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Daphne Marlatt

Daphne Marlatt (1942-) grew up in Penang, Malaysia before immigrating to Canada in the 1950s. While studying at UBC in the 1960s, Marlatt was one of the editors during the second-phase of TISH. Marlatt has written over twenty collections of poetry and prose including Steveston (1974), The Given (2008), and Reading Sveva (2016). In 2006 she received the Order of Canada. Marlatt lives in Vancouver.

| Recordings

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    Daphne Marlatt at Selkirk College (1973)

    Marlatt reads from published work and a manuscript in progress.

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    Protected: Daphne Marlatt on Ana Historic

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    Hearing the Interior (2025)

    The opening of “Hearing the Interior with Fred Wah and Pauline Butling” exhibition featured readings by Daphne Marlatt, Sharon Thesen, Erin Scott, Deanna Fong, and Klara du Plessis.

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  • Reel-to-reel tape.

    “4 parts of morning for 714” (1969)

    Citation: Marlatt, Daphne. “4 parts of morning for 714” from leaf leaf/s. from DHL Tape [Warren Tallman Interview with Daphne Marlatt, Vancouver, 1969]. July 1969. 2012.002.016, Warren Tallman fonds. SoundBox Collection, AMP Lab at UBC Okanagan, Kelowna, B.C. https://soundbox.ok.ubc.ca/daphne-marlatt/ This excerpt forms part of a full reading of Daphne Marlatt’s book, leaf leaf/s. The full recording…

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    leaf leaf/s Reading

    Citation: Marlatt, Daphne. “leaf leaf/s Reading”, excerpt from DHL Tape [Warren Tallman Interview with Daphne Marlatt, Vancouver, 1969]. July 1969. 2012.002.016, Warren Tallman fonds. SoundBox Collection, AMP Lab at UBC Okanagan, Kelowna, B.C. https://soundbox.ok.ubc.ca/daphne-marlatt/ In a forthcoming essay in Open Library of Humanities journal, Karis Shearer writes about this audio recording: “West coast feminist writer…

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| Remediations

  • A close-up of signage displayed on the wall of the exhibition space. It reads: Hearing the interior with Fred Wah and Pauline Butling.
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    Hearing the Interior (2025)

    The opening of “Hearing the Interior with Fred Wah and Pauline Butling” exhibition featured readings by Daphne Marlatt, Sharon Thesen, Erin Scott, Deanna Fong, and Klara du Plessis.

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    Leaf Leaf/sounds))

    Leaf Leaf/sounds)) is a multi-track sound piece remixing a digitized 1969 reel-to-reel recording of Daphne Marlatt reading from her book, Leaf Leaf/s. Marlatt’s voice is re-sounded alongside ambient guitar drones and field recordings captured by the artist Xiaoxuan Huang between 2021-2022.

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  • S1, Episode 2: Performing the Archive

    Host Karis Shearer, guest curator Megan Butchart, and poet Daphne Marlatt have a conversation about Daphne Marlatt’s 1969 archival recording of leaf leaf/s and her experience of performing poetry with the archive in 2019. This episode was co-produced by Karis Shearer and Nour Sallam.

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    Performing the Archive: leaf leaf/s by Daphne Marlatt

    “Performing the Archive: leaf leaf/s by Daphne Marlatt” from Inspired Word Cafe Live Reading by Daphne Marlatt, 19 September, 2019. Released: 2019. Genre: Poetry Reading. On 19 September 2019, in collaboration with Kelowna’s Inspired Word Café, Daphne Marlatt read live alongside the archival playback of an excerpt from a 1969 recording of leaf leaf/s. As…

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| Bibliography

Marlatt, Daphne. Intertidal: The Collected Earlier Poems (1968-2008). Ed. Susan Holbrook. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2017.

—. leaf leaf/s. BlackSparrow Press, 1969.

Pickard, Rowan, Emily Murphy, and Karis Shearer. “Hearing Lived Experience: Influences of Gender and Politics Over Time in Daphne Marlatt’s Readings of leaf leaf/s.” GitHub, 2023. Available online: https://rpickard01.github.io/hearing-lived-experience-daphne-marlatt/pages/introduction.html

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