This episode - The Season Two Premiere of The SpokenWeb Podcast - chronicles different phases in the evolution of Deep Curation as a poetry reading curation practice, from its earlier iterations with Klara merely choosing the poems read by the authors and the order of their presentation, to its more robust form, with excerpted and intertwined works creating a thematic, cohesive arc. Poets featured from Deep Curation archival audio, include Lee Ann Brown, Margaret Christakos, Kaie Kellough, Sawako Nakayasu, Deanna Radford, and Erin Robinsong.
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Episode Producers:
Klara du Plessis is a third year PhD student in English at Concordia University and one of the governing board student representatives of the SpokenWeb research team. She experiments with a new practice of literary event organization called a Deep Curation, navigating the texts presented and their strategic, thematic arc. Klara’s debut collection of multilingual long poems, Ekke, won the 2019 Pat Lowther Memorial Award, was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and garnered much critical acclaim. Her second book-length narrative poem, Hell Light Flesh, is freshly released, September 2020 from Palimpsest Press.
Jason Camlot’s recent works include Phonopoetics: The Making of Early Literary Recordings (Stanford 2019), the co-edited collection, CanLit Across Media: Unarchiving the Literary Event (with Katherine McLeod, McGill-Queen’s UP, 2019), and the article, “The First Phonogramic Poem: Conceptions of Genre and Media Format, circa 1888” in the open access journal, BRANCH: Britain, Representation and Nineteenth-Century History (February 2020). He is the principal investigator and director of The SpokenWeb, a SSHRC-funded partnership that focuses on the history of literary sound recordings and the digital preservation and presentation of collections of literary audio. He is Professor of English and Tier I Concordia University Research Chair in Literature and Sound Studies at Concordia U in Montreal.
Voices Heard:
Lee Ann Brown, Margaret Christakos, Isis Giraldo, Kaie Kellough, Kate Lilley, Sawako Nakayasu, Deanna Radford, Erin Robinsong
Print References:
Bernstein, Charles. ed. Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Bourriaud, Nicolas. Relational Aesthetics. Dijon: Les Presses du Réel, 2009.
Brown, Lee Ann. In the Laurels, Caught. Albany: Fence Books, 2013.
Christakos, Margaret. charger. Vancouver: TalonBooks, 2020.
du Plessis, Klara. “Santa Cova Muscles.” Unpublished.
Kellough, Kaie. Magnetic Equator. Toronto: Penguin Random House, 2019.
Longair, Sarah. “Cultures of Curating: the Limits of Authority.” Museum History Journal 8.1 (2015): 1-7.
Middleton, Peter. “How to Read a Reading of a Written Poem.” Oral Tradition 20.1 (March 2005): 7-34. Web. 25 December 2016.
Nakayasu, Sawako. Texture Notes. Seattle: Letter Machine Editions, 2010.
Obrist, Hans Ulrich and Asad Raza. Ways of Curating. New York: Faber and Faber, 2014.
Radford, Deanna. Poems. Unpublished.
Robinsong, Erin. Rag Cosmology. Toronto: Book*Hug, 2017.
Rogoff, Irit. “Curating/Curatorial.” Ed. Beatrice von Bismarck, Jörn Schafaff, and Thomas Weski. Cultures of the Curatorial. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2012. 19-38.
Vidokle, Anton. “Art without Artists?” Ed. Beatrice von Bismarck, Jörn Schafaff, and Thomas Weski. Cultures of the Curatorial. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2012. 216-226.
Wheeler, Lesley. Voicing American Poetry: Sound and Performance from the 1920s to the Present. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008.
Poetry Recordings:
Deep Curation 4th Space. Feat. Margaret Christakos, Kaie Kellough, Deanna Radford. 7 November 2019. Personal archive.
Deep Curation Boston University. Feat. Lee Ann Brown, Fanny Howe, Sawako Nakayasu. 30 January 2020. Personal archive.
Deep Curation Mile End Poets’ Festival. Feat. Aaron Boothby, Klara du Plessis, Canisia Lubrin, Erin Robinsong. 24 November 2018. Personal archive.
Sir George Williams Reading Series. Feat. Jackson Mac Low. 26 March 1971. https://montreal.spokenweb.ca/sgw-poetry-readings/jackson-mac-low-at-sgwu-1971/#1
Four Horsemen. Two Nights. 9 and 10 October 1987. http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/4-Horsemen.php
Ambient Sounds:
Cmusounddesign. “02 Museum.” 03:02. 29 November 2009. Attribution License. https://freesound.org/people/cmusounddesign/sounds/84529/
Ecfik. “Museum Ambiences.” 01:16. 2 August 2019. Creative Commons 0 License. https://freesound.org/people/ecfike/sounds/478349/
Pastabra. “Lounge tea party: Ambience.” 03:21. 31 October 2016. Attribution License. https://freesound.org/people/Pastabra/sounds/366194/
Wilhelmsqueek. “Cutting_Croissant_ST.” 00:20. 9 June 2016. Creative Commons 0 License. https://freesound.org/people/wilhelmsqueek/sounds/347384/
Music:
“Manny in Sound” by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue). Attribution Noncommercial License.
“Turning to You” by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue). Attribution Noncommercial License.
Tuned Down and Slowed “Turning to you” by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue). Attribution Noncommercial License. Manipulations by Jason Camlot
