Poetic Stories about Goalies – Postcard #62
Poet Randall Maggs discusses his book “Night Work” about the troubled soul of legendary hockey goalie Terry Sawchuk plus the nuances of story-telling, conversations with goaltenders, Sawchuk’s Ukrainian heritage and convergence of history and hockey with host Dave Thorvald Olson at the Robson Square covered outdoor rink in Vancouver following a poetry reading promoted by publisher Brick Books.
Lace em up for Poetic Stories about Goalies – Postcard #62 (.mp3, 36:02, 33MB, stereo)
Episode cover art designed by Bread the Producer, photo by Dave O
Book
Night Work – The Sawchuk Poems by Randall Maggs, published by Brick Books — includes links to reviews
Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems
Snaps
From Hockey Hall of Fame by Dave
Special Thanks
Mike Vardy of Eventualism fame
Rob Cottingham and his cartoons: Noise to Signal
Kitty Lewis General Manager (corrected from audio) of Brick Books
Sean Cranbury of Books on the Radio podcast
Bread the Producer for audio mix and episode art
Maggs and Bachinsky, poets ~ Photo by Sean Cranbury
Music etc.
The Drive-by Truckers “Daddy Needs a Drink” live 2007-07-17 – World Cafe Live via Archive.org
The Black Tories “Cleft Palette”
Various crowd recordings from 2010 Winter Olympics games
More Mr. Maggs
NIGHT WORK: THE SAWCHUK POEMS BY RANDALL MAGGS – INFO DOSSIER on Uncle Weed’s Roundup
An interview with Randall Maggs, the Sawchuk Poet
Randall Maggs Recipient of $25,000 Kobzar Literary Award for 2010
Night Work – A Sawchuk Poem Video
Legends of Hockey Terry Sawchuk
Randall’s brother Darryl Maggs on Hockeydb.com
Randall Maggs’ Vancouver history:
“On the Vancouver question, that is my birthplace and, though I haven’t lived there in a long while, I still think of it as home. The Canucks are my team. Over the years I have travelled back to the city often to visit my relatives and family. My grandparents lived in South Burnaby off Kingsway pretty much all their adult lives, my grandfather being a millwright and playing an important role in building many of the lumber mills in and around the city. A couple of summers ago my mother and I were having lunch on a terrace on Granville Island and my mother pointed out the remnants of one of my grandfather’s mills. Even after his retirement he’d be called back in to solve a problem that university-trained engineers couldn’t handle. He’d give mill officials fits, scrambling up long ladders long past the age of 80. I attended grade school in South Burnaby, I think Strathmillan School. After her years of following my Air Force father back and forth across the country, my mother went home to live in Surrey and White Rock where she lives at present. My son has been living out there as much as in Newfoundland for most of the past dozen years, having done an MA in Piano Performance with Jane Coop at UBC and working on his PhD in the Arts and Sustainability with John Robinson at UBC.”
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Vimy Ridge Diaries on Remembrance Day – Postcard # 61
On Remembrance Day in sunny, brisk Vancouver, Ian Bell (fresh from a CBC appearance “On The Coast“) joins Dave to read from Grandpa Mark’s diaries written in the trenches in WW1 as a young Canadian. From the library steps with a flask of scotch, they reflect on the costs and motivations of war, importance of friendship and the ethereal experience of going “over the top” and facing the terror on the other side, plus anecdotes about capturing Germans soldiers and discourse on the importance of personal documentation to pass forward to generations.
Sit awhile for Vimy Ridge Diaries on Remembrance Day – Postcard # 61
Featuring:
Geoff Berner – Excerpts from “Maginot Line” Recorded live at the Biltmore Cabaret, Vancouver, BC, Feb. 28, 2009
Various artists (including piper Dave Ahl) – Recorded live at UBC Remembrance Day Ceremony, Nov. 11, 2009
Ian Bell reading from Grandpa Mark’s diaries
William Markle Pecover – Memory of Vimy Ridge
William Markle Pecover – On Being Bombed in Britain
Photo via CDN Veterans Affairs asks How Will you Remember? – Download Canadian historical war time photo and video packs, organized by theme and era, then remix and share via social networks.
