CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
1283
Partner Institution:
Concordia University
Source Collection Label:
SGWU Reading Series-Concordia University Department of English fonds
Series:
The Poetry Series
Sub Series:
SGWU Reading Series-Concordia University Department of English fonds
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
Gladys Hindmarch and Stan Persky at Sir George Williams University, The Poetry Series, 21 November 1969
Title Source:
Cataloguer
Title Note:
"GLADYS HINDMARCH I086-11-020" written on sticker on the spine of the tape's box and on the reel. "RT 511" written on sticker on the front of the tape's box and on the back of the box.
"STAN PERSKY Recorded November 21, 1969 3.75 ips, 1/2 track 1 mil. tape 55 minutes" written on sticker on the back of the tape's box. "STAN PERSKY I006/SR137" written on sticker on the spine of the tape's box. "I006-11-137" written on sticker on the reel
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Genre:
Reading: Poetry
Identifiers:
[I086-11-020, I006-11-137]
Rights
CREATORS
Name:
Hindmarch, Gladys
Dates:
1940-
Role:
"Author",
"Performer"
Notes:
Gladys Maria Hindmarch was born on Vancouver Island in 1940. She completed her Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts at the University of British Columbia. There she met poets George Bowering, Frank Davey, David Dawson, James Reid, Fred Wah and critic and professor Warren Tallman and was influential in creating the Tish magazine in 1961. However, she never published her own work in the magazine as she wrote prose. Her first publication was Sketches, published by George Bowering via the English Department of Sir George Williams University in 1970. Hindmarch wrote two novels, The Peter Stories (Coach House Press, 1976) and A Birth Account (New Star Books, 1967), which was followed by Watery part of the world (Douglas & McIntyre, 1988). Hindmarch has taught at Langara College and Capilano Colleges and she continues to live and write in Vancouver.
Name:
Persky, Stan
Dates:
1941-
Role:
"Author",
"Performer"
Notes:
Writer, teacher, activist and critic Stan Persky was born in Chicago on January 19, 1941. Early on, he was influenced by the Beat Generation poets and decided he would pursue a career in letters. Persky enrolled in the US Navy, and then moved to San Francisco in the early 1960’s where he became involved with the writers of the San Francisco Renaissance, including Jack Spicer, Robin Blaser and Robert Duncan. Persky’s first publications include Les enfants du paradis (St-Denis Press, 1961) and Moss (Rabbit Mountain College, 1961). In 1966, Persky moved with Robin Blaser to Vancouver, where Persky received his BA and MA degrees from the University of British Columbia. Persky co-founded the Georgia Straight Writing Supplements in the late 60’s, which led to what is now known as New Star Books. Persky and other writers began to publish the works of Milton Acorn, Gerry Gilbert, Jack Spicer, George Bowering, Fred Wah, bill bisset and Daphne Marlatt along with many others. Persky has taught at the Northwest College, Malaspina College, Simon Fraser University and at the Capilano University. Persky published Lives of the French Symbolist poets (White Rabbit Press, 1967), The Day (Georgia Straight Writing Supplement, 1971), George Bowering published An oral literary history of Vancouver in 1972 in the Beaver Kosmos Series, Slaves (New Star Books, 1974), and Wrestling the angel (Talonbooks, 1976). His first political-themed books, Son of Socred (New Star, 1979), The House That Jack Built (New Star, 1980) and Bennett II (New Star, 1983) gained wide-spread acclaim. His other many publications include At the Lenin Shipyard: Poland and the Rise of the Solidarity Trade Union (New Star, 1981), The Solidarity Sourcebook (New Star, 1981), he edited Flaunting It: A Decade of Gay Journalism From the Body Politic with Henry Flam (New Star, 1982), The Holy Forest with introductions by Robin Blaser and Robert Creeley (Coach Hosue Press, 1998), Buddy’s: Meditations on Desire (New Star Press, 1989) which won a Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize nomination, Then we Take Berlin: Stories from the Other Side of Europe (Knopf, 1995), On Kiddie Porn: Sexual Representation, Free Speech and the Robin Sharpe Case with John Dixon (New Star, 2001) and most recently Top Sentence: A Writer’s Education (New Star, 2007). He has been a media commentator for the CBC, and has written for The Globe and Mail, the Vancouver Sun, Saturday Night, The Tyee and dooneyscafe.com as well as other journals. Persky resides in Vancouver and Berlin and continues to lecture and write.
