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Skyscraper Stories about Oceans and Forests - Postcard #52

January 31, 2008 at 5:56 am · Filed under Bread, Freeverse, Podcast, Tristan Corbière, Victor Hugo ·Tagged Freeverse, poetry

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

January 12, 2008 at 7:15 am · Filed under Freeverse, Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac, Joe Wllmson et al, John Sinclair, North Van, Podcast, Steamboat Woodshed, Tristan Corbière, Victor Hugo, Wm. Lenker ·Tagged beats, kerouac, snyder, hugo, french, american, sinclair, poetry, jazz, beat generation, Freeverse

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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Poetic Ghosts of New Years Past - Postcard #50

January 3, 2008 at 7:46 am · Filed under Freeverse, Jack London, Out and About, Pender Island, Wm. Lenker

An aural montage of past new years’ evenings featuring Dave O reading from Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” next to crackling cabin woodstove on Pender Island (note scratching dog and someone with a stuffy nose), followed by a latenight freeverse message to Napoleon, a languid tale recorded in a garage about a bewildering New Years Eve in Japan, and finally a poetic nugget of memory and hope for the future.

Enjoy a visit with the Poetic Ghosts of New Years Past - Postcards #50 (.mp3, 22:25, 18MB)