CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
1305
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 Bromige at Sir George Williams University, The Poetry Series, 6 November 1970
Title Source:
Cataloguer
Title Note:
"DAVID BROMIGE recorded November 6, 1970 3.75 ips, on 1. mil tape 1/2 track" written on sticker on the back of the tape box."RT 550" written on sticker on the front of the tape box. "DAVID BROMIGE I086-11-007" written on the spine of the tape box. "DAVID BROMIGE" and "RT 550" also written on stickers on the reel.
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Genre:
Reading: Poetry
Identifiers:
[]
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CREATORS
Name:
Bromige, David
Dates:
1933-2009
Role:
"Author",
"Performer"
Notes:
David Bromige was born in London, England, on October 22, 1933. He spent most of his childhood in England, surviving the German blitzkrieg during World War II. Bromige then left for Canada, to pursue an undergraduate degree in English from the University of British Columbia. There he met George Bowering and the Tish group of poets, and worked as an editor for the UBC newspaper. In 1962, he graduated and was offered a scholarship to complete his Master’s Degree from the University of California at Berkeley. He completed both his M.A. (1964) and his Ph.D. (1970), when he began teaching at the Sonoma State University in 1970, a position he held until his retirement 23 years later. His first publication was The Gathering (Sumbooks, 1965), which was followed by The Ends of the Earth (Black Sparrow Press, 1968), Please, Like Me (Black Sparrow Press, 1968) and Threads (Black Sparrow Press, 1971). Bromige was involved in the San Francisco poetry renaissance of the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. He then published Birds of the West (Coach House Press, 1973), Ten Years in the Making: Selected Poems, Songs & Stories, 1961-1970 (Vancouver Community Press, 1973), Three Stories (Black Sparrow Press, 1973), Out of my Hands (Black Sparrow Press, 1974) and Tight Corners & What’s Around Them: Prose & Poems (Black Sparrow Press, 1974). Bromige has published over forty volumes of prose and poetry, including Living in Advance (Open Ready Press, 1976), My Poetry (The Figures press, 1980), Desire: Selected Poems 1963-1987 (Black Sparrow Press, 1988) which won a Western States Arts Federation award, Piccolo Mondo (Coach House Press Books, 1998) with Angela and George Bowering and Michael Matthews, As in T, As in Tether (Chax Press, 2002), Ten Poems from Clearings in the Throat (dPress, 2005) and his last collection, with Richard Denner, Spade (dPress, 2006). Bromige’s many honours include a Pushcart Prize, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and two awards from the Poetry Foundation. David Bromige died on June 3, 2009 at the age of 75.
CONTRIBUTORS
MATERIAL DESCRIPTION
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
Duration:
00:52:18
Size:
125.7 MB
Content:
David Bromige
00:00:00
...the new book, Threads, that hasn't been published yet, and then I'm going to read some poems from the book The Ends of the Earth, that came out a couple of years ago. Add a few new poems. It's a book with poems that are not, some poems that are not, in any sense in theory, or are less important than others, but it moves from one tangle of threads to the next, so it moves in various stages or groups, but I'll read at least one poem from each group, so I think that'll make a story. This is the first poem in the book, and this is the presentation that decided me on the book. What the book, in a way, pushes against.
David Bromige
00:01:02
Reads "In His Image" [published later in Threads].
David Bromige
00:02:01
Reads "After the Engraving" [published later in Threads].
David Bromige
00:03:07
And I got this take, this poem was printed in a magazine that George Bowering
edits, Imago, Number 13, I think.
David Bromige
00:03:21
Reads "First Love" [published later in Threads].
David Bromige
00:07:08
See, what I was working there was both the delightful self-indulgence of being able to tell that story over to myself after so many years, but, what I had coming out in the poem before, the one about the light elves who danced the dark elves out into the light in order to petrify them, as an Anglo-Saxon, Teutonic conception, which has a lot to do with our idea of what a poem is or what a work of art is. And so then I had this matter of the one you love coming to you and enabling you to be both light and dark elf to yourself, so that the two of you...whose particular form had never been, without her, it was that cultural attachment to particular forms, also, that I was hoping to tell the story, part of the story of, again, there. Okay, here's “Psychoanalysis”.
David Bromige
00:08:23
Reads “Psychoanalysis” [published later in Threads].
David Bromige
00:08:32
Reads "You Too" [published later in Threads].