CONTRIBUTORS
Name:
Bowering, George
Dates:
1935-
Role:
"Series organizer",
"Presenter"
MATERIAL DESCRIPTION
Recording Type:
Analogue
AV Type:
Audio
Material Designation:
Reel to Reel
Physical Composition:
Magnetic Tape
Extent:
1/4 inch
Playback Mode:
Mono
Sound Quality:
Good
Recording Type:
Analogue
AV Type:
Audio
Material Designation:
Reel to Reel
Physical Composition:
Magnetic Tape
Extent:
1/4 inch
Playing Speed:
3 3/4 ips
Track Configuration:
Half-track
Playback Mode:
Mono
Tape Brand:
Scotch
Sound Quality:
Good
DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION
File Path:
files.spokenweb.ca>concordia>sgw>audio>all_mp3
Size:
111.9 MB
Content:
stan_persky_i006-11-137.mp3 [File 2 of 2]
Gladys Hindmarch
00:00:00
Stan and I both view Gertrude Stein as sort of eternal and I find that I can never read more than two pages of her at a time, like you just sort of become hypnotized, but she's pretty good to...like when I'm starting, trying to get into something to start to write and if I just read, you know just open one of her books at any sort of page, you know just at random and I just read two or three sentences, sometimes a paragraph, never more than that...and so I'm going to introduce Stan with a couple of Gertrude Stein sentences. "There's singularly nothing that makes a difference, a difference in beginning, and in middle, and in ending, except that each generation has something different at which they are all looking. By this I mean so simply that anybody knows it that composition is the difference which makes each and all of them then different from other generations, and this is what makes everything different, otherwise they're all like, and everybody knows it because everybody says it." Stan Persky.
Stan Persky
00:01:13
Yeah, I'm doing fine. The reading that I'm going to give is called "The Day", and what it is is pieces of everything that I'm onto right now, and so you have to bear with however unable to follow it out. And of course, like what we're trying to do is give you some sense of what it's like to be out where we are.
Stan Persky
00:01:45
Reads "Notebook, around August 20th, 1969".
Stan Persky
00:03:34.14
Is that unbearably fast?
Stan Persky
00:03:38.89
Reads "Notebook, around August 25th, 1969".
Stan Persky
00:07:16
"Notebook, Sunday, August 29th or 30th, 1969" You can see the energy this takes, it's just...[laughter]. This is barely doing it. "Jim and Franz..." I'm going to try to read one of these a little more slowly, maybe.
Stan Persky
00:07:42
Reads "Notebook, Sunday, August 29th or 30th, 1969".
Stan Persky
00:11:45
This one's a longer pull if that's possible. "The Marriage". Angela, this is the gossip for you [laughter]. Coming in here, I was thinking, who's sitting in the room, and you'd like to hear your names [laughter]...Arnie..."The Marriage".
Stan Persky
00:12:23
Reads "The Marriage".
Audience
00:19:00
Laughter.
Stan Persky
00:19:04
Tricky dick! [laughter].
Stan Persky
00:19:10
Resumes reading "The Marriage".
Audience
00:27:54
Applause [cut off].
Unknown
00:27:55
[Cut or edit made in tape. Unknown amount of time elapsed].
Stan Persky
00:27:57
Reads "To Gladys".
Audience
00:34:54
Laughter.
Stan Persky
00:34:59
"October 24th, 1969". Did I write this for this, did I write this reading?
