[Poetry reading in Vancouver, B.C., 1971] / J.H. Prynne.

Recorded in Vancouver, British Columbia on July 30, 1971 and August 1, 1971 on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape.

These two poetry readings by J.H. Prynne were held in Vancouver, B.C. on July 30 and August 1, 1971. Prynne provides commentary throughout the readings. Among the subjects discussed are Resurrection by Tolstoy, Aristeas, The consolation of philosophy by Boethius, Paul Celan, P.B. Shelley, and inventor Charles Babbage. Among the most insightful comments were those Prynne made about his own first book, Kitchen poems (1968): "The first thing I thought I'd read you is a poem from a series of poems, which I call Kitchen poems, basically because they were all composed in other people's kitchens, which is a good place to write poems, firstly because one is free of certain kinds of distractions like the Oxford English Dictionary in fifteen volumes ..." Also notable are Prynne's comments on Celan.

J.H. Prynne.

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1971

Sound recording

PCR377

Thinking of you --Royal fern --In Cimmerian darkness --The glacial question, unsolved --A dream of retained colour --Star damage at home --Frost and snow, falling --A stone called nothing --Aristeas, in seven years --Numbers in times of trouble --Quality in that case as pressure --Shadow songs --On the matter of thermal packing --Oil --From end to end --A sonnet to famous hopes --The corn burned by Sirius --Starvation / Dream --Crown --As it were attendant --A night square --Es lebe der K??nig --The Kirghiz disasters --The five hindrances --Of sanguine fire.

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