David Bromige
00:08:52
Reads "Why I Went There" [published later in Threads].
David Bromige
00:10:54
Reads "I Can't Read, & Here's a Book" [published later in Threads].
David Bromige
00:12:27
And so, yeah, and then that shifts into this prose piece, "They Want".
David Bromige
00:12:33
Reads "They Want" [published later in Threads].
David Bromige
00:14:11
This one came out of the same meeting.
David Bromige
00:14:14
Reads "I can See" [published later in Threads].
David Bromige
00:14:31
Reads "Only Fair" [published later in Threads].
David Bromige
00:14:59
Reads "Example” [published later in Threads].
David Bromige
00:15:11
Yeah, this would seem to be very useful here. "Choosing the Event". This came out of the troubles, the people's park troubles in Berkeley
. Whenever it was, I can't remember now, the year before last, I guess.
David Bromige
00:15:34
Reads "Choosing the Event" [published later in Threads].
David Bromige
00:17:18
Reads "Logical Conclusions" [published later in Threads].
David Bromige
00:17:47
I still don't know who it was. I figure if I keep reading it, sooner or later someone's going to break. But it's not very likely here. "An Invention".
David Bromige
00:18:07
Reads "An Invention" [published later in Threads].
David Bromige
00:18:49
Reads "Fond" [published later in Threads].
David Bromige
00:19:45
Reads "So" [published later in Threads].
David Bromige
00:22:19
And so I want to read a poem from my first book. It was written in Vancouver
, of Vancouver. Well, I'm not a...particular landscapes don't often come into my poetry but here all kinds of images came in, from Hampstead Heath
, near where I spent my childhood, and also of Vancouver, and this poem also was published in TISH
, a publication from those Vancouver days.
David Bromige
00:22:52
Reads "We Could Get a Drink" from The Gathering.
David Bromige
00:24:57
I'll read a few poems now from the book between--that was from a book called The Gathering. This is from The Ends of the Earth. And these, in their literal presence, these woods were the woods behind Deep Cove
, where I was living in 1964, just up from Vancouver.
David Bromige
00:25:24
Reads "In Deep Woods" from The Ends of the Earth.
David Bromige
00:26:17
This goes back to back with that, I guess.
David Bromige
00:26:20
Reads "Just Think" [from The Ends of the Earth].
David Bromige
00:26:57
Reads "A Defect" [from The Ends of the Earth].
David Bromige
00:27:32
Reads "Taking Heart" [from The Ends of the Earth].
David Bromige
00:28:11
Reads "The Faster" [from The Ends of the Earth].
David Bromige
00:28:45
Reads "Why Not" [from The Ends of the Earth].
David Bromige
00:29:25
Reads "A Call" [from The Ends of the Earth].
David Bromige
00:30:35
This is a...it's my own attempt to write a fairy story. And I just let come into it all the elements that I knew from various fairy stories, narrative tricks and devices and so forth, and tried to have my fun from them, but I didn't get away with it. They took me, even though I held off, as well as I could.
David Bromige
00:31:03
Reads "A Final Mission" [from The Ends of the Earth].
Audience
00:38:04
Applause.
David Bromige
00:38:11
That's the closest, I guess, to a political poem I've ever written. [Audience laughter]. So I want a bit to break that mood, because I can't do anything more with that mood.
David Bromige
00:38:23
Reads "A Kind Numbness" [from The Ends of the Earth].
David Bromige
00:39:19
I like that very much, that notion of the bargain by which we civilized beings live, it comes through for me very strongly there, but also, I mean when the sun gets up the flies get up, but also that you can focus on one or the other. Let's see how I'm doing for time. Okay, I'll read...I sent the manuscript of Threads off to the publisher about two months ago, and these are the poems I've written since then.
David Bromige
00:40:06
Reads "Dear Night".
David Bromige
00:42:29
Reads "The Spell" [published later in Ten Years in the Making: selected poems, songs & stories 1961-1970].
David Bromige
00:44:46
Reads "Tom Thumb: A Relation on a Measure".
David Bromige
00:48:23
Reads "A Rime" [published later in Ten Years in the Making: selected poems, songs & stories 1961-1970].
Unknown
00:48:26
[Cut or edit made in tape; poem title is repeated].
David Bromige
00:50:26
Reads "From my Mother".
