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Wah completed an undergraduate degree in Literature and Music at the University of British Columbia, where he became a founding editor of the TISH newsletter in 1961, and has taught at Selkirk College, the David Thompson University Centre, and the University of Calgary. The fonds contains a number of interviews, conversations, lectures, and public readings recorded between the years 1976 and 2006, featuring local and national literary and media figures such as Lorna Crozier, bpNichol, Daphne Marlatt, and Stuart McLean."],"collection_source_collection_id":["MsC 17"],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["George Bowering reading his novel \"The Short Sad Book\", and Jack Hodgins, Robert Kroetsch, and Gladys Hindmarch reading their books in Nanaimo"],"item_title_source":["J-card and Recording"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["Bowering, George","Hodgins, Jack","Wah, Fred","Hindmarch, Gladys","Kroetsch, Robert"],"creator_names_search":["Bowering, George","Hodgins, Jack","Wah, Fred","Hindmarch, Gladys","Kroetsch, Robert"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/34469976\",\"name\":\"Bowering, George\",\"dates\":\"1935-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Author\",\"Reader\",\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/114666696\",\"name\":\"Hodgins, Jack\",\"dates\":\"1938-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Author\",\"Reader\",\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/1330211\",\"name\":\"Wah, Fred\",\"dates\":\"1939-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Donor\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/38164256\",\"name\":\"Hindmarch, Gladys\",\"dates\":\"1940-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/120613489\",\"name\":\"Kroetsch, Robert\",\"dates\":\"1927-2011\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]}]"],"contributors":["[]"],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"../Uploads/9719/Fred Wah Fonds_MsC 17 f_4.jpg\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Excellent\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"\",\"physical_condition\":\"Good\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"J-card\",\"other_physical_description\":\"Black and white clear jewel case with J-card\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"Wah2021-004-Side A.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:26:27\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"24.2 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"},{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"Wah2021-004-Side B.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:54:19\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"49.7 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/52556169\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"In the beginning of the second, Jack Hodgins mentions that the audience came across the water to visit the island\",\"address\":\"City Nanaimo, Regional District of Nanaimo, British Columbia, V9R 5C7, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"49.1646\",\"longitude\":\"-123.9395\"}]"],"Address":["City Nanaimo, Regional District of Nanaimo, British Columbia, V9R 5C7, Canada"],"City":["Nanaimo, British Columbia"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"The first 9 minutes of the first side is blank and the reading begins at 9:25\",\"type\":\"General\"},{\"note\":\"On the second side at 21:42, there is an author that is not introduced and he reads his book. \",\"type\":\"General\"}]"],"Related_works":["[]"],"_version_":1853670556055896066,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:00.367Z","score":4.7596674},{"id":"7208","cataloger_name":["Mozhgan,Nourafkan"],"partnerInstitution":["Simon Fraser University"],"collection_source_collection":["Warren Tallman Fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Warren Tallman Fonds"],"collection_contributing_unit":["SFU Library"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_description":["Warren Tallman (7 November 1921 - 1 July 1994) was an American-born poetry professor who inspired the Canadian Tish movement and influenced the mid-20th century poetry scene in Canada. Born in Seattle attended the University of California, Berkeley on the G.I. Bill. There he met Ellen King; they married in 1951. In 1956, the Tallmans accepted teaching jobs in the English department at the University of British Columbia, where they helped Earle Birney and Roy Daniells to organize the creative writing department. In 1963, they hosted a poetry conference attended by Denise Levertov, Charles Olson, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan, Margaret Avison, and Philip Whalen. The Tallman home itself also served as a poetry enclave of sorts. It was there that Jack Spicer gave some of his now legendary lectures. Two years later, they held another poetry conference in Berkeley, California. Sometimes criticized by Canadian literary nationalists for turning the Vancouver poetry circle into a California branch plant, Tallman embraced the Black Mountain school approach to poetry, and also was influenced from the Beats and other New American Poets. The fonds consists of correspondence, manuscripts, teaching papers, personal and financial records, material pertaining to the Vancouver Poetry Centre, photographs, audiotapes, ephemera, etc."],"collection_source_collection_id":["MsC 26"],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["George Bowering, Jenny [Shaw/Boucher], Rose Marie Cromwell, and Bill Bissett reading in Nanaimo on March 30, 1979"],"item_title_source":["J-card and Recording"],"item_language":["English, French"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["Tallman, Warren","Bowering, George","Cromwell, Rose Marie","Bissett, Bill","[Boucher, Jenny?]"],"creator_names_search":["Tallman, Warren","Bowering, George","Cromwell, Rose Marie","Bissett, Bill","[Boucher, Jenny?]"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/11397708\",\"name\":\"Tallman, Warren\",\"dates\":\"1921-1994\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/34469976\",\"name\":\"Bowering, George\",\"dates\":\"1935-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\",\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Cromwell, Rose Marie\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/96127023\",\"name\":\"Bissett, Bill\",\"dates\":\"1939-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\",\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"[Boucher, Jenny?]\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]}]"],"contributors":["[]"],"Production_Date":[1979],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"../Uploads/12242/Warren Tallman Fonds_MsC 26.44_209.jpg\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Good\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"\",\"physical_condition\":\"Good\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"J-card\",\"other_physical_description\":\"Black and white clear jewel case with J-card\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"209 Side A.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T01:03:08\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"57.8 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"Sound Recording\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"},{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"209 Side B.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T01:10:19\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"64.3 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"Sound Recording\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1979-03-30\",\"type\":\"Production Date\",\"notes\":\"\",\"source\":\"J-card\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2221210\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"Nanaimo, Regional District of Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"49.1651\",\"longitude\":\"-123.9378\"}]"],"Address":["Nanaimo, Regional District of Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada"],"City":["Nanaimo, British Columbia"],"Note":["[]"],"Related_works":["[]"],"_version_":1853670556699721730,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:00.983Z","score":4.7596674}]