Stan Persky
00:35:08
Reads "October 24th, 1969".
Stan Persky
00:36:46
Reads "Jamie".
Stan Persky
00:39:49
And the last three...
Unknown
00:39:52
[Cut or edit made in tape here. Unknown amount of time elapsed].
Stan Persky
00:39:53
Reads "Wednesday, November 5th, 1969, by Hunter's Creek".
Stan Persky
00:42:04
Reads "Fred Study. Notebook, Friday, November 7th, 1969, Fred Study."
Stan Persky
00:44:17
And at last, to finish, as far as it's gone, or whatever it is, "The Day".
Stan Persky
00:44:26
Reads "The Day".
END
00:46:38
[Cut off abruptly].
Notes:
Stan Persky reads from Wrestling the Angel (Talonbooks, 1976) as well as a few unpublished poems.
00:00- Gladys Hindmarch introduces Stan Persky. [INDEX: Gertrude Stein, reading Stein, Stein quote.]
01:13- Stan Persky introduces reading and the poem “Notebook, around August 20th, 1969”. [INDEX: reading called “The Day”, current work; published in Wrestling the Angel (Talonbooks, 1976), titled “It Starts with This”.]
01:45- Reads “Notebook, around August 20th, 1969”.
03:35- Stan asks audience about speed of his reading.
03:38- Reads “Notebook, around August 25th, 1969”.
07:16- Introduces “Notebook, around August 29th or 30th, 1969”. [INDEX: energy, Jim, Franz, reading more slowly.]
07:42- Reads “Notebook, around August 29th, or 30th, 1969”.
11:45- Introduces “The Marriage”. [INDEX: longer poem, Angela, gossip, audience, Arnie (random audience names); published in Wrestling the Angel (Talonbooks, 1976).]
12:23- Reads “The Marriage”.
18:56- Interrupts poem [INDEX: interruption, tricky dick.]
19:10- Continues “The Marriage”.
27:57- Reads “To Gladys”. [INDEX: Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Pound’s Canto 29, H.D. Warren Tallman.]
34:59- Introduces “October 24th, 1969”. [INDEX: write poem for reading.]
35:08- Reads “October 24th, 1969”. [INDEX: Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley.]
36:46- Reads “Jamie”. [INDEX: Tish magazine, James Reed.]
39:53- Reads “Wednesday, November 5th, 1969, by Hunter’s Creek”.
42:04- Reads “Fred Study. Notebook, Friday, November 7th, 1969”
44:26- Introduces “The Day”.
44:26- Reads “The Day”.
46:38.09- END OF RECORDING.
Content Type:
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File Path:
files.spokenweb.ca>concordia>sgw>audio>all_mp3
Duration:
00:45:52
Size:
110.1 MB
Content:
gladys_hindmarch_i086-11-020.mp3 [File 1 of 2]
George Bowering
00:00:00
Another Vancouver
night in the series, this will be, this is the final reading of the fall series, and will be picked up again in January. As you know from the propaganda sheets, we're presenting what I consider to be the centre of the Vancouver writing scene. Gladys Hindmarch has been in that scene for ten years, and was associated with all those people who've got all kinds of names over the last few years such as West Coast movement and the Tish movement and the New Wave Canada
and that sort of business. And Stan Persky
, was as much related if not more because he is also a sort of superstar of little magazines [audience laughter] in San Francisco
, and made the usual move up to Vancouver, what, three years ago? And has now become the superstar of the Vancouver writing scene. What's going to happen is that the reading will be split into two pieces. At the beginning, Stan is going to introduce Gladys, and then there will be a break of about ten minutes, and then Gladys is going to introduce Stan. So, I'd like to give you "Stan and Gladys Evening".
