McLeod, Katherine (2019) Earle Birney asks George Bowering for a glass of water – Sir George Williams University, February 23, 1968. SPOKENWEBLOG .
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Abstract
After reading for about eleven minutes, Earle Birney pauses to ask if there is any water to drink. There is a glass and a pitcher (audibly present) but nearly empty, and thus the evening’s host George Bowering heads out into the hallway to find Birney a cold beverage. This interlude of extra-poetic speech reveals that, despite it being mid-February, the room temperature feels more like summer and, more importantly, the humourous nature of the extra-poetic speech attunes the listener to the sociality as well as to the poetry.
| Divisions: | Concordia University > Faculty of Arts and Science > English |
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| Item Type: | Article |
| Refereed: | No |
| Authors: | McLeod, Katherine |
| Editors: | Camlot, Jason |
| Contributors: | McLeod, Katherine and Birney, Earle (Author, Author of dialog) |
| Journal or Publication: | SPOKENWEBLOG |
| Date: | 12 October 2019 |
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| Keywords: | Audio of the week, ShortCuts, SPOKENWEBLOG, 1968, Earl Birney, Katherine McLeod, SGW Reading Series |
| ID Code: | 991112 |
| Deposited By: | Alexandra Sweny |
| Deposited On: | 08 Oct 2022 19:48 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Oct 2022 19:48 |
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| Additional Information: | Resources Camlot, Jason. “Transcript Collage: Things said at, and remembered about, poetry readings, c.1966/c.2014.” “The Poetry Series,” Amodern 4 (2015). Camlot, Jason and Christine Mitchell, eds. “The Poetry Series,” Amodern 4 (2015). |
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