Container 15 - Recordings and photographs

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CA RBD MSG 950-B-15

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  • 1977-1996 (Creation)

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2 videocassettes
38 audiocassettes
colour slides
3 photographs : black and white
92 photographs : colour

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Box 15 contains two video tapes of readings Morrissey gave at Vehicule Art on 27 March 1977 and an unopened LP album, "Sounds Like" of sound poetry by Montreal poets. It also contains thirty-eight audio cassettes of poetry readings. These are recordings of readings, mostly from the 1970s and 1980s in Montreal; however, there are several tapes from the 1990s in Montreal and Vancouver. Also included are photographs—black and white, colour, and colour slides—taken by Stephen Morrissey. These photographs are mostly of poets, taken at poetry readings, or less formal settings, in Quebec and in the 1990s in British Columbia.

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Sound Recordings:

Vehicule Art Gallery, Montreal:

  • Anne Waldman, Drummer Boy Raga, Steve McCaffery, 1976-1977.
  • Clayton Eshleman, 3 May 1978.
  • Stephen Morrissey, 2 December 1979, 15 January 1975 and 19 January 1975.
  • Robert Kelly, 20 March 1977.

Powerhouse Gallery, Montreal:

  • Stephen Morrissey, 24 April 1975.

Concordia University, Montreal:

  • Steve McCaffery, 22 September 1978.

Champlain College-St. Lambert, Quebec:

  • Artie Gold, 20 March 1979, 13 February 1979, 27 March 1980, 19 October 1981, 19 October 1981.
  • David McFadden (two tapes each reading), 28 February 1978, 14 October 1990.
  • Claudia Lapp, 11 April 1978, 15 October 1978, 17 April 1980.
  • Endre Farkas, 24 October 1978.
  • Clayton Eshleman, 3 May 1978.
  • bpNichol, 13 February 1978.
  • The Four Horsemen, 27 March 1978.
  • George Johnston, 27 October 1981.
  • Carolyn Zonailo, (two tapes), 25 February 1992.

Readings in Vancouver:

  • Black Sheep Books, Carolyn Zonailo, Stephen Morrissey, Ed Varney, 16 October 1996.
  • Radiofreerainforest (Vancouver co-op radio) hosted by Gerry Gilbert, Vancouver community radio station, on-air readings by Carolyn Zonailo and Stephen Morrissey, 14 August 1996.

Miscellaneous sound recordings:

  • Radio Canada (French), "English Poets of Quebec" hosted by Tom Konyves, early-1980s.
  • Louis Dudek reviewing Divisions on CBC-radio, 26 October 1983.
  • Sound Poetry, John Abbott College, Ken Norris on CBC-radio.
  • CINQ-FM (co-op radio station in Montreal), "Arts and Eggs", on-air interview with Stephen Morrissey, 2 June 1979.
  • Clayton Eshleman, interview and reading, 1976.
  • Interview with Tom Konyves, 14 March 1978.

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Photographs by Stephen Morrissey:
Includes the following colour slides in three slide boxes and separately in three plastic slide envelopes, and black and white photographs on contact sheets (including the respective black and white negatives), of poets at poetry readings in Montreal. These photographs were taken by Stephen Morrissey. They contain the following:

Colour slides by Stephen Morrissey:

Slide box one:

  • Thirteen slides of bpNichol and the other members of “The Four Horsemen”, in performance at Champlain College on 29 March 1978.
  • One slide of Ken Norris at a Vehicule Art book launch, 30 September 1977.
  • Slides of the poet Guy Birchard, taken between March and May 1977.
  • Three slides of Clarke Blaise at Champlain College on 29 September 1977.
  • Two slides of Stephen Morrissey, taken around 1977.

Slide box two:

  • Thirty-seven slides of bpNichol and the other members of “The Four Horsemen”, in performance at Champlain College on 29 March 1978.

Slide box three:

  • Thirteen slides of Clayton Eshleman at Champlain College on 3 May 1978.
  • One slide of Artie Gold, outside of Vehicule Art, in July 1975.

There are three slide envelopes:

Slide envelope # one:

  • Ten slides of “The Four Horsemen” in performance at Vehicule Art, Montreal, 29 March 1978.

Slide envelope # two:

  • Slides taken during the book launch of Divisions (Toronto, Coach House Press, 1983) at the Double Hook Bookstore in Westmount, Quebec on 12 October 1983. Included are two photographs of Louis Dudek, a single photograph of George Johnston, Ken Norris, Artie Gold, and Judy Mappin the owner of The Double Hook Bookstore.

Slide envelope # three:

  • Four slides of Anne Waldman reading at Vehicule Art, around 1978.
  • One slide of Claudia Lapp (introducing Anne Waldman) at Vehicule Art, 1978.
  • Several slides taken during the book launch of The Trees of Unknowing (Vehicule Press, 1978) at Powerhouse Gallery, Montreal on 6 March 1978. Included are slides of John Glassco, Artie Gold.
  • Four slides of Clayton Eshleman reading at Vehicule Art on 3 May 1978.

Black and white photographs by Stephen Morrissey:

  • Three contact sheets, black and white negatives for the contact sheets are included. Photographs of Al Purdy reading at Vehicule Art, bpNichol at Vehicule Art, Tom Konyves and Carol Leckner at Vehicule Art. Between 1977 - 1978.

Colour photographs by Stephen Morrissey:
Manila envelope contains seven separate envelopes of photographs, seventy-nine colour photographs in all.

  • Envelope # 1: Three photographs of Ken Norris, his wife Sue, and Stephen Morrissey at the Powerscourt Bridge near Huntingdon, Quebec, in the spring of 1990.
  • Envelope # 2: Four photographs of David McFadden with Carolyn Zonailo and Stephen Morrissey at the restaurant of the Holiday Inn near the Toronto City Hall, in August 1992.
  • Envelope # 3: Four photographs of Vancouver poet Beth Jankola with Carolyn Zonailo and Stephen Morrissey, in Huntingdon, Quebec, August 1992.
  • Envelope # 4: Seven photographs of Professor Ralph Maud with Carolyn Zonailo and Stephen Morrissey, at the Powerscourt Bridge near Huntingdon, Quebec in the spring of 1996. Ralph Maud is Emeritus Professor of English at Simon Fraser University and a leading authority on the poetry of Dylan Thomas and Charles Olson.
  • Envelope # 5: Nineteen photographs of American-born poet Norm Sibum, Carolyn Zonailo and Stephen Morrissey at The Cedars, Huntingdon, Quebec, and other photographs, spring 1996.
  • Envelope # 6: Twenty-eight photographs of Vancouver poet Nellie McClung, Carolyn Zonailo and Stephen Morrissey, at Nellie McClung's Vancouver home, and other related photographs, taken in July-August 1996.
  • Envelope # 7: Fourteen photographs of Vancouver-poet Gerry Gilbert and Carolyn Zonailo at Co-op radio in Vancouver, during the broadcast of Gilbert's radiofreerainforest programme, in January 1996.
  • Envelope # 8: Thirteen photographs of Vancouver poet Marya Fiamengo at her home in West Vancouver, with Carolyn Zonailo and Stephen Morrissey, in January 1995.

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  • Box: R-950-15