The SoundBox Collection
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. Recorded by ARADIOFREERAINFORESTAPE. Citation: Single 11 Meredith Quartermain Duet Poems, from “Robin Blaser. Robert Creeley. Vancouver East C.C.” Peter Quartermain fonds. 2022.002.152_27SideA, SoundBox Collection, AMP Lab at UBC Okanagan, Kelowna, […]
“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.
The 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 poets are unconfirmed. “Bowering Party Reading (incomplete)” from George Bowering fonds.