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Long poem, Kerrisdale Elegies. Relationship with Rilke’s Duino Elegies, a rewriting for Vancouver in the 80s. The work consists of ten elegies, George Bowering reads #4 and #10.\n- [00:01:04] Elegy #4. Interjection #1: This poems speak to him, which is a true story, he did hear his father’s voice. Interjection #2: George Bowering chooses to skip over some French “because it’s so bad” (no laughter heard). Interjection #3: Poetry described by someone as “musical thought,” which George Bowering thought was “less than apt”\n- [00:08:59] Elegy #10. Relates to the concerns of the event – narrative influence. Interjection: “Really uplifting stuff, huh? Really sad.”\n- [00:18:55] Poem that George Bowering wants on his tombstone, “Oh lord if I have but one life to live, I hope this ain’t it” (laughter).\n- [00:19:25] Describes a new book of old poems, poems which are publically and socially oriented\n- [00:20:14] American Cops. Written mid to late 60s and published as a pamphlet prior to inclusion in poetry collection. Dedicated to John Sinclair. Discusses rock n roll political movements, MC5 in Detroit, the political party “Rainbow” which started as the White Panthers. Driving through America as Canadians, unused to seeing guns. Resonates well with the audience (laughter).\n- [00:25:51] Robert Kroetsch introductory remarks. Called post-modern writer in Canada, speaking on narrative because of the event theme and the academic concerns of the students in the audience.\n- [00:26:48] Sketches of a Lemon. Wary of notions of meaning, tried to pick an object lacking inherent meaning. Interjection: there is a lemon tree, deconstructs his poem for him.\n- [00:30:45] Seed Catalogue introduction. Shared text/tradition of seed catalogues, must engage with great garden poetry from Book of Genesis onward. Cabbages as an unexplored entry point. Only two seasons in Canada: winter and poor sledding. Reckoning with the false notion of spring, need to reinterpret our engagement with preconceptions of seasons inherited from British tradition. Interjection #1: Robert Kroetsch did fall off a horse standing still, while also playing with concept of fallen man. Interjection #2: second section picking up on oral tradition, in light of books/media that doesn’t reflect “us” (Canadians) we survive by telling each other stories. Laughter at father killing magpie. Interjection #3: Brome grass section came from telling a young female poet his difficulty in ending, and she told a Saskatchewan cowboy who sent a letter to Robert Kroetsch (the letter became the text).\n- [00:46:34] Four Questions for George George Bowering is a response to Kerrisdale Elegies. \n- [00:48:10] Question period. #1: George skipping over his bad French. How has multiple readings influenced their opinions of the poems – George Bowering: difference between composition and reading. Notation reflecting primary experience (reading). Explaining concept of notation. Robert Kroetsch: Movement away from speech model, dialoguing with George Bowering. #2: Prose and verse, is it clear which way a piece will go when writing. George Bowering: still imagines it being read out loud regardless of whether it is prose or verse. Robert Kroetsch: still reads as lyrical. Movement between writing the two is fluid.\n\n- * Dating determined to be approximately May 1986. Correspondence with Robert Kroetsch and Brian Edwards occurs only following the conference (591/96.6 4.42). George Bowering also corresponds with Edwards in 1984 and 1986 (correspondence housed at Library and Archives Canada). In the recording, a conference which Robert Kroetsch and George Bowering attended took place in Ottawa a “three weeks earlier” can be dated to April 25-27, 1986 (591/96.6 34.8). In another interview with Edwards, Robert Kroetsch references this conference in May (775/04.25 29.2).\n"],"contents":["George Bowering\n[00:01:04] \nPerforms \"Elegy Four\".\nGeorge Bowering\n[00:08:59]\nPerforms \"Elegy Ten\".\nGeorge Bowering\n[00:20:14]\nPerforms \"American Cops\". \nRobert Kroetsch\n[00:26:48]\nPerforms \"Sketches of a Lemon\". \nRobert Kroetsch \n[00:33:11]\nPerforms \"Seed Catalogue\".\nRobert Kroetsch \n[00:47:02]\n\"Four Questions for George Bowering\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"Bowering, Kerrisdale Elegies (1984). 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Background conversation at 46:03.\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"RK_Acc_775_04.25.29-2\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T00:47:25\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"781.34 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1995\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Dates taken from item.