MOTTRAM, Professor Eric Noel William (1924-1995)
Tape recorded material, 1950-1995
References on this page: MOTTRAM 14/1-789
MOTTRAM: 14/1 Original Tape Cassettes, [1950-1995] (unfinished)
MOTTRAM: 14/1/1
1980 Feb 5
Peter Finch and Ric Caddel reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 1980;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: good, voices slightly muffled
MOTTRAM: 14/1/2
[1949-1962]
Reading by William Faulkner of 'A. As I lay dying 1930...
B. Old man 1939... A fable 1954... Nobel Prize speech 1949';
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/3
[1968]
A. Unidentified interview about the musical 'Hair'
B. '(Michael) McClure interview';
capacity: 60 mins
(note: tape broken, contents unverified, no case)
MOTTRAM: 14/1/4
1984 Mar 6
Peter Middleton and Dom Sylvester Houédard reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 1984;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/5
1990 Jun 29
Lawrence Upton at Sub Voicive (Prince George of Cumberland, London), 1990;
condition: voice not very distinct
MOTTRAM: 14/1/6
1974 Aug 14
David Meltzer and Ken Irby reading at The Poetry Society, London, 1974;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: good, some microphone knock
MOTTRAM: 14/1/7
1983 Nov 22
Ulli Freer and Paul Evans reading in the King's Poetry Series at King's College London, 1983;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/8
1974 May 17
Chris Torrance and Ken Smith reading at The Poetry Society, London, 1974;
capacity: 120 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/9
1979 Feb 27
A. Paula Claire and Dom Sylvester Houédard reading in King's Poetry Series at King's College London, 1975,
B. 'Moby Dick-continuation of broadcast version from Radio 3 from some other tape;
capacity: 120 mins
condition: good, but variable as Claire moves around
MOTTRAM: 14/1/10
1977 May 7
A. The Tenth International Festival of Sound Poetry at The National Poetry Centre, London, 1977, featuring JGJGJGJG (Cris Cheek, P. C. Fencott, Lawrence Upton),
B. copy of broadcast programme of Sufism;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: good
MOTTRAM: 14/1/11
not dated
Tom Pickard reading at Sub Voicive (Rose & Crown, London), with a talk by Bob Cobbing occupying some of side B;
capacity 90 mins
condition: good but Pickard's voice somewhat muffled
MOTTRAM: 14/1/12
1970 Oct 13-14
Norman Mailer: '(Talking about) London premiere (of film) Maidstone, press conference 13 Oct 1970, public appearance 14 Oct 1970 (beginning)', recorded at the Roundhouse, London;
capacity: 120 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/13
1970 Oct 14-17
Norman Mailer: 'public appearance (end), interview by John Whiting, 17 Oct 1970, Ritz Hotel (London)'
;
capacity: 60 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/14
1980
A. Tom Meyer reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 30 Oct 1980,
B. Colin Simms reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 11 Nov 1980;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/15
1976 Sep
Susan [Fearn], Peter Hammond, Allen Fisher, reading at Lumb Bank, Yorkshire, 21 Sep 1976, and Elaine Randell at Lumb Bank, 23 Sep 1976;
capacity: 120 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/16
1978 Jun 12
Bob Cobbing and Bill Griffiths reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 13 Jun 1978;
capacity: 120 mins
note: chrome oxide tape
condition: good, voices somewhat muffled
MOTTRAM: 14/1/17
1989 Mar 9
John Wilkinson at Sun Voicive, 1989;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/18
1972 Feb 10
Bill Butler reading at Better Books (London), 1972;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/19
undated
Eric Mottram interviewed by Bill Sherman;
capacity: 60 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/20
undated
Eric Mottram interviewed by Bill Sherman, continued;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/21
1978-1979
A. Paul Brown reading at the King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 30 Jan 1979, followed by excerpts from the Cambridge Poetry Festival, 1978, from broadcast on Radio 3;
B. a brief poetry reading by Mottram, not noted on sleeve;
capacity: 120 mins
condition: Mottram reading has hum in background, but Paul Brown recording is excellent quality
MOTTRAM: 14/1/22
1982
A. Luciano Berio composition recorded from Radio 3, 12 May 1982;
B. Stephen Rodefer reading at King's Poetry Series, in collaboration with Sub Voicive (Jackson's Lane, London), 9 Jul 1982;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/23
1976 May 7
Kirby Malone and Bill Sherman reading at The National Poetry Centre, London, 1976;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: voices somewhat remote, improving
MOTTRAM: 14/1/24
1976 Sep 24
Allen Fisher reading at Lumb Bank, Yorkshire, 1976;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/25
1990 Feb 3
Bill Griffiths and Bob Cobbing reading at Sub Voicive, 1990, side A is predominantly Griffiths, followed by a small quantity of Cobbing; side B is an unidentified musical work;
condition: voices slightly muffled
MOTTRAM: 14/1/26
1978
A. Tribute to Hugh MacDiarmid recorded from TV item of 12 [Sep] 1978;
B. (Carl) Solomon and Allen Ginsberg reading at West End Bar, New York City, 15 Oct 1978;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: good, variable
MOTTRAM: 14/1/27
1978 Apr
Tom Clark (American poet) holding poetry workshop at St Mark's Church [New York City], 1978;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: good, but audience participation faint
MOTTRAM: 14/1/28
1992 Feb 29
'Future Exiles-Durham launch', comprising introduction by Iain Sinclair, and readings by Allen Fisher, Bill Griffiths, and B. J. Catling;
capacity: 90 mins
note: Dolby B used
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/29
1973 Dec 1
Jonathan Williams reading at Polytechnic of Central London, 1973;
capacity: 60 mins
note: continued on 14/1/67
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/30
1978 Jul 8
Bob Cobbing at Orpington, 1978, tape 1;
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/31
1978 Jul 8
Bob Cobbing at Orpington, 1978, tape 2;
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/32
1978 Jul 8
Bob Cobbing at Orpington, 1978, tape 3;
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/33
1979
A. Jonathan Williams reading at Polytechnic of Central London 13 Jul 1979, followed by recording of Mike Horovitz 'Poetry Now' from Radio 3, including Herbert Lomas, Tom Pickard, Jeff Nuttall, Patrick Waits
B. Allen Ginsberg reading at Institute of United States Studies, London, 21 Nov 1979;
capacity: 120 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/34
1980
A. Jonathan Williams reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 30 Oct 1980 and Pierre Joris, also at King's Poetry Series, 11 Nov 1980;
