| Canadian writers series: Christian
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| The English Department's
Canadian writers series, "Red, White & Read," brought to campus "sound
poet" Christian Bök on Apr 11. Bök performed selections
from several of his works, including Eunoia,
which won the Griffin Prize for Poetic Excellence, and
Crystallography, which was nominated for
the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Bök has
created artificial languages for two television
shows: Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict and Peter Benchley’s Amazon. Click on audio icon below to access audio streaming menu. |
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... and Paul Quarrington |
| The author of 8 novels,
Paul Quarrington is also a musician, an award-winning screenwriter,
a filmmaker, a playwright and an acclaimed nonfiction
writer. He won the Governor General’s
Award for Fiction for Whale Music in 1989 and
the Stephen Leacock Medal the year before for
King Leary. He appeared at JCU on Apr 4. Click on the audio icons below to hear
audio streaming. |
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Intro by Asst English
Prof Steven Hayward PhD |
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Paul Quarrington reads
segment
from Galveston |
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2 songs |
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Conversation: Quarrington & Steven
Hayward |
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| Audio courtesy of George Bilgere,
Director, Creative
Writing Program |
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Click on audio
icon below to hear each segment by Christian Bök
(Note: Some content
presented for mature audiences) |
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Introduction by Asst English Prof Steven Hayward PhD |
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Sea
Horses & Flying Fish by Hugo Ball
Green Boundaries by
Christian |
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Glass |
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Chapter I from Eunoia |
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Aluthula |
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Virtually Non-Toxic |
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Movement of the Ur
Sonata by Kurt Schwitters |
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Mushroom
Clouds from The Cyborg Opera |
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Synth Loops |
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Ubu Hubbub |
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Dadaist Dirge |
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Bi-refringence |
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Question: Do you have markings in the text to help you perform your poems? |
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Question: How did you go about the process of writing Eunoia? |
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Question: What led you to start writing this kind of poetry? |
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