Latest
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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…
Oral Histories
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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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Jean Baird tells “The Story of the Baseball.”
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.
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Out of Bounds: An Oral History.
Karis Shearer talks with poet-professor Jodey Castricano about “Out of Bounds,” their creative work that recalls their experience in Oakalla and Maple Ridge prisons where they were serving for civil disobedience for blocking logging roads in Sulphur Pass in 1989.
Podcast
SoundBox Signals is a podcast that brings literary archival recordings to life through a combination of curated close listening and conversation. Hosted and co-produced by Karis Shearer, each episode features a conversation with a curator and two special guests. Together they’ll listen, talk, and consider how a selected recording signifies in the contemporary moment and ask what listening allows us to know about cultural history. Explore our most recent episodes below, or view all episodes of SoundBox Signals.
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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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Episode 4: Is Robin Here?
“Is Robin here?” On this episode, we ask what we can “know” about the dynamics of a space through listening. We listen to the “Charles Olson Memorial” recording and talk about mourning, spontaneity, relationships, authority, and poetry recitation.
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Episode 3: Only the Imagination Carries Forward
Host Karis Shearer is joined by curator Amy Thiessen and special guest-poets Nancy Holmes and Sharon Thesen. Together they talk about a November 14, 1986 recording featuring Sharon Thesen’s visit to Warren Tallman’s English 205 class at UBC’s Vancouver campus.
Performances
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“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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Nezami’s “Layli and Majnoon,” with Yasaman Lotfizadeh and Karis Shearer
Karis Shearer and Yasaman Lotfizadeh discuss “Layli and Majnoon” before Lotfizadeh reads “Majnoon in Wilderness” in Farsi, 18 March, 2022.
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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.
Exhibitions
There are currently no exhibitions. Stay tuned as we add archived and current exhibitions.