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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.
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.
Jean Baird has been a professor, magazine publisher, consultant for non-profit organizations, and creative director of Canada Book Week for the Writers’ Trust of Canada. She is a book collector and bibliographer who co-founded the Al Purdy A-frame Association, which transformed the Purdys’ famous A-frame in Ameliasburgh, Ontario into a writers’ residence.
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 […]