END
00:52:18
Notes:
David Bromige reads from The Gathering (Sunbooks, 1965) and The Ends of the Earth (Black Sparrow Press, 1968), as well as poems published soon after in Threads (Black Sparrow Press, 1971), and later in Ten Years in the Making: selected poems, songs & stories 1961-1970 (Vancouver Community Press, 1973).
00:00- Recording starts mid-sentence, David Bromige introduces reading and “In His Image”. [INDEX: Threads, The Ends of the Earth, new poems, reading as a story, first poem in the book, presentation; from Threads (Black Sparrow Press, 1971).]
01:02- Reads “In His Image”. [INDEX: death, grave, sight, sky, camera, eye, voice, water]
02:01- Reads “After the Engraving, for Tom Clark. [INDEX: chisel, love, evil, luck, fortune, sculpture, craft, amulet, sky, stone; from Threads (Black Sparrow Press, 1971).]
03:07- Introduces “First Love”. [INDEX: printed in George Bowering’s Imago number 13; from Threads (Black Sparrow Press, 1971).]
03:21- Reads “First Love”. [INDEX: couple, unity, work, city, anger, fortune, north, village, love, joy, grandparents, wave, sea, sex, music, dance, boat, Chicago, parting, loss, kiss.]
07:08- Explains “First Love”, introduces “Psychoanalysis”. [INDEX: self-indulgence, telling story, light elves, dark elves, Anglo-Saxon, Teutonic, idea of what a poem or work of art is, love, cultural attachment to particular forms, psychoanalysis; from Threads (Black Sparrow Press, 1971).]
08:23- Reads “Psychoanalysis”. [INDEX: sex, word, psychoanalysis, memory.]
08:32- Reads “You Too”. [INDEX: orders, will, uniform; from Threads (Black Sparrow Press, 1971).]
08:52- Reads “Why I Went There”. [INDEX: knowledge, travel, audience, memory, Barry, editor, party, night, meeting, love, son, job, resentment, heavy, alone, nightmare; from Threads (Black Sparrow Press, 1971)]
10:54- Reads “I Can’t Read & Here’s a Book” [INDEX: boy, son, book, reading, Hans Christian Anderson, fairy tale, alone, solitude, brain; from Threads (Black Sparrow Press, 1971).]
12:27- Introduces “They Want”. [INDEX:prose piece; from Threads (Black Sparrow Press, 1971).]
12:33- Reads “They Want” [INDEX: identity, student, faculty, meeting, form, evaluation, pain, necessity, structure, rhyme.]
14:11- Introduces “I Can See”. [INDEX: poem from same meeting as “They Want”; from Threads (Black Sparrow Press, 1971)]
14:14- Reads “I Can See”. [INDEX: argument, meeting, intelligence]
14:31- Reads “Only Fair”. [INDEX: money, justice, banana; from Threads (Black Sparrow Press, 1971)]
14:59- Reads “Example”. [INDEX: competition; from Threads (Black Sparrow Press, 1971).]
15:11- Introduces “Choosing the Event”. [INDEX: people’s ‘park troubles’ in Berkeley; from Threads (Black Sparrow Press, 1971).]
15:34- Reads “Choosing the Event”. [INDEX: loss, luck, D-Day, suffering, forgetting, memory, feeling, interpreter, speaking, freedom, San Fernando, death.]
17:18- Reads “Logical Conclusions”. [INDEX: friend, meeting, couple, door, welcome, trust; from Threads (Black Sparrow Press, 1971)]
17:47- Explains “Logical Conclusions”. [INDEX: figuring out who the subject of the poem is.]
18:07- Reads “An Invention”. [INDEX: moon, zodiac, Virgo, date, birth, fate, accident, determination, dread, sign; from Threads (Black Sparrow Press, 1971)]
18:49- Reads “Fond”. [INDEX: love, failure, couple, sleep, night, kitchen, house; from Threads (Black Sparrow Press, 1971)]
19:45- Reads “So”. [INDEX: animal, kitten, eye, sight, vowel, consonant, language, word, loss, mistake, voice, iamb, writing, happiness, lust, joy, death, misery, resentment, cat; from Threads (Black Sparrow Press, 1971).]
22:19- Introduces “We Could Get a Drink”. [INDEX: first book, written in Vancouver, about Vancouver, Hampstead Heath, childhood, published in Tish from; The Gathering (Sunbooks, 1965).]
