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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.

A black-and-white closeup portrait of Daphne Marlatt smiling softly.

| Recordings

  • “4 parts of morning for 714”

    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/

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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/

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| Remediations

  • 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.

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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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