Stan Persky
00:01:43
"Beginning again and again is a natural thing, even when there is a series. Beginning again and again and again, explaining composition and time is a natural thing. It is understood by this time that everything's the same, except composition and time. Composition, and the time of the composition and the time in the composition. Everything is the same except composition and as the composition is different, and always going to be different, everything is not the same. Everything is not the same as the time when, of the composition, and the time in the composition is different. The composition is different, that is certain." Gertrude Stein
.
Gladys Hindmarch
00:02:40
When I whistle, just imagine that it's a very good whistler. "They know what they're doing".
Gladys Hindmarch
00:02:53
Reads "They know what they're doing" [published later as “Callback” in The Watery Part of the World].
Gladys Hindmarch
00:16:08
That's the third in a group of stories, or series of stories that I'm writing. [Audience laughter]. I haven't got a title for this one, it's still in the first day on the trip but it's the seventh story. I call it "The [Salad (?)] Story" in my head but I'll have to find a title for it.
Gladys Hindmarch
00:16:54
Reads ["Nothing is Simple", published later in The Watery Part of the World].
Gladys Hindmarch
00:33:30
Another, I've got lots of others, but I'm just going to read one other short one that's got a number of daydream passages that I don't think I--it's necessary to know which of the day--I mean you can, I think you can get it, it's just call it "Number 12" right now it also hasn't got a title. "Outside deck scene"--I guess that George
didn't say, I used to work as a mess girl and a cook on a West Coast freighter called the Tahsis Prince, I worked on four or five of them because I was relief working, but the main one I worked on went up the west coast of Vancouver Island
, and not, they have great difficulty getting women to go out there, maybe obvious reasons in these stories so I could almost get a job on it, whereas the other ones I could get jobs if nobody was available, but since on this particular boat, usually nobody was available. One time I was leaving shopping in the Army and Navy and a guy came down the hall and said, Look you know, they're trying to get a hold of you, you've gotta go up there. And I said, come on, now, and sort of walked me back to the hall. And one Christmas run there were fifty one men--lots of people don't want to go out at Christmas, but a lot of the seamen, just work in the summer, so if they can get a job for two weeks they take it. They had fifty one cards on the board and not one of them--and there was a call for a cook, which was a girl's job and a call for an able seaman, and not one of the fifty-one men would go out on the boat--they got a guy who hadn't registered yet went out. This is an end of summer trip, it's not rough at all.
Annotation
00:35:42
Reads ["How It Feels”, published later in The Watery Part of the World].
END
00:45:52
[Cut off abruptly].
Notes:
Gladys Hindmarch reads a series of short stories later published in The Watery Part of the World (Douglas & McIntyre, 1988).
00:00- George Bowering introduces reading. [INDEX: ‘Vancouver night’, final reading in fall series, January, ‘propaganda sheet’, centre of Vancouver writing scene, West Coast movement, Tish movement, New Wave Canada, Stan Persky, little magazines, San Francisco, move to Vancouver, Stan introduces Gladys, intermission, Gladys introduces Stan.]
01:43- Stan Persky reads Gertrude Stein quote [INDEX: composition, series, composition, time.]
02:40- Gladys Hindmarch introduces “They Know What They’re Doing”. [INDEX: originally published in Writing (renamed GSWS) No.3, April 1970; and in Iron, No. 3 as recorded in The Watery Part of the World; perhaps later published as “Callback” in The Watery Part of the World (Douglas & McIntyre, 1988).]
02:53- Reads “They Know What They’re Doing”.
16:08- Introduces untitled story, dubbed “The Salad Story”, first line “Setting up supper is not nearly so slow...”. [INDEX: third in series of stories, untitled, trip; published later as “Nothing is Simple” in The Watery Part of the World (Douglas & McIntyre, 1988).]
16:54- Reads first line “Setting up supper is not nearly so slow...”.
33:30- Introduces first line “The sun on my eyes...” [INDEX: short story, daydream passages, preliminary titled “12”, George Bowering, mess cook on a West Coast freighter called “Tahsis Prince”, relief working, Vancouver Island, women, seamen, jobs, treatment of women, Army and Navy, Christmas, summer, cook; perhaps later published as “How it Feels” in The Watery Part of the World (Douglas & McIntyre, 1988).]
