Diary\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:16:53]  \nReads \"Tea With My Shetland Grand-Aunt\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:19:53]  \nReads \"Gabardine Fireman\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558522146821,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":2.3113055},{"id":"8359","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Earle Birney fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Earle Birney 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/index.php/earle-birney-fonds"],"item_title":["Earle Birney reading uncollected poems (Tape 3)"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Label of recording title and included poems taped to box. 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John Masefield (poet laureate) commenting on Chamberlin pact with Hitler, quatrain praising action. Birney adds second stanza. Sent to Saturday Night, reply January 1939 from editor – “Dear Mr. Birney, It’s very neat and well-deserved, but I am trying to keep away from any note of bitterness about the Munich business. Yours truly, B. K. Sandwell.” Typified attitudes of typical Canadian establishment until war actually came.\n- “Lines”: In 1940, felt world was far less sane than what was going on in the comic strips.\n- “Recruit”: a four line piece written which at Niagara-on-the-Lake military camp, Summer 1940.\n- “Last”: A leave, a girl, and a poem. West coast setting.\n- “Prologue”: 1941 Toronto. Birney on summer drilling, would drop into basement of Park Plaza which was a popular drinking place. Sir Charles G. D. Roberts frequented there and held a small court. Birney began scribing the people there to make a sort of 20th century Canterbury Tales – never followed through by reads from draft of what would have been the prologue. Birney comments on where these people are now throughout reading.\n- “Conrad”: 1942, a poem about Conrad Kane, a Canadian professional alpine guide who was born in Austria in 1883 and died in Canada in 1934. This is a free-wheeling ballad based on the fact from his own autobiography. Birney as a small boy was in one of Kane’s first skiing classes, and the first skiing class ever conducted in Banff. 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It was the graduating night of his class of officers but Birney was in the hospital with a broken leg from a training accident. This poem was in a letter to his wife. Birney remarks “it’s not a very good poem, I’m afraid. But let’s see how it sounds.” Birney starts his reading over because he says “radio idiots” instead of “idiot radios” to which he laughs quite a bit and apologizes to the ‘audience’.\n- “Meet”: Written when Birney overseas, children’s poems to his four year old son. Birney was hung up on birds at the time, not sure his son ever read them but he enjoyed writing them. Language is quite dated (slang of the 1940s). The Killdeer; (after reading the Killdeer inserts footnote that he read a line incorrectly); The Nighthawk; The Woodpecker; The Loon; The Chickadee\n- Sonnets: six sonnets from overseas in wartime.\n- “In Praise”: Belgium 1944, it was a cold winter and Birney’s unit was under rocket fire. He received a delayed mail package with a magazine full of bad poetry by fashionable young London writers. Short imitation of them. \n- “Halifax”: When Birney was in Halifax between a hospital ship and a hospital train at the end of the war. Birney lost this poem and only rediscovered it a few days before this recording. It is an unfinished poem, Birney had been looking at Hugh MacLennan’s Barometer Rising in which he says “Halifax periodically sleeps between wars.”\n- “Restricted”: Summer 1945, Birney convalescing for a weekend at Lake Huron after leaving army. This is the first time he sees a sign ‘Gentiles Only’. The poem is in the voice of the man who puts up signs like this. 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H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers. All of these books banned on the authority of one man, identity unknown, called The Examiner of Publications, in Ottawa. This person held so much power that neither he nor the minister who appointed him needed to report to parliament on their activities. Birney uses the verbage of the Customs Act which gave them this power, following Gilbert’s rhythms in HMS Pinafore (“Captain of the King’s Navee”).\n- “Our”: Thoughts on Canadian literature, a bit of infighting.\n- “McSimptom’s”: In 1950, Birney is in Vancouver and going to Nanaimo, but got on the wrong ship. The ship was going to Nanaimo but had been chartered for the Woodward’s annual staff family picnic, everyone supposed to participate in singalong and no one want to. Tunes for the poem are from the song’s which were supposed to be sung, but Birney has changed the words a great deal. 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Have to imagine reporter asking Lady Vancouver about herself.\n- “Song”: Birney on a plane traveling into the sunset a few days prior to this recording.