Fonds MsC-14 - Gerry Gilbert fonds

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Gerry Gilbert fonds

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  • Textual records
  • Sound recordings

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MsC-14

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  • 1952-1992 (Creation)
    Creator
    Gilbert, Gerry

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8.3 m of textual records and other material

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Name of creator

(1936-2009)

Biographical history

Gerry Gilbert emerged as a significant poet and visual artist in Vancouver in the early 1960s. Gilbert founded and edited his own long-running poetry magazine, "B.C. Monthly" and hosted a weekly radio broadcast radiofreerainforest. He has published many volumes of poetry including Lease, Year of the Rush, Azure Blues and From Next Spring.

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Scope and content

The fonds consists of correspondence (inward and outward), daily calendars, manuscripts and working papers, Canada Council applications and correspondence, personal papers (including diaries of travels, tax records, notebooks, and copies of Gilbert's writings in his high school newspaper), and reference files and material. The fonds includes records (manuscripts, correspondence, etc.) of Gilbert's literary journal, "B.C. Monthly", and records including photographs) of the New Era Social Club, an artists' studio/living space in Vancouver; and audiotapes of radiofreerainforest shows.

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      Availability of other formats

      Digitized materials are available for research in SFU Digitized Collections: https://digital.lib.sfu.ca/radiofreerainforest-collection/gerry-gilbert-radiofreerainforest-collection.

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      Inventories of the accessions are available in Special Collections: MsC 14, MsC 14a, MsC 14b, MsC 14c.

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      BCAUL control number: SFL--2283

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      Published

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      Full

      Dates of creation, revision and deletion

      Created May 14, 2014, LZ

      Language of description

      • English

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