35:42- Reads first line “The sun on my eyes...”.
45:52.62- END OF RECORDING.
“Howard Fink List of Poems Read”:
Print catalogue page from archives contains the following information:
Title: Gladys Hindmarch reading her own poetry: Final Fall Reading 1969
Source: One 5” reel, 3 3/4 , mono lasting 45 mins.
Date: November 21, 1969
Introduction by Stan Persky
Speakers: Stan Persky, Gladys Hindmarch
1.Title: They Know What They’re Doing
First Line: “Nobody is moving quickly…”
2. Title: untitled [is poem actually called “Untitled,” or is it just listed on archived print cat. as such?]
First Line: “Setting up for supper…”
3.Title: untitled
First Line: “The sun in my eye…”
Content Type:
Sound Recording
Title:
Stan Persky Tape Box - Back
Credit:
Drew Bernet
Content Type:
Photograph
Title:
Stan Persky Tape Box - Front
Credit:
Drew Bernet
Content Type:
Photograph
Title:
Stan Persky Tape Box - Spine
Credit:
Drew Bernet
Content Type:
Photograph
Title:
Stan Persky Tape Box - Reel
Credit:
Drew Bernet
Content Type:
Photograph
Title:
Gladys Hindmarch Tape Box - Back
Credit:
Drew Bernet
Content Type:
Photograph
Title:
Gladys Hindmarch Tape Box - Front
Credit:
Drew Bernet
Content Type:
Photograph
Title:
Gladys Hindmarch Tape Box - Spine
Credit:
Drew Bernet
Content Type:
Photograph
Title:
Gladys Hindmarch Tape Box - Reel
Credit:
Drew Bernet
Content Type:
Photograph
Dates
Date:
1969 11 21
Type:
Performance Date
Source:
Accompanying Material
Notes:
Date written on tape box for I006-11-137
LOCATION
Address:
1455, Boul de Maisonneuve Ouest, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Venue:
Hall Building Room H-651
Latitude:
45.4972758
Longitude:
-73.57893043
CONTENT
Contents:
gladys_hindmarch_i086-11-020.mp3 [File 1 of 2]
George Bowering
00:00:00
Another Vancouver
night in the series, this will be, this is the final reading of the fall series, and will be picked up again in January. As you know from the propaganda sheets, we're presenting what I consider to be the centre of the Vancouver writing scene. Gladys Hindmarch has been in that scene for ten years, and was associated with all those people who've got all kinds of names over the last few years such as West Coast movement and the Tish movement and the New Wave Canada
and that sort of business. And Stan Persky
, was as much related if not more because he is also a sort of superstar of little magazines [audience laughter] in San Francisco
, and made the usual move up to Vancouver, what, three years ago? And has now become the superstar of the Vancouver writing scene. What's going to happen is that the reading will be split into two pieces. At the beginning, Stan is going to introduce Gladys, and then there will be a break of about ten minutes, and then Gladys is going to introduce Stan. So, I'd like to give you "Stan and Gladys Evening".
Stan Persky
00:01:43
"Beginning again and again is a natural thing, even when there is a series. Beginning again and again and again, explaining composition and time is a natural thing. It is understood by this time that everything's the same, except composition and time. Composition, and the time of the composition and the time in the composition. Everything is the same except composition and as the composition is different, and always going to be different, everything is not the same. Everything is not the same as the time when, of the composition, and the time in the composition is different. The composition is different, that is certain." Gertrude Stein
.
Gladys Hindmarch
00:02:40
When I whistle, just imagine that it's a very good whistler. "They know what they're doing".
Gladys Hindmarch
00:02:53
Reads "They know what they're doing" [published later as “Callback” in The Watery Part of the World].
