CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
6003
Partner Institution:
Simon Fraser University
Source Collection Label:
Reading in BC Collection
Sub Series:
Reading in BC Collection
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
Kevin Roberts and the Unknown reading poetry at the Nanaimo Yacht Club on March 31,1974 part 1 of 2 #240a
Title Source:
cassette and j-card
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Genre:
Reading: Poetry
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)
CREATORS
Name:
Roberts, Kevin
Dates:
1940-
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:
Excellent
Physical Condition:
Excellent
Other Physical Description:
Black and white clear jewel case with J card
DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:38:39
Size:
37.9 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:30:17
Size:
29.1 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Dates
Date:
1974-03-31
Type:
Production Date
Source:
J-card
LOCATION
Address:
Nanaimo Yacht Club, Newcastle Avenue, Nanaimo, Regional District of Nanaimo, British Columbia, V9S 4J2, Canada
Venue:
Nanaimo Yacht Club
Latitude:
49.17762
Longitude:
-123.94160
CONTENT
Contents:
Side Track No. Comments
One 000 _______________ reading (Yves Tremblay?)
002 “I ask, as I write poems, what is music?...”
010 “I did some translations from American Indian chants… I’d like to read you a cycle of these… which are under four headings; about birth, about love, about food, and about death…”
028 “Girl’s premonition (from the Tlingit)”
030 “A song from the Navajo”
035 “Song of the elements (from the Passamaquoddy)”
040 “Complaint (from the Haida)”
043 “Her song”
046 “His song”
060 “A poem from the Ojibway which I call ‘Aubade’”
076 “The deer song (from the Pima)”
082 “The hunter’s song”
088 “Dance song (from the Copper Eskimos)”
094 “A Kachina song (from the Hopi)”
099 “Song of the Blue Corn Dance (from the Zuni)”
105 “What the eagle heard”
109 “Song of a hanged man”
111 “By the dead (Eskimo)”
114 “By one about to die (from the Tlingit)”
118 “Instructions (an Envoi from the Inca)”
125 Speaks about driving: “the next three poems are going to feature… driving a car.”
134 “This is a little song about a disappointment in love…”
148 “Song at the gas pump”
156 “Here’s another aubade…”
166 “I’d like to read you an attempt at handling the city…”
182 “Compassion, dead…”
197 “To conclude… I’ve been thinking of writing a poem for six simultaneous voices… this might be elements feeding into that… I would call these poems or fragments “dicta” and “praises”…”
208 “Moving eye, sculptor…”
216 “At the hard bud of ego…”
223 “Against stasis, song is given…”
229 ____________ reading: “This is called ‘Oil spill herons’.”
246 “I don’t like fur coats or people who wear fur coats”:
255 “The printed black letters…”
279 “Most of time I am normal…”
294 “The come at night on silent shadow feet…”
306 “People of the northwest coast believe that there are four worlds…”
313 “I didn’t want to go…”
342 “From behind the fire-gutted eyes…”
364 “I have a fight with TV ladies…”
376 “I did not come apart tidily…”
395 “Come with me where gulls never stop soaring…”
424 “I know the shape-forms of the gods…”
459 “Yesterday, when houses had peaked roofs…”
480 “Fine, black, low-tide mud…”
497 “Sometimes I go to bed in the afternoon...”
534 “The tires are [squshing] the highway…”
549 “Under the sea, the light is green…”
570 “When I was a little girl I had parties with grasshoppers and aphids for guests…”
590 “Happy birthday to me…”
612 “Johnny Blades was the cutest little boy in grade one…”
656 Introduction of Kevin Roberts (thumping on table)
773 “The University of Exeter is such a boring place…”
855 “Exminster one.”
921 Sound breaks off.
Notes:
SFU BC Readings formatting
NOTES
Type:
General
Note:
Poetry Readings at the Nanaimo Yacht Club March 31, 1974 Side 1: First reading (unidentified) 20:12 Second Reading beginning 9:30 Side 2: Second reading concluded 19:23 Third Reading: Kevin Roberts beginning 9:20
Note:
THe first two readers are unidentified.
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