The SpokenWeb Podcast

SpokenWeb is a monthly podcast produced by the SpokenWeb team as part of distributing the audio collected from (and created using) Canadian Literary archival recordings found at universities across Canada. To find out more about Spokenweb visit: spokenweb.ca . If you love us, let us know! Rate us and leave a comment on Apple Podcasts or say hi on our social media @SpokenWebCanada.

Produced by the SpokenWeb team at UBC Okanagan AMP Lab, SoundBox Signals brings literary archival recordings to life through a combination of ‘curated close listening’ and conversation.  You can find more episodes from SoundBox Signals at soundbox.ok.ubc.ca. 

Resources:

The SoundBox Collection: https://soundbox.ok.ubc.ca/

Amy Thiessen's Honours Project / Digital Exhibition on Sharon Thesen's "The Fire": sharonthesenthefire.omeka.net

The Real Vancouver Writers' Series: https://realvancouver.org/

Episode 7 of the SpokenWeb Podcast produced by Hannah McGregor: https://spokenweb.ca/podcast/episodes/the-voice-is-intact-finding-gwendolyn-macewen-in-the-archive/

Secret Feminist Agenda podcast: https://secretfeministagenda.com/category/podcast/   

Christine Mitchell's "Can You Hear Me?":  https://amodern.net/article/can-you-hear-me/

Due to COVID-19, both the Tech Talk Series and the Inaugural Sharon Thesen Lecture by John Lent mentioned at the end of this episode were unfortunately cancelled or postponed. 

Producers and Guests:

Nour Sallam is an Honours English and Political Science major with a passion for literature and art. She is interested in journalism, digital reporting, and the impacts that language and discourse have on perceptions of the world. Nour is also the Copy Editor of The Phoenix News. She is excited to practice attentive listening and explore literary sound through her work as the SpokenWeb UBCO Podcast Producer.

Karis Shearer, Director of the AMP Lab and the SoundBox Collection, is an associate professor at UBC’s Okanagan campus in the Department of English and Cultural Studies. She sits on the SpokenWeb Governing Board and is the lead UBCO Researcher for the SpokenWeb SSHRC Partnership Grant, contributing expertise in the areas of Canadian poetry, performance, pedagogy, and media culture.

Amy Thiessen is an Honours English student at UBCO where she is working on a digital edition of Sharon Thesen's poem "The Fire." She is a writer, an RA and project manager for the UBCO SpokenWeb project and an aspiring teacher.

Emily Murphy is Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities at UBCO's Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies. She is also Assistant Director of UBCO's AMP Lab. She researches technology and cultural memory. 

Hannah McGregor is an Assistant Professor in Publishing at SFU where her research focuses on podcasting as scholarly communication, systemic barriers to access in the Canadian publishing industry, and the history of middlebrow periodicals. She  also hosts a number of podcasts including Secret Feminist Agenda and the SpokenWeb Podcast. 

Each month on alternate fortnights (that's every second week following the monthly spokenweb podcast episode) - join Hannah McGregor, and minisode host and curator Katherine McLeod for SpokenWeb's Audio of Month mini series.

An extension of Katherine's audio-of-the-week series at spokenweb.ca, Katherine brings her favorite audio each month to the spokenweb podcast - so if you love what you hear, make sure to head over to spokenweb.ca for more.

Listen to Mathieu Aubin's Audio of the Week featuring an audio clip of bill bissett on CKVU-TV September 1978 here along with links to recordings and works mentioned in this minisode: https://spokenweb.ca/bill-bissett-on-ckvu-tv-september-1978/

Produced by: Katherine McLeod, Mathieu Aubin, Hannah McGregor, Stacey Copeland.

This episode was a special cross-over between the SpokenWeb Podcast and Secret Feminist Agenda. 

SpokenWeb is a monthly podcast produced by the SpokenWeb team as part of distributing the audio collected from (and created using) Canadian Literary archival recordings found at universities across Canada. To find out more about Spokenweb visit: spokenweb.ca . If you love us, let us know! Rate us and leave a comment on Apple Podcasts or say hi on our social media @SpokenWebCanada.

