David McFadden and Gerry Gilbert at Sir George Williams University, The Poetry Series, 15 January 1971

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Swallow ID:

1293

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:

David McFadden and Gerry Gilbert at Sir George Williams University, The Poetry Series, 15 January 1971

Title Source:

Cataloguer

Title Note:

"DAVID McFADDEN AND GERRY GILBERT Recorded January 15, 1971 3.75 ips on 1 mil. tape, 1/2 track Quality: Fair to poor. Poems read alternately" written on sticker on the back of the tape's box. "DAVID McFADDEN GERRY GILBERT I006/SR19" written on sticker on the spine of the tape's box. "I006-11-019" written on sticker on the reel.

Language:

English

Production Context:

Documentary recording

Genre:

Reading: Poetry

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http://archives.concordia.ca/I086

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[]

Rights

CREATORS

Name:

McFadden, David

Dates:

1940-2018

URL:

http://viaf.org/viaf/7405434

Role:

"Author", "Performer"

Notes:

Writer David McFadden was born in 1940, in Hamilton, Ontario, where he spent his first thirty-nine years. He started Mountain, a mimeographed magazine in 1962, and his early work appeared in tish, Is, Evidence, Weed, and Talon. He became a proofreader for the Hamilton Spectator in 1962 and a reporter for the same in 1970. David McFadden’s first collections of poems were published in Letters from the earth to the earth in 1968 (Coach House Press), Poems worth knowing in 1971 (Coach House Press) and Intense pleasure in 1972 (McClelland and Stewart). His first novel was The great Canadian sonnet, published in 1970 (Coach House Press). In 1976 he resigned from the Hamilton Spectator to focus on freelance writing and editing. McFadden continued to publish his poems in A knight in dried plums in 1975 (McClelland and Stewart), and On the road again in 1978 (McClelland and Stewart). His short stories and novels include three from the ‘Great Lakes Series’, published from 1980 to 1988 (Coach House Press), and Animal spirits: stories to live by in 1983 (Coach House Press). McFadden has published over fifteen other novels and collections of poems from 1967 to 1995, which include My Body was Eaten by Dogs (McClelland and Stewart, 1981), selected poems edited and introduced by George Bowering, and The Art of Darkness (McClelland Stewart, 1984). Be Calm Honey (Mansfield Press, 2008) was a finalist for the 2009 Governor General’s Award and his final published book, What's the Score? (Mansfield Press, 2012) won the 2013 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize. McFadden died in 2018.

Name:

Gilbert, Gerry

Dates:

1936-2009

URL:

http://viaf.org/viaf/13554305

Role:

"Author", "Performer"

Notes:

Canadian poet and photographer Gerry Gilbert, born in 1936, was one of the most experimental writers from Vancouver in the 60’s. He started as a television cameraman, and then concentrated on writing poetry. Gilbert founded and edited The B.C. Monthly, which published literary and political criticism. He was also the editor of Radio Free Rain Forest, published out of Vancouver. Gilbert’s publications are numerous, and include artful self-published books of poetry. White lunch: poems was published by Periwinkle Press in 1964, followed by The milk (Minimedia, 1967), Quote, New York, July 1965 (Ganglia Press, 1969), Phone book (Weed/Flower, 1969), On my face (G.Gilbert, 1970), The (Probable Latitude 76 ̊15' Longitude 113 ̊10'E, London, 1970), a film Doi,ngng (NFB, Ottawa, 1970), And a place in mind... (Hesheitworks, 1971), Apr. 35, 1978 (Hesheitworks, 1971), And (Blewointmentpress, 1971), Money (York Street Commune, 1971), Lease (Coach House Press, 1971), Journal to the East (Blewointmentpress, 1974), Bicycle (Caledonia Writing Series, 1977), New and used poems (G.Gilbert, 1980), Moby Jane (Coach House Press, 1987), The 1/2 of it (Wave 7 Press, 1989), Azure blues (Talon Books, 1991), Year off (BC Monthly, 2001), and Poetrees (BC Monthly, 2006). Gilbert died in Vancouver in 2009.

