The Sound of Canadian Modernisms: The Sir George Williams University Poetry Series, 1966-74
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Abstract
Between 1966 and 1974, faculty members of Sir George Williams University in Montreal hosted the Poetry Series—a program of poetry readings that was conceived as an ongoing encounter between local poets and a diverse range of writers from across the United States and Canada. Through analysis of sound recordings that document the Poetry Series, this essay demonstrates how these poetry events enabled anglophone Montreal poets to encounter and engage with contemporary national and international poetic philosophies and practices. The Poetry Series is interpreted in terms of efforts to define a national Canadian literature in relation to American poetics, as a platform for the performance of contending definitions of modern and avant-garde poetic practice, and as a site for developing models of artistic community. The poets whose recorded readings are analyzed include Al Purdy, Robert Creeley, Irving Layton, Jackson Mac Low, and George Bowering. In a broader sense, the essay works to read a coherent archive of documentary poetry recordings as an archeological trace of the cultural significance of the poetry reading series in the 1960s and 1970s and to consider the methodologies most useful for engaging critically with an historical audio record of a series of cultural events. Abstract: Entre 1966 et 1974, des membres du corps enseignant de l'Universite Sir-George-Williams a Montreal organiserent une serie de lectures poetiques percue comme une rencontre permanente entre des poetes locaux et divers ecrivains venant d'un peu partout aux E.-U. et au Canada. Grâce a l'analyse d'enregistrements audio qui documentent cette serie de lectures, le present article demontre comment ces rassemblements ont permis aux poetes anglophones de Montreal de former des liens et de debattre des philosophies et des pratiques contemporaines nationales et internationales. La serie de lectures poetiques est interpretee en termes d'efforts deployes pour definir une litterature canadienne nationale par rapport a la poetique americaine, en tant que plateforme pour presenter des definitions contraires de pratiques poetiques modernes et d'avant-garde, et comme lieu de creation de modeles de communaute artistique. Les poetes dont les lectures enregistrees sont analysees ici comprennent Al Purdy, Robert Creeley, Irving Layton, Jackson Mac Low et George Bowering. Dans un sens plus large, le present article veut presenter un ensemble archivistique coherent d'enregistrements documentaires sur la poesie en tant que releve archeologique de l'importance culturelle de la serie de lectures poetiques dans les annees 1960 et 1970, et examiner les methodologies les plus pratiques pour traiter de facon eclairee des archives audio historiques d'une serie d'evenements culturels.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.017 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".