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Forests and Oceans Without End – Postcard # 60
From a forested pathway along the open Pacific between Tofino and Ucluelet, DaveO reads poetry from Gary Snyder’s Myths + Texts and Rip Rap plus essays about Wobblies, timber-jacks, logging camp culture, and giant trees from Beloved of the Sky then the words Siddhartha the Buddha spoke upon achieving enlightenment.
Strap on your boots for Forests and Oceans Without End – Postcard # 60 (.mp3, 15:07, 14MB)
Music
William Elliott Whitmore – Gravel Road (William Elliott Whitmore – Wikipedia – William Elliott Whitmore on MySpace)
Clayoquot
Clayoquot Old-Growth Blockade Flashback – Choogle on #44
Clayoquot Snapshots – a set on Flickr
Gary
Hitch a Thousand Miles to See a Friend – Postcard #56
Gary Snyder at Modern American Poetry (U. of Illinois)
Inventory of the Gary Snyder Papers (U.C. Davis)
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I use Koss stereophones, MAudio Microtrack recorder & Solo interface and Sony mic – just saying.
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Owl Creek Limnology and Exploration – Postcard # 59
Dave O spiels forth about the exploration of rivers and lakes, the impetus for ventures and motivations for trade ~ augmented by autoharp songs by Larry Harper dreaming of floating the Colorado River down Glen Canyon ~ then freeverse – mostly from stumbling around Europa in 1992 – thinking about connectedness, lifespans of mysteries and reasons for peeking into the unknown with Trauben and Funboy providing guitar stylings whilst camping alongside Owl Creek in the British Columbia highlands.
Pull up a stump for Owl Creek Limnology and Exploration – Postcard # 59 (.mp3, 17:15, 14MB)
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Three Days and Eleven Dollars, Nov. 1991 – Postcard #58
By a campfire on Owl Creek, Dave reads an instructional guide to hitch-hiking about a November trip from South Carolina to Rhode Island with a series of tips including smiling, signs, watches, and going with the flow while Dan Funboy noodles on guitar.
Stick your thumb out for Three Days and Eleven Dollars, Nov. 1991 – Postcard #58 (.mp3, 10:20,10MB)
Edited/Produced plus Album Art designed by Bread the Producer
Note to self: find snapshots from hitchhike (also White House sign)
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Arizona with Ole Gramps – Postcard #57
While summertime camping alongside Owl Creek and charging the recorder with the rays of the sun, Dave reads a short story written while on the road with ole dead Grandpa called So the Legends Go (.pdf) – a portrait of life one morning in Navajo Nation in 1987 – accompanied by adolescent observations and musings. Accompanied by Dan Funboy on guitar and solar-powered vaporizer.
Arizona with Ole Gramps – Postcard #57 (.mp3, 9:40, 9MB)
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Hitch a Thousand Miles to See a Friend – Postcard #56
From Halfmoon Bay on Clayoquot Sound, Vancouver Island, Dave gives it up for zen poet hero Gary Snyder and recounts beat history from The Old Ways and logging culture from Myths and Texts plus poems about hitchhiking, girls, baths, clear-cuts and the Buddha – then finishes with original freeverse poetry about the transient experience called “Railyards Passing By.”
Hit the road to Hitch a Thousand Miles to See a Friend – Postcard #56 (.mp3, 29:04, 26MB)
Music:
- Bex (of Vancouver Island) “Lost Traveller” @bex0r on Twitter
- Rose Cousins “One Love”
- Sean Staples (vocals & mandolin), Rose Cousins (guitar and harmony) La cienega (Ryan Adams) Live at Club Passim, Nov. 2007
- Note: check out CBC Radio 3 podcast to discover great indie Canadian music
Big thanks to Chip for crafting the episode, Trauben for music searching and my sweetie for taking me to Clayoquot a couple summer back, and the trees for taking me there in 1993.
More:
Clayoquot Old-Growth Blockade Flashback – Choogle on #44
Clayoquot Snapshots – a set on Flickr
Gary Snyder at Modern American Poetry (U. of Illinois)
Inventory of the Gary Snyder Papers (U.C. Davis)
Gary Snyder, professor (email: gssnyder (at) ucdavis (dot) edu)
Publications:
- Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems (San Francisco: Four Seasons, 1969).
