CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
7870
Partner Institution:
Simon Fraser University
Source Collection Title:
Fred Wah Fonds
Source Collection ID:
MsC 17
Source Collection Description:
The Fred Wah fonds collects materials from Vancouver-based poet Fred Wah, who was appointed as Canadau2019s fifth Parliamentary Poet Laureate in 2011 and has published 25 books between 1965 and 2016. Wah was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan in 1939 and grew up in the West Kootenay region. His Chinese and Scots-Irish ethnic background and identity have a significant influence on his literary work. 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.
Source Collection Contributing Unit:
SFU Library
Source Collection URI:
Source Collection Image URL:
Sub Series Title:
Fred Wah Fonds
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
Kootenay Night Presentation at Kootenay School of Writing on March 11 in 1982: Peter Christensen reading poetry on side one, and on side two: Fred Wah's Kootenay oral anthology: A collection of 20 West Kootenay poets DUPLICATE 2 OF 2
Title Source:
Cassette and J-card
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)
CREATORS
Name:
Wayman, Tom
Dates:
1945-
Notes:
Tom Wayman introduces Peter Christensen and Fred Wah in the beginning of side one
Name:
Christensen, Peter
Dates:
[1951-?]
Name:
Wah, Fred
Dates:
1939-
CONTRIBUTORS
MATERIAL DESCRIPTION
Image:
Recording Type:
Analogue
AV Type:
Audio
Material Designation:
Cassette
Physical Composition:
Magnetic Tape
Extent:
1/8 inch
Sound Quality:
Good
Physical Condition:
Good
Other Physical Description:
Black and white clear jewel case with J-card
DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:47:58
Size:
71.1 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:48:50
Size:
71.9 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Dates
Date:
1982-3-11
Type:
Production Date
Source:
J-card
LOCATION
Address:
112 W Hastings St, Vancouver, BC V6B 1G8
Venue:
Kootenay School of Writing
Latitude:
49.28184
Longitude:
-123.10779
CONTENT
NOTES
Type:
General
Note:
On side one, Peter Christensen Reads the following poems int his poetry reading event:
Greeting from Rocky Mountain
How to Keep Going When You Are Cold
Her Gift
The Angle of My [Tongs?]
Pretending to Dance
Urban Despair
[Our Beautest Woman?]
I Can Eat All I Want
From the Rig Talk Poem Series, including:
Oil Rush
[The Recording Crew?]
Graveyard Shift
Chinook
Heroes
Going Home
The Fence
Two poems from Hailstorm Book
Border Crossings
A Letter to a Friend, (A poem for [Ivan?]
Mountain Drunk
Home Coming
Type:
General
Note:
On side two, Fred Wah introduces his Kootenay oral anthology: A collection of 20 West Kootenay poets; 20 West Kootenay writers reads poems; none of them is introduced
Type:
Related Version
Note:
This tape is duplicate of tape 100 "Kootenay Night Presentation at Kootenay School of Writing on March 11 in 1982: Peter Christensen reading poetry on side one, and on side two: Fred Wah's Kootenay oral anthology: A collection of 20 West Kootenay poets DUPLICATE 2 OF 2" (SWALLOW ID 7851)
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