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Tag: Robin Blaser

Recording

Bowering Party Readings (1986)

Post author By Lauren St Clair
Post date May 16, 2024
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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 […]

Tags Angela Bowering, george bowering, George Bowering fonds, Robin Blaser, sharon thesen

Podcast

S1, Episode 4: Is Robin Here?

Post author By Lauren St Clair
Post date April 22, 2020
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L-R: Amy Thiessen, Emily Murphy, Hannah McGregor, and Karis Shearer.

“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.

Tags Charles Olson Memorial, Robin Blaser, Vancouver, warren tallman

Recording

Robin Blaser and Meredith Quartermain reading at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre

Post author By Lauren St Clair
Post date September 11, 2003
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Robin Blaser and Meredith Quartermain duet reading at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre (now “The Cultch”), 1895 Venables St, East Vancouver, on September 11, 2003.

Tags Meredith Quatermain, Peter Quartermain fonds, Robin Blaser

Recording

Charles Olson Memorial Poetry Reading

Post author By Karis Shearer
Post date March 14, 1970
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Writers gather in Vancouver to commemorate the life of U.S.American poet Charles Olson.

Tags Judith Copithorne, Lionel Kearns, peter quartermain, Robin Blaser, Roy Kiyooka, warren tallman, Warren Tallman fonds

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The SoundBox collection is digitized, archived, and remediated on the traditional and unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation. The collection encompasses the thoughts and work of voices recorded across so-called British Columbia and so-called Canada, including on the traditional and unceded territories of the Syilx Okanagan Nation, Secwépemc, Tiohtià:ke (Montreal), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.

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