\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"University of Calgary Studio, Calgary, Canada\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"Deakin University Open Campus Program\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"Address":["Deakin University Open Campus Program"],"Venue":["University of Calgary Studio, Calgary, Canada"],"content_notes":["- Part of a course entitled “Literary Processes” through Deakin University.\n- Discussion of Robert Kroetsch’s recent work. Crow served as inspiration during difficult writing period. Robert Kroetsch prefers magic realism instead of documentary style, finds documentary unnatural to him “because I don’t believe documents are documents, that they themselves are another version of unreality or imagination if you will.” Versions of narrative operating through time, recovery of intermingling voices.\n- Stories of family are important, especially relationships with uncles and aunts because there is a necessary closeness and separation (don’t have the binding structures found with parents).\n- Creative strategies: resisting authorized versions of Alberta (historical, political), recovering personal experience but mediated by words (oral tradition). A few words recover an entire narrative pattern.\n- Interruption and intervention: question of “what is a reader?” The reader has enormous body of narrative in their head which can be tapped into by process of intervention.\n- Influences: earlier texts use myths/stories. In Crow, attempt to let multiple narratives speak at once without privileging one. i.e. the perception of crows as negative in Western world, but is a smart, positive, trickster figure in Indigenous epistemologies.\n- Story doesn’t exist until it is in the reader’s mind? Robert Kroetsch has abandoned romantic notion of the writer/artist. Meta-textualism. \n- Brian: post-modern privileges the reader, reader is invited into the text. Robert Kroetsch: It is difficult and dangerous to be the reader, because reading is no longer a controlled experience, but allows for the reader to explore. There is a sense of play or discovery.\n- Structuring narrative through love and death. Behind comedy there is a notion of great mystery.\n- Plays with the stereotype of active male and passive female\n- The responsibilities of the writer, reader, and critic: It is a gift exchange that goes both ways between reader and writer. The critic extends the reading. Brian: Notion of ideal reading assumes ideal reader. Robert Kroetsch: agrees and resists the ideal reading, through the gift exchange has surrendered himself to the reader. There is no ideal context for reading.\n- Robert Kroetsch writes poetry by resisting poetry. Deprivileging the word and the role of the writer. An interest in language. Poetry is concerned with more than words (he compares this to prose). It is not because of the high rhetoric, but the greater ability to focus on the language.\n- What parts of Crow are distinctly Canadian? Recovering the vitality of the local; skepticism of the “universal.”"],"contents":["Robert Kroetsch and Brian Edwards\n[00:00:01] \nDiscuss What the Crow Said (General Publishing, 1978) [as part of a course “Literary Processes” through Deakin University].\nRobert Kroetsch\n[00:28:55]\nMentions \"Spending the Morning on the Beach\". \nRobert Kroetsch  \n[00:42:00]\nReads \"What the Crow Said\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"Kroetsch, What the Crow Said (1978)\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558517952512,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":2.4715338},{"id":"8336","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Robert Kroetsch fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Robert Kroetsch fonds"],"collection_contributing_unit":["University of Calgary, Archives and Special Collections"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_id":[""],"persistent_url":["https://searcharchives.ucalgary.ca/robert-kroetsch-fonds"],"item_title":["1+2 - Author, author"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Broadcast"],"item_identifiers":["[29.3]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2058"],"creator_names":["Kroetsch, Robert"],"creator_names_search":["Kroetsch, Robert"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/120613489\",\"name\":\"Kroetsch, Robert\",\"dates\":\"1927-2011\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Author\",\"Performer\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Hawkes, John"],"contributors_names_search":["Hawkes, John"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Hawkes, John \",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]}]"],"performer_name":["Hawkes, John "],"Performance_Date":[1988],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"A\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"Scotch\",\"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\":\"\",\"other_physical_description\":\"Includes music and sound effects.