Sharon Thesen class visit, reading from The Beginning of the Long Dash ms, Nov 14 86, ENGL 205 (full recording).
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“Chrysanthemum Perfume”
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Sharon Thesen’s Reading at Bowerings’
Sharon Thesen’s Reading at Bowerings’
Side A
On Side A, Thesen reads: “Japanese Movies,” “Choice,” “Jack & Jill,” “Being Lost, As Usual,” “Thanks for the Party,” “Day Dream,” “Kirk Lonegren’s Home Movie Taking Place Just North of Prince George, with Sound,” “Mean Drunk Poem,” “Artemis Hates Romance,” “On an Island, Swinging at Night on a Rope that Hangs from a Tree,” “Easter Sunday,” “It Being Over, There Being No Other Way,” “Postscript to Duncan McNaughton,” “The Shifting Sands Motel,” “July 1st, 1979,” and part of “Getting on With It.”
Side B
On Side B, Thesen reads: second part of “Getting on With It,” “After Joe Clark Winning the Federal Election,” “Dedication,” “Japanese Movies 2,” [intermission], “Wilkinson Road Poems,” “Po-It-Tree,” Parts of Speech: 12 Poems: “1. The,” “2. To See,” “3. This & That,” “4. Confession,” “5. Usage,” “6. Person Place or Thing,” 7. The Argument Begins With A,” “8. Grinning Away in Paradise,” “9. After Spicer,” “[rereads by request] 9. After Spicer,” “10. Magic,” “11. Echolocation,” “12. The End,” “Loose Woman Poem.” [end of Artemis Hates Romance] [reads from new work-in-progress, introduced as, “Radio New France Radio”] “The Fable [?],” “Carre St. Louis,” [re-reads by request] “Carre St. Louis,” “Here.”
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Sharon Thesen class visit, reading from The Beginning of the Long Dash ms, Nov 14 86, ENGL 205 (full recording).
Sharon Thesen class visit, reading from The Beginning of the Long Dash ms, Nov 14 86, ENGL 205 (full recording). Citation: “Nov 14 86 205 Sharon” from Nov 14 86 205 Sharon Thesen [Guest lectures in Warren Tallman’s English 205 class]. 1986. 2012.002.033. Warren Tallman fonds. SoundBox Collection, AMP Lab at UBC Okanagan, Kelowna, B.C.…
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“Chrysanthemum Perfume”
“Chrysanthemum Perfume” from The Beginning of the Long Dash
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Sharon Thesen’s Reading at Bowerings’
Sharon Thesen reads from Artemis Hates Romance at George and Angela Bowering’s house. Robin Blaser is heard in attendance.
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Bowering Party Readings Aug 16, 1986
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.
Remediations
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Episode 3: Only the Imagination Carries Forward
Host Karis Shearer is joined by curator Amy Thiessen and special guest-poets Nancy Holmes and Sharon Thesen. Together they talk about a November 14, 1986 recording featuring Sharon Thesen’s visit to Warren Tallman’s English 205 class at UBC’s Vancouver campus.
Bibliography
Thesen, Sharon. Artemis Hates Romance. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1980.
—. The Beginning of the Long Dash. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1987.
—. The Fire: A Critical Digital Edition. Ed. Amy Thiessen. Hons English Thesis, UBC Okanagan, 2020.
—. Refabulations. Ed. Erín Moure. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2023.
Thesen, Sharon, guest contributor. “Challenging, Beautiful Bioregion.” Listening to Fire Knowledges in and around the Okanagan Valley, podcast. Judith Burr, Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies, University of British Columbia (Okanagan Campus). July 20, 2022. listeningtofirepodcast.ca/items/show/8.
Thesen, Sharon, guest. “Only the Imagination Carries Forward.” SoundBox Signals, podcast. Karis Shearer and Nour Sallam, Simplecast. March 9, 2020. soundbox-signals.simplecast.com/episodes/only-the-imagination-carries-forward.
Thiessen, Amy. Interview with Sharon Thesen. in The Fire: A Critical Digital Edition. Ed. Amy Thiessen. Hons English Thesis, UBC Okanagan, 2020.
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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?