capacity: 120 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/35
1988-1989
Mostly concert of music by Elliott Carter recorded from Radio 3 on 30 Nov 1988, but on part of side 2 there is a talk about the calendar by Bill Griffiths at King's College London postgraduate seminars on 11 May 1989;
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/36
1988 Oct 25
James Sherry reading at Sub Voicive (White Swan, Covent Garden, London), 4 Aug 1987, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti reading at Compendium Books, Camden Town, London, 1988;
capacity: 90 mins
note: cf. MOTTRAM 14/1/61
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/37
1973
A. Robert Kelly, unspecified reading, but list of poems on manuscript insert,
B. Robert Kelly reading at St Mark's [New York City] 3 Jan 1973, items listed on insert;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: side A poor with some distortion, side B good but some echo to the acoustic
MOTTRAM: 14/1/38
1973-1981
Continuation of Robert Kelly reading at St Mark's [New York City], 3 Jan 1973, with some appended poems recorded 26 Oct 1976, and in insert list of all items read, followed by music by Alexander Goehr recorded from Radio 3, 20 Oct 1981;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: adequate, 'slightly blurred' on some poems
MOTTRAM: 14/1/39
1991 Feb 15
David Bromige reading at Sub Voicive (The Prince George of Cumberland, London), 1991;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/40
1968
Ted Berrigan reading at State University of New York at Buffalo on 5 Jun 1968, followed by Berrigan reading in New York City on 2 Oct 1968; the paper guard carries a list of individual items performed;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/41
1982 Apr 25
'Joel Oppenheimer, 1': Oppenheimer reading at State University of New York at Buffalo, introduced by Robert Creeley, 25 Apr 1982;
capacity: 60 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/42
1982
'Joel Oppenheimer, 2': Oppenheimer reading at Buffalo, continued, followed by Oppenheimer reading at Allentown Community Center, and Oppenheimer lecturing on Charles Olson and 'Personal Poetics', 23 Apr 1982 (sic);
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/43
1982
'Joel Oppenehimer, 3': Oppenheimer's lecture, 'Personal Poetics' continued, followed by lecture on Black Mountain College;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/44
1982
'Joel Oppenehimer, 4': Oppenheimer's lecture on Black Mountain College continued;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/45
undated
Designated 'Ted Wilentz's tape', containing readings by Leroi Jones (Amiri Baraka), Gilbert Sorrentino, Joel Oppenheimer;
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/46
1968 Aug 4
Joel Oppenehimer reading at Spring Arts Festival, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1968, introduced by Robert Creeley; side 2 filled in with classical music;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent, but Oppeneheimer apparently reading through a public address system
MOTTRAM: 14/1/47
1991 Dec 10
Gilbert Adair reading at Sub Voicive, London, 1991;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: noticeable background hiss
MOTTRAM: 14/1/48
1968, 1981
A. Murray Roman comedy performance, 1968, note: in stereo,
B. 'Fool's House' at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 27 Jan 1981, with short readings by Cris Cheek, Eric Mottram, Paige Mitchell, Robert Hampson, and Allen Fisher (reading Carlyle Reedy's work in her place);
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/49
undated
Bill Sherman reading at Sub Voicive, London, no other details;
capacity: 90 mins
note: chrome tape
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/50
1987 May 7
Carlos Fuentes reading at King's College London, 1987, 'On the 5th centenary of the discovery of America';
capacity: 90 mins
condition: good but voice slightly distorted sometimes
MOTTRAM: 14/1/51
1978-1979
A. Clayton Eshleman reading at Institute for United States Studies, London, 5 Dec 1978,
B. Phil Maillard reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 13 Feb 1979;
capacity: 120 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/52
1978 Feb 5
A. Annabel Levitt reading at The West End, New York City, 1978, introduced by Ted Berrigan,
B. Alice Notley reading at The West End, New York City, 1978, introduced by Ted Berrigan;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: Notley clear, but Levitt has intrusive background noise
MOTTRAM: 14/1/53
1985 Apr 14
Jonathan Williams reading at 'UCSD';
capacity: 60 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/54
1982-1983
A. Ted Berrigan reading at St Mark's Project [New York City] Oct 1982,
B. Alice (Notley), Anselm (Hollo), (Kenneth) Koch, (Ed) Sanders, (Andrei) Codrescu, (Anne) Waldman, (Ron) Padgett reading at Ted Berrigan Memorial Tribute, Jul 1983;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/55
1977-1978
A. Lewis Macadams reading, 26 Sep 1977,
B. Noam Chomsky interview recorded
from TV, 30 Mar 1978;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: Macadams faint
MOTTRAM: 14/1/56
1966-1967, 1970
Paul Blackburn reading at State University of New York at Buffalo, 1970, followed by 'Radio recording 1966 in NY inc. (John) Wieners' and material from Sonny Rollins recorded from the 'New Jazz Poets LP 1967';
capacity: 90 mins
condition: some distortion in all sections
MOTTRAM: 14/1/57
1980 Nov 29
Clayton Eshleman talking and reading at Pierre Joris' house in London, 1980;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: good, faintness and fading in parts
MOTTRAM: 14/1/58
1979 Oct 30
A. Joanna McClure reading at the Riverside Studios (London), 1979,
B. Michael McClure reading at the Riverside Studios (London), 1979;
capacity: 90 mins
note: chrome tape
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/59
undated
Allen Fisher performing his 'Art of flight', no further details;
capacity: 90 mins
note: compare 14/1/270 of 1976
condition: good record for mobile performance
MOTTRAM: 14/1/60
1982
A. blank,
B. poets recorded in San Francisco, 1982: 'Bernheimer, Silliman, Harrison, Robinson, Hejinian, Watten, Perchuan, Mandel';
capacity: 60 mins
condition: faint
MOTTRAM: 14/1/61
1986-1987
Bruce Andrews reading at the London Musicians Collective on 18 Jun 1986, followed by James Sherry at Sub Voicive, London, 4 Aug 1987;
capacity: 90 mins
note: cf. 14/1/36
condition: Andrews: 'a distant recording', Sherry, excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/62
1991 Feb 22
A. Alice Notley reading at October Gallery, London, 1991;
B. Douglas Oliver reading at October Gallery, London, 1991;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/63
1990 Aug 8