Gladys Hindmarch
00:16:08
That's the third in a group of stories, or series of stories that I'm writing. [Audience laughter]. I haven't got a title for this one, it's still in the first day on the trip but it's the seventh story. I call it "The [Salad (?)] Story" in my head but I'll have to find a title for it.
Gladys Hindmarch
00:16:54
Reads ["Nothing is Simple", published later in The Watery Part of the World].
Gladys Hindmarch
00:33:30
Another, I've got lots of others, but I'm just going to read one other short one that's got a number of daydream passages that I don't think I--it's necessary to know which of the day--I mean you can, I think you can get it, it's just call it "Number 12" right now it also hasn't got a title. "Outside deck scene"--I guess that George
didn't say, I used to work as a mess girl and a cook on a West Coast freighter called the Tahsis Prince, I worked on four or five of them because I was relief working, but the main one I worked on went up the west coast of Vancouver Island
, and not, they have great difficulty getting women to go out there, maybe obvious reasons in these stories so I could almost get a job on it, whereas the other ones I could get jobs if nobody was available, but since on this particular boat, usually nobody was available. One time I was leaving shopping in the Army and Navy and a guy came down the hall and said, Look you know, they're trying to get a hold of you, you've gotta go up there. And I said, come on, now, and sort of walked me back to the hall. And one Christmas run there were fifty one men--lots of people don't want to go out at Christmas, but a lot of the seamen, just work in the summer, so if they can get a job for two weeks they take it. They had fifty one cards on the board and not one of them--and there was a call for a cook, which was a girl's job and a call for an able seaman, and not one of the fifty-one men would go out on the boat--they got a guy who hadn't registered yet went out. This is an end of summer trip, it's not rough at all.
Annotation
00:35:42
Reads ["How It Feels”, published later in The Watery Part of the World].
END
00:45:52
[Cut off abruptly].
stan_persky_i006-11-137.mp3 [File 2 of 2]
Gladys Hindmarch
00:00:00
Stan and I both view Gertrude Stein as sort of eternal and I find that I can never read more than two pages of her at a time, like you just sort of become hypnotized, but she's pretty good to...like when I'm starting, trying to get into something to start to write and if I just read, you know just open one of her books at any sort of page, you know just at random and I just read two or three sentences, sometimes a paragraph, never more than that...and so I'm going to introduce Stan with a couple of Gertrude Stein sentences. "There's singularly nothing that makes a difference, a difference in beginning, and in middle, and in ending, except that each generation has something different at which they are all looking. By this I mean so simply that anybody knows it that composition is the difference which makes each and all of them then different from other generations, and this is what makes everything different, otherwise they're all like, and everybody knows it because everybody says it." Stan Persky.
Stan Persky
00:01:13
Yeah, I'm doing fine. The reading that I'm going to give is called "The Day", and what it is is pieces of everything that I'm onto right now, and so you have to bear with however unable to follow it out. And of course, like what we're trying to do is give you some sense of what it's like to be out where we are.
Stan Persky
00:01:45
Reads "Notebook, around August 20th, 1969".
Stan Persky
00:03:34.14
Is that unbearably fast?
Stan Persky
00:03:38.89
Reads "Notebook, around August 25th, 1969".
Stan Persky
00:07:16
"Notebook, Sunday, August 29th or 30th, 1969" You can see the energy this takes, it's just...[laughter]. This is barely doing it. "Jim and Franz..." I'm going to try to read one of these a little more slowly, maybe.
Stan Persky
00:07:42
Reads "Notebook, Sunday, August 29th or 30th, 1969".
Stan Persky
00:11:45
This one's a longer pull if that's possible. "The Marriage". Angela, this is the gossip for you [laughter]. Coming in here, I was thinking, who's sitting in the room, and you'd like to hear your names [laughter]...Arnie..."The Marriage".
Stan Persky
00:12:23
Reads "The Marriage".
Audience
00:19:00
Laughter.
Stan Persky
00:19:04
Tricky dick! [laughter].
