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Jean Baird

Jean Baird smiles while holding a California League Official Ball.

Recordings

Jean Baird tells the story of the baseball

Baird, Jean and George Bowering. “The Story of the Baseball Story.” Interview by Karis Shearer. 7 April, 2023. The SoundBox Collection. https://soundbox.ok.ubc.ca

Collector and bibliographer Jean Baird tells Karis Shearer the story of the baseball that she donated to the Baird-Bowering fonds at UBC Okanagan Special Collections and Archives..

Bibliography

Bowering, George and Jean Baird. The Heart Does Break: Canadian Writers on Grief and Mourning. Vintage, 2011.

“UBC Okanagan benefits from generous literary contribution: Baird and Bowering donate to special collections and humanities lab.” UBC Okanagan. 7 December, 2022. Available online: https://news.ok.ubc.ca/2022/12/07/ubc-okanagan-benefits-from-generous-literary-contribution/

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Fred Wah

Fred Wah holding reel-to-reel mic, 3 May, 2022. Photo credit: Karis Shearer.

Recordings

Remediations

Bibliography

Fred Wah Digital Archive: A Collection of Works Involving Canadian Poet Fred Wah. Ed. Deanna Fong. Available Online: https://fredwah.ca/

Wah, Fred. Scree: The Collected Earlier Works (1962-1991). Ed. Jeff Derksen. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2016.

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Roy Kiyooka

A portrait of Roy Kiyooka reading "The Enigma of Arrival" by V. S. Naipaul. Roy wears a bird beak mask just atop his nose.

Recordings

  • Charles Olson Memorial Reading

    Roy Kiyooka reads “At Yorktown” and “Merce of Egypt” at the Charles Olson memorial at St. Anselm’s church, Vancouver, 1971. Citation:

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Remediations

Bibliography

Fong, Deanna. “Other Talk: Conversational Events in the Roy Kiyooka Digital Archive.” in CanLit Across Media: Unarchiving the Literary Event. Montreal: MQUP, 2020. 54-71.

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Gladys Hindmarch

Gladys Maria Hindmarch at the rose garden, UBC Vancouver, 2019. Photo by Karis Shearer.

Recordings

  • West Coast with Stan and Gladys,

    From “West Coast with Stan and Gladys,” in which Hindmarch talks with Warren Tallman about the UBC writers’ workshop, Vancouver 1969.

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Remediations

Bibliography

Betts, Gregory. Review of Wanting Everything: The Collected Works of Gladys Hindmarch. By Gladys Hindmarch. Eds. Deanna Fong and Karis Shearer. The Ampersand Review. 2021. Available online: https://theampersandreview.ca/book-reviews-blog/wanting-everything-by-gladys-hindmarch

Dunagan, Patrick James. “Wanting Everything: The Collected Works.” Review of Wanting Everything: The Collected Works of Gladys Hindmarch. By Gladys Hindmarch. Eds. Deanna Fong and Karis Shearer. Rain Taxi. Online Winter Edition 2020/21. Available online: https://www.raintaxi.com/wanting-everything-the-collected-works/

Fitzpatrick, Ryan. “On Gladys Hindmarch’s Wanting Everything.” Review of Wanting Everything: The Collected Works of Gladys Hindmarch. By Gladys Hindmarch. Eds. Deanna Fong and Karis Shearer. The Capilano Review. 24 November 2020. Available online: https://thecapilanoreview.com/on-gladys-hindmarch-wanting-everything/

Fong, Deanna and Karis Shearer. “Gender, Affective Labour, and Community-building through Literary Audio Recordings.” SpokenWeblog. 21 April, 2022. Available online: https://spokenweb.ca/gender-affective-labour-and-community-building-through-literary-audio-recordings/

Hindmarch, Gladys. Wanting Everything: The Collected Works of Gladys Hindmarch. Eds. Deanna Fong and Karis Shearer. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2020.

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George Bowering

A black and white portrait of George Bowering. He holds a telephone to one ear and a cigarette between his fingers in his other hand.
George Bowering.

Recordings

  • George Bowering introduces Sheila Watson.

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  • Bowering Party Readings Aug 16, 1986

    The tape consists of an amateur home recording of a private reading among poets and friends hosted by George and Angela Bowering on August 16, 1986. Guest readers include Sharon Thesen and Robin Blaser. Other poets are unconfirmed. “Bowering Party Reading (incomplete)” from George Bowering fonds.

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Remediations

  • “A Celebration of the Works of George Bowering”

    Citation: “A Celebration of the Works of George Bowering.” 22 September, 2022. UBC Okanagan, Special Collections. https://soundbox.ok.ubc.ca/remediations/performances/

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Bibliography

Butchart, Megan and Morgan Ryder. “Archival Bonds: the Baird-Bowering and SoundBox Collections in Conversation.” AMP Lab blog. 6 March, 2022. Available online: https://amplab.ok.ubc.ca/index.php/2022/03/06/archival-bonds-the-baird-bowering-and-soundbox-collections-in-conversation/

“A Celebration of the Works of George Bowering.” AMP Lab. YouTube, 2023. Available online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8-TpENSBa4

“UBC Okanagan benefits from generous literary contribution: Baird and Bowering donate to special collections and humanities lab.” UBC Okanagan. 7 December, 2022. Available online: https://news.ok.ubc.ca/2022/12/07/ubc-okanagan-benefits-from-generous-literary-contribution/

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