\n- Translation: Second attempt at reading Spanish version of “From the Hazel Bough,” first attempt on previous tape (tape 5).\n- “Leven”: prose short story. Written during the war while Birney was in England. During sneak raids in London, where one plane would come in high and drop a bomb, British fighter planes had to find them. 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He was haunted by what he saw and couldn’t write anything about his experiences, eventually wrote “The Bear” about men trying to teach a bear to dance. The men probably saved all their money to buy this bear, and are therefore completely reliant on this bear, symbiosis.\n- “Epidaurus”: Birney visited Epidaurus on the day headlines across the world were preoccupied with the H-Bomb scare. Birney is trying to imagine when this theatre was new. 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Two streets in Toronto, Yorkville and Cumberland Streets, which in early days of Second World War were slums streets noted in the press because although they were the worst looking streets in Toronto, seemed proud of the fact that they never rented to Jewish or black people. They were a “pure” Anglo-Saxon street. Birney writes in old Anglo-Saxon meter.\n- “War Winters”: Written in winter 1942, in Anglo-Saxon meter.\n- “Conference of Heads”: Written in 1943 on troop ship going from Halifax to England.\n- “Lines for a Peace”: Written in 1943 from London.\n- “This Page My Pigeon”: Sent to Birney’s wife from Portsmouth in 1944 as he was about to sail on a submarine to continent. The page is those airmail blues that soldiers sent in the war, they were allowed one a week.\n- “The Road to Nijmegen”: Written in Holland, January 1945. Written to a friend."],"contents":["Earle Birney\n[00:00:00]\nReads \"Letter from a Cuzco Priest\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:04:55]\nReads section three War Winters  \"Hands\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:08:27]\nReads \"Vancouver Lights\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:12:26]\nReads \"Dusk on the Bay\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:15:36]\nReads \"In This Verandah\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:17:10]\nReads \"Anglosaxon Street\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:20:35]\nReads \"War Winters\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:21:48]\nReads \"Conference of Heads\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:22:30]\nReads \"Lines For a Peace\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:23:53]\nReads \"This Page My Pigeon\".\nEarle Birney\n[00:26:06]\nReads \"The Road to Nijmegen\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"Selected Poems, 1940-1966\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558527389703,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":2.3113055},{"id":"8346","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Earle Birney fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Earle Birney 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/index.php/earle-birney-fonds"],"item_title":["Earle Birney reading from Selected poems 1940-1966 (Tape 5)"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Label of recording title and included poems taped to box. 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And if he could still remember and think and still hear he would be hearing the volley of muskets being fired over him, in his honour, and he would also hear the intoning of the so-called ‘Shortened Service for the Burial of the Dead as Approved for Use in the Canadian Army’. Which is very much like the Anglican - [?] service, but shorter. In the poem, then, you will hear bit by bit the phrases of the burial service with each phrase evoking in the dead soldier’s presumed memory what he ties in, how his mind would lead from that phrase if he were still alive and had a mind.”\n- “Mappemounde”: Written at the end of the war in Europe in 1945. Written in hospital in England, finished on hospital ship, ‘El Neil’, in the Atlantic sometime in May or June. Written in Anglo-Saxon meter. ‘Mappemounde’ is a Chaucerian word meaning ‘map of the world’ but it refers to the maps of Chaucer’s time which were square, had Europe and a bit of Asia completely surrounded by water, and depicted fierce mythological creatures in the corners of the map.\n- “Young Veterans”: Written in Toronto, summer 1945.\n- “Ulysses”: Toronto 1946. End of section “World Winters”\n- Section and title poem “Canada: Case History”: Section #4 in Selected Poems, series of poems from East to West across Canada. Written in Ottawa 1945.\n- “Maritime Faces”: “coming out of the deep Atlantic and approaching Halifax.” Written in 1945, as was last poem (“Atlantic Door”).\n- “Arrivals”: travelling on a small two-car train from Halifax to Wolfville, Nova Scotia in 1962. Incident which caused train to be thirty minutes late. 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