Anne Waldman reading at The Mean Fidler, 1990, details of poems on sleeve;
capacity: 60 mins
note: Dolby B used
condition:
MOTTRAM: 14/1/64
1976
A. John Giorno reading at The Poetry Society, 19 Jan 1976,
B. The story of the W. P. A. recorded from TV, 6 Mar 1976, with songs by Arlo Guthrie;
capacity: 120 mins
condition: Giorno section has interference
MOTTRAM: 14/1/65
undated
Sleeve marked 'Owens/Economou', no further details;
capacity: 120 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/66
1974 Apr 19
Clayton Eshleman reading at The Poetry Society (London), 1974;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/67
1973 Dec 1
Jonathan Williams reading at Polytechnic of Central London, 1971, continued from tape MOTTRAM 14/1/29;
capacity: 60 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/68
1989-1990
A. Thomas McGuane in a group discussion about writing, at Washington D. C., 12 Oct 1985,
B. C. Nancarrow interview recorded from Radio 3, 18 Jan 1990;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: McGuane with considerable background hiss
MOTTRAM: 14/1/69
1991 May 3
Paula Claire: 'The almost anniversary performance' at Sub Voicive, London, 1991, items performed listed on sleeve;
condition: good, very occasional distortion
MOTTRAM: 14/1/70
1990
A. 'Ancient land; sacred whale', a ritual for four voices by Tom Lowenstein, recorded from unspecified radio performance,
B. Paul Buck reading at Sub Voicive (Prince George of Cumberland), 14 Dec 1990;
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/71
1979 Nov 13
A. Herbert Burke reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 1979;
B. Cris Cheek reading at King's Poetry Series, 1979;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/72
1981 Nov 24
Robert Sheppard reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 1981, followed by performance by Bob Cobbing, with Tony Wright, Clive Fencott, Bill Griffiths;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/73
1980-1981
A. Pop music, from the radio, interlinked with live reading by Simon Pettet,
B. Gilbert Adair reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 10 Nov 1981;
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/74
1976
Erskine Caldwell reading at Institute of United States Studies, 13 May 1976, followed by Armand Schwerner reading at National Poetry Centre London 4 Jun 1976;
capacity: 120 mins
note: Schwerner continued on next tape
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/75
1976
A. Armand Schwerner reading at National Poetry Centre, London, 4 Jun 1976, continued from previous tape, MOTTRAM 14/1/73,
B. Clayton Eshleman reading at National Poetry Centre, 2 Jul 1976;
capacity: 90 mins
note: Eshleman reading continued on next tape
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/76
1971, 1975-1976
Clayton Eshleman reading at National Poetry Centre, 2 Jul 1976, continued from tape MOTTRAM 14/1/75, followed by Jackson Mac Low performing at Sound Poetry Festival at National Poetry Centre, 1975, performing live and playing tape from 1971, followed by performances by bpNichol, Henri Chopin and François Dufrêne;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/77
1981
A. Programme on Thomas Merton recorded from Radio 4, 19 Jul 1981,
B. Douglas Oliver reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 10 Nov 1981;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/78
16 Sep 1993
Eric Mottram interviewed by Thomas Evans;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/79
1971
Merce Cunningham talking about dance, at the United States Embassy, 11 Feb 1971
capacity: 90 mins
condition: some background hum
MOTTRAM: 14/1/80
1977 Dec 6
Roy Fisher reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 1977;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: good, voice slightly remote
MOTTRAM: 14/1/81
1981, 1983
A. Ian Patterson reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 9 Dec 1981,
B. 'The American experimental tradition', a programme recorded from Radio 3, 12 Jul 1983;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/82
1981-1982
A. Paige Mitchell reading at Sub Voicive, London, 17 Dec 1981,
B. Paul Burwell introducing his own music, recorded from Radio 3, Jan 1982;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: background hiss on Mitchell reading
MOTTRAM: 14/1/83
19 Aug 1978
Allen (Fisher) and Pierre (Joris) in conversation with Eric Mottram, 1978, followed by Mottram reading his poetry;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/84
1978
A. Anne Waldman and a second unidentified poet reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 30 May 1978,
B. Allen [Fisher] in conversation with Eric Mottram, 19 Aug 1978;
capacity: 120 mins
condition: Waldman recording remote
MOTTRAM: 14/1/85
1988 May 15
Tom Raworth and Harry Matthews reading at the Battersea Arts Centre, London, 1988, some notes on work read written on sleeve;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/86
1979
A. Andrew Duncan and Charles Ingham reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 29 May 1979,
B. Bill Griffiths and John Porter reading (texts and translations) at King's Poetry Series, 12 Jun 1979;
capacity: 90 mins
note: Griffiths and Porter continue on tape MOTTRAM 14/1/87
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/87
1979
A. Recording of TV 'Arena' programme feature, 12 Feb 1979, on Neil Oram's work performed at I. C. A. (Institute of Contemporary Arts, London) in Jan 1979,
B. Bill Griffiths and John Porter reading (texts and translations) at King's Poetry Series, 12 Jun 1979, continued from tape MOTTRAM 14/1/86;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/88
1978, 1983
Jazz performed by 'Wild Bill Davison, with local support, Bridge Street Arts Centre, Newcastle under Lyme, Nov 78', followed by a second group of numbers by Kenny Davern on clarinet, Roy Fisher on piano, Bobby Rosengarden on drums, at the Birch Hall Hotel, Oldham, Lancashire, 20 Feb 1983;
capacity: 60 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/89
1981
A. Rauschenberg in conversation with Edward Lucie-Smith, recorded from Radio 3, 7 Jun 1981,
B. Gilbert Adair reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 10 Nov 1981, continued from tape MOTTRAM 14/1/334;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/90
1964 Mar 17
Frank O'Hara reading at State University of New York at Buffalo, 1964, insert details work read;
capacity: 60 mins
condition: some distortion, noted as 'a great deal of feedback'
MOTTRAM: 14/1/91
1991 Jan 25
Ric Caddel reading at Sub Voicive (London);
note: original sleeve suggests Ken Edwards was also reading and also recorded, but there is no detectable signal on side B
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/92
1992 May 5
Gilbert Adair reading 'Last Sable smoke' at Sub Voicive (London);