- Myths and Texts (New York: New Directions, 1960,1978).
- The Back Country (New York: New Directions, 1968).
- Earth Household (New York: New Directions, 1969). [Prose]
- Regarding Wave (New York: New Directions, 1970).
- Turtle Island (New York: New Directions, 1974). [Pullitzer Prize]
- The Old Ways (San Francisco: City Lights, 1977). [Prose]
- Axe Handles (San Francisco: North Point, 1983).
- He Who Hunted Birds in His Father’s Village (“the Dimensions of a Haida Myth”) (Bolinas, CA: Grey Fox, 1979). [Prose]
- Passage Through India (San Francisco: Gray Fox, 1984).
- Left Out in the Rain (San Francisco: North Point, 1988).
- The Practice of the Wild (San Francisco: North Point, 1990). [Prose]
- No Nature (New York: Pantheon, 1992)
- A Place in Space (Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1995). [Prose]
- Mountains and Rivers Without End (Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1996). [Bollingen Prize]
- The Gary Snyder Reader (Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1999).
Note: your humble podcaster does not own the last 3 books on this list – hook a guy up ‘eh
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Chronicling Interesting Boulders – Postcard #55
Alongside roaring Lynn Creek, Dave recounts a collection of interesting boulders and offers freeverse about his bookshelf, the sea, Mexican painting trips, tranquility, graceful curves and clouds while Wm. Lenker picks and sings the Appalachian folksong, Moonshiner.
Go for a hike for Chronicling Interesting Boulders – Postcard #55 (.mp3, 15:08, 14MB)
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Album art photo by John Bollwitt (art’ed up by DaveO using Picnik)
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Post-apocalyptic Skunks and Fevers – Postcard #54
From a skunk-scented perch along Mosquito Creek, Dave spiels about feverish dreams in a Mexican clinic, personal archeology, mirages about the Wonder Hotel, and reads verse about late trains, dammed rivers, watching ships, and men in white coats walking past.
Take your vitamins for Post-apocalyptic Skunks and Fevers – Postcard #54 (.mp3, 16:35, 15MB)
Read along at Mountain Highway
Comfortably Lonely, Cabin Porch
Coastal Starlight 2 hours late
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Howling at Land and Sea – Postcards #53
Visiting the Woodshop on Steamboat Island amidst hayfever and national holidays, Dave and Wm. Lenker exchange spontaneous musical freeverse tales of Pennsylvania, Agana Harbour (Guam), Jericho Beach (Vancouver), and Lake Crescent (Washington) while wounded Samson howls along.
Weigh anchor for Howling at Land and Sea – Postcard #53 (.mp3, 17:51, 16MB)
Photo by DaveO on Pender Island, Art’ed up by Bread the Producer
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Skyscraper Stories about Oceans and Forests – Postcard #52
From a Lougheed skyscraper comes an improvisational reading with guitars – first more ocean-inspired works from Tristan Corbière, Victor Hugo and Dave Olson into a free form spoken word account of trip down the Pacific Coast highway to a haunted roadhouse with sequoias growing an inch a day.
Cheers to Bread and Av (aka Delfar 7) for exceptional musical gamemanship.
Roust yerself for Skyscraper Stories about Oceans and Forests – Postcard #52 (.mp3, 19:46, 16MB)
Nods to Cosmo’s Spacely’s Sprockets (see also Clubside Breakfast Time)
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Banjo Sea Shanties and Beat Train Rambles – Postcard #51
Starting at the Steamboat Island Woodshed, Dave rambles salty original freeverse with Wm. Lenker on banjo and traces personal poetic lineage winding through French impressionalist/symbolist and Brittany sea-coaster Tristan Corbière (prefaced by Victor Hugo).
Then – as sleet, slush and hail beats down on the Mosquito Creek studio skylight – rolls into the beat American 50s and 60s with John Sinclair‘s chronicle Brilliant Corners, Jack Kerouac riding trains from Atop an Underwood, and Gary Snyder arriving from sea from The Backcountry ~ fortified with jazz, joints and hot sake.
Hunker down for Banjo Sea Shanties and Beat Train Rambles – Postcard #51
Nods to Cosmo‘s Spacely’s Sprockets (see also Clubside Breakfast Time)
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