\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"RK_Acc_775_04.25.29-3\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T00:23:30\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"387.26 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1988\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Dates supplied through research for copyright.\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"CBC Radio\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"Address":["Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada"],"Venue":["CBC Radio"],"City":["Winnipeg, Manitoba"],"content_notes":["Readings are excerpts of Hawkes' novels with and introductions/interpretations by Robert Kroetsch. \n- Opens with introduction by Robert Kroetsch. Musical accompaniment through recording.\n- “I have a suspicion that we are all the novelists of our own lives”\n- The reader of Hawkes’ work is not Robert Kroetsch.\n- Robert Kroetsch discusses John Hawkes. The Lime Twig was set in Britain, Hawkes is rumoured never to have visited. It is a balance between control and loss of control, daydream, reverie, and fantasy. Erotic forces and language of erotics. The landscape and violence that intrudes upon it.\n- [00:08:45] Robert Kroetsch trying to wrestle with Canadian humour and the terrifying, and how those two can exist within each other. Innocence comes through loss. Comedy and terror flow together.\n- [00:16:24] Robert Kroetsch: blood and oranges both speak to fertility rites. Daydreaming of creating new self. In Hawkes the idea of self is replaced by idea of role – “we are each a bundle of contending and related roles”\n- [00:19:51] Robert Kroetsch: writers work to surprise. The translation of pure desire into complexity of love. The question of “who is safe?”\n- [00:21:54] Robert Kroetsch: We are obsessively in our own minds inventing the who/where of our lives. Hawkes as gothic writer: innocence, desire, self-deception, courage. “We make up the stories of our lives and then, in fear and laughter, act them out.”\n- Recording directed to the attention of Geraldine Sherman, State of the Arts."],"contents":["Robert Kroetsch\n[00:00:05]\nIntroduces the novels of John Hawkes, The Lime Twig (1961); The Blood Oranges (1971); Death, Sleep & the Traveler (1974). \nUnknown \n[00:01:57]\nReads from The Lime Twig. \nRobert Kroetsch\n[00:05:34]\nDiscusses The Lime Twig.\nUnknown \n[00:06:40]\nReads from The Lime Twig.\nRobert Kroetsch \n[00:08:45]\nDiscusses The Lime Twig. \nUnknown \n[00:09:26]\nReads from The Lime Twig.\nRobert Kroetsch\n[00:11:06]\nDiscusses The Lime Twig.\nUnknown \n[00:11:54]\nReads from The Blood Oranges.\nRobert Kroetsch\n[00:13:58]\nDiscusses The Blood Oranges.\nUnknown\n[00:14:18]\nReads from The Blood Oranges.\nRobert Kroetsch  \n[00:16:24]\nDiscusses The Blood Oranges.\nUnknown\n[00:17:21]\nReads from Death, Sleep and the Traveler.\nRobert Kroetsch \n[00:19:51]\nDiscusses Death, Sleep and the Traveler.\nUnknown\n[00:20:28]\nReads from Death, Sleep and the Traveler.\nRobert Kroetsch\n[00:21:54]\nDiscusses Death, Sleep and the Traveler."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"John Hawkes, The Lime Twig (1961); The Blood Oranges (1971); Death, Sleep & the Traveler (1974)\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558517952514,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":2.4715338},{"id":"8338","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Robert Kroetsch fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Robert Kroetsch fonds"],"collection_contributing_unit":["University of Calgary, Archives and Special Collections"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_id":[""],"persistent_url":["https://searcharchives.ucalgary.ca/robert-kroetsch-fonds"],"item_title":["Spoken Word CD. 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For Robert Robert Kroetsch. Joy W. Oct 15/86\n- Kerr “Aware”: poems in praise of alcohol. In Saskatchewan a television campaign called the Aware Program, promoting abstinence. \n- “Spirit”: Poem in praise of Edmonton, notes there probably aren’t many of those.\n- Going: Poems about good taste and against mass production.\n- “Transcript”: Poem for university students.\n- “Fight”: Based on the ‘fight for the family farm’, the most used political slogan in Saskatchewan.\n- Kreisel: A trip to Fiji, attempting to find his hotel reservation at the airport. Staying at a guest house and visiting with locals. Second excerpt on attending delegation on Indigenous rights.