CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
6296
Partner Institution:
Simon Fraser University
Source Collection Label:
Reading in BC Collection
Sub Series:
Reading in BC Collection
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
BP Nichol Reading from The Undercover Country, #297, #298, #299
Title Source:
cassette and j-card
Title Note:
Liner notes: see the photo in the material description
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",
"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
Tape Brand:
SFU
Sound Quality:
Excellent
Physical Condition:
Excellent
Other Physical Description:
Black and white clear jewel case with J card
DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION
Channel Field:
2 (stereo)
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:46:49
Size:
46.8 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Channel Field:
2 (stereo)
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:47:34
Size:
46.7 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Dates
LOCATION
CONTENT
Contents:
#297
Side Track No. Comments
One Autumn (Fox Fires flaming…)
Summer (Blues on Green)
Autumn (Ancient Maps of / Real World)
Late Autumn-Early Winter (Beginning. And. End)
Late Winter-Spring (Letters from a rainy season)
Two Early Autumn (We went to the forest…)
Autumn (Sliding from sight…)
Early Winter (last poem / or the language folds in…)
After Christmas (always a season / bitter…)
Mid-Winter (having risen from the bath…)
January
#298
Side Track No. Comments
Too (continued)
Mid-Winter
February (the river the streets are to become…)
Spring (clarity / distance / claritas…)
Half (in process at time of recording)
Summer (owl in the wood / wouldja come…)
(all that summer / hot…) absorbed into MONO tones
(the humber empties out into the lake…)
(sometimes the humber is not the humber…)
Other rivers (kaministiqua and red)
Late summer-some letters
Letter 1 (2 drafts) for john & joanne
Letter 2 for bill & martina
Letter 3 for david & ruth
Letter 4 for wayn & Juli (later realized this was for vic & sarah)
WON (One short poem at time of recording)
One / to have won something…
End of Undiscovered Country
BLUES (for Bill & Martina)
#299
Side Track No. Comments
Dark Night / Secret Room
Lunar Eclipse (for Rob)
No title: Rebuttal
Varinheim
Fifth Journey
Motherlove and other inventions
Far Well (for Christine Baumann)
From DN/SR
The End of Etc.
“how am I able to saw what I would…”
The Room (for Margaret A)
Peace (for Chris Baumann)
Love Song
One for the Gideon Music
2nd Poem (for Dace)
The Ordinary Man (for Dave A)
From ML & OI
Queen’s for a Day
No title: Evil
No title: Inevitable
Postcard Between (for Margaret A)
Moonshot (for Dace)
The New Improved Atlas of the World
After Hokusai
A Poem by Bill Bissett
22
Two Songs
The Junctions
Night Thots
Notes:
SFU BC Readings formatting
The first two minutes of the first side of #297 are missing. It starts from Autumn (Fox Fires flaming…)
NOTES
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