CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
6020
Partner Institution:
Simon Fraser University
Source Collection Label:
Reading in BC Collection
Sub Series:
Reading in BC Collection
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
Brian Fawcett reading at the Western Front on March 3, 1975 #288
Title Source:
cassette and j-card
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Genre:
Reading: Poetry
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)
CREATORS
Name:
Fawcett, Brian
Dates:
1944-
Role:
"Reader"
CONTRIBUTORS
Name:
Knechtel, Mary Beth
Dates:
1943-
Role:
"Recordist"
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:
T00:45:56
Size:
48.2 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:45:19
Size:
47 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Dates
Date:
1975-03-03
Type:
Production Date
Source:
J-card
LOCATION
Address:
303 E 8th Ave E, Vancouver, BC V5T 1S1
Venue:
The Western Front
Latitude:
49.26391
Longitude:
-123.09869
CONTENT
Contents:
Side Track No. Comments
One Left 000 No sound
103 B.F. in midst of reading: “…out on the street it’s me…”
(“Yeah,/fuck it…” from Permanent relationships, Toronto: Coach House, 1975)
110 “I’m tired of fighting…” (from Permanent relationships)
121 “I mean when I say I love you…” (from Permanent relationships)
127 “So I could die…” (from Permanent relationships)
139 “Into each moment I go…” (from Permanent relationships)
147 “Coming inside you…” (from Permanent relationships)
162 “Out the window it’s still/going on…” (from Permanent relationships)
172 “Sweet psyche…” (from Permanent relationships)
184 “Further vague encounters…” (from Permanent relationships)
199 “The female out…” (from Permanent relationships)
229 “Softness I’ve lost…” (from Permanent relationships)
242 “All that was not beautiful…” (from Permanent relationships)
255 “Cocoon and chrysalis, bird opening…” (from Permanent relationships)
275 “Beautiful blueblack/blossoms of love.” (from Permanent relationships)
292 “Finding a way to love to find…” (from Permanent relationships)
304 “What is so awful…” (from Permanent relationships)
313 “Serial…” (from Permanent relationships)
329 “In the alley sparrows…” (from Permanent relationships)
344 “I want to speak of this as/serious story…” (from Permanent relationship)
360 “1./Not simply to fuck…” (from Permanent relationships)
395 “Yeah the moon/has its demands…” (from Permanent relationships)
406 Ends reading of Permanent relationships
430 “Whatever sense grew out of that book was an instinct to attack what Robin Blaser once told me was “the lyric glory hole.”
459 Speaks of a “book called Hotel Lyric. I want to read a number of poems that come from that.”
465 “Paris”
479 “From the notice board (for Angela Bowering)”
497 “Gunsmoke”
514 “Stiff aspidistra in dirty window…”
529 “Eros to Psyche” (a variant printed in Creatures of state, p. 56)
542 “The hanged man” (Creatures of state, p. 54)
567 “The fifth transformation”
578 “Three poems, all entitled ‘after Dante’” (Creatures of state, p. 88)
(The second and third poems are not in the printed sequence)
612 “For Rick Duckles”
630 “Prince George (for Roy Kiyooka)”
640 Sound ends this side
Two 000 Background noise
017 Brian Fawcett speaking, introducing second half of reading
039 “What I want to do is take up from where I was the last time I read in Vancouver, which is about a year ago… in terms of verse, the last book that I did was The opening and that was neither in any clear sense verse or prose. I want to take the first half of the reading to pick up where the prose has gone from there.”
052 “I’ll read the last section from The opening…I’ve got a story and a speech, and then a statement.”
062 From The opening: “Up north, the first frosts are killing the weaker plants…” (125: “That was…August 30, 1972”)
130 When I wrote this book (The opening) I was on a Canada Council writing grant, and about two thirds of the way through, I went to work for the planning department as an organizer… One of the things I got to do, and… the subject of the second part of this reading tonight will be two images of cottonwood…
157 “I have this theory about the world, that you don’t have to go looking for images or make them up, because they always appear to you…”
(Speaks of being a community organizer)
209 Reads “The organizer” (printed in Capilano review no. 12 (2/1977), p. 137)
544 “That’s one ‘Cottonwood’ (speaking of the preceding story)”
561 “This is a fairly long and much more metered piece than the last one…
594 “This is a piece called Cottonwood Canyon” (explains the geography of the poem)
648 “Cottonwood Canyon” (reprinted in Creatures of state, p. 7)
1370 Sound stops – turn tape over to side 1, right channel
One Right channel
000 B.F. (mid sentence to tape operator): “Ready to go?”
004 And outside Vanderhoof, heading west, Bill Reese and Tim La Chance… (This continues Cottonwood Canyon, part VII, Creatures of state, (Talon, 1977) p. 17
049 End of Cottonwood Canyon
054 “…I’ve got one more piece that I wouldn’t mind reading…”
057 “The agent of language” (begins “I don’t want to write…”)
195 Reading ends. Sound ends.
Notes:
SFU BC Readings formatting
NOTES
Type:
General
Note:
Brian Fawcett Reading at the Western Front, March 3, 1975 (Beginning of reading not on tape) Side 1 44:40 Side 2 32:08 Recorded by Mary Beth Knechtel Dolby B
Note:
The Western Front is the donor as inventory says
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