\n- Kamboureli: immigrant experience, in the form of a journal.\n- Sproxton: a head frame is a part of a mine, he feels the need to explain as many have incorrectly titled or discussed his book title. 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The casette is enclosed in an envelope with the University of Lethbridge Department of English stamped on it\n- The file contains a full transcription of the interview.\n- Begins mid-sentence with introduction by Marguerite McDonald\n- Robert Kroetsch and Wiebe are at a piano with Collie Banks, they didn’t know they were already being recorded.\n- Rudy was a singer – he sings “Amazing Grace” then Robert Kroetsch sings “Wild, Wild Women”\n- [00:03:07] interview on approach to prairie writing\n- Beer parlours and prairie stories – Wiebe says there are only certain types of stories that you can hear at parlours\n- Space and the prairies – W “space has everything in it” you just have to look\n- Always in relationship with the landscape/earth and the prairies make you aware of this relationship\n- W – man is vertical compared to flatness of prairies, man moves while landscape remains immutable\n- K – why movement across prairies so important to novels\n- K – doesn’t like generalizations about the prairies\n- K – as writers we accept the prairies – earlier writers (Grove, Ross) trying to resist the prairies – trying to impose another cultural pattern onto it\n- W – old writers had a sense that somehow the prairies had to be improved, whereas current writers now live and move within the prairie space and work with it\n- W – When writing Big Bear travelled his prairie routes. Wiebe didn’t try to write notes during the journey, wanted to feel the experience\n- K – did the same for Badlands – a week on Red Deer River\n- Commenting on the quote about Canadian literature that “it’s by our lack of ghosts we’re haunted”: W – disagrees, gives examples of buffalo jumps which are over 4000 years old. 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His English teacher asked if he ever considered being a writer."],"contents":["Aritha Van Herk\nIntroduces Robert Kroetsch to an audience of creative writing students at Pages book store.\nRobert Kroetsch\n[00:06:44]\nReads \"Hornbook #15\".\nRobert Kroetsch\n[00:09:55]\nReads \"Winnipeg is a Kind of a News\".\nRobert Kroetsch\n[00:12:50]\nReads \"The New World and Finding It\".\nRobert Kroetsch\n[00:21:20]\nReads \"The RK Hornbooks: Retractions\".\nRobert Kroetsch\n[00:25:27]\nReads \"Hornbook B\".\nRobert Kroetsch\n[00:27:05]\nReads \"Hornbook E: Against Reason\".\nRobert Kroetsch\n[00:27:35]\nReads \"Hornbook H\".\nRobert Kroetsch\n[00:28:04]\nReads \"The Oviedo Mound\".\nRobert Kroetsch\n[00:31:07]\nReads \"What the Crow Said\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558523195395,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":2.4715338},{"id":"8376","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Robert Kroetsch fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Robert Kroetsch fonds"],"collection_contributing_unit":["University of Calgary, Archives and Special Collections"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_id":[""],"persistent_url":["https://searcharchives.ucalgary.ca/robert-kroetsch-fonds"],"item_title":["The Bards of March: Mar 15/86 Barbour/Prize Draw/Kroetsch (Nichol) Van Herk B Wiebe"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[29.10.1]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2036"],"creator_names":["Kroetsch, Robert"],"creator_names_search":["Kroetsch, Robert"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/120613489\",\"name\":\"Kroetsch, Robert\",\"dates\":\"1927-2011\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Author\",\"Performer\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Barbour, Doug","Nichol, B.P.","Van Herk, Aritha","Wiebe, Rudy"],"contributors_names_search":["Barbour, Doug","Nichol, B.P.","Van Herk, Aritha","Wiebe, Rudy"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Barbour, Doug \",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/76350280\",\"name\":\"Nichol, B.P.\",\"dates\":\"1944-1988\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/110789564\",\"name\":\"Van Herk, Aritha\",\"dates\":\"-1954\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/39385421\",\"name\":\"Wiebe, Rudy\",\"dates\":\"-1934\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]}]"],"performer_name":["Barbour, Doug ","Nichol, B.P.","Van Herk, Aritha","Wiebe, Rudy"],"Performance_Date":[1986],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"A and B\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"XHE\",\"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\":\"\",\"other_physical_description\":\"\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"RK_Acc_775_04.25.29.10-1\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T00:59:20\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"978.34 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1986-03-15\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Dates taken from container and/or accompanying material.