CONTRIBUTORS

Name:

Bowering, George

Dates:

1935-

URL:

http://viaf.org/viaf/34469976

Role:

"Series organizer", "Presenter"

MATERIAL DESCRIPTION

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Analogue

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Audio

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Reel to Reel

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Magnetic Tape

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1/4 inch

Playing Speed:

3 3/4 ips

Track Configuration:

Half-track

Playback Mode:

Mono

Tape Brand:

Scotch

Sound Quality:

Poor

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01:29:19

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214.4 MB

Content:

George Bowering 00:00:08 We have two readers tonight, both Canadian poets, as you know, and, but in most cases when we have two poets as we did last time, we generally have one poet read for a while, then have a break, and then have the other poet read for a while, but we're not going to do it that way tonight. We're just going to throw the thing open to both David McFadden and Gerry Gilbert and they will work it out as it seems to work out for them. This makes a lot of sense, although they've never read together before, they're both published by the same publishing house, and published in the same magazines and know each other as they used to say in the old days in the ivy league by reputation. Gerry Gilbert is, as a lot of people we've had this year, is from the West Coast and has been involved for quite a while with an outfit in the coast that gobbles up your tax money called Intermedia , that's why the screen is there, something might happen there occasionally. Gerry was at one time the editor of a seminal West Coast publishing venture called Radio Free Rain Forest, and is the author of a series of books and things that are like books, as for instance, White Lunch which came out several years ago in Vancouver and Telephone Book which is published by Coach House Press, I think, no, Weed/Flower, sorry. David's also been published by Weed/Flower and the Coach House Press, and his forthcoming book is the second volume of the Big/Little Book novel, called The Great Canadian Sonnet with illustrations by a little-known London artist named Greg Curnoe . His next book is going to be called Poems Worth Knowing, a title that anyone from Ontario or British Columbia will know. What we're going to do is they're going to operate for a little while, and then when they feel the need for a break there will be a short intermission, like about ten minutes, then we'll proceed again with what, as they say, the second set. So I'm not going to be able to say that somebody's reading first and somebody's reading second but what I will be able to say is that the readers will be David McFadden and Gerry Gilbert. Unknown 00:02:39 [Cut or edit made in tape. Unknown amount of time elapsed]. David McFadden 00:02:40 Reads unnamed poem. Unknown 00:06:02 [Cut or edit made in tape. Unknown amount of time elapsed]. Gerry Gilbert 00:06:03 Reads "Her white face where I have seen Her ride the last bus, before" [from Money]. Gerry Gilbert 00:07:14 Reads "A moving picture moves, it's the truth about movies" [from Money]. David McFadden 00:07:33 Reads unnamed poem. Gerry Gilbert 00:08:20 Reads "I REMEMBER TOOTSIE ROLLS when they were only in American comic books" [from Money]. David McFadden 00:09:46 Reads [“The Slippery Wig” published later in Intense Pleasure and collected in Why Are You So Sad?]. Gerry Gilbert 00:10:38 Reads "London 1964" [from Money] David McFadden 00:12:28 Reads unnamed poem. Gerry Gilbert 00:13:37 Reads "waitress calls the man in the corner, HARRY” [from Money]. David McFadden 00:14:30 Reads unnamed poem. Gerry Gilbert 00:14:53 Reads "the pleasure. I said” [from Money]. David McFadden 00:16:14 Reads [“Titles I Have Heard Of But Not Read” published later in Intense Pleasure and collected in Why Are You So Sad?]