| Recordings
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Protected: Daphne Marlatt on Ana Historic
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Bowering Party Readings (1986)
This 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 readers may include Rob Dunham reading Luis Posse’s poems and Dwight Gardiner. The sociality and community-focus of the event is…
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George Bowering introduces Sheila Watson.
This clip of a longer tape consists of George Bowering introducing Sheila Watson as a guest speaker in his class at SFU, October 6, 1982. He positions Watson not only as being central to the Canadian literary canon, but also as a substantive innovator in the ways that she approaches fiction writing. He further suggests…
| Remediations
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S2, Episode 1: Sharon Thesen’s reading at the Bowerings’
University of Exeter undergraduates Sofie Drew and Emily Chircop carry out a close listening of a 1980 recording of Sharon Thesen reading from her first book Artemis Hates Romance at George and Angela Bowerings’ house. Drew and Chircop’s conversation focuses on the intimacy, sociality, and ambiguity of the recording, and how this shapes interpretation. The…
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On Sharon Thesen’s Reading at the Bowerings’
Karis Shearer talks with George Bowering with contributions from Jean Baird about the Sharon Thesen’s reading and launch of Artemis Hates Romance at George and Angela Bowerings’ house in the early 1980s. Their conversation touches on other readings and literary events at the Bowerings’, a social hub for writers living in and visiting Vancouver.
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“A Celebration of the Works of George Bowering” (2022)
Citation: “A Celebration of the Works of George Bowering.” 22 September, 2022. UBC Okanagan, Special Collections. https://soundbox.ok.ubc.ca/remediations/performances/ In this celebration of the donation of the Jean Baird and George Bowering Collection, an archival clip from circa 1974 or 1975 of Bowering’s daughter Thea Bowering is played alongside readings by live Bowering and Baird. With this…
| 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/