\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"Edmonton [?], Alberta, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"Address":["Edmonton [?], Alberta, Canada"],"City":["Edmonton, Alberta"],"content_notes":["\nReadings as well as prize draws for the NeWest event.\n- Doug Barbour, two poems about jazz: “Alone on the Road” and “That Gone Tune”. “That Gone Tune” inspired by listening to Dave Holland Quintet at the Yardbird Suite (jazz club in Edmonton). Third poem “For a Branch of Almond Tree in Bloom, 1890” a sonnet responding to Vincent van Gogh’s iconic “Branch of Almond Tree in Bloom” (find now as “Almond Blossom”). Untitled mixing sound and poetry, begins with epigraph from review Smaro Kambourelli wrote of Phyllis Webb.\n- Recording includes prize draw by Jack Lewis (NeWest manager): Rudy Wiebe giving away his books (Wiebe helped organize the event), art prize.\n- Robert Kroetsch (read by bpNichol): Nichol qualifies to read Robert Kroetsch because his father was born in Alberta. Nichol notes that Kroestch seeks to displace the “I” in his poetry, and this is about as far as he can displace it. Reading from section Advice to My Friends, \"1: For a Poet Who Has Stopped Writing,\" \"14: I Find Myself Reading the Old Guys Now December 6th 1983,\" \"Sonnet #1,\" \"I'm Getting Old Now,\" \"Sonnet #5\"; reading from section Sounding the Name, \"Sonnet for My Daughters\"; reading from section The Poet's Mother \"1,\" \"3,\" \"Envoy, To Begin With.\"\n- Aritha Van Herk: Reading from No Fixed Address: something is playing in the background during the reading. Section pertains to characters going to poetry reading, feminist and ironic view of poetry by novelists.\n- Rudy Wiebe: Reading from The Temptation of Big Bear, the last and only speech of big Bear, post-conviction.\n"],"contents":["Doug Barbour  \n[00:00:56]\nReads \"Alone on the Road\".\nDoug Barbour\n[00:03:30]\nReads \"That Gone Tune\".\nDoug Barbour\n[00:08:25]\nReads \"For a Branch of Almond Tree in Bloom, 1890\".\nUnknown\n[00:09:45]\nUntitled [begins with epigraph from review Smaro Kambourelli wrote of Phyllis Webb].\nB.P. Nichol\n[00:20:15]\nReads \"1: For a Poet Who Has Stopped Writing\" by Robert Kroetsch.\nB.P. Nichol\n[00:21:30]\nReads \"14: I Find Myself Reading the Old Guys Now December 6th 1983\" by Robert Kroetsch.\nB.P. Nichol\n[00:22:31]\nReads \"Sonnet #1\" by Robert Kroetsch.\nB.P. Nichol\n[00:23:32]\nReads \"I'm Getting Old Now\" by Robert Kroetsch.\nB.P. Nichol\n[00:24:42]\nReads \"Sonnet #5\" by Robert Kroetsch.\nB.P. 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Robert Kroetsch begins speaking at 2:11. The last time he was in the building was fifteen years ago doing research for Badlands, and is going to read from Badlands as a sort of thank you. First came upon the material by accident while travelling around Alberta, the kind of story he likes to parody in his writing, but through the archive came to have a sympathy for the men. Reads the beginning and the end, narrated by the daughter of William Dawe.\n- “Seed Catalogue”: Reflection on uncle asking “don’t you understand anything?” Robert Kroetsch notes that he’s been writing poems ever since trying to understand, and that perhaps he was right\n- “Delphi”: The only place where the oracle spoke in a human, female voice. There are four voices in this poem: Robert Kroetsch, quotes from Pausanias, commentary by Sir James Fraser, poem called “The Eggplant Poems.”\n- Excerpts: Using country music, the “hurting song.” Short prose entries that look like diary entries, intrigued by the authority that we grant to the diary entry.\n- Excerpts: anecdote on writers spending a good deal of their time travelling - [00:40:40] \n- Advice: Suppressed stories of his mother, a photograph given to him of his mother produced all these poems.\n- Question period: The questions are not very discernable. First question about what he is writing, Robert Kroetsch answers “not really,” that he is writing a novel that is unendable and not about the prairies, also his study of narrative. Second question, going back to Athens and Greece. Notes that he goes back quite frequently as he is married to a Greek woman. Third question about Advice as very different from his other writing. Robert Kroetsch responds that his voice between Field Notes (as personal) and Advice (as a persona) are in fact very different. Fourth question indiscernible, Robert Kroetsch responds that he doesn’t believe that poetry is dead, that poetry ought to be accessible to all. Fifth question indiscernible, Robert Kroetsch responds that this period of reading may be an aberration in the history of language and that we may go back to more elaborate readings. A return to the hearing of poems instead of the reading of poems.