CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
6227
Partner Institution:
Simon Fraser University
Source Collection Label:
Reading in BC Collection
Sub Series:
Reading in BC Collection
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
Heritage Writers' Festival: George Bowering, John Mills, and Audrey Thomas discuss Problems of the B.C. Writer moderated by Bruce Nesbitt at SFU on June 13th, 1978 Tape 2 of 2 #448 - tape 2
Title Source:
cassette and j-card
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Genre:
Speeches: Talks
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)
CREATORS
Name:
Bowering, George
Dates:
1935-
Role:
"Speaker"
Name:
Mills, John
Dates:
1908-2005
Role:
"Speaker"
Name:
Thomas, Audrey
Dates:
1935-
Role:
"Speaker"
Name:
Nesbitt, Bruce
Dates:
1941-
Role:
"Speaker"
CONTRIBUTORS
MATERIAL DESCRIPTION
Image:
Recording Type:
Analogue
AV Type:
Audio
Material Designation:
Cassette
Physical Composition:
Magnetic Tape
Track Configuration:
2 track
Playback Mode:
Stereo
Generations:
Second generation from Reel-to-Reel
Sound Quality:
Good
Physical Condition:
Good
Other Physical Description:
Black and white clear jewel case with J card
DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION
Duration:
T00:24:57
Size:
26.4 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Duration:
T00:24:57
Size:
26.4 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Dates
Date:
1978-06-13
Type:
Production Date
Source:
J-card
LOCATION
Address:
8888 University Dr, Burnaby, BC, Canada
Venue:
SFU
Latitude:
49.2767
Longitude:
-122.9178
CONTENT
Contents:
Two 000 John Mills says moralism is not a motivation for writing, and that the act of writing is an act of play
030 Bowering talks about Captain George Vancouver’s botanist Archibald Menzies, who drew and reported on the plant and animal life of this coast. He likens this act to the pet’s function as a political activator
080 Bowering talks about Canadian writers or B.C. writers as being those who speak the vocabulary and the imagery of the place, rather than those who were born in the place
114 John Mills talks about the problem of the limited readership in B.C.
130 Audrey Thomas says she gets more reviews in the east than here
168 Thomas and Bowering talk about their ideas of who they are writing for. Mills says he writes for an imaginary ear. He questions the relevance of labelling a writer by nationality
207 Mills says reading a lot helped him most, as a beginning writer. Bowering talks about the combination of reading a lot and finding peers who helped him. Thomas says the discovery of women writers urged her to write
271 Mills talks about search for an artificial sense of identity in a place
295 Bowering tells about bad writing advice
Write about what you know, & find your own voice
323 Thomas says writing is essentially the discovery of language and its roots
373 John Mills says that he writes novels because they can pose epistemological questions
435 They talk about “suitable subjects” for writing. Mills says that relationships interest him more than characters. Bowering says autobiographical content is more acceptable in poems, and that revenge is a good motivation for writing
497 Bowering says that content-oriented writing holds women back from the forefront of the avant guard, where Stein and H.D. were 50 years ago
540 They discuss realism and writing and lyricism
581 Tape ends
Notes:
SFU BC Readings formatting
NOTES
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