. Gerry Gilbert 00:18:26 Reads ["Single Mens Unit" from Money]. David McFadden 00:19:05 Reads unnamed poem. David McFadden 00:21:03 Reads unnamed poem. Gerry Gilbert 00:23:13 Reads "Goodness and mercy are following me across the lake" [from Money]. Gerry Gilbert 00:24:10 Reads "Bicycle" [from Money]. Gerry Gilbert 00:24:55 Reads "on the bed” [from Money]. David McFadden 00:25:32 Reads unnamed poem. David McFadden 00:26:05 Reads unnamed poem. David McFadden 00:26:18 Reads unnamed poem. Gerry Gilbert 00:26:49 Reads unnamed poem. Gerry Gilbert 00:28:03 Reads "bone ring on my finger" [from Money]. David McFadden 00:28:34 Reads unnamed poem. David McFadden 00:31:05 Reads unnamed poem. Gerry Gilbert 00:32:10 We're reading Canadian history. A few of the poems from Phone Book. Gerry Gilbert 00:32:28 Reads untitled poem from Phone Book. Gerry Gilbert 00:33:05 Reads untitled poem from Phone Book. Gerry Gilbert 00:33:42 Reads untitled poem from Phone Book. Gerry Gilbert 00:34:31 Reads untitled poem from Phone Book. Gerry Gilbert 00:35:25 Reads untitled poem from Phone Book. Gerry Gilbert 00:36:37 Reads untitled poem from Phone Book. Gerry Gilbert 00:36:58 Reads untitled poem from Phone Book. Gerry Gilbert 00:37:29 This poem's called "Garden". Gerry Gilbert 00:37:35 Reads "Garden" [from Money]. David McFadden 00:38:38 Reads [“Journey To Love” published later in Poems Worth Knowing]. David McFadden 00:39:21 Reads [“A Poem Without A Title Is Like A Letter Without A Stamp” published later in Poems Worth Knowing]. Gerry Gilbert 00:39:50 Reads "find your birds" [from Money]. David McFadden 00:41:32 Reads [“Art’s Variety” published later in Poems Worth Knowing]. Gerry Gilbert 00:42:04 Reads "sometimes I miss" [from Money]. David McFadden 00:42:18 Reads [“Another Revolution” published later in Poems Worth Knowing]. David McFadden 00:42:57 Reads [“Chapter One” from The Great Canadian Sonnet]. Gerry Gilbert 00:47:06 Did I hear you say 'boiled skunks'? This is a little tale. Gerry Gilbert 00:49:24 Reads unnamed poem. Gerry Gilbert 00:49:45 Reads unnamed poem. Gerry Gilbert 00:51:42 Reads unnamed poem. David McFadden 00:53:02 Reads "Vital Statistics: Distances from Hamilton To..." [from The Great Canadian Sonnet]. Gerry Gilbert 00:54:52 Reads unnamed poem. David McFadden 00:54:52 Reads unnamed poem. David McFadden 00:55:52 Reads unnamed poem [audience laughter throughout]. Gerry Gilbert 00:56:52 Reads [“SQUEEZE THRU THE TUBE” from And]. Gerry Gilbert 00:57:08 Reads [“24.11.70. TORONTO” from And]. Gerry Gilbert 00:57:59 The following is a Rochdale College council meeting. 23rd of November, 1970. Gerry Gilbert 00:58:08 Reads [“ROCHDALE COUNCIL MEETING 23.11.70” and other untitled sections from And]. David McFadden 01:01:24 Reads unnamed poem. David McFadden 01:01:39 Reads unnamed poem. Unknown 01:09:59 [Cut or edit made in tape. Unknown amount of time elapsed]. Gerry Gilbert 01:10:01 Reads [“QUIET” from And]. Gerry Gilbert 01:10:28 Reads untitled poem [from And]. Gerry Gilbert 01:10:41 Reads [“THE WEST IS ALONE SEA” from And]. Gerry Gilbert 01:10:57 Reads “TICKET” [from And]. Gerry Gilbert 01:11:33 Reads [“2.1.71” from And]. Gerry Gilbert 01:12:44 Reads [“49th week 1970” from And]. Gerry Gilbert 01:12:49 Reads “FRIED EGG SANDWICH ON BROWN” [from And]. David McFadden 01:13:54 Reads unnamed poem. Gerry Gilbert 01:23:26 Reads [first section of “Babyland Blues” from Money]. Gerry Gilbert 01:27:05 Reads unnamed poem. Gerry Gilbert 01:27:52 Reads [section of “Babybland Blues from Money]. Gerry Gilbert 01:28:44 Reads unnamed poem. Gerry Gilbert 01:29:04 Reads [final section of “Babyland Blues from Money]. END 01:29:19