Stan Persky
00:19:10
Resumes reading "The Marriage".
Audience
00:27:54
Applause [cut off].
Unknown
00:27:55
[Cut or edit made in tape. Unknown amount of time elapsed].
Stan Persky
00:27:57
Reads "To Gladys".
Audience
00:34:54
Laughter.
Stan Persky
00:34:59
"October 24th, 1969". Did I write this for this, did I write this reading?
Stan Persky
00:35:08
Reads "October 24th, 1969".
Stan Persky
00:36:46
Reads "Jamie".
Stan Persky
00:39:49
And the last three...
Unknown
00:39:52
[Cut or edit made in tape here. Unknown amount of time elapsed].
Stan Persky
00:39:53
Reads "Wednesday, November 5th, 1969, by Hunter's Creek".
Stan Persky
00:42:04
Reads "Fred Study. Notebook, Friday, November 7th, 1969, Fred Study."
Stan Persky
00:44:17
And at last, to finish, as far as it's gone, or whatever it is, "The Day".
Stan Persky
00:44:26
Reads "The Day".
END
00:46:38
[Cut off abruptly].
Notes:
Gladys Hindmarch reads a series of short stories later published in The Watery Part of the World (Douglas & McIntyre, 1988). Stan Persky reads from Wrestling the Angel (Talonbooks, 1976) as well as a few unpublished poems.
NOTES
Type:
General
Note:
Year-Specific Information:
In 1969, Gladys Hindmarch was writing and participating in the writing scene in Vancouver. No specific information could be found on Gladys Hindmarch during this year.
In 1969, Persky was living in Vancouver, was published in The Pacific Nation (Vancouver, 1969). He was working on a series of poems called “The Day”, published in Wrestling the Angel (Talonbooks, 1976).
Type:
General
Note:
Local Connections:
Gladys Hindmarch went to the University of British Columbia, where she met professor and Poetry Reading Series Committee Member George Bowering. Hindmarch was an integral part of the Vancouver poetry renaissance, and was connected to the important poets of the Vancouver ‘scene’.
Stan Persky met George Bowering and Stanton Hoffman (Faculty and Poetry Reading Series Committee members) when they were in Vancouver and at University of British Columbia during the same period of time, involved in the poetry scene. Please see The Oral Literary History of Vancouver: Stan Persky’s Section (Beaver Kosmos Folio, #5) for how Bowering and Persky met as well as Persky’s relationship to Gladys Hindmarch. Persky is also associated with Robin Blaser (who also read in 1969), Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, as well as many other local Vancouver writers in this series.
Type:
Cataloguer
Note:
I086-11-020:
Original transcript, print catalogue, research and edits by Celyn Harding-Jones
Additional research and edits by Ali Barillaro
I006-11-137:
Original transcript by Rachel Kyne
Original print catalogue, research and edits by Celyn Harding-Jones
Additional research and edits by Ali Barillaro
Type:
Preservation
Note:
2 reel-to-reel tapes>2 CDs> 2 digital files
RELATED WORKS
Citation:
Bowering, George and Brad Robinson (eds). An Oral Literary History of Vancouver: Stan Persky’s Section. Vancouver: Beaver Kosmos Folios, no. 5, 1973.
Citation:
Hindmarch, Gladys. Sketches. Montreal: Beaver Kosmos Folios, no. 3, 198-?.
Citation:
Hindmarch, Gladys. The Watery Part of the World. Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 1988.
Citation:
“People / Gladys (Maria) Hindmarch”. Ruins in the Process: Vancouver Art in the Sixties.
Citation:
“People / Stan Persky”. Ruins in Process: Vancouver Art in the Sixties. Vancouver: The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, The University of British Columbia and the grunt gallery.
Citation:
Persky, Stan. Topic Sentence: A Writer’s Education. Vancouver: New Star Books, 2007.
Citation:
Persky, Stan. Wrestling the Angel. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1977.
Citation:
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