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Potential Action Poetry artist information

Subseries consists of five files with information on prospective artists for the Action Poetry program. It includes correspondence (mainly with John Sobol), news clippings, examples of applicant's work, and other materials.

Pine Trio : [Action Poetry performance video]

Item is a video recording of performances by Pine Trio (Steve Lacy, Irene Aebi and Nicholas Isherwood) at Action Poetry ’94. Performances include:

  1. Introduction and poem (1:53)
  2. Interpretations of a twisted pine (8:38)
  3. Watching the needle boats at San Saba (1:56)
  4. Agenda (3:15)
  5. Train going by (2:52)
  6. Dreams (4:18)
  7. The blue baboon (4:29)
  8. Naked lunch (3:07)
  9. Dead Weight (4:12)
  10. Air (4:06)
  11. The garden (3:03)
  12. [Love isn’t proud enough to hate] (2:17)

Peter McPhee : [Action Poetry performance video]

Item is a video recording of Peter McPhee's performances at Action Poetry ’94. Performances include:

  1. [Someone stepped on my saxophone] (1:15)
  2. [I found Felix on Queen Street] (2:18)
  3. Raspberry ripple (1:26)
  4. Why the Stegasaurus is my favourite dinosaur (3:15)
  5. No shirt, no shoes, no service (0:59)
  6. [Canadian Space Agency job application] (0:46)
  7. Burroughs in my bathroom (1:06)
  8. Lost in translation (4:43)
  9. Elmer (0:10)
  10. [As you are only four hundred years old] (0:42)
  11. [The night Cosby goes off the air] (1:38)
  12. First impression of a double rainbow (1:23)
  13. [We should live in an amusement park] (0:58)
  14. [Leaning on the lamppost at the corner] (2:18)

Paul Dutton : Luscar recordings

Item is an audio recording of performances from Action Poetry '94 by Paul Dutton.

Paul Dutton

  • Improv
  • Aurora Borealis
  • Stereo head
  • Wolf chant
  • Mercure
  • For the letter that begins them all, H
  • Smile
  • Score for Tony
  • Northern lights
  • Times 4
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