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Peter Quartermain

Recordings

Basil Bunting. 1970 Interview

Citation: Bunting, Basil, Quartermain, Peter and Warren Tallman. “Bunting 1970 Interview”. 4 November 1970. 2022.002.182, Peter Quartermain fonds, SoundBox Collection, AMP Lab at UBC Okanagan, Kelowna, B.C. https://soundbox.ok.ubc.ca/peter-quartermain

Basil Bunting. Nov ’84. Side A

Citation: Bunting, Basil and Peter Quartermain. “Bunting. Nov ‘84”. 20 November 1984. 2022.002.190, Peter Quartermain fonds, SoundBox Collection, AMP Lab at UBC Okanagan, Kelowna, B.C. https://soundbox.ok.ubc.ca/peter-quartermain

Basil Bunting. Nov ’84. Side B

Citation: Bunting, Basil and Peter Quartermain. “Bunting. Nov ‘84”. 20 November 1984. 2022.002.190, Peter Quartermain fonds, SoundBox Collection, AMP Lab at UBC Okanagan, Kelowna, B.C. https://soundbox.ok.ubc.ca/peter-quartermain

Basil Bunting. 21 Nov ’84 w PQ

Citation: Bunting, Basil and Peter Quartermain. “BB 21 Nov ‘84 w PQ”. 21 November 1984. Peter Quartermain fonds, SoundBox Collection, AMP Lab at UBC Okanagan, Kelowna, B.C. https://soundbox.ok.ubc.ca/peter-quartermain
In black-and-white, Meredith Quartermain and Peter Quartermain stand together against the backdrop of a mountain range. They look up and off into the landscape before them which we cannot see.
Meredith Quartermain and Peter Quartermain, 1976

Bibliography

DuPlessis, Rachel Blau and Peter Quartermain, Eds. The Objectivist Nexus: Essays in Cultural Poetics. Tuscaloosa: U Alabama P, 1999.

Quartermain, Peter. Basil Bunting: Poet of the North. Durham: Durham University Library, 1990.

—. Disjunctive Poetics: From Gertrude Stein to Louis Zukofsky to Susan Howe. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1992.

-. Growing Dumb: An Autobiography of An English Education. Montreal-Vancouver: Zat-So Productions, 2021.

—. “Slow Learner.” Interview with Andrew Klobucar. The Capilano Review. 2.44 (2004): 5-24.

—. Stubborn Poetries: Poetic Facticity and the Avant-Garde. Tuscaloosa: U Alabama P, 2013.


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Peter Quartermain fonds

Peter Quartermain’s fonds consists of 196 cassette tapes (initially 180, with an accrual of 16 additional tapes in winter of 2022). These recordings were donated to the SoundBox Collection by Peter and Meredith Quartermain. Peter Quartermain recorded many of his lectures as a professor of English at UBC Vancouver, as a means of making lecture/seminar content accessible to students long before this became a mainstream practice through online learning management systems. The tapes in this fonds were recorded over a span of more than 40 years, from 1961 to 2003, and many relate to Quartermain’s research on poet Basil Bunting, including radio broadcasts, interviews, events, and a graduate course on Bunting. Quartermain’s collection includes far more than just lectures, however. There are also home recordings of Peter Quartermain reading fiction, recordings of sound poetry performances, book launches, radio performances, and poetry readings. There are also several lectures given by other poets and professors who are Quartermain’s contemporaries, some specifically kept for class use, as well as many tapes of the New Poetics Colloquium of the Kootenay School of Writing (KSW) featuring lectures and readings by various poets. His focus on accessibility both in the classroom and in poetry as an art form through his work on queer poetics and marginal poetry can be found in the hundreds of hours of recordings here.