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"Vancouver 1963: Reading"

Margaret Avison

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Event Date: Wednesday, August 07, 1963
Location: University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Wah Poetry Recordings, Vancouver 1963: Readings Series | Organized by Aaron Levy, Louis Cabri

Vancouver 1963: Reading

Slought Foundation presents a digitized version of Fred Wah’s recordings of the 1963 Vancouver Poetry Conference, as well as select readings and lectures (1961-67) from Wah's collection.

Recording notes:
4 'adolescent' poems; A Poet's Preface; 4 Sketches; Public Address; A Humurous Moment; Fall; Voluptuaries & Others; In a Season of Unemployment; Transit; "There is another time…; quote from Aaron Copland in Origin Letter; Transit; A Nameless One; The Medical Arts; "people are pink cheeked…; Unspeakable; "All my days have digits in them..; Translation of Hungarian Poem; 5 Poems: 1. "Just as excessive gladness…, 2. "Sheep fold and hill..., 3. "when you walked here…, 4. poem skipped, 5. "In July this early sky…



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[07 August 1963; Accessed 6 October 2008]. <http://slought.org/content/11110/>.



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