CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
6007
Partner Institution:
Simon Fraser University
Source Collection Label:
Reading in BC Collection
Sub Series:
Reading in BC Collection
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
Alden Nowlan reading at Malaspina College on February 20, 1975 #243
Title Source:
cassette and j-card
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Genre:
Reading: Poetry
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)
CREATORS
Name:
Nowlan, Alden
Dates:
1933-1983
Role:
"Reader",
"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
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:
T00:30:24
Size:
31.5 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T01:00:55
Size:
60.7 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Dates
Date:
1975-02-20
Type:
Production Date
Source:
J-card
LOCATION
Address:
Vancouver Island University, 900, Fifth Street, Nanaimo, Regional District of Nanaimo, British Columbia, V9R 5S5, Canada
Venue:
Malaspina College
Latitude:
49.1576
Longitude:
-123.9658
Notes:
Malaspina College has changed to Vancouver Island University
CONTENT
Contents:
Side Track No. Comments
One 000 Reading opens without introduction; AN speaking
003 “I’m in trouble,’ she said…”
012 “Junkets”
018 “Election song”
030 “The great Cape Breton cockfight”
041 “Song from the kettle drum”
054 “…I’ll read a few verses from my most recent published collection, I’m a stranger here myself...”
059 “Night flight to Montreal”
073 “We were younger then”
102 “The old gentleman”
114 “Answer to a small child’s question”
120 “Four o’clock in the morning”
148 “Parlor game”
160 “Poem for Barbara and Lindsay’s wedding”
179 “A night for hot punch”
188 “In the newsroom”
197 “Body and soul”
214 “Their first meeting”
223 “In the officers’ mess”
259 “A note on the public transportation system”
274 “This is a poem about the correspondence column of Penthouse magazine”
282 “There’ll be nothing more on television tonight…”
292 “The jelly bean man”
313 “Aftermath to a plane crash”
320 “The broadcaster’s poem”
343 “In praise of the great bull walrus”
361 “The night of the party”
370 “Now… I’ll read a few earlier poems…”
379 “The mysterious naked man”
402 “The married man’s poem”
407 “First lesson in theology”
412 “The people who are gone”
445 “Ypres 1915”
515 Unidentified voice asking for questions; question period follows
523 Re: poems based on personal experience
540 Re: Flat Earth Society
562 Re: a poem written after a nightmare
575 Are you pursuing a direction with your poems?
595 Re: justice
620 Re: revising poems – John Newlove
640 RE: Ideally in any work of literature, the measure of greatness is the number of depths in it
665 Re: criticism
705 Re: “taking words out: on rewriting
722 Re: editorial criteria for poetry magazines
773 “How long have you been writing?”
806 “Were you writing when you were working in the forest?”
830 Question period and reading ends
Notes:
SFU BC Readings formatting
NOTES
Type:
General
Note:
Alden Nowlan Reading at Malaspina College, Feb. 20, 1975 Side 1: 29:05 Side 2: 28:45 Echo was generated on the original tape. Dolby B
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