References:

Constellations Audio. https://www.constellationsaudio.com/

Glass, Ira. “Freedom Fries.” This American Life 23 January 2015. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/545/if-you-dont-have-anything-nice-to-say-say-it-in-all-caps/act-two

“The Lesbian Show.” Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony. https://alotarchives.org/collection/lesbian-show

Mermaid Palace. https://mermaidpalace.org/

Noor, Poppy. “What is 'sexy baby voice'? We spoke to a sociologist to find out more.” The Guardian 26 Feb 2020. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/feb/26/what-is-sexy-baby-voice-sociologist

The Queer Public Podcast. https://www.queerpublic.org/

Episode Producer:

Hannah McGregor is an Assistant Professor of Publishing at Simon Fraser University, where her research focuses on podcasting as scholarly communication, systemic barriers to access in the Canadian publishing industry, and the history of middlebrow periodicals. Her work can be found in various journals including Participations, Modernism/modernity Print+, the Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, and Studies in Canadian Literature; she is also the co-editor of the book Refuse: CanLit in Ruins (Book*hug 2018). Hannah is the co-creator of Witch, Please, a feminist podcast on the Harry Potter world, and the creator of the podcast Secret Feminist Agenda, which is currently undergoing an experimental peer review process with Wilfrid Laurier University Press. She is also the host of the monthly SpokenWeb Podcast, an experimental collaborative research podcast created through the SSHRC-funded SpokenWeb partnership.

Guest:

Stacey Copeland is a media producer and Joseph-Armand Bombardier (SSHRC) Ph.D. candidate at Simon Fraser University’s School of Communication in Vancouver, Canada. She received her Master of Arts from the Ryerson York joint Communication and Culture graduate program where she studied radio production, sound studies, media culture and gender studies. It was during her Master’s work that Copeland co-founded FemRadio, a Toronto, Canada based feminist community radio collective. She is currently the podcast project manager for the SSHRC-funded partnership SpokenWeb.

Marlatt tells the audience that she will explain the local references as she goes along, starting with the first poem that refers to Lost Lagoon in Vancouver’s Stanley Park. What she could not have anticipated is that the poems would become pathways to revisit the city when republishing many of them years later in Liquidities: Vancouver Poems Then and Now (2013).

Listen to the full recording of Daphne Marlatt's 1970 reading at SGWU here: https://montreal.spokenweb.ca/sgw-poetry-readings/daphne-marlatt-at-sgwu-1970/

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Each month on alternate fortnights (that's every second week following the monthly spokenweb podcast episode) - join Hannah McGregor, and minisode host and curator Katherine McLeod for SpokenWeb's Audio of Month mini series.

An extension of Katherine's audio-of-the-week series at spokenweb.ca, Katherine brings her favorite audio each month to the spokenweb podcast - so if you love what you hear, make sure to head over to spokenweb.ca for more.

https://spokenweb.ca/news/daphne-marlatt-reading-lagoon/

Produced by: Katherine McLeod, Hannah McGregor, Stacey Copeland.

SpokenWeb is a monthly podcast produced by the SpokenWeb team as part of distributing the audio collected from (and created using) Canadian Literary archival recordings found at universities across Canada. To find out more about Spokenweb visit: spokenweb.ca . If you love us, let us know! Rate us and leave a comment on Apple Podcasts or say hi on our social media @SpokenWebCanada.

Episode Producers:

Jason Camlot’s critical works include Phonopoetics: The Making of Early Literary Recordings (Stanford 2019), Style and the Nineteenth-Century British Critic (Routledge 2008), and the co-edited collections, CanLit Across Media: Unarchiving the Literary Event (with Katherine McLeod, McGill-Queen’s UP, 2019) and Language Acts: Anglo-Québec Poetry, 1976 to the 21st Century (Véhicule 2007).  He is also the author of four collections of poetry, Attention All Typewriters, The Animal Library, The Debaucher, and What the World Said. He is the principal investigator and director of The SpokenWeb. He is Professor of English and Tier I Concordia University Research Chair in Literature and Sound Studies at Concordia U in Montreal.

Katherine McLeod researches Canadian literature through sound, performance, and archives. She has co-edited CanLit Across Media: Unarchiving the Literary Event (with Jason Camlot, McGill-Queen’s UP, 2019). Currently, she is writing a monograph on archival recordings of women poets reading on CBC Radio. She began this research as a SSHRC-funded Postdoctoral Fellow (TransCanada Institute, U of Guelph) and then as a SpokenWeb Postdoctoral Fellow (Concordia). She received her doctorate from the University of Toronto. Katherine explores the intersection of dance and poetry in her own creative practice, along with curating SpokenWeb’s Audio of the Week, the Audio of the Month for The SpokenWeb Podcast, and Where Poets Read, a listing of Montreal poetry readings. 