capacity: 90 mins
note; reading occupies side A only
condition: some background hiss
MOTTRAM: 14/1/93
1991
John Ashbery, talking and reading his work and poems by Elizabeth Bishop, recorded from Radio 3 during August 1991, followed by Ashbery reading live at Compendium Bookshop, London, 30 Oct 1991, introduced by Eric Mottram;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: radio recording poor, Mottram introduction clear, live reading very faint
MOTTRAM: 14/1/94
1965, 1971
Robert Duncan lecturing at Berkeley Poetry Conference, 13 Jun 1965 and reading poems at Polytechnic of Central London, 1971, some detail of works read is given on sleeve; only occupies side A;
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/95
1965
Ed Dorn reading at Berkeley 1965, followed by Robert Duncan reading his 'Venice poem';
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/96
1973 Jun 11
Ted Berrigan reading at The Poetry Society (London), occupies side A only;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/97
1991
Ken Smith recorded from Radio 3 during Oct 1991, followed by John Ash reading at Compendium Bookshop (London), 30 Oct 1991 and Kenneth Koch reading at Compendium Bookshop 1 Nov 1991;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: Ash and Koch rather faint
MOTTRAM: 14/1/98
1989 Feb 24
Barrett Watten reading at Sub Voicive (at The White Hart, London);
condition: good but occasional slight distortion
MOTTRAM: 14/1/99
1990 May 18
Jerome Rothenberg reading at Sub Voicive (The Prince George of Cumberland, London), 1990;
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/100
1983 May
A. John Ashbery reading at St Mark's Poetry Project series (New York),
B. Kenneth Koch reading at the same event;
capacity: 60 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/101
1988 May 22
Iain Sinclair reading at Battersea Arts Centre, 1988;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: loud buzz throughout, not obscuring the voice, but irritating to have to listen to
MOTTRAM: 14/1/102
1979 Dec 11
Bob Cobbing reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 1979;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/103
1982
'Allen's tapes from SF (San Francisco) 1982':A. (Frank) O'Hara reading at State University of New York, Buffalo, 25 Sep 1964, poems read noted on sleeve,B. Clark Coolidge reading 5 May 1976;
capacity: 60 mins
condition: both voices faint
MOTTRAM: 14/1/104
not dated
A. Gary Snyder reading, poems detailed on sleeve,B. Philip Whalen reading, poems detailed on sleeve
capacity: 60 mins
condition: some distortion on Snyder, Whalen very muffled
MOTTRAM: 14/1/105
not dated
A. Michael Scholruck and Gary Lenhart reading at St Mark's Church (New York), followed by Bob Rosenthal reading at West End Bar (New York),B. John Giorno reading at St Mark's Church (New York);
capacity: 120 mins
condition: side A excellent; side B unclear from echoing acoustic
MOTTRAM: 14/1/106
1987 Jun 6
Robert Kelly reading at Institute of United States Studies, London, 1987;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/107
not dated
'Lecture tape': a composite tape including single items by Basil Bunting, Ezra Pound, Allen Ginsberg, François Dufrêne, Bernard Heidsieck, Brion Gysin, Henri Chopin, Bob Cobbing, Luciano Berio, Steve Reich, Michael McClure, Christopher Logue, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jack Kerouac, Jerome Rothenberg; details on enclosed slip;
capacity: 120 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/108
1958-1976
Composite tape, including items by John Cage, Anne Waldman, Diane Di Prima, Ed Sanders, Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Denise Levertov, Sylvia Plath, details on sleeve;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/109
1977 May 25
Robert Duncan reading at Air Gallery, 1977: annotated, 'Tape One (?) (sic) becomes faster about half way through';
capacity: 120 mins
condition: there is indeed a speed distortion in the recording from half way through side A, see further MOTTRAM 14/2/14; side B all right
MOTTRAM: 14/1/110
1977 Apr 23
Robert Duncan reading at The Poetry Society (London): designated, 'Tape two', details of poems read given on sleeve; recorded on side A only;
capacity: 120 mins
condition: voice sounds remote
MOTTRAM: 14/1/111
[1965]
(Robert Duncan) reading 'Passages' 18, 20, 21, 30, 31, no other details, only occupies side A
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/112
1965
Lawrence Ferlinghetti reading, recorded from Lovebooks LP LB0001, 1965, poems read are detailed on sleeve, but it is not clear if source is one or two gramophone records;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/113
[1970-1995]
A. Charles Olson reading,B. Ed Dorn reading;note: poems read are given on sleeve, but no other information
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/114
1970-1983
Composite tape featuring short readings by Amiri Baraka, Michael McClure, Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg, Miguel Pinero, Allen Ginsberg;
capacity: 60 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/115
1978
A. Muriel Rukeyser reading at the Institute (of United States Studies, London), 8 Sep 1978, details cancelled on the sleeve, presumably because the voice is faint and articulation poor,B. Lewis Macadams reading at the Institute (of United States Studies, London), 19 Sep 1978;
capacity: 120 mins
condition: side B excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/116
1975 Oct 28
'Poetry of Mexico: talk by Homero-Aridjis in Spanish', part of the 'Poetry of the Americas' conference at Polytechnic of Central London, labelled, 'Tuesday 28 Oct 1975';
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/117
1975 Oct 29
'Poetry of Cuba: Nicholas Guillen', part of the 'Poetry of the Americas' conference at Polytechnic of Central London, labelled, 'Wednesday 29 Oct 1975';
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/118
1975 Oct 30
Will Rowe giving talk in Spanish, part of the 'Poetry of the Americas' conference at Polytechnic of Central London, labelled, 'Thursday 30 Oct 1975';
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/119
1975 Nov 1
'Poetry of the Americas' conference at Polytechnic of Central London: introduction by Mottram, followed by talks and discussion, labelled, 'Saturday 1 Nov 1975, 1';
capacity: 60 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/120
1975 Nov 1
'Poetry of the Americas' conference at Polytechnic of Central London: discussion continued, side B includes readings by Michael McClure and Jerome Rothenberg, labelled, 'Saturday 1 Nov 1975, 2';
capacity: 60 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/121
1975 Nov 1
'Poetry of the Americas' conference at Polytechnic of Central London: Labelled 'Saturday 1 Nov 1975, 3';