Notes:

David McFadden reads from The Great Canadian Sonnet (Coach House Press, 1970), as well as poems published later in Poems Worth Knowing (Coach House Press, 1971) and Intense Pleasure (McClelland and Stewart, 1972). Gerry Gilbert reads from Money (York Street Commune, 1971) and Phone Book (Weed/Flower, 1969) and And (Blewointmentpress, 1971) as well as some poems from unknown sources. 00:00- Unknown Male introduces David McFadden and Gerry Gilbert [INDEX: Gerry Gilbert: West Coast, radiofreerainforest, Intermedia, White Lunch, Vancouver, Phone Book published by Weed/Flower Press. David McFadden: Coach House Press, Weed/Flower Press, Big Little Book novel, The Great Canadian Sonnet with illustrations by Greg Curnoe, Poems Worth Knowing, Ontario, British Columbia] 02:40- David McFadden reads first line “They try to teach you things so fast in school...” 06:03- Gerry Gilbert reads first line “Her right face, where I have seen her ride the last bus before...” 07:14- Gerry Gilbert reads first line “A moving picture moves...” [INDEX: in the section “For Crying Out Loud” in Money] 07:33- David McFadden reads first line “At the vending machine, Garfield got a bag of...” 08:20- Gerry Gilbert reads first line “I remember tootsie rolls were only in American comic books...” [INDEX: in the section “For Crying Out Loud” in Money] 09:46- David McFadden reads first line “I sat next to her on the bus. She kept adjusting her black wig...” 10:38- Gerry Gilbert reads “London 1964” [INDEX: in the section “For Crying Out Loud”, in Money] 12:28- David McFadden reads “Received your postcard today and dropped it...” 13:37- Gerry Gilbert reads “The waitress calls the man in the corner Harry...” [INDEX: in the section “For Crying Out Loud” in Money] 14:30- David McFadden reads first line “Nine inches from navel to vulva...” 14:53- Gerry Gilbert reads first line “The pleasure, I said, I dreamed I was in Vietnam...” [INDEX: in the section “For Crying Out Loud” in Money] 16:14- David McFadden reads first line “Dreams have become so full of intricate detail...” 18:26- Gerry Gilbert reads “Single Mens Unit” [INDEX: in Money] 19:05- David McFadden reads first line “The Bursby Police are a fine group of men...” 21:03- David McFadden reads first line “Napanee home for the aged Japanese Canadians...” 23:13- Gerry Gilbert reads first line “Goodness and Mercy are following me...” [INDEX: in the section “For Crying Out Loud” in Money] 24:10- Gerry Gilbert reads “Bicycle” [INDEX: in Money] 24:55- Gerry Gilbert reads first line “On the bed, we held, two hands a pot...” 25:32- David McFadden reads first line “The successful young alderman of ambition...” 26:05- David McFadden reads first line “The tub was dirty so I washed it out...” 26:18- David McFadden reads first line “I’m leaving on Saturday, Harry the sweeper talking...” 26:49- Gerry Gilbert reads first line “Blow by blow, solid, solid, short...” 28:03- Gerry Gilbert reads first line “Bone, ring on my finger, bell...” [INDEX: in section “For Crying Out Loud” in Money] 28:34- David McFadden reads first line “Spitting out the used up toothpaste...” 31:05- David McFadden reads first line “If you’re lucky enough to be there when your name is called...” 32:28- Gerry Gilbert reads first line “Mirror, mirror from Middle English...” [INDEX: in Phone Book] 33:05- Gerry Gilbert reads first line “Stabit, she’s big, her mom sed...” [INDEX: in Phone Book] 33:42- Gerry Gilbert reads first line “Conductor, CN Conductor...” [INDEX: in Phone Book] 35:25- Gerry Gilbert reads first line “It began to rain, we sat on the hill...” [INDEX: in Phone Book] 36:37- Gerry Gilbert reads first line “The killer is at the top window...” [INDEX: in Phone Book] 36:58- Gerry Gilbert reads first line “Can’t see the key, you have to reach...” [INDEX: in Phone Book] 37:29- Gerry Gilbert reads “Garden” [INDEX: in Money] 38:38- David McFadden reads first line “No one knows his own potential for evil...” 39:21- David McFadden reads first line “I made a left turn from Houston onto King...” 39:50- Gerry Gilbert reads first line “Find your birds, ladies and gentlemen...” [INDEX: in the section “For Crying Out Loud” in Money] 41:32- David McFadden reads first line “She was small and pretty, my heart broke...” 42:04- Gerry Gilbert reads first line “Sometimes I miss the times I miss...” [INDEX: in the section “For Crying Out Loud” in Money] 42:18- David McFadden reads first line “Elege [sp?] expands to fill the vacuum left by loss of spirit...” 42:57- David McFadden reads first line “I’m Alabama-bound, my brain is firming round...” 47:24- END OF RECORDING 00:02- Gerry Gilbert reads first line “I rolled down the slime trail after slug...” 01:59- Gerry Gilbert reads first line “Semitic origin, these etymological discussions...” 02:21- Gerry Gilbert reads “Spadina Salvation Army, December 1969” 04:27- David McFadden reads first line “Vital statistics, distances from Hamilton to Boston...” 05:38- Gerry Gilbert reads first line “A place in mind clicks, switch...” 07:27- David McFadden reads first line “Joan was telling me how she was driving...” 08:28- David McFadden reads first line “The dog across the street is a little Pekinese...” 09:28- Gerry Gilbert reads series of poems starting with first lines “I was in Ottawa...” and “Matches, I never saw Eddie...” 10:09- Gerry Gilbert reads series of poems starting with first lines “I can’t find the sky...” and “I see you and baby...” and “9 or 10 council men and women...” 14:00- David McFadden reads first line “Collier's Encyclopedia says...” 14:15- David McFadden reads first line “Joan said she was miserable that day...” 22:35- Gerry Gilbert reads of series of short poems with first lines “Buddha, somebody stole...”, “I jacked-off..”, “We’ve been having technical...”, “Go sooner than you expect...”. “If you like lots of food...”, “Ticket, way West...”, “Pictures of windows...”, “Pencil, don’t dry out...”, “Each a life, eat your wife...”, “Fried egg sandwich...”, “The world is so young...”, “Your own, a better night...”, “She loved me...”, “Hair, hooked behind my ears...”, “Your first is something nobody...” 26:29- David McFadden reads first line “The car was running very well...” 36:01- Gerry Gilbert reads first line “I know what I’m doing...” 39:40- Gerry Gilbert reads first line “Eagle, hear me coming...” 40:28- Gerry Gilbert reads first line “Water the garden after...” 41:19- Gerry Gilbert reads first line “Each size, big places...” 41:40- Gerry Gilbert reads first line “Sweet, sweet babyland bird...” 41:55.46- END OF RECORDING *Note about Transcript: because both readers read their work without any extra-poetic speech, there are no ‘annotated’ notes. The text that is spoken by the poets is marked by quotation marks. Poem titles are indicated, when available, in the [Indexed] sections.

