- MsC-199
- Collection
- [19--]-2009
The Readings in British Columbia collection consists of poetry readings and lectures on poetry that took place and were recorded in the province of British Columbia between 1965 and 2009.
The Readings in British Columbia collection consists of poetry readings and lectures on poetry that took place and were recorded in the province of British Columbia between 1965 and 2009.
Nicole Brossard at SFU on February 10th, 1983 #430
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Nicole Brossard reading poetry at SFU on February 10th, 1983.
The poetry of Denise Levertov recorded at the New York Poetry Center on January 11, 1965 #431
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Denise Levertov reading his poetry at the New York Poetry Center on January 11, 1965.
Gerry Gilbert reading at the Music Gallery, Toronto 1984, part 4 of 4 #436
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Gerry Gilbert reading at the Music Gallery, Toronto 1984, part 4 of 4. This recording starts on tapes #433, #434 and #435.
Lionel Kearns Reading and discussing his poems with George Bowering for CBC Broadcast #445
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Lionel Kearns reading and discussing his poems with George Bowering for CBC Broadcast.
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George Bowering, John Mills, and Audrey Thomas discuss Problems of the B.C. Writer in a panel moderated by Bruce Nesbitt Heritage Writers' Festival at SFU on June 13th, 1978. Tape 2 of 2. This recording stars on tape #448 - tape 1.
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Gerry Gilbert, George Bowering, and Lionel Kearns reading and talking at SFU on November 23, 1976. Part 2 of 2. This recording starts on tape #452a.
P. K. Page reading at SFU on November 25, 1974 tape 2 of 2 #454 tape 2
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P. K. Page reading poetry at SFU on November 25, 1974. Tape 2 of 2. This recording starts on tape #454 tape 1.
Allen Ginsberg, Stokeny Carmichael, R.D. Laing - Discussion and Questions in England, July 1967 #456
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Allen Ginsberg, Stokeny Carmichael, R.D. Laing discussing and answering questions in England in July 1967. Discussion on the personal nature of violence. Ronald Laing talks about the use of drugs to suppress automatic ego reaction. Allen Ginsberg talks about racial violence and violence to the planet, the necessity to abandon middle class values, the desire of the hippy movement to explore non-western cultures. Discussion of rebel literature. Ginsberg reads a passage from William Burroughs. R.D. Laing talks about hippies
Allen Ginsberg reading at Reed College on February 14, 1956 #458b
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Allen Ginsberg reading at Reed College on February 14, 1956. This recording starts on tape #458a.
Diane Di Prima reading from her work, 1970 #464
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Diane Di Prima reading from her work in 1970.
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Marian Engel discussion on works of Margaret Laurence, Alice Munro, and Adele Wiseman for CBC program: Women writers in Canada on March 1977. She talks about the main Female characters in Five novels by Laurence, Munro, and Wiseman, seeking what is specifically Canadian and female about them, Denial of sexuality as a common point for these characters, An emergent spirituality in women
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Barry McKinnon and George Francis Gilman Stanley reading at Capilano College on February 15 and November 23, 1978. This recording ends on tape #469b.
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Arthur James Marshall Smith, Leonard Cohen, Irving Layton, Louis Dudek, Francis Reginald Scott, and Abraham Moses Klein - Six Montreal Poets - reading.
William Carlos Williams reading on June 6, 1954 #475
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William Carlos Williams reading on June 6, 1954.
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John Betjeman, Robert Graves, Stephen Spender, Kathleen Raine, W.H. Auden, Basil Bunting, William Empson, Patric Dickinson, R.S. Thomas, and Hilary Anne Clark reading in The Poet Speaks for American Text Sound Pieces / Record Seven.
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Hugh Kenner, George Gugelberger and Paul Vangelisti, and Everett Frost in The Cantos of Ezra Pound. Part 2 of 2. This recording ends on tape #484a.
The Poetry of Earth: William Everson discussion on the poetry of Robinson Jeffers #487
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William Everson discussion on the poetry of Robinson Jeffers in The Poetry of Earth.
John Giorno reading, 1975 #488b
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John Giorno reading Suicide Sutra, Eating human meat, and Subduing Demons in America in 1975. This recording starts on tape #488a.
Douglas Blazek reading from published and unpublished poems, 1970 #489
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Douglas Blazek reading from his published and unpublished poems in 1970.
The Dial-A-poem poets: biting off the tongue of a corpse #492
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Gary Snyder, John Giorno, William S. Burroughs, Charles Olson, Ted Berrigan, Ed Sanders, Edwin Denby, Diana Di Prima, John Wieners, Robert Duncan, John Cage, Denise Levertov, Frank O
Robert Duncan Reading A Play with Masks recorded in 1968 #499a
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Robert Duncan Reading A Play with Masks recorded in 1968.
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Gary Snyder in Sierra Nevada reading for There is No Other Life: Selected Poems recorded on August 21, 1974. Tape 2 of 3. This recording starts on tape #500a and ends on tape #500c.
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Larry Eigner reading for Around New Sounds Daily Means: Selected Poems at Swampscott on July 1st and 11th, 1974. Tape 3 of 3. This recording starts on tapes #500b and #500b.
The University of Michigan Professional Theater: the Grass Harp, 1972 #501
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Kenward Elmslie, Claibe Richardson, and John Berkman presenting The Grass Harp in The University of Michigan Professional Theater in 1972.
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Everett Frost, George Gupelberger, Paul Vangelisti, and Hugh Kenner reading and discussing of the Cantos of Ezra Pound in Pacifica Radio series on Ezra Pound in 1973. Part 1 of 2. The recording ends on tape #508b.
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Everett Frost, George Gupelberger, Paul Vangelisti, and Hugh Kenner reading and discussing Pound's politics, radio broadcasts, incarceration, insanity etc. in Pacifica Radio series on Ezra Pound in 1973. Part 2 of 2. The recording starts on tape #510a.
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Hugh Kenner's lecture about Ezra Pound, Language, and Literature Recorded at SFU on February 25th, 1975.
The Berkeley Poetry Conference Part 5: Charles Olson lecture and reading on July 20th, 1965 #516
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Charles Olson, introduced by Robert Duncan, giving lecture and reading at. The Berkeley Poetry Conference on July 20th, 1965. Part 5.
The Berkeley Poetry Conference Part 11: Ed Dorn Reading on July 20th, 1965 Tape 1 of 2 #522a
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Ed Dorn, introduced by Robert Creeley, reading at The Berkeley Poetry Conference on July 20th, 1965. Part 11. Tape 1 of 2. This recording ends on tape #522b.