capacity: 60 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/122
1975 Nov 1
'Poetry of the Americas' conference at Polytechnic of Central London: talk by Mottram, followed by discussion, labelled 'Saturday 1 Nov 1975, 3';
capacity: 60 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/123
1975 Nov 1
'Poetry of the Americas' conference at Polytechnic of Central London; continuation of discussion, labelled 'Saturday 1 Nov 1975, 4';
capacity: 60 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/124
1992 Mar 2
Mottram reading 'Estuaries' in Durham, 1992;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/125
1992 Mar 3
Mottram delivering the Mountjoy Lecture at the University of Durham, 1992: 'Basil Bunting: human framework and "Nature"';
capacity: 120 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/126
1992 Mar 24
Mottram reading at Sub Voicive ('The Archers', Brick Lane, London), 1992;
condition: good, some distortion of voice near beginning
MOTTRAM: 14/1/127
1951-1984
Composite tape of readings 1951-1984 put together by Simon Pettet, with short readings by William Carlos Williams, Philip Whalen, Anselm Hollo, Alice Notley, Edwin Denby, Wallace Stevens, Robert Creeley and Simon Pettet;
capacity: 60 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/128
1950
William Carlos Williams, interviewed by Jack Gerber, 1950, includes some poems, details on insert slip;
capacity: 60 mins
condition: 'needs plenty of upper register ... and plenty of volume' i.e. faint
MOTTRAM: 14/1/129
[1970-1995]
'Joel Oppenheimer tribute tape', no further details, but apparently a reading by Oppenheimer;
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/130
[1968]
Composite tape of Frank O'Hara reading his poetry, at different times, 1959-1968, list of poems on sleeve;
capacity: 60 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/131
1994 Apr 5
David Meltzer reading at Compendium Book, 1994, Side A only;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/132
1994 Jun 11
Eric Mottram talk on 'The Picturesque', delivered at Herefordshire College of Art and Design, 1994, followed by discussion;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/133
[1970-1995]
Jack Michelene (sc. Micheline?) reading his poetry, no further details, side A only;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: clear but low recording level
MOTTRAM: 14/1/134
1994 Jul 11
Martha King, Elaine Randell and Basil King reading at the East-West Gallery, London, 1994;
capacity: 60 minsnote: Dolby B used
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/135
1994 May 24
Noam Chomsky talking on Internalist and Naturalist approaches to language, King's College London, 1994;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/136 (a) and (b)
1994 Sep 30
Eric Mottram in discussion with Steve Want, 1994, on 'paranoia';note: there are two copies of this tape; compare also MOTTRAM 14/1/146-147
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/137
1994 Dec 1
Eric Mottram talking on '19th century American science fiction and utopias' at Research Centre for American Studies, King's College London, 1994;
capacity: 90 minsnote: words lost as tape is turned are given as '... the breath of life again after long suffocation ... Bell, too, was a major technocrat'
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/138
[1978]
Paul Evans and David Chaloner reading their poetry, no further details;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/139
1959-1969
Composite tape, with readings by Gregory Corso, 1969, Peter Orlovsky, not dated, John Wieners and Philip Lamantia, both 1959, Lew Welch, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Whalen, Michael McClure, David Meltzer and Kirby Doyle, all 1963; attached note gives details of poems read;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/140
1993 Jul 13
David Bromige and Cris Cheek reading at Sub Voicive (The Three Cups, London), 1993;
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/141
not dated
Roy Fisher reading his poems, no further details, side A only;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/142
1994 Sep 6
Allen Fisher reading at Sub Voicive (The Three Cups, London) 1994;
condition: good but some background hum
MOTTRAM: 14/1/143
1994 Oct 10
Iain Sinclair and Jeff Nuttall reading their work at Poets & Writers series, East-West Gallery, London;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/144
1994 Oct 11
Tom Raworth and Jeff Nuttall reading their poems at Sub Voicive (London), 1994;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/145
1994 Nov 14
David Meltzer and Eric Mottram reading their poems at Poets & Writers series, East-West Gallery, London;
capacity: 90 mins
note: Mottram on side B carries over onto start of side A
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/146
1995 Jan 10
Tape discussion ?Steve Want and Eric Mottram, labelled, 'paranoia session, 1';
capacity: 90 mins
note: compare 14/1/136
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/147
1995 Jan 10
Tape discussion ?Steve Want and Eric Mottram, labelled 'paranoia session, 2', occupies side A only;
capacity: 60 mins
note: compare 14/1/136
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/148
1994 Oct 25
A. Ric Caddel reading at Sub Voicive (The Three Cups, London) 1994,
B. Colin Simms reading at Sub Voicive;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/149 (a) and (b)
1994 Jan 28
Mottram lecture on Harry Crews at Brunel University, 1994, part 1;
capacity: 90 mins
note; two copies
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/150 (a) and (b)
1994 Jan 28
Mottram lecture on Harry Crews at Brunel University, 1994, part 2; takes up part of side A only;
capacity: 90 mins
note: two copies
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/151
1994 Dec 9
Allen Ginsberg reading at Waterstones Bookshop, London, 1994;
capacity: 60 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/152
1994 Oct 24
Herbert Huncke reading at the Poets and Writers series, East-West Gallery, London, 1994;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/153
1994
A. Tom Pickard reading at Compendium Books 28 Mar 1994, at launch of his Tiepin Eros (Bloodaxe Books, Newcastle on Tyne, 1994),B. Cris Cheek reading/performing with Sinead Jones in the Poets & Writers series at East-West Gallery, London, 26 Jul 1994;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: Pickard muffled, Cheek excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/154
1994 May 10
Eric Mottram talking at King's College London, 1994, on 'The American presence and American cultural studies in Britain';
capacity: 60 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/155
1992
