Reading from Pictographs from the Interior of BC.

Reading from Poems from Ireland and Songs of the Sea Witch and other poems.

Work is video documentation of a reading of The Stick.

Reading from Pell Mell, published by Coach House Press.

Panel discussion. Persky had been invited to give a reading but proposed instead this panel discussion. He started off with a long polemical charge that…

Open reading with one poem under four minutes per artist, recorded and sent to Dial-a-poem in Montreal.

A reading by Sam Hamill of translations of the Estonian writer Jaan Kaplinski. Hamill is introduced by Charles Watts, then introduces Kaplinski before reading. Audio…

Performance of Filliou’s work 14 Songs and 1 Riddle in French, along with Allan Kaprow reading from George Brecht’s English translation, Steve McCaffery reading from his…

Reading from Letters to Artaud and Works and Days: Island 1967. Digitized video of this reading is available through the Western Front Archives upon research request.

Lecture and screening. Paradise Improved  documents a seven-day performance in which John Milton’s Paradise Lost was translated into John Milton’s Paradise Regained by a method McCaffery calls “creative misunderstanding.” A Book…

Reading from Forest City. 

Dawson reading from the novel, Penny Lane.

A Fringe Festival event. Due to the high volume of material in the Western Front Archive, further information on this project is currently unavailable.

Join us for a reading by renowned Canadian poet bill bissett, followed by a discussion of his work by publisher Karl Siegler and author Carl…

A reading as part of his two-week residency with Kootenay School of Writing. Andrews is well known as a “Language” poet, a group of North…

Group reading with Terry Crane, Dan Farrel, Isabell Hall, Jill Mandrake, Ed Varney and Diane Wood.

Readings by twenty-three poets in support of the bookstore,  which had been accidentally bombed. Featuring Christopher Dewdney, David Phillips, Peter Trower, Lionel Kearns, Sharon Thesen,…

Reading by Carole Chambers, Bill Smith and Billy Little. Due to the high volume of material in the Western Front Archive, further information on this…