CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
6075
Partner Institution:
Simon Fraser University
Source Collection Label:
Reading in BC Collection
Sub Series:
Reading in BC Collection
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
B.P. Nichol Reading at The College of New Caledonia #269
Title Source:
cassette and j-card
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Genre:
Reading: Poetry
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)
CREATORS
Name:
Nichol, B.P.
Dates:
1944-1988
Role:
"Reader"
CONTRIBUTORS
MATERIAL DESCRIPTION
Image:
Recording Type:
Analogue
AV Type:
Audio
Material Designation:
Cassette
Physical Composition:
Magnetic Tape
Storage Capacity:
T01:08:00
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:
J-card
DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:37:56
Size:
36.3 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:38:23
Size:
38 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Dates
LOCATION
Address:
Imperial Parking, 3330 22 Ave, Prince George, BC V2N 1P8
Venue:
The College of New Caledonia
Latitude:
53.90489
Longitude:
-122.78487
CONTENT
Contents:
Side Track No. Comments
One 000 Opens with bp speaking
005 “Whisper piece”
027 “M.L.’s dream”
060 “Flower eyes”
075 “Milk”
098 “Poetry being at a dead end…”
114 Reads from The Martyrology - book two
124 “Clouds” (the migration of the saints from cloudtown to earth)
151 A quote from “The folktales of the saints: a tale about how St. Andrew heard about cloudwoman”
159 “no other story/fit to tell”
163 “if I could stretch out once in a field”
171 “as if there were no adequate words to fit the mind’s/conceptions…”
178 “Christ is wanted to be there…”
185 “how I would wish you happiness…”
191 “now the wind blows the clouds away…”
200 “peace…”
204 “only the should’ve been…”
209 “the country you spoke of…”
217 From “The great migration” The folk tales of the saints
222 “faces cloud in on me…”
230 “pile up the movement the fingers…”
237 “how shall I call you father who have left me here…”
243 “grew up twice…”
248 “living as you did in winter worlds”
256 “father I stand where I did before…”
266 “Now I’m going to read a few from a thing called ‘The Plunkett papers”
287 “The dead porcupine…”
298 “My father almost told me he voted liberal…”
301 “As Cabot in 1497/discovered the west was good for fishing…”
314 “Plunkett, Saskatchewan, Humboldt Highschool, Sept. 2, 1927: Teddy Roosevelt…”
322 “Misaskwetoomena, the Cree name for the blue berries…”
331 “This next poem begins with a quote from… The art of loving…”
336 “The Bible says, ‘It is better to sow your seed in a whore’s belly…”
345 “My mother is Avis…”
351 “My father quit the CNR…”
358 “Lying here tonight beneath the moon…”
364 “The Workmans and the Nichols…”
381 “When poetry came to the prairies, they made him a captain…”
389 “Poem – snake made his home in Nun…”
399 “As always, the point is lost…”
406 “She was just a girl, my grandma says…”
425 “We went up to Erie, early summer…”
437 “November, ’33, my sister Donna is dead…”
442 “This is a poem for my brother D.J.:”
450 “My brother grows older…”
464 “Days numbered, as th years are even…”
479 “When great uncle Gus came home from the civil war…”
485 “Charlie, he was some drinker…”
502 “I wanted to forget you…”
597 “For Matthew Robin Sullivan… one of 3 incest songs…”
640 Sound breaks off
Two 000 “This is a lullaby for his daughter, Ulya…”
015 “A love song for Gertrude Stein…”
044 “Son of sonnet”
080 “Some more poems from the Plunkett papers:”
081 “This week Dennie writes from Oregon…”
091 “A myth is simply a lie that works…”
099 “To become pregnant is not difficult, but to give birth…”
104 “My father was raised in Goodwater…”
116 “This was in South Dakota, near Iroquois…”
125 “A porpoise (?) made his home under the CPR branch line in Plunkett…”
130 Volume drops to 132
132 “You run the hotel, you work in the mines…”
140 “We rode the train back west in ’54…”
150 “Tonight I long for you as never before…”
163 “My great-aunt Maggie married four times…”
172 “Lovely lady, it’s nice to have you here…”
179 “All my life having searched in the west…”
188 Sound breaks off
189 Sound resumes: “the day before Billy died…”
195 “When I die, I’d like it written: “Life was his whole life”…”
198 “I war the image of my family…”
202 “Old pig lived on Mike Lay’s farm…”
210 “Name names, place places…”
221 “Did I tell you ‘bout my uncle Fred…”
225 “I got most of my source material for these things from my grandma…”
227 Volume stops abruptly, tape ends
Notes:
SFU BC Readings formatting
NOTES
Type:
General
Note:
Liner Notes: B.P. Nichol Reading at The College of New Caledonia (No Date) Side 1: 37 min Side 2: 31 min Dolby B
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