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McFadden and Gilbert Tape Box - Back

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Drew Bernet

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Dates

Date:

1971 1 15

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Performance Date

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Accompanying Material

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Date written on sticker on the back of the tape's box and in written announcement

LOCATION

Address:

1455, Boul de Maisonneuve Ouest, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Hall Building Room H-651

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CONTENT

Contents:

david_mcfadden_gerry_gilbert_i006-11-019.mp3 George Bowering 00:00:08 We have two readers tonight, both Canadian poets, as you know, and, but in most cases when we have two poets as we did last time, we generally have one poet read for a while, then have a break, and then have the other poet read for a while, but we're not going to do it that way tonight. We're just going to throw the thing open to both David McFadden and Gerry Gilbert and they will work it out as it seems to work out for them. This makes a lot of sense, although they've never read together before, they're both published by the same publishing house, and published in the same magazines and know each other as they used to say in the old days in the ivy league by reputation. Gerry Gilbert is, as a lot of people we've had this year, is from the West Coast and has been involved for quite a while with an outfit in the coast that gobbles up your tax money called Intermedia , that's why the screen is there, something might happen there occasionally. Gerry was at one time the editor of a seminal West Coast publishing venture called Radio Free Rain Forest, and is the author of a series of books and things that are like books, as for instance, White Lunch which came out several years ago in Vancouver and Telephone Book which is published by Coach House Press, I think, no, Weed/Flower, sorry. David's also been published by Weed/Flower and the Coach House Press, and his forthcoming book is the second volume of the Big/Little Book novel, called The Great Canadian Sonnet with illustrations by a little-known London artist named Greg Curnoe . His next book is going to be called Poems Worth Knowing, a title that anyone from Ontario or British Columbia will know. What we're going to do is they're going to operate for a little while, and then when they feel the need for a break there will be a short intermission, like about ten minutes, then we'll proceed again with what, as they say, the second set. So I'm not going to be able to say that somebody's reading first and somebody's reading second but what I will be able to say is that the readers will be David McFadden and Gerry Gilbert. Unknown 00:02:39 [Cut or edit made in tape. Unknown amount of time elapsed]. David McFadden 00:02:40 Reads unnamed poem. Unknown 00:06:02 [Cut or edit made in tape. Unknown amount of time elapsed]. Gerry Gilbert 00:06:03 Reads "Her white face where I have seen Her ride the last bus, before" [from Money]. Gerry Gilbert 00:07:14 Reads "A moving picture moves, it's the truth about movies" [from Money]. David McFadden 00:07:33 Reads unnamed poem. Gerry Gilbert 00:08:20 Reads "I REMEMBER TOOTSIE ROLLS when they were only in American comic books" [from Money]. David McFadden 00:09:46 Reads [“The Slippery Wig” published later in Intense Pleasure and collected in Why Are You So Sad?]. Gerry Gilbert 00:10:38 Reads "London 1964" [from Money] David McFadden 00:12:28 Reads unnamed poem. Gerry Gilbert 00:13:37 Reads "waitress calls the man in the corner, HARRY” [from Money]. David McFadden 00:14:30 Reads unnamed poem. Gerry Gilbert 00:14:53 Reads "the pleasure. I said” [from Money]. David McFadden 00:16:14 Reads [“Titles I Have Heard Of But Not Read” published later in Intense Pleasure and collected in Why Are You So Sad?]