Eric Mottram reading his poems at the State University of New York at Buffalo, 1992, introduced by Robert Creeley;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: good, but voices remote
MOTTRAM: 14/1/156
1993 Mar 29
Eric Mottram reading his poems at Coimbra University, Portugal, 1993;note: tape opens omitting first poem, which sleeve note says was 'The effort'
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/157
1980 Sep 8
Live New Departures at Pentameters, London, 1980, featuring Roy Fisher and Jeff Nuttall playing jazz, Eric Mottram, Michele Hanson, Ignition (a group of two poets) and Michael Horovitz;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/158
1994 Feb 2
Eric Mottram speaking at the James Joyce Society of London, 1994, at the University of North London, on 'Luciano Berio and John Cage: contemporary music's response to James Joyce', introduced by Chris Rolfe, and musical illustrations by John Whiting;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/159
1992 Dec 8
Tribute to Paul Evans, at Sub Voicive (The Three Cups, London), 1992, introduced by Lee Harwood;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: variable (includes material already on tape)
MOTTRAM: 14/1/160
1978
A. Michael Lally reading at The West End Bar, New York City, 1978,
B. James Koller reading at St Mark's Church, New York City, Spring 1978, followed by Ed Sanders reading his 'Investigative poetry' at the WBAI (?);
capacity: 90 mins
condition: side A, echoing acoustic, side B excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/161
1965
Jack Spicer reading his text 'The Holy Grail' at the Berkeley Poetry Conference, 1965;
condition: good but voice rather faint
MOTTRAM: 14/1/162
1963, 1968
Ezra Pound reading 'The Confucian Odes' from an unspecified broadcast, 1968, followed by Jack Spicer delivering the Vancouver Lecture, 1963, 'Breaks off mid-sentence';
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/163
1976, 1979
A. Barry MacSweeney reading at Lumb Bank, Yorkshire, 22 [Sep] 1976,
B. Jasper Carrot at Theatre Royal, London, 1979;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/164
1981 Oct 26
Tony Jackson reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 1981, followed by Paul Brown at same event;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/165
1982 Feb 2
Iain Sinclair reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 1982;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: good, but some interference from rocking of microphone
MOTTRAM: 14/1/166
1982
Eric Mottram reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 16 Feb 1982, followed by Stuart Montgomery at same venue, 16 Mar 1982;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/167
1965
Robert Creeley reading his poems at The Berkeley Poetry Conference, 22 Jul 1965, followed by part 1 of A sense of measure (Calder & Boyars, London, 1972), 23 Jul 1965;
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/168
1965
Robert Creeley reading part 2 of A sense of measure (Calder & Boyars, London, 1972), at The Berkeley Poetry Conference, 23 Jul 1965;
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/169
1981
Eric Mottram reading his poems at Sub Voicive (Rose & Crown, Highgate, London) 24 Apr 1981, followed by programme on Billy the Kid recorded from the radio, 15 Jul 1981;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: poor, Mottram's voice distorted in recording or tape deteriorated
MOTTRAM: 14/1/170
1977 Apr 21
A. Fielding Dawson reading at 'NWPS', Air Gallery, 1977
B. Robert Creeley reading at same event;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/171
1993 Oct 4
Tom Meyer reading at Workfortheeyetodo (London), 1993,
B. Jonathan Williams reading at the same event;
capacity: 60 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/172
1979 Jan 16
A. Neil Oram reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 1979,
B. Ken Smith reading at the same event;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/173
1990 Aug 7
Anne Waldman reading at Sub Voicive (The Prince George of Cumberland, London), 1990, introduced by Mottram;
capacity: 90 mins
note: Dolby B used
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/174
1978 Nov 16
A multi-voice performance of Louis Zukofsky's 'A-24', with the voices of U. C. Davies, Steve Benson, Barrett Watten, Carla Harryman, Kit Robinson, Lyn Hejinian, and piano by Bob Perelman;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/175
1965
A. Jonathan Williams reading, no further details,B. Robert Creeley reading 'Words' pt. 1 at Berkeley, 1965; these poems were later published as Words (Scribner, New York [1967]);
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/176
1965
Robert Creeley, concluding his Berkeley 1965 reading of 'Words', followed by Louis Zukofsky, followed by Ted Berrigan, no further details;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/177
1968 Mar 4
Louis Zukofsky reading at Buffalo Festival of the Arts, 1968, introduced by Robert Creeley, details of poems read given on sleeve;
capacity: 60 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/178
1982
Composite tape from San Francisco, 1982, with A. Louis Zukofsky reading,
B. Robert Grenier [1980] and David Bromige (1973) reading;
capacity: 90 min
condition: whole tape exhibits considerable hiss
MOTTRAM: 14/1/179
1981 Oct 13
A. John Wilkinson reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 1981,
B. Barry MacSweeney reading at same event;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/180
1981-1982
Clive Fencott reading with Bob Cobbing at Sub Voicive, London, 7 Jan 1982, followed by Bill Sherman reading at Sub Voicive 3 Dec 1981;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: Fencott excellent, Sherman high level of hiss
MOTTRAM: 14/1/181
1978
A. Barry MacSweeney reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 22 [Aug] 1978,
B. Allen Ginsberg reading at Naropa Benefit event, with Carl Solomon and others:
capacity: 90 min
condition: side A faint and echoing, side B also somewhat faint
MOTTRAM: 14/1/182
1981 Feb 11
Tom Lowenstein reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 1981, followed by David Chaloner reading at the same event;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/183
1975
Basil Bunting interviewed by Eric Mottram, 7 Mar 1975, with note, 'better copy elsewhere', followed by undated celebration reading for Basil Bunting featuring 10 poets including Barry MacSweeney, Roy Fisher, Colin Simms;
capacity: 60 mins
condition: interview excellent, reading of variable quality
MOTTRAM: 14/1/184
1980 Apr 25
Carl Rakosi reading at Institute of United States Studies, University of London, 1980;
capacity: 120 mins
note: unidentified recording from radio on part of side B
condition: faint, some crackling
MOTTRAM: 14/1/185
1963 Aug 13
