CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
5912
Partner Institution:
Simon Fraser University
Source Collection Label:
Reading in BC Collection
Sub Series:
Reading in BC Collection
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
Gerry Gilbert reading at the College of New Caledonia, 1973 #222
Title Source:
J-card and inventory
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Genre:
Reading: Poetry
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)
CREATORS
Name:
Gilbert, Gerry
Dates:
1936-2009
Role:
"Reader"
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
Generations:
Second generation from Reel-to-Reel
Sound Quality:
Poor
Physical Condition:
Excellent
Other:
J-card
DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T01:12:35
Size:
73.3 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:46:22
Size:
46.8 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Dates
Date:
1973
Type:
Production Date
Source:
Inventory
LOCATION
Address:
Imperial Parking, 3330 22 Ave, Prince George, BC V2N 1P8
Venue:
The College of New Caledonia
Latitude:
53.90687
Longitude:
-122.78621
CONTENT
Contents:
Side Track No. Comments
One 000 Reads “Shares”
137 “These poems were written after the death of my grandmother”
140 “She can wish you away…”
142 “Breathing stopped last night/peace…”
147 “Gulls on the water…”
154 “I really think that the era of tape recorders and cameras and snap shot albums is equivalent to the era of sonnets… or of popular verse forms…”
175 “These two poems were just done as (?) people told me…”
177 “Is nothing sacred? Feel this…”
183 “In Rupert in 1943...”
185 “How to get a salmon out of a gill net…”
190 “Catch rock cod near shore/alive…”
200 “Net all the herring and you lose/the salmon…”
209 “You think you’ll sink?...”
212 Here’s a couple of short sets…
221 “Hot sweat breaks out…”
226 “Alphabet…”
232 “Scissors measure very nicely…”
242 “A sequence in which many of the poems are quite discrete…”
246 “Summer ‘71”
252 “It’s better to be at work than to wait for inspiration… what the poem becomes is receptacle for everything that could usefully be noted down, and sometimes even poems, in the sense of litte (?) lyrics.”
262 Reads “I kept hearing Roy say ‘It’s this big!’”
273 “My boot heel got chewed in by the spoke/on this motorcycle wheel…”
283 “Love I want to grow home…”
300 “Eatin’ rice you get grain damage…”
310 Speaks about stories
319 Reads “A Tree of Knowledge,” a dream
381 Reads “A rehearsal for a performance” (by dancer Yvonne Rainer)
404 “She hole he bang” (See Grounds)
407 “Crazy riding, sleeping, sweating…”
410 Reads short pieces
420 “This was written at… a small beach near Long Beach, on the west coast of the island…” Reads “I looked at the Pacific Ocean and fell asleep for a day…”
433 “Living is adventure. Listen to everything…”
444 “Victor”
457 “I reach for something to break by throwing it…”
463 Reads a poem for Robert Duncan: “Slow Dylan, Robert Duncan faint”
500 “This is [a poem about] the gentleman on the ferry who was lying down… his name was Johnny.” Reads “We were coming from a John Wayne western, Max and me…”
540 “This is a biography of the wars I’ve heard about…”
564 “My favourite star is Anne Murray…”
619 “Here’s another piece of history: ‘November 19, ’71, Grey Cup broadcast’
676 Speaks of poem in The Village Voice regarding Joel Oppenheimer’s love of a World War II plane the “Air Cuba”
693 Reads “A letter to Joel Oppenheimer (and Clark Walton who wrote the poem)”
734 Pause between 734 and 753
753 “Another daughter Tamsen/born 7”10 A.M.”
766 “Mine, the legacy, the other tradition…”
770 “Man Nuvalle”
809 “This poem’s from a book called “Phone Book” (Reads “Up to your nut in fucking shells…”)
828 “A Green Setting Sun…”
839 “Afterwords, wars…”
850 “Why don’t I come in out of the cold…”
864 “You can’t see the key, you have to reach for it…”
879 “This is for the Linda to remember by…”
900 “This is for the Hunchback of Notre Dame…”
937 “It is raining, come into the kitchen…”
964 These are the words out of an era in London, 1964
969 “I heard of a man who cut his throat…”
1013 “This is written in New York on the way back from there (London) to here…”
1018 Soundbreaks off – end of side one
Two 000 Begins mid-poem: “…I want to lie and I can’t find any…”
006 “We are talking about going to Brasilia in 1973…”
016 “Babyland Blues”
059 “This was written on a bus going west across the prairies, called ‘Ticket’”
081 “I edit a small literary magazine called The British Columbia Monthly. I’d like to read some of the things I’ve written in The B.C. Monthly.”
091 “A letter from Luke Warmwater, Sheriff of Element County…”
096 “How to make a movie…”
105 “A letter: how to lunch with a friend…”
110 “The Milky Way”
130 “I’ll finish with a section of “Lease”.”
165 “These are the poems… spring time poems.”
187 “Slugs are too fast”
191 “Fly away fly”
197 Ends
Notes:
SFU BC Readings formatting
NOTES
Type:
General
Note:
Liner Notes: Gerry Gilbert Reading at The College of New Caledonia in 1973
Side 1: 44:45 min
Side 2: 34:15 min
Muffled sound, noisy Dolby B
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