. Gerry Gilbert 00:18:26 Reads ["Single Mens Unit" from Money]. David McFadden 00:19:05 Reads unnamed poem. David McFadden 00:21:03 Reads unnamed poem. Gerry Gilbert 00:23:13 Reads "Goodness and mercy are following me across the lake" [from Money]. Gerry Gilbert 00:24:10 Reads "Bicycle" [from Money]. Gerry Gilbert 00:24:55 Reads "on the bed” [from Money]. David McFadden 00:25:32 Reads unnamed poem. David McFadden 00:26:05 Reads unnamed poem. David McFadden 00:26:18 Reads unnamed poem. Gerry Gilbert 00:26:49 Reads unnamed poem. Gerry Gilbert 00:28:03 Reads "bone ring on my finger" [from Money]. David McFadden 00:28:34 Reads unnamed poem. David McFadden 00:31:05 Reads unnamed poem. Gerry Gilbert 00:32:10 We're reading Canadian history. A few of the poems from Phone Book. Gerry Gilbert 00:32:28 Reads untitled poem from Phone Book. Gerry Gilbert 00:33:05 Reads untitled poem from Phone Book. Gerry Gilbert 00:33:42 Reads untitled poem from Phone Book. Gerry Gilbert 00:34:31 Reads untitled poem from Phone Book. Gerry Gilbert 00:35:25 Reads untitled poem from Phone Book. Gerry Gilbert 00:36:37 Reads untitled poem from Phone Book. Gerry Gilbert 00:36:58 Reads untitled poem from Phone Book. Gerry Gilbert 00:37:29 This poem's called "Garden". Gerry Gilbert 00:37:35 Reads "Garden" [from Money]. David McFadden 00:38:38 Reads [“Journey To Love” published later in Poems Worth Knowing]. David McFadden 00:39:21 Reads [“A Poem Without A Title Is Like A Letter Without A Stamp” published later in Poems Worth Knowing]. Gerry Gilbert 00:39:50 Reads "find your birds" [from Money]. David McFadden 00:41:32 Reads [“Art’s Variety” published later in Poems Worth Knowing]. Gerry Gilbert 00:42:04 Reads "sometimes I miss" [from Money]. David McFadden 00:42:18 Reads [“Another Revolution” published later in Poems Worth Knowing]. David McFadden 00:42:57 Reads [“Chapter One” from The Great Canadian Sonnet]. Gerry Gilbert 00:47:06 Did I hear you say 'boiled skunks'? This is a little tale. Gerry Gilbert 00:49:24 Reads unnamed poem. Gerry Gilbert 00:49:45 Reads unnamed poem. Gerry Gilbert 00:51:42 Reads unnamed poem. David McFadden 00:53:02 Reads "Vital Statistics: Distances from Hamilton To..." [from The Great Canadian Sonnet]. Gerry Gilbert 00:54:52 Reads unnamed poem. David McFadden 00:54:52 Reads unnamed poem. David McFadden 00:55:52 Reads unnamed poem [audience laughter throughout]. Gerry Gilbert 00:56:52 Reads [“SQUEEZE THRU THE TUBE” from And]. Gerry Gilbert 00:57:08 Reads [“24.11.70. TORONTO” from And]. Gerry Gilbert 00:57:59 The following is a Rochdale College council meeting. 23rd of November, 1970. Gerry Gilbert 00:58:08 Reads [“ROCHDALE COUNCIL MEETING 23.11.70” and other untitled sections from And]. David McFadden 01:01:24 Reads unnamed poem. David McFadden 01:01:39 Reads unnamed poem. Unknown 01:09:59 [Cut or edit made in tape. Unknown amount of time elapsed]. Gerry Gilbert 01:10:01 Reads [“QUIET” from And]. Gerry Gilbert 01:10:28 Reads untitled poem [from And]. Gerry Gilbert 01:10:41 Reads [“THE WEST IS ALONE SEA” from And]. Gerry Gilbert 01:10:57 Reads “TICKET” [from And]. Gerry Gilbert 01:11:33 Reads [“2.1.71” from And]. Gerry Gilbert 01:12:44 Reads [“49th week 1970” from And]. Gerry Gilbert 01:12:49 Reads “FRIED EGG SANDWICH ON BROWN” [from And]. David McFadden 01:13:54 Reads unnamed poem. Gerry Gilbert 01:23:26 Reads [first section of “Babyland Blues” from Money]. Gerry Gilbert 01:27:05 Reads unnamed poem. Gerry Gilbert 01:27:52 Reads [section of “Babybland Blues from Money]. Gerry Gilbert 01:28:44 Reads unnamed poem. Gerry Gilbert 01:29:04 Reads [final section of “Babyland Blues from Money]. END 01:29:19