\n"],"contents":["Robert Kroetsch\n[00:04:33]\nReads excerpts from Badlands.\nRobert Kroetsch\n[00:14:20]\nReads excerpts from Field Notes.\nRobert Kroetsch\n[00:15:30]\nReads from \"Seed Catalogue\".\nRobert Kroetsch\n[00:20:30]\nReads from \"Delphi Commentary\".\nRobert Kroetsch\n[00:35:27]\nReads excerpts from the Real World.\nRobert Kroetsch\n[00:44:12]\nReads excerpts from the end of Advice to My Friends."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"Badlands; Field Notes; Excerpts from the Real World; Advice to My Friends\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558525292545,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":2.4715338},{"id":"8378","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Robert Kroetsch fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Robert Kroetsch fonds"],"collection_contributing_unit":["University of Calgary, Archives and Special Collections"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_id":[""],"persistent_url":["https://searcharchives.ucalgary.ca/robert-kroetsch-fonds"],"item_title":["Fine Lines #87, Robert Kroetsch interviews Dennis Cooley"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Fine Lines program, listing contents of recording."],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Broadcast"],"item_identifiers":["[29.12]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2052"],"creator_names":["Kroetsch, Robert"],"creator_names_search":["Kroetsch, Robert"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/120613489\",\"name\":\"Kroetsch, Robert\",\"dates\":\"1927-2011\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Interviewer\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Cooley, Dennis"],"contributors_names_search":["Cooley, Dennis"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/32011503\",\"name\":\"Cooley, Dennis\",\"dates\":\"-1944\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]}]"],"Speaker_name":["Cooley, Dennis"],"Performance_Date":[2002],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"A and B\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"Unknown acetate\",\"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\":\"\",\"other_physical_description\":\"\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"RK_Acc_775_04.25.29-12\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T01:02:49\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"1.01 GB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"2002\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Dates supplied through research for copyright.\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"CFUV Radio, University of Victoria\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"Victoria, British Columbia, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"Address":["Victoria, British Columbia, Canada"],"Venue":["CFUV Radio, University of Victoria"],"City":["Victoria, British Columbia"],"content_notes":["- Introduction of Robert Kroetsch and Cooley by Jim Andrews.\n- Discussion of his article “The Vernacular Muse.”\n- Reading of “Making Up” from Bloody Jack to use as an argument in relation to “Vernacular.” The centrality of pun. \n- Erotics between the poet and language, “You With the Stars…”. A great deal of silence in these poems, words surrounded by silence. Working off pauses and spaces.\n- “Strobic”: sitting in a barber’s chair, observing. Hearing and seeing. To what extent is the poem about poetry? To some extent every poem as metapoetic/metaliterary.\n- The range of subject matter in Cooley’s poems. What are the possible forms for poetry in our time? The challenge of writing is to find models to describe experience. Reading of other poems, that poems beget poems. Cooley argues that all poems are love poems (Robert Kroetsch wouldn’t go that far).\n- “Curse”: Someone arguing that Cooley only sees women as machines in Bloody Jack, writing this poem in response to what he considers a “pretty simple-minded” reading.\n- The poem almost forgetting its subject, getting caught up in the language\n- Excerpt from Cooley’s essay “Vernacular Muse” read by Andrews.\n- Crisis of audience in Canadian literature\n- “Sonia”: gains power by virtue of her sexuality. 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