22:52- Reads “We Could Get a Drink”. [INDEX: sun, memory, remembrance, Hampstead Heath, morning, tree, couple, love, Vancouver, place, shadow, camera, girl, starve, news, soldier, bomb, birch, drink.]
24: 57- Introduces “In Deep Woods”. [INDEX: previous poems from The Gathering, latter poems from The Ends of the Earth, literal presence, Deep Cove, 1964, living in Vancouver; from The Ends of the Earth (Black Sparrow Press, 1968).]
25:24- Reads “In Deep Woods”. [INDEX: place, Vancouver, Deep Cove, fish, salmon, bear, house, forest, animal.]
26:17- Introduces “Just Think”. [INDEX: from The Ends of the Earth (Black Sparrow Press, 1968).]
26:20- Reads “Just Think”. [INDEX: reality, hypothesis, family, children, theatre]
26:57- Reads "A Defect". [INDEX: doctor, defect, body, boy, meaning; from The Ends of the Earth (Black Sparrow Press, 1968)]
27:32- Reads "Taking Heart" [INDEX: mouth, trust, doubt, body, ocean, love, couple, loss, lake, river; from The Ends of the Earth (Black Sparrow Press, 1968)]
28:11- Reads "The Faster" [INDEX: night, time, play, statue, studio, representation; from The Ends of the Earth (Black Sparrow Press, 1968).]
28:45- Reads "Why Not" [INDEX: hypothetical, clothes, reflection, wind, dawn, window, sky, sun; from The Ends of the Earth (Black Sparrow Press, 1968)]
29:25- Reads “A Call”. [INDEX: city, door, solitude, alone, street, sleep, room, silence, sight, mouth; from The Ends of the Earth (Black Sparrow Press, 1968)]
30:35- Introduces “A Final Mission”. [INDEX: fairy story, elements of fairy stories, narrative tricks and devices, fun; from The Ends of the Earth (Black Sparrow Press, 1968).]
31:03- Reads “A Final Mission”. [INDEX: forest, place, fairy tale, wood, ownership, travel, friend, story, woman, naked, home, tree, listening, master, flower, nature, bridge, water, music, heart, sleep, dream, couple, semen, sex, flight, sight, body, star.]
38:11- Talks about mood of the reading. [INDEX: political poem, mood of reading and poems.]
38:23- Reads “A Kind Numbness”. [INDEX: morning, sleep, cold, animal, horse, skin, fly, sun; from The Ends of the Earth (Black Sparrow Press, 1968).]
39:19- Explains “A Kind Numbness”, introduces new poems. [INDEX: bargain, civilization, sun, flies, manuscript of Threads sent off two months previous, poems written since then.]
40:06- Reads “Dear Night”. [INDEX: night, window, reflection, village, story, alone, woman, city, body, perception, praise, fate, figure of speech, language, absence, lover, love, blindness, shame, drinking, song; unknown source.]
42:29- Reads “The Spell”. [INDEX: dark, danger, light, beauty, safety, pun, antonym, city, man, time, story, stone, word, gem, light; published later in Ten Years in the Making: selected poems, songs & stories 1961-1970 (Vancouver Community Press, 1973).]
44:46- Reads “Tom Thumb: a Relation on a Measure”. [INDEX: fairy tale, Tom Thumb, size, invisible, sight, child, soul, unique, island, Scotland, friend, betrayal, measure, memory, remembrance, house; unknown source.]
48: 23- Reads “A Rime”. [INDEX: nature, animal, bird, Great Horned Owl, sound, sight, night, book, knowledge, voice, morning, silence, house, fire, cold; published later in Ten Years in the Making: selected poems, songs & stories 1961-1970 (Vancouver Community Press, 1973)]
48:26- Cut/Edit in tape; Bromige reading poem's title is repeated.
50:26- Reads “From My Mother”. [INDEX: youth, mother, child, travel, father, home, wife, town, Pacific, Montreal, plane, meadow, St. Albans, education, woman, death; unknown source.]
52:18.07- RECORDING ENDS.