Interviewees and Voices Heard:

Oana Avasilichioaei, Ali Barillaro, Sadie Barker, Arjun Basu, Naomi Charron, Alexei Perry Cox, Nisha Coleman, Klara du Plessis, Ian Ferrier , Priscilla Joly, Rob McLennan, Heather Pepper, Lindsay Presswell, Deanna Radford, Kian Vaziri-Tehrani, Brian Vass, Isabella Wang, Alvaro Echánove, Marlene Oeffinger

Print References

Dolar, Mladen.  A Voice and Nothing More. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006.

Labelle, Brandon.  "Auditory Relations."  In Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art.  New York: Continuum, ix-xvi.

Peters, John Durham.  Speaking Into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999

Petriglieri, Gianpiero.  Twitter Post. April 3, 2020, 7:43 PM. https://twitter.com/gpetriglieri/status/1246221849018720256

Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.  London, UK: Bloomsbury, 2014.

Schafer, R. Murray.  The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World.  Rochester, VT: Destiny Books, 1994.

"Sounds from the global Covid-19 lockdown." Cities and Memory. https://citiesandmemory.com/covid19-sounds/

Poetry Recordings

Antin, David.  "The Principle of Fit, II" (Part I). 26.:32. June 1980. Recording at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C. PennSound. https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Antin/Antin-David_The-Principle-of-Fit-II-Side-A_DC_06-80.mp3

Cox, Alexei Perry. Poems from Finding Places to Make Places. 42:39. The Words & Music Show, March 22, 2020. 

Coleman, Nisha. "The Church of Harvey Christ." 40:53. The Words & Music Show, March, 22 2020. 

Plath, Sylvia. "Daddy." Originally released on The Poet Speaks, Record 5, Argo, 1965. YouTube audio. 3:56. Posted December 29, 2006. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hHjctqSBwM

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Find a list of Ambient Sounds, Music and Additional Recordings used in this episode Linked Here.

Each month on alternate fortnights (that's every second week following the monthly spokenweb podcast episode) - join Hannah McGregor, and minisode host and curator Katherine McLeod for SpokenWeb's Audio of Month mini series.

An extension of Katherine's audio-of-the-week series at spokenweb.ca, Katherine brings her favorite audio each month to the spokenweb podcast - so if you love what you hear, make sure to head over to spokenweb.ca for more.

https://spokenweb.ca/news/dorothy-livesay-introducing-and-reading-bartok-and-the-geranium/

Produced by: Katherine McLeod, Hannah McGregor, Stacey Copeland.

SpokenWeb is a monthly podcast produced by the SpokenWeb team as part of distributing the audio collected from (and created using) Canadian Literary archival recordings found at universities across Canada. To find out more about Spokenweb visit: spokenweb.ca . If you love us, let us know! Rate us and leave a comment on Apple Podcasts or say hi on our social media @SpokenWebCanada.

Guest Bios: 

Hannah McGregor is an Assistant Professor of Publishing at Simon Fraser University, where her research focuses on podcasting as scholarly communication, systemic barriers to access in the Canadian publishing industry, and the history of middlebrow periodicals. Her work can be found in various journals including Participations, Modernism/modernity Print+, the Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, and Studies in Canadian Literature; she is also the co-editor of the book Refuse: CanLit in Ruins (Book*hug 2018). Hannah is the co-creator of Witch, Please, a feminist podcast on the Harry Potter world, and the creator of the weekly podcast Secret Feminist Agenda, which is currently undergoing an experimental peer review process with Wilfrid Laurier University Press. She is also the host of the monthly SpokenWeb Podcast, an experimental collaborative research podcast created through the SSHRC-funded SpokenWeb partnership.

andrea bennett is a National Magazine Award–winning writer and editor. Their writing has been published by The Atlantic, the Globe and Mail, The Walrus, Maisonneuve, Hazlitt, Vice, Reader’s Digest, Vogue Italia, Quill & Quire, and many other outlets. andrea’s first book of poetry, Canoodlers, came out with Nightwood Editions in 2014. Their Moon Travel travel guide to Montréal is now available, as is their guide to Québec City. Their first book of essays, Like a Boy but Not a Boy, is forthcoming with Arsenal Pulp Press in Fall 2020. 

Katherine McLeod researches and teaches Canadian literature through sound, performance, and archives. Her recent publications include a chapters in the books Public Poetics: Critical Issues in Canadian Poetry and Poetics, Moving Archives (Wilfrid Laurier UP), and CanLit Across Media: Unarchiving the Literary Event (MQUP), which she also co-edited with Jason Camlot. Currently, she is an Affiliate Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Concordia University, where she researches CBC Radio recordings and where she is organizing SpokenWeb’s Ghost Reading Series. Follow the site she curates for Montreal readings at WherePoetsRead.ca and @poetsread.

