The SoundBox Collection
Fred Wah talks to Brian Fawcett and reads poetry on Mountain Pass Radio Citation:Wah, Fred. “Mountain Pass: Fred Wah.” 2022.003.065, Fred Wah Fonds. SoundBox Collection, AMP Lab at UBC Okanagan, Kelowna, B.C. On 22 December 1976, Fred Wah was featured on Mountain Pass Radio, “a 12-part series recorded for CFRO FM radio in Vancouver during […]
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By Karis Shearer & Paige Hohmann In the following exchange, UBC (Okanagan) SpokenWeb affiliates Karis Shearer and Paige Hohmann turn their attention to a clip from the SoundBox Collection and consider its connection to the B.C. Interior and the B.C. Regional Digitized History archive. This is part one of a series called “Archival Bonds” where […]
By Klara du Plessis On 3 February 1972 at 8pm, Fred Wah was recorded on ¼ inch magnetic tape reading at Malaspina College (now Vancouver Island University) in Nanaimo, B.C. The event was sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts and formed part of a two-month series that included other poets such as Stan Persky and Robert Kroetsch. The reel-to-reel is part of the Fred Wah fonds in the SoundBox Collection at the University […]
British modernist poet, Basil Bunting (1900-1985), was born in Scotswood-on-Tyne, Northumberland, and passed away in Hexham, Northumberland. His life overlapped with both World Wars. He was drafted during World War I and subsequently imprisoned for being a conscientious objector. During World War II, he enlisted in the Royal Air Force and worked for the British Intelligence as a translator in Persia (now Iran), staying on well beyond the tenure of his appointment. Despite numerous collections, Bunting’s autobiographical long poem, Briggflats (1966)—with references to medieval literary subject matter and style—is his most influential book of poetry. It exemplifies his lifelong interest in the sound of poetry and comes to life when read out loud. Bunting’s friendship with Peter Quartermain brought him to Vancouver in 1970 and 1984. Quartermain’s biography, Basil Bunting: Poet of the North, remains the authoritative study of Bunting’s life.