Title:
Source:
Date: Recorded November 6, 1970
1. In His Image
2. After the Engraving: For Tom Clark
3. First Love
4. Psychoanalysis
5. You Too
6. Why I Went There
7. I Can’t Read and Here’s A Book
8. They Want
9. I Can See
10. Only Fair
11. Example
12. Choosing the Event
13. Logical Conclusions
14. An Invention
15. Fond
16. So
17. We Could Get A Drink
18. In Deep Woods
19. Just Think
20. A Defect
21. Taking Heart
22. The Faster
23. Why Not?
24. The Call
25. A Final Mission
26. A Kind Numbness
27. Dear Night
28. The Spell
29. Tom Thumb
30. A Rhyme
31. From My Mother
Content Type:
Sound Recording
Featured:
Yes
Title:
David Bromige Tape Box - Back
Credit:
Drew Bernet
Content Type:
Photograph
Title:
David Bromige Tape Box - Front
Credit:
Drew Bernet
Content Type:
Photograph
Title:
David Bromige Tape Box - Spine
Credit:
Drew Bernet
Content Type:
Photograph
Title:
David Bromige Tape Box - Reel
Credit:
Drew Bernet
Content Type:
Photograph
Dates
Date:
1970 11 6
Type:
Performance Date
Source:
Accompanying Material
Notes:
Date referenced on the tape box. A. newspaper announcement mentioned Bromige was intended to read with Daphne Marlatt on November 13, but no other supporting evidence has been found at this time.
LOCATION
Address:
1455, Boul de Maisonneuve Ouest, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Venue:
Hall Building
Latitude:
45.4972758
Longitude:
-73.57893043
Notes:
Exact venue location unknown
CONTENT
Contents:
david_bromige_i086-11-007.mp3
David Bromige
00:00:00
...the new book, Threads, that hasn't been published yet, and then I'm going to read some poems from the book The Ends of the Earth, that came out a couple of years ago. Add a few new poems. It's a book with poems that are not, some poems that are not, in any sense in theory, or are less important than others, but it moves from one tangle of threads to the next, so it moves in various stages or groups, but I'll read at least one poem from each group, so I think that'll make a story. This is the first poem in the book, and this is the presentation that decided me on the book. What the book, in a way, pushes against.
David Bromige
00:01:02
Reads "In His Image" [published later in Threads].
David Bromige
00:02:01
Reads "After the Engraving" [published later in Threads].
David Bromige
00:03:07
And I got this take, this poem was printed in a magazine that George Bowering
edits, Imago, Number 13, I think.
David Bromige
00:03:21
Reads "First Love" [published later in Threads].
David Bromige
00:07:08
See, what I was working there was both the delightful self-indulgence of being able to tell that story over to myself after so many years, but, what I had coming out in the poem before, the one about the light elves who danced the dark elves out into the light in order to petrify them, as an Anglo-Saxon, Teutonic conception, which has a lot to do with our idea of what a poem is or what a work of art is. And so then I had this matter of the one you love coming to you and enabling you to be both light and dark elf to yourself, so that the two of you...whose particular form had never been, without her, it was that cultural attachment to particular forms, also, that I was hoping to tell the story, part of the story of, again, there. Okay, here's “Psychoanalysis”.
David Bromige
00:08:23
Reads “Psychoanalysis” [published later in Threads].
David Bromige
00:08:32
Reads "You Too" [published later in Threads].
David Bromige
00:08:52
Reads "Why I Went There" [published later in Threads].
David Bromige
00:10:54
Reads "I Can't Read, & Here's a Book" [published later in Threads].
David Bromige
00:12:27
And so, yeah, and then that shifts into this prose piece, "They Want".
David Bromige
00:12:33
Reads "They Want" [published later in Threads].
David Bromige
00:14:11
This one came out of the same meeting.
David Bromige
00:14:14
Reads "I can See" [published later in Threads].
David Bromige
00:14:31
Reads "Only Fair" [published later in Threads].
David Bromige
00:14:59
Reads "Example” [published later in Threads].
David Bromige
00:15:11
Yeah, this would seem to be very useful here. "Choosing the Event". This came out of the troubles, the people's park troubles in Berkeley
. Whenever it was, I can't remember now, the year before last, I guess.
David Bromige
00:15:34
Reads "Choosing the Event" [published later in Threads].
David Bromige
00:17:18
Reads "Logical Conclusions" [published later in Threads].
David Bromige
00:17:47
I still don't know who it was. I figure if I keep reading it, sooner or later someone's going to break. But it's not very likely here. "An Invention".
David Bromige
00:18:07
Reads "An Invention" [published later in Threads].
David Bromige
00:18:49
Reads "Fond" [published later in Threads].
David Bromige
00:19:45
Reads "So" [published later in Threads].
David Bromige
00:22:19
And so I want to read a poem from my first book. It was written in Vancouver
, of Vancouver. Well, I'm not a...particular landscapes don't often come into my poetry but here all kinds of images came in, from Hampstead Heath
, near where I spent my childhood, and also of Vancouver, and this poem also was published in TISH
, a publication from those Vancouver days.
David Bromige
00:22:52
Reads "We Could Get a Drink" from The Gathering.
David Bromige
00:24:57
I'll read a few poems now from the book between--that was from a book called The Gathering. This is from The Ends of the Earth. And these, in their literal presence, these woods were the woods behind Deep Cove
, where I was living in 1964, just up from Vancouver.
David Bromige
00:25:24
Reads "In Deep Woods" from The Ends of the Earth.
David Bromige
00:26:17
This goes back to back with that, I guess.
David Bromige
00:26:20
Reads "Just Think" [from The Ends of the Earth].
David Bromige
00:26:57
Reads "A Defect" [from The Ends of the Earth].
David Bromige
00:27:32
Reads "Taking Heart" [from The Ends of the Earth].
David Bromige
00:28:11
Reads "The Faster" [from The Ends of the Earth].
David Bromige
00:28:45
Reads "Why Not" [from The Ends of the Earth].
David Bromige
00:29:25
Reads "A Call" [from The Ends of the Earth].
David Bromige
00:30:35
This is a...it's my own attempt to write a fairy story. And I just let come into it all the elements that I knew from various fairy stories, narrative tricks and devices and so forth, and tried to have my fun from them, but I didn't get away with it. They took me, even though I held off, as well as I could.
David Bromige
00:31:03
Reads "A Final Mission" [from The Ends of the Earth].
Audience
00:38:04
Applause.
David Bromige
00:38:11
That's the closest, I guess, to a political poem I've ever written. [Audience laughter]. So I want a bit to break that mood, because I can't do anything more with that mood.
David Bromige
00:38:23
Reads "A Kind Numbness" [from The Ends of the Earth].
David Bromige
00:39:19
I like that very much, that notion of the bargain by which we civilized beings live, it comes through for me very strongly there, but also, I mean when the sun gets up the flies get up, but also that you can focus on one or the other. Let's see how I'm doing for time. Okay, I'll read...I sent the manuscript of Threads off to the publisher about two months ago, and these are the poems I've written since then.
David Bromige
00:40:06
Reads "Dear Night".
David Bromige
00:42:29
Reads "The Spell" [published later in Ten Years in the Making: selected poems, songs & stories 1961-1970].
David Bromige
00:44:46
Reads "Tom Thumb: A Relation on a Measure".
David Bromige
00:48:23
Reads "A Rime" [published later in Ten Years in the Making: selected poems, songs & stories 1961-1970].
Unknown
00:48:26
[Cut or edit made in tape; poem title is repeated].
David Bromige
00:50:26
Reads "From my Mother".
END
00:52:18
Notes:
David Bromige reads from The Gathering (Sunbooks, 1965) and The Ends of the Earth (Black Sparrow Press, 1968), as well as poems published soon after in Threads (Black Sparrow Press, 1971), and later in Ten Years in the Making: selected poems, songs & stories 1961-1970 (Vancouver Community Press, 1973).
NOTES
Type:
General
Note:
Year-Specific Information:
In 1970, Bromige completed his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, and began teaching at Sonoma State University the same year. He was working on his book Threads which was published in 1971.
Type:
General
Note:
Local Connections:
David Bromige completed an undergraduate degree at the University of British Columbia, where he met George Bowering (a Reading Series Committee member).
Type:
Cataloguer
Note:
Original transcript by Rachel Kyne
Original print catalogue, research, introduction and edits by Celyn Harding-Jones
Additional research and edits by Ali Barillaro
Type:
Preservation
Note:
Reel-to-reel tape>CD>digital file
RELATED WORKS
Citation:
Bowering, George. “Stories”. Comment made on the Remembering David website. Posted June 3, 2009.
Citation:
Bromige, David. The Gathering. Buffalo: Sunbooks, 1965.
Citation:
Bromige, David. Threads. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1971.
Citation:
Bromige, David. The Ends of the Earth. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968.
Citation:
Bromige David. Ten Years in the Making: selected poems, songs & stories 1961-1970. Vancouver: Community Press, 1973.
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