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Warren Tallman fonds

U.S.American-born Warren Tallman moved to Vancouver in the 1950s to take up a position as a professor at University of British Columbia where he remained until his retirement in 1987. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, he mentored several Canadian poets who made up the TISH movement. The majority of these recordings were made between 1961 and 1986, capturing pertinent poetry events. Made on both reel-to-reel and cassette tapes, these recordings include lectures and poetry readings by, as well as  interviews with poets from Canada, the United States, and England. Several of his recordings and interviews occurred in the home that he shared with his wife, Ellen Tallman, as well as in the classroom at UBC. Among the 40 cassettes and 24 reel-to-reels in the Tallman fonds are in-home recordings, classroom lectures, interviews, and public readings. 

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Sharon Thesen fonds

Sharon Thesen is a Canadian-born and B.C.-raised poet. She has studied and taught poetry in Vancouver, as well as working as a professor of Creative Writing at UBC’s Okanagan campus in Kelowna. As the smallest fonds in the Soundbox Collection, the Sharon Thesen fonds is made up of only two cassette tapes. These cassettes contain a home recording of Sharon Thesen reading from her book, Artemis Hates Romance (1980), at George and Angela Bowering’s house in 1980, and two interviews of Sharon Thesen discussing both her work and the Vancouver poetry scene of the 1980s. This fonds is valuable not only for the content it provides, including other notable poets George Bowering and Robin Blaser, but also for its size. How do different poets archive themselves, and why?

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Daphne Marlatt fonds