CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
6090
Partner Institution:
Simon Fraser University
Source Collection Label:
Reading in BC Collection
Sub Series:
Reading in BC Collection
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
Chris Hurst Reading at The Western Front on April 14, 1975 #289b
Title Source:
cassette and j-card
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Genre:
Reading: Poetry
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)
CREATORS
Name:
Hurst, Chris
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:
T00:30:50
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:
T00:30:42
Size:
31.5 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Dates
Date:
1975-04-14
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 Right 000 Sound of two hands clapping, voices muffled
005 Chris Hurst introduces his reading
013 “…I’m going to read a new poem and a few old ones, and then I’m going to read from a work in progress…”
017 “They had both known that it would come to this…”
023 “What I was trying to say to you”
031 “He cannot see”
040 “Your body is a flower that will not open up to me…”
056 “In bed. Feeling the slope of your back…”
060 “The green Devon sea, wide against the beach…”
068 “This is the beginning of… a work in progress. The first section is called ‘Homes without hands or hands without homes’…”
077 “It starts with a quote…” (Explains the origin of the poems in a found book about rose galls)
093 “The book fell open at a section on rose galls and what ensued…”
097 “When the synops rosa deposits her eggs upon the rose…”
101 “say I am concealed…”
108 “Natural powers are always adjusted to the work which their possessors have to perform…”
115 “Before me, I watch the features of your face…”
119 “Blood seeps out onto the surface of a gall…”
125 “The cells are of different sizes…”
130 “That first time, your touch cut like a knife…”
139 “In many of the cells, the perfect insect may be found…”
143 “Upon the surface of his skin, the slow incision of a wound with perfect intent…”
153 “That’s the end of the first section. The second section is called “Fragments of a churinga’s songs””
176 A quote: “The second self is the individual’s guardian angel, but if made angry by neglect, it can also be his enemy, causing illness… The churinga accompanies him throughout life, warns him of the dangers threatening him, and helps him to escape them…”
188 “The opening section is a found poem…a description of an initiation rite in a New Guinea tribe…”
204 “This section is extracts from a journal while I was staying in the Hebrides… interposed with psalms…”
One Right 222 “Out of west Linton, on the road to Peebles, I…”
227 “Want to forget…”
231 “Watches yesterday. A heron fishing…”
234 “Someone is singing in the wings…”
240 “Victim song”
247 “At dusk, I walked among the high old hedges and narrow pass of Dunvegin castle…”
253 “Think/of all the lies we told…”
256 “Yesterday, I talked to Alastair, who built the Golden Hill House…”
260 “Churinga song II”
267 “A woman sits under a naked electric lightbulb…”
272 “Mist. Low. Scattered…”
279 “The Sciani (?) Islands lie to my left…”
287 “Churinga, sometimes you are here…”
292 “Off and on in the distance, the lighthouse…”
298 “Rain falls…”
303 “That is the end of the second section”
307 “Facing you two”
317 “So where did it come from…”
323 “I have not completely made my exit from her mouth…”
330 “The third section is … a letter I wrote to four friends when I came back to Toronto from the Hebrides…”
335 “When I walked through the pasture I…”
347 “When I offer myself to another I don’t know what I give...”
352 “I went to visit my uncle…”
356 “It is impossible to return…”
365 “Part of me is my uncle…”
372 “When you asked me what I knew, I shouldn’t have told you…”
380 “I walked down the street…”
388 “And on his face, the question of a child…”
395 “I watch your face/turn into a thousand other faces…”
401 “When I walked through the pasture I didn’t need a mirror…”
407 “The next section is the fourth section. I don’t have a title for it.”
411 “A found poem… from the Shaga tribe in New Guinea…” (“if you dare to tell anyone of the secret of men…”)
426 “All through high school/she had a fear of being stabbed…”
429 “When I was young, I devised a ceremony…”
434 “Think that to start, I thought there was no difference…”
439 “I remember the toughest guy in our public school…”
447 “The story”
453 “Where I spent time with men, I felt young and free…”
461 “On returning to the village after their initiation rites…”
482 “A black moon gleams through the trees of reason…”
Right 487 “In the morning the men came to him…”
494 “We talked, and there were no answers…”
500 “I, also”
507 “A black moon gleams through the trees of reason…”
522 “No man walks alone on this planet…”
536 “That’s the end of the last section that I have…”
540 “Chris, Christopher. Christian…”
552 “In the grey dawn”
564 Reading ends
Notes:
SFU BC Readings formatting
NOTES
Type:
General
Note:
Liner Notes: Chris Hurst Reading at The Western Front April 14, 1975 Side 1 16:35 Side 2 19:55 Dolby B
Note:
The Western Front is the donor as inventory says
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