Jen Sookfong Lee's books include The Conjoined, nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award and a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize; The Better Mother, a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award; The End of East, and Gentlemen of the Shade. Jen teaches writing at The Writers’ Studio with Simon Fraser University and co-hosts the podcast, Can’t Lit.

Episode Resources: 

bennett, andrea. Excerpt from “The People's Poetry.” The essay appears in the book Like a Boy But Not A Boy: Navigating Life, Mental Health, and Parenthood outside the Gender Binary to be published by Arsenal Pulp Press, fall 2019.

Camlot, Jason and Katherine McLeod. "SGW Poetry Remix" MP3 file, 12 Dec 2018.

MacEwen, Gwendolyn. “Dark Pines Under Water.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaHTMxvxNGc

MacEwen (a performance)." Resurfacing: Women Writing across Canada in the 1970s. Mount Allison University & Université de Moncton, 26-28 April 2018.

--- "Performing the Archive: A Remix." Performed with Jason Camlot. Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival, Montreal, 5 May 2019.

MacEwen, Gwendolyn. “Dark Pines Under Water.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaHTMxvxNGc

---  Reading with Phyllis Webb at Sir George Williams University, Nov 18 1966. https://montreal.spokenweb.ca/sgw-poetry-readings/gwendolyn-macewen-at-sgwu-1966/

--- "Past and Future Ghosts." Afterworlds. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1987.

McLeod, Katherine. "(Un)Covering the Mirror: Performative Reflections in Linda Griffiths’s Alien Creature: A Visitation from Gwendolyn MacEwen and Wendy Lill’s The Occupation of Heather Rose." Theatre and Autobiography: Writing and Performing Lives in Theory and Practice. Eds. Sherrill Grace and Jerry Wasserman (Talon, 2006). 89-104.

--- "An Archival Remix" Performance by Katherine McLeod and Emily Murphy. Toronto: Modernist Studies Association, 18 Oct 2019.

Music:

“Flamenco Rhythm” by Sunsearcher: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Sunsearcher

"Soothe", “At Our Best Alone,” “A Certain Lightness,” “The Bus At Dawn,” “Slow Slow Sky” all from https://www.sessions.blue/

Each month on alternate fortnights (that's every second week following the monthly spokenweb podcast episode) - join Hannah McGregor, and minisode host and curator Katherine McLeod for SpokenWeb's Audio of Month mini series.

An extension of Katherine's audio-of-the-week series at spokenweb.ca, Katherine brings her favorite audio each month to the spokenweb podcast - so if you love what you hear, make sure to head over to spokenweb.ca for more.

https://spokenweb.ca/news/kaie-kellough-the-words-music-show/

Produced by: Katherine McLeod, Hannah McGregor, Stacey Copeland.

SpokenWeb is a monthly podcast produced by the SpokenWeb team as part of distributing the audio collected from (and created using) Canadian Literary archival recordings found at universities across Canada. To find out more about Spokenweb visit: spokenweb.ca . If you love us, let us know! Rate us and leave a comment on Apple Podcasts or say hi on our social media @SpokenWebCanada.

You can find the full-length recording of the bill bissett clip and more episodes from SoundBox Signals at soundbox.ok.ubc.ca. 

For the shout-outs mentioned at the end of this episode, please visit the links below:

bill bissett's Breth (Talonbooks): 

https://talonbooks.com/books/breth

bill bissett on PennSound:

https://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/bissett.php

Cut and Run Podcast by Brady Marks: 

http://furiousgreencloud.com/wordpress/blog/author/furiousgreencloud/

Sarah Tolmie's The Art of Dying (MQUP):

https://www.mqup.ca/art-of-dying--the-products-9780773552715.php

Ian Ferrier at the Inspired Word Cafe:

http://www.inspiredwordcafe.com/

Each month on alternate fortnights (that's every second week following the monthly spokenweb podcast episode) - join Hannah McGregor, and minisode host and curator Katherine McLeod for SpokenWeb's Audio of Month mini series.

An extension of Katherine's audio-of-the-week series at spokenweb.ca, Katherine brings her favorite audio each month to the spokenweb podcast - so if you love what you hear, make sure to head over to spokenweb.ca for more.

https://spokenweb.ca/news/maxine-gadd-reading-shore-animals-with-improvised-flute-by-richard-sommer/

Produced by: Katherine McLeod, Hannah McGregor, Stacey Copeland.