- MsC-36-0-10
- Series
- [ca. 1972]-1997
Part of Peter Trower fonds
Series consists of copies of published poems by Peter Trower. Record types include newspaper and magazine clippings, photocopies, broadsheets, and an optical disc.
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Part of Peter Trower fonds
Series consists of copies of published poems by Peter Trower. Record types include newspaper and magazine clippings, photocopies, broadsheets, and an optical disc.
Poetry – unpublished book records
Part of Peter Trower fonds
Series consists of material relating to unpublished collections of Peter Trower’s poetry. Includes an edited manuscript for a proposed book entitled "The Gathering: Poems New and Revised," initial and final selections of poems for a proposed book entitled "Through the Apricot Air: Selected poems 1969-2002," poems drafts and selections of a proposed book entitled "Smeltertown and Other Poems" (or, alternately, "Smeltertown and Points South"), and an aborted logging poetry anthology to be co-edited with David Day.
Part of Peter Trower fonds
Part of Peter Trower fonds
File consists of two portraits of Peter Trower. The first is a coloured pencil drawing of Trower; undated with an illegible signature. The second is a collage depicting Trower, undated and unsigned.
Program for Railway Club – August 23, 2005
Part of Peter Trower fonds
[Programs and other records relating to readings and events]
Part of Peter Trower fonds
Records originally loose in box when processed.
Proof corrections – Between the sky and the splinters
Part of Peter Trower fonds
Prose – articles, short stories and related records
Part of Peter Trower fonds
Series consists of published and unpublished articles and short stories written by Peter Trower. Records include manuscripts and article clippings, including many articles published during Trower’s time as a journalist with the Coast News.
Series has been arranged into the following three sub-series: General records (1953-2002), Chronological files (1960-1999) and Coast News articles, reviews and poems (1993).
Prose – published book records
Part of Peter Trower fonds
Series consists of material relating to the development of Peter Trower’s published novels and other prose collections, "Grogan's Cafe" (1993), "Dead Man’s Ticket" (1996), "The Judas Hills" (1996), and "Hellhound on his Trail & Other Stories" (2008). Record types include outlines, draft manuscripts, editorial comments, and promotional material.
The series has been arranged into the following four sub-series according to novel: Grogans’ Cafe records (1989), Dead man’s ticket records (1995), The Judas hills records ([197-?]-2000), and Hellhound on his trail & other stories records (2008).
Prose – unpublished book records
Part of Peter Trower fonds
Series consists of records relating to unpublished books of prose either authored or proposed by Peter Trower, including "Bastions and Beaver Pelts," "The Counting House," "Gangsterquest," “Busted for Pot,” “Kisses in the Whiskey,” “Vancouver Centennial Anthology” and “Wild West Coast Woods.” Records include manuscripts, proposals, chapter outlines, and screenplay outlines.
Series has been arranged into the following four sub-series, according to project: Bastions and beaver pelts records ([198-]-1992), The counting house records (1991), Gangsterquest records (1982-2005), and General records (1969-[ca. 1983]).
Part of Peter Trower fonds
Prose material that could be developed
Part of Peter Trower fonds
Part of Peter Trower fonds
Part of Peter Trower fonds
Sub-series consists of records relating to the development and promotion of Trower's 1978 book "Ragged Horizons." Includes the final selection of poems, as well as correspondence, corrections, a draft of Al Purdy’s introduction, and promotional material.
Part of Peter Trower fonds
File consists of 2 issues of the periodical “Raincoast Chronicles”: number 1 and number 12.
Readings, festivals and events records
Part of Peter Trower fonds
Series consists of records relating to Peter Trower’s readings, his musical performances, and his participation in various literary festivals, conferences and other events. Series includes video and sound recordings of readings by Trower and readings by other authors, including Al Purdy and Patrick Lane. Also included are video and audio recordings of Caulk Boots & Marlin Spikes performances that Trower participated in, and a video recording copy of the "Between the Sky and the Splinters" documentary, filmed by the CBC in 1976. Record types include correspondence, notes, reading programs, set lists, newspaper articles and clippings, as well as posters, brochures, and other promotional material.
Part of Peter Trower fonds
File consists of 29 pages of Trower’s “kaleidoscope drawings.”
Recommendations for Grogan’s cafe
Part of Peter Trower fonds
File consists of commentary by an unknown author, providing feedback to a draft of Trower’s novel "Grogan's Cafe."
Research material for an abortive book on Brother 12 [ie. Brother XII] by Trower and Klan
Part of Peter Trower fonds
File consists of research records relating to Brother XII, aka Edward Arthur Wilson, an English mystic who founded a spiritual community on Vancouver Island, B.C., in the late 1920s.
Research material for train crash story “No hope”
Part of Peter Trower fonds
File consists of photocopied poems and newspaper articles relating to the story “No Hope,” published in volume 19, number 11 of Vancouver magazine.
[Reviews and articles about other writers and artists]
Part of Peter Trower fonds
File consists of records accumulated by Trower about other writers and artists, including reviews of others’ works as well as articles mentioning other writers and artists. Records are primarily newspaper and magazine clippings. Writers and artists represented in this file are friends of Trower, as well as those who have influenced his work.
Reviews and articles regarding other writers and artists
Part of Peter Trower fonds
Series consists of reviews, articles and other publications collected by Peter Trower relating to other writers and artists, particularly friends and acquaintances of Trower, as well as others who have influenced his work. Many of the items contain written notes or commentary by Trower. Includes material pertaining to the following individuals: Jim Christy, Lorna Crozier, Hubert Evans, Orville Fisher, Eileen Glassford, Jim Green, Bus Griffiths, britt hagarty, Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, Patrick Lane, Red Lane, Frank Lewis, Charles Lillard, John Moore, Stuart Nutter, Shari Pandit, Al Purdy, George Ryga, Robin Skelton, Godfrey Stevens, Robert Swanson, Warren Tallman, Tom Waits, and Jack Williams.
Part of Peter Trower fonds
Part of Peter Trower fonds
Part of Peter Trower fonds
Part of Peter Trower fonds
Contains a notebook containing drafts and fragments of prose writings.
[Sketch - The only bulls left here pack pistols]
Part of Peter Trower fonds
File consists of a sketch made in red pen.
Part of Peter Trower fonds
File consists of 21 colour slides (MsC 36b.37 – MsC 36b.57). Photographs depict Trower and Carl Chrismas around Red Tusk Valley, British Columbia.
Part of Peter Trower fonds
File consists of drafts of the book of poetry “Smeltertown and other poems.” Pages are unnumbered and drafts are likely missing pages. One draft bears the date 2008 on its inscription; the other is undated.
Part of Peter Trower fonds