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Case label: CBC Tape June 2, 1984 Tribute"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Broadcast"],"item_identifiers":["[4.1.1]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2034"],"creator_names":["Nowlan, Alden"],"creator_names_search":["Nowlan, Alden"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/61671170\",\"name\":\"Nowlan, Alden\",\"dates\":\"1933-1983\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Author\",\"Performer\",\"Speaker\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Haywood, Norris","Hatfield, Richard","Bly, Robert","Costello, Ralph","Richards, David Adam","Gibbs, Bob","Donaldson, Alan","Stewart, Jim","Ferrari, Leo C."],"contributors_names_search":["Haywood, Norris","Hatfield, Richard","Bly, Robert","Costello, Ralph","Richards, David Adam","Gibbs, Bob","Donaldson, Alan","Stewart, Jim","Ferrari, Leo C."],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Haywood, Norris\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Hatfield, Richard\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/79847862\",\"name\":\"Bly, Robert\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Costello, Ralph\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Richards, David Adam\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Gibbs, Bob\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Donaldson, Alan\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Stewart, Jim\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Ferrari, Leo C.\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]}]"],"Speaker_name":["Haywood, Norris","Hatfield, Richard","Bly, Robert","Costello, Ralph","Richards, David Adam","Gibbs, Bob","Donaldson, Alan","Stewart, Jim","Ferrari, Leo C."],"Performance_Date":[1984],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"A and B\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"Scotch\",\"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\":\"\",\"other_physical_description\":\"\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"AN_523_92.21.4.1.1\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T00:41:59\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"76.88 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1984-06-24\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Dates taken from item.\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"content_notes":["Maritime Magazine, Sunday June 24, 1984: Remembering the poet Alden Nowlan\n- [00:00:09] clip of Alden Nowlan speaking\n- “Alden Alden Nowlan, For His Own Amazement: A Feature documentary”\n- Program released one year after his death. Begins with extended biography of Alden Nowlan, his life, childhood, and poetry.\n- [00:01:26] Alden Nowlan discussing his family/childhood\n- [00:02:49] clip of Norris Hayword, a friend of Alden Nowlan’s from Hartland, NB; Alden Nowlan and Hatfield spent a great deal of time with Hayword\n- [00:03:35] clip of Hatfield\n- [00:04:40] clip of Hayword\n- [00:06:07] clip of American poet Robert Bly. Alden Nowlan’s poetry was first picked up in American little magazines and journals. - [00:06:50] Bly reads Alden Nowlan’s poem “Weakness”.\n- [00:08:08] clip of Ralph Costello, editor of Telegraph Journal at the time of Alden Nowlan working there.\n- [00:08:39] Alden Nowlan reading his poem “Britain Street”\n- [00:11:00] clip of David Adams Richards, novelist and student of Alden Nowlan.\n- [00:12:18] clip of Bob Gibbs, UNB professor.\n- [00:13:12] clip of Alan Donaldson, UNB professor.\n- [00:15:35] Alden Nowlan reading his poem “The Night of the Party”\n- [00:16:31] clip of Gibbs\n- [00:17:14] clip of Richards\n- [00:17:38] clip of Hatfield\n- [00:18:06] Alden Nowlan reading his poem “A Pinch or Two of Dust”\n- [00:20:02] clip of Richards\n- [00:21:25] clip of Jim Stewart talking about Alden Nowlan’s past through the novel Various Persons Named Kevin O’Brien\n- [00:22:14] Alden Nowlan discussing his family and the difficulties of their relationship\n- [00:22:41] clip of Hatfield\n- [00:23:09] clip of Leo Ferrari, UNB professor\n- [00:24:17] clip of Gibbs\n- [00:25:59] Alden Nowlan discussing the founding of the Flat Earth Society\n- [00:26:51] clip of Hatfield on Alden Nowlan’s abundant tolerance\n- [00:27:12] clip of Ferrari\n- [00:27:40] clip of Gibbs\n- [00:28:35] clip of Richards\n- [00:29:02] Alden Nowlan reading “Ypres: 1915”\n- [00:30:31] clip of Ferrari\n- [00:30:59] Alden Nowlan discussing writing poems\n- [00:31:11] clip of Stewart\n- [00:31:24] clip of Richards\n- [00:31:58] Alden Nowlan reading “For Claudine, Because I Love Her”\n- [00:33:38] clip of Stewart\n- [00:34:35] Alden Nowlan discussing childhood home. - [00:35:06] Alden Nowlan reading “Blueberries, Strawberries, Winter Bean”\n- [00:36:18] clip of Hatfield\n- [00:38:20] Production notes."],"contents":["Unknown\n[00:00:01]\nReads \"Alden Nowlan, For His Own Amazement: A Feature Documentary\" from Maritime Magazine, Sunday June 24, 1984: Remembering the poet Alden Nowlan.\nRobert Bly\n[00:06:50]\nReads \"Weakness\" by Alden Nowlan.\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:08:39]\nReads \"Britain Street\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:15:35]\nReads \"The Night of the Party\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:18:06]\nReads \"A Pinch or Two of Dust\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:29:02]\nReads \"Ypres: 1915\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:31:58]\nReads \"For Claudine Because I Love Her\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:35:06]\nReads \"Blueberries, Strawberries, Wintergreen\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"The Rose and the Puritan (1958), Bread, Wine and Salt (1967), I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1974), The Mysterious Naked Man (1969)\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558514806784,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":3.6228101},{"id":"8331","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Alden Nowlan fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Alden Nowlan 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/alden-nowlan-fonds"],"item_title":["Canada Council 25th Anniversary Maritime Writers Workshop, UNB; July 4, 1982 "],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Case label: Canada Council 25th Anniversary Maritime Writers Workshop, UNB July 4, 1982. 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Laughter throughout.\n- [00:29:17] “Ghost Stories”. Laughter at - [00:29:40] .\n- [00:32:06] Introduces poem and then reads, - [00:32:54] “He Visits the Shrine of a Saint”\n- [00:35:52] “The Secretive Fisherman”\n- [00:38:33] “Only When My Heart Freezes”\n- [00:39:56] introduces poem and then reads “Legacy.” Recording ends here."],"contents":["Laurel Boone\n[00:00:11]\nIntroduces \"7th Annual Maritime Writers workshop\".\nRobert Gibbs\n[00:01:11]\nIntroduces Alfred Bailey.\nAlfred Bailey\n[00:05:00]\nReads \"The Night Country\".\nAlfred Bailey\n[00:09:15]\nReads \"Queen’s Park\".\nAlfred Bailey\n[00:11:24]\nReads \"Gluskap’s Daughter\".\nAlfred Bailey\n[00:12:56]\nReads \"Colour Chart\".\nBob Gibbs\n[00:14:25]\nConcludes Alfred Bailey readings and introduces Alden Nowlan.\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:18:49]\nReads \"My Beard, Once Lionheart Red\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:23:29]\nReads \"What Happened When He Went to the Store for Bread\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:26:30]\nReads \"Word from the Losers\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:28:17]\nReads \"And Now the Good News\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:29:17]\nReads \"Ghost Stories\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:32:54]\nReads \"He Visits the Shrine of a Saint\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:35:52]\nReads \"The Secretive Fisherman\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:38:33]\nReads \"Only When My Heart Freezes\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:39:56]\nReads \"Legacy\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"Bailey, poems published in various venues including special issue of Canadian Literature (1979) [\\\"The Night Country\\\"]. 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