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Warren Tallman

U.S.American-born Warren Tallman (1921-1994) moved to Vancouver in the 1950s to take up a position as a professor at University of British Columbia where he remained until his retirement in 1987. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, he mentored several Canadian poets who made up the TISH movement and the Downtown poets group. Tallman was a prolific recordist who made audio recordings of many West Coast poetry readings and other events. Tallman is also author of the volumes Godawful Streets of Man (Coach House, 1978) and In the Midst (Talon, 1992). With Donald Allen, he edited The Poetics of the New American Poetry (Grove, 1973).

A monotone portrait of Warren Tallman with an orange-yellow filter applied

| Recordings

  • “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,” circa 1966

    “Warren Tallman” from Crossing Brooklyn Ferry by Walt Whitman. Released: 2019. Track 1.

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| Remediations

  • S1, Episode 4: Is Robin Here?

    “Is Robin here?” On this episode, we ask what we can “know” about the dynamics of a space through listening. We listen to the “Charles Olson Memorial” recording and talk about mourning, spontaneity, relationships, authority, and poetry recitation.

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  • S1, Episode 3: Only the Imagination Carries Forward

    Host Karis Shearer is joined by curator Amy Thiessen and special guest-poets Nancy Holmes and Sharon Thesen. Together they talk about a November 14, 1986 recording featuring Sharon Thesen’s visit to Warren Tallman’s English 205 class at UBC’s Vancouver campus.

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| Bibliography

Allen, Donald and Warren Tallman, eds. The Poetics of the New American Poetry. New York: Grove, 1973.

Tallman, Warren. Godawful Streets of Man. Toronto: Coach House, 1978.

—. In the Midst. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1992.

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