Charles Olson reading from 'Maximus IV' at the Vancouver Poetry Conference, 1963;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: poor, 'hum from the master tape'
MOTTRAM: 14/1/186
1963 Aug 13
Charles Olson reading extracts from 'Maximus IV and V' at Vancouver Poetry Conference, 1963;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: variable, still considerable hum
MOTTRAM: 14/1/187
1963 Aug 14-16
Charles Olson concluding his reading at Vancouver Poetry Conference, 1963, with excerpts from 'Maximus VI', followed by Robert Creeley talk on Olson continued on tape 14/1/188;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: Olson still with hum, Creeley good
MOTTRAM: 14/1/188
not dated
Robert Creeley talking about Charles Olson, continued, followed by undated Olson reading at Cortland pt. 1;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: good
MOTTRAM: 14/1/189
1965
Charles Olson reading poems later published as The causal mythology (Four Seasons Foundation, San Francisco, 1969), with introduction by Robert Duncan; followed by Olson, Cortland reading pt. 2;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/190
[1970-1995]
Noted as 'Charles Olson-a long session with Gerard Malanga';
note: only occupies side A
condition: good but Melanga's voice as interviewer faint/remote
MOTTRAM: 14/1/191
1982
Tape prepared in San Francisco, 1982
A. Charles Olson reading, details of poem notes on sleeve, but as to date, only says '1960s?',
B. Louis Zukofsky interview, 1966;
capacity: 60 mins
condition: side A excellent, B faint
MOTTRAM: 14/1/192
[1965]
Robert Duncan speaking on 'Psyche: myth and the moment of truth', no further details;
note 1: occupies side A only
note 2: on date compare 14/1/196 below
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/193
1965 Jul 16
Robert Duncan reading 'Passages 1-25' at The Berkeley Poetry Conference, 1965, noted as 'first performance';
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/194
[1970-1995]
Robert Hughes talking on 'Ezra Pound and music; pt. 1;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/195
[1970-1995]
Robert Hughes talking on 'Ezra Pound and music; pt. 2;
capacity: 90 mins
note: only occupies side A
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/196
1965-1966
Composite tape comprising Robert Duncan talking on 'Psyche-myth and the moment of truth' at Berkeley, 13 Jul 1965, Charles Olson talking about his 'The causal mythology' at Berkeley 1965, Allen Ginsberg reading 'Wichita vortex sutra' at Spring Arts festival, State University of New York at Buffalo, 5 Mar 1966;
capacity: 90 mins
note: occupies side A only
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/197
1939-1983
Collected examples of Ezra Pound reading from 1939 to 1959, followed by 'Pound-Cavalcanti: excerpts from the Arch Ensemble performance in 1983', pt. 1;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent, but some distortion in the second (musical) item
MOTTRAM: 14/1/198
1983
'Pound-Cavalcanti: excerpts from the Arch Ensemble performance in 1983', pt. 2;
capacity: 120 mins
note: occupies side A only
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/199
1978-1979
A. Andrew Crozier reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 13 Mar 1979,
B. Bill Berkson reading at the Institute of United States Studies, London, 19 Sep 1978;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: A, muffled or booming acoustic B, good, but whole tape liable to unstable speed (too tight wound?)
MOTTRAM: 14/1/200
1971, 1978
A. Muriel Rukeyser reading at the Institute of United States Studies, London, 8 Sep 1978, details of poems read on sleeve
B. Rukeyser reading at Better Books, London, 18 Jan 1971;
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/201
1986 Mar 11
Toby Olson reading at Sub Voicive (The White Swan, London) 1986;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/202
1993 Jun 4
Ed Dorn reading at Compendium Bookshop, London, 1993;
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/203
1975 Dec 12
Robert Creeley reading at Allentown Community Centre, Buffalo;
capacity: 120 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/204
1976 Sep 21
Barry MacSweeney at Lumb Bank, Yorkshire: talk on attitude to the environment in pastoral poetry, followed by discussion;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/205
1975
A. Bill Griffiths reading at Lumb Bank, Yorkshire, 22 Aug 1975,
B. multi-voice performance of Jeff Nuttall The Fox's lair (Aloes Books, London, 1972), at same venue, 23 Aug 1975, followed on same occasion by Diz Willis reading;
capacity: 120 mins
condition: side A faint, side B variable
MOTTRAM: 14/1/206
1976, 1981
Tom Pickard programme 'The Jarrow March' from Radio 3, 5 Nov 1976, followed by Pickard reading at ALP (Association of Little Presses) 15th Anniversary celebration at London Musicians Collective, 24 Jul 1981;
capacity: 120 mins
condition: excellent from radio, but reading faint
MOTTRAM: 14/1/207
1981 Jul 24
A. Pierre Joris reading at ALP (Association of Little Presses) 15th Anniversary celebration at London Musicians Collective, 24 Jul 1981,
B. Eric Mottram reading on same occasion;
capacity: 60 mins
condition: faint
MOTTRAM: 14/1/208
1978 Mar 21
Iain Sinclair reading from Lud Heat (Albion Village Press, London, 1975) at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 1978;
capacity: 120 mins
condition: good but some background hum
MOTTRAM: 14/1/209
1985
'Audio-tape anthology': George Qasha and Charles Stein reading sound poems, compiled Barrytown, April, 1985, typed insert gives details;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/210
1978 Jul 8
Bob Cobbing talking and performing at Orpington, 1978, part 1;
capacity: 120 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/211
1978
Bob Cobbing talking and performing at Orpington, 8 Jul 1978, part 2, including some discussion with Eric Mottram, followed briefly on side B by Edwin Morgan and Edward Braithwaite reading from TV, 9 Jul 1978;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/212
1981 Jul 24
A. Anthony Barnett reading at ALP (Association of Little Presses) 15th Anniversary celebration at London Musicians Collective, 24 Jul 1981,B. Ric Caddel reading at same event;
capacity: 60 mins
condition: faint
MOTTRAM: 14/1/213
1981
Lawrence Upton reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 24 Feb 1981, followed by Ralph Hawkins reading in the same series, 10 Mar 1981;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/214
1981 Apr 28
Christopher Dewdney reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 1981;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/215
1980 Aug 8
Cris Cheek performing at The Rainbow Café, 1980;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/216
1978 Jul 20
