On 14 March, 1970, poets and scholars gathered at St Anselm’s Anglican Church on the University of British Columbia’s campus in Vancouver, B.C., on Musqueam Territory, to mark the passing of the U.S.American poet Charles Olson (1910-1970). Following an introduction by Warren Tallman, and opening recitation from the Book of Revelation 1:4 by Robin Blaser, participants read in the following order: Judy Copithorne, Peter Quartermain, Lionel Kearns, Jim Brown, George Stanley (San Francisco), Stan Persky, Roy Cartlidge (England), Brian Fawcett, Scott Lawrence, Ralph Maud, Richard Sommer, Doug Walker, Maxine Gadd, Mark Cacchioni, Ebbe Borregaard (San Francisco), Roy Kiyooka, Roger Field, Jon Furburg, and Robin Blaser. Some sections of this recording are missing and may be found in SFU’s collection, as Megan Butchart (SpokenWeb RA) describes in her blog post about this tape, “In the Archive: The Charles Olson Memorial Reading” (2020).
| Bibliography
Butchart, Megan. “In the Archive: The Charles Olson Memorial Reading.” The AMP Lab Blog. 25 May, 2020. Online: https://amplab.ok.ubc.ca/index.php/2020/05/25/in-the-archive-the-charles-olson-memorial-recording/
“Is Robin Here?” SoundBox Signals Podcast S1:E4, Karis Shearer, Nour Sallam, co-producers. 22 April, 2020. Online: https://soundbox.ok.ubc.ca/is-robin-here/
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“Charles Olson Memorial Poetry Reading, St Anselm’s Church, Vancouver.” SpokenWeb Search Engine. https://search.spokenweb.ca/catalog/4548