CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
8380
Partner Institution:
University of Calgary
Source Collection Title:
Robert Kroetsch fonds
Source Collection ID:
Source Collection Contributing Unit:
University of Calgary, Archives and Special Collections
Source Collection URI:
Source Collection Image URL:
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
Robert Kroetsch/Peter Gzowski 6 April 1989
Title Source:
Transcribed from the artifact
Language:
English
Production Context:
Broadcast
Identifiers:
[71.17a]
Rights
Rights:
In Copyright (InC)
Notes:
Enters Public Domain at the end of 2059
CREATORS
Name:
Kroetsch, Robert
Dates:
1927-2011
CONTRIBUTORS
Name:
Gzowski, Peter
MATERIAL DESCRIPTION
Recording Type:
Analogue
AV Type:
Audio
Material Designation:
Cassette
Physical Composition:
Magnetic Tape
Extent:
1/8 inch
Side:
A
Tape Brand:
Memorex
Sound Quality:
Good
Physical Condition:
Good
DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION
Duration:
T00:20:22
Size:
671.45 MB
Dates
Date:
1989-04-06
Type:
Performance Date
Notes:
Dates taken from container and/or accompanying material.
LOCATION
CONTENT
Contents:
Peter Gzowski
Interviews Robert Kroetsch and discusses Completed Field Notes.
Robert Kroetsch
[00:13:57]
Reads excerpt from Completed Field Notes.
Notes:
- Interview on Completed Field Notes
- There’s poetry in certain places and poets go and harvest it (Al Purdy) – Robert Kroetsch agrees with this sentiment
- Gzowski asks if Robert Kroetsch revises his poems: Some poems he revises but others he hasn’t touched since he wrote them
- Is Field Notes one poem? Robert Kroetsch considers it one.
- Journeying – journeying as a false model from living. Robert Kroetsch asks ‘can we journey?’ and ‘are we really on journeys in life?’
- Robert Kroetsch notes that the model of the epic is lost
- Sitting on an airplane, it is almost like you are going nowhere. There is no sense of motion, you’re in one place and then in another without feeling the process or the travel.
- “Letters to Salonika”:
- Desire: absence is necessary for desire.
- The form of a journal entry resists larger poetic schemes
- When Gzowski asks if the poems are true, Robert Kroetsch responds ‘what is true?’
- Poems are of this immediate moment, negotiating the presence of absence
- Robert Kroetsch wants readers to have the pleasure of making their own poems
- [00:13:57] reads excerpt of Field Notes, dedicated poem to Ishtar (a symbol and a real woman)
- Gzowski asks about notions of the “tribe” in Canadian poetry scene
- Robert Kroetsch often hears the voices of his friends talking to him; making poems together
- Words go on exploring, while the living and the dead might be a marginal difference in the end
NOTES
RELATED WORKS
Citation:
Completed Field Notes