[Canadian Poetry Festival at the University at Buffalo, October 19, 1980, poetry readings] / Victor Coleman ... [et al].

Recorded on a Ampex 7 inch reel-to-reel tape on October 19, 1980 at the Poetry Collection, University at Buffalo.

Recording of the Canadian Poetry Festival's poetry reading by Bill Bissett, Gerry Gilbert, Steve McCaffery, bpNichol, Fred Wah and Victor Coleman. Recording opens with Fred Wah reading and discussing collecting anthropological texts on the Kootenai natives. Steve McCaffery introduced Bissett. The Toronto Research Group, comprised of Steve McCaffery and bpNichol, also perform.

Victor Coleman ... [et al].

The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries. Digital conversion was made possible through a 2009 National Endowment for the Humanities grant.

1980

Sound recording

PCF055

Disc 1.Fred Wah reading:lectures --Pictograms from the interior of B.C. [excerpts]. --Bill Bissett reading:[chant] --How --Th neutron bomb --All I need is a blank sheet uv paper --Th wunderfulness uv th mountees --Blew horizon --Carrying th torch --Speaking speaking --Th san peopul --Th gill peoplu sn th breedrs' --oaoabaoadabaaogaoga --Its past th green margarine now --We moovd to an ice castul --Flying --The ravens ub Faro --Collingwood --Honey. --Disc 2.Victor Coleman reading:The party --[untitled piece] --[untitled piece] --Rug rung in --Generations generaled. --Toronto Research Group performs:Errata --The title of this piece will be revealed --Enigma number 3. --Steve McCaffery reading:Precepts --Cappucino. --Gerry Gilbert reading:Goof don nood --Mia [cough] sky --Ape busy seed --Provincial pitch.

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