Notes:

NOTES

Type:

General

Note:

Year-Specific Information: In 1971, at the time of the reading, David McFadden was a reporter for the Hamilton Spectator, and his collection of poems, Poems Worth Knowing was to be published the same year. His novel, The Great Canadian Sonnet was published the year before, in 1970. In 1971, Gerry Gilbert published And a place in mind... (Hesheitworks, 1971), Apr. 35, 1978 (Hesheitworks, 1971), And (Blewointmentpress, 1971), Money (York Street Commune, 1971), and Lease (Coach House Press, 1971).

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General

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Local Connections: McFadden was heavily invested in Canadian writing, and lived his whole life in Ontario and British Columbia. He had connections with George Bowering, as Bowering published an interview with McFadden in 1971. McFadden and Bowering had met while Bowering was at the University of Western Ontario, between 1966 and 1967. Gerry Gilbert was an important avant-garde poet and publisher in Vancouver in the 60’s through to today. His press, Blewointmentpress published poetry by other Canadian poets such as Maxine Gadd, bill bissett and bp Nichol. His direct connections to Sir George Williams University are unknown, however George Bowering or Roy Kiyooka might have known Gilbert from the Vancouver scene.

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Original transcript, research, introduction and edits by Celyn Harding-Jones Additional research and edits by Ali Barillaro

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Preservation

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Reel-to-reel tape>2 CDs>digital file

RELATED WORKS

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Bowering, George, ed. The Contemporary Canadian Poem Anthology. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1984

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https://www.worldcat.org/title/contemporary-canadian-poem-anthology/oclc/476332314&referer=brief_results

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Berry, Reg. "McFadden, David". The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English. Ian Hamilton. Oxford University Press, 1996.

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https://www.worldcat.org/title/oxford-companion-to-twentieth-century-poetry-in-english/oclc/1229534811&referer=brief_results

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Davey, Frank. "McFadden, David", The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature. Eugene Benson and William Toye. Oxford University Press 2001.

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https://www.worldcat.org/title/oxford-companion-to-canadian-literature/oclc/858858596&referer=brief_results

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Davey, Frank. “Gerry Gilbert”. From There to Here: A Guide to English-Canadian Literature Since 1960, Our Nature-Our Voices II. Erin, Ontario: Press Porcepic, 1974.

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https://www.worldcat.org/title/from-there-to-here-a-guide-to-english-canadian-literature-since-1960-ii-our-nature-our-voices/oclc/878901819&referer=brief_results

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Davey, Frank. “David McFadden”. From There to Here: A Guide to English-Canadian Literature Since 1960, Our Nature-Our Voices II. Erin, Ontario: Press Porcepic, 1974.

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https://www.worldcat.org/title/from-there-to-here-a-guide-to-english-canadian-literature-since-1960-ii-our-nature-our-voices/oclc/878901819&referer=brief_results

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Gilbert, Gerry. Money. Vancouver: York Street Commune Press, 1971.

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https://www.worldcat.org/title/money/oclc/427223207&referer=brief_results

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Gilbert, Gerry. Phone Book. Toronto: Weed/Flower Press, 1969.

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https://www.worldcat.org/title/phone-book/oclc/92241&referer=brief_results

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Gilbert, Gerry. White Lunch, Poems. Vancouver: Periwinkle Press, 1964.