Crash Bang Wallop (comprising Cris Cheek, Lawrence Upton, Clive Fencott) performing at the Laundry Gallery, 1978, including work by Carlyle Reedy;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: tape broken, contents not fully checked
MOTTRAM: 14/1/217
1980 Nov 25
Ecuatorial Benefit Reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 1980, including Spanish poetry in translation ready by Eric Mottram, Will Rowe, Pierre Joris, Ken Edwards;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/218
1974 Jan 26
Barry MacSweeney reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 1974, reading with Bill Griffiths; MacSweeney opened and closed the reading;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent, though tape creased at one point from storage without box
MOTTRAM: 14/1/219
1981 Feb 21
A. Barry MacSweeney reading at Liverpool Contemporary Poetry Symposium, 1981, part 1,
B. Eric Mottram reading at the same event;
capacity: 120 mins
condition: A, voice faint, B, better
MOTTRAM: 14/1/220
1981
A. John Wilkinson reading at the Liverpool Contemporary Poetry Symposium, 21 Feb 1981,
B. Barry MacSweeney reading at the same event, part 2 i.e. continued from previous cassette;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: side A excellent, B still slightly faint
MOTTRAM: 14/1/221
1980 Oct 14
A. Bill Griffiths reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 1983,B. Ken Smith reading at the same event;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/222
1974 Apr 5
Barry MacSweeney reading at The Poetry Society, London;
capacity: 120 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/223
1978 Nov 28
A. Ulli McCarthy (Freer) reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 1978,
B. P. C. Fencott reading at the same event; Fencott reading finishes on spare tape at the end of side A;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/224
1979
A. Barry MacSweeney reading his poem sequence 'The odes' at Skeete, 26-27 Mar 1979;
B. MacSweeney reading at the King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 16 Oct 1979, part 1, introduced by Eric Mottram;
capacity: 120 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/225
1979 Oct 16
Barry MacSweeney reading at the King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 1979, part 2;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/226
1980 Mar 18
Jeremy Hilton reading at the King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 1980, followed by David Miller reading at the same event;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/227
1977
Robert Duncan reading at the Polytechnic of Central London, 1977; works read are listed on the sleeve;note: fills side A only
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/228
1967 May 1
Robert Duncan reading at State University of New York at Buffalo, 1967, part 1:
A. 'Passages 1-13',B. 'Passages 14-26';
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/229
1967, 1968
Robert Duncan reading at State University of New York at Buffalo, 1967, part 2, comprising 'Passages 27-30', followed by 'Passage 31' from Buffalo Festival of the Arts, 6 Jun 1968;
capacity: 90 mins
note: only occupies side A
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/230
undated
Basil Bunting celebration, featuring 10 poets: Compare tape MOTTRAM 14/1/183
capacity: 60 mins
condition: execrable; side A very faint, and too fast; side B has bad interference
MOTTRAM: 14/1/231
1980 Jan 22
A. Glenda George reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 1980,
B. Paul Evans reading at same event;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/232
1982
A. Alan Halsey reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 16 Feb 1982, lacking last 5 mins
B. Rod Mengham reading at same venue, 16 Mar 1982;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/233
1981
Allen Fisher reading at Sub Voicive (Rose & Crown, London) 19 Jun 1981, followed by Frankie Howard programme recorded from television 8 Sep 1981;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/234
1978 Oct 17
A. Lee Harwood reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 1978
B. Bill Sherman reading, no further details;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: poor, high level of hiss on both sides
MOTTRAM: 14/1/235
[1980]
Barry MacSweeney reading at Poetry & Politics Conference, London [1980], followed by Iain Sinclair at same event;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: both readers very faint
MOTTRAM: 14/1/236
1967-1968
Jerome Rothenberg reading at Arts Laboratory, 2 Sep 1967, followed by Michael McClure reading at unspecified venue, 1968, McClure poems listed on sleeve;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: good, McClure's voice slightly booming
MOTTRAM: 14/1/237
1980 Jun
David Antin reading 'The principle of fit, 2' at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D. C.;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/238
1980 Dec 9
A. Ken Edwards reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 1980, note 'opening prose piece missing',
B. Lee Harwood at same event;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/239
1981 Jan 13
A. John Freeman reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 1981,
B. Roy Fisher reading at same event;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/240
1973 Mar 5
Bob Cobbing interviewed by Eric Mottram, at The Poetry Society, London, 1973
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/241
1973 Mar 19
Stuart Montgomery interviewed by Eric Mottram, at The Poetry Society, London, 1973;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/242
1973 Jan 22
Roy Fisher interviewed by Eric Mottram at The Poetry Society, London
capacity: 60 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/243
1973 Feb 19
Opal L. Nations, Allen Fisher, Doug Lang (Fluxshoe as a group), interviewed by Eric Mottram at The Poetry Society, London, 1973;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/244
1972 Oct 9
Lee Harwood interviewed by Eric Mottram at The Poetry Society, London, 1972;
capacity: 60 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/245
1973 Feb 5
Thomas A. Clark interviewed by Eric Mottram at The Poetry Society, London, 1973;
capacity: 60 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/246
1973 Apr 9
Dom Sylvester Houedard interviewed by Eric Mottram at The Poetry Society, London, 1973;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/247
1973 Feb 14
Dick Higgins interviewed by Eric Mottram, at the Kensington Palace Hotel, 1973;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/248
1972
Tom Pickard interviewed by Eric Mottram (at The Poetry Society, London), 23 Oct 1972, followed by Eric Mottram interviewed by Bob Cobbing, probably same venue, 20 Nov 1972;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/249
1972 Nov 7
A. Bill Butler