CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
5833
Partner Institution:
Simon Fraser University
Source Collection Label:
Reading in BC Collection
Sub Series:
Reading in BC Collection
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
Robert Kroetsch Open Interview with George Bowering, Fred Wah, and Roy Miki at SFU on July 10, 1986 Tape 2 of 2 #575
Title Source:
cassette and j-card
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Genre:
Interview
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)
CREATORS
Name:
Kroetsch, Robert
Dates:
1927-2011
Role:
"Interviewer"
Name:
Bowering, George
Dates:
1935-
Role:
"Speaker"
Name:
Wah, Fred
Dates:
1939-
Role:
"Speaker"
Name:
Miki, Roy
Dates:
1942-
Role:
"Speaker"
CONTRIBUTORS
MATERIAL DESCRIPTION
Image:
Recording Type:
Analogue
AV Type:
Audio
Material Designation:
Cassette
Physical Composition:
Magnetic Tape
Extent:
1/8 inch
Track Configuration:
2 track
Playback Mode:
Stereo
Sound Quality:
Good
Physical Condition:
Very Good
Other Physical Description:
Black and white clear jewel case with J-card
DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:31:31
Size:
32.8 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:31:32
Size:
32.8 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Dates
Date:
1986-07-10
Type:
Performance Date
Source:
J-card
LOCATION
Address:
8888 University Dr, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6
Venue:
Simon Fraser University
Latitude:
49.2767
Longitude:
-122.9178
CONTENT
Contents:
Side Track No. Comments
One 000 Kroetsch discusses Ondaatje’s poem Billy the Kid. The notion of borrowed material as an evasion of “here”
029 Bowering talks about Ondaatje’s early British influence and the development away from that, in long poems such as “Tin Roof”
068 Kroetsch talks about Phyllis Webb’s “Naked Poems”
099 Kroetsch discusses unusual poetic Forms such as folding [bocks]*, poster poems, and stained glass windows
125 Involvement in the physical production of the poem as part of the poetic process
190 Kroetsch discusses his early life as a writer
248 The arbitrary systems of numbers and the mathematics of a poem
307 [Ray]** Miki asks about the idea of “process poetry”
391 End of side one
Two 000 The nation of “middles” in the long poem as opposed to an insistence on endings
021 Bowering talks about Louis Sullivan’s notion of architecture in which beauty is equal to perfect economy, and how this concept carried into modernism
056 “notion of origins has been turned upside down” A poetry of quotation announces the abundance of beginnings
077 American long poem as epic. In Canada long poem is simply long, Miki says, and remains undefined
122 Canadian scholarship and the problem of genre
145 Uncertain origins in both Field Notes and The Martyrology
174 Long poem as a mode of discourse, away of dealing with complexities of thought
221 Yeats’ developmental form
250 Accumulative function of the long poem
294 Fred Wah says the long poem and the prose poem are needed to explore a mode of writing which is not lyric
350 End of discussion
Notes:
SFU BC Readings formatting
NOTES
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