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Somewhere with a beach (British Columbia?)\n- “I Spoke”: fascinated by the act of naming, by naming something it will exist. Also about chickens.\n- Robert Kroetsch on Kay – she is a successful watercolour painter who has decided to write poems\n- Dingwald – comparatively late to writing, she considers it verse rather than poetry. Living as a learning process.\n- “Song”: “I would not have read tonight except Robert read it and said ‘why not?’”\n- Robert Kroetsch on Mann – poet from the interior\n- Mann: difficulties of building and sustaining a ranch, as well as women’s condition\n- Martin recording is not part of the workshop recording.\n"],"contents":["Sheila McMaster\n[00:00:00]\nReads \"Selene\".\nSheila McMaster\n[00:01:12]\nReads \"Freedom\".\nSheila McMaster\n[00:01:27]\nReads \"His Friend\".\nSheila McMaster\n[00:02:05]\nReads \"Shadow of a Shaman\".\nSheila McMaster\n[00:02:45]\nReads \"Slight of Hand\".\nSheila McMaster\n[00:03:10]\nReads \"Hibiscus\".\nSheila McMaster\n[00:03:26]\nReads \"To Have Known More of You\".\nUrsula Vaira\n[00:05:10]\nReads \"Under a Blue Moon at Midnight\".\nUrsula Vaira\n[00:06:28]\nReads \"The Apple Tree\".\nUrsula Vaira\n[00:08:40]\nReads \"Snapshot Motel 6\".\nUrsula Vaira\n[00:11:08]\nReads \"Cadillac\".\nUrsula Vaira\n[00:12:10]\nReads \"I Spoke the Word and It Rained\".\nUrsula Vaira\n[00:13:00]\nReads \"untitled\".\nKay Jenkins\n[00:14:35]\nReads \"Morocco\".\nKay Jenkins\n[00:15:19]\nReads \"untitled\".\nKay Jenkins\n[00:16:07]\nReads \"Lover\".\nKay Jenkins\n[00:16:30]\nReads \"On Richard Street\".\nKay Jenkins\n[00:17:24]\nReads \"Our Love\".\nKay Jenkins\n[00:18:00]\nReads \"Taped\".\nMairi Dingwald\n[00:20:00]\nReads \"In Defense of Men\".\nMairi Dingwald\n[00:23:00]\nReads \"The Golden Rule in 1991\".\nMairi Dingwald\n[00:25:10]\nReads \"Song of a Wanderer\".\nElizabeth Mann\n[00:30:40]\nReads \"You See No More\".\nElizabeth Mann\n[00:31:32]\nReads \"A Change of Colour\".\nElizabeth Mann\n[00:32:05]\nReads \"I Heard Your Voice\".\nElizabeth Mann\n[00:33:15]\nReads \"Who Is This?\".\nElizabeth Mann\n[00:34:33]\nReads \"Too Hard\".\nElizabeth Mann\n[00:35:02]\nReads \"Leaving\".\nElizabeth Mann\n[00:35:47]\nReads \"First Spring Day\".\nLinda Marlin\n[00:37:02]\nReads \"untitled\".\nLinda Marlin\n[00:39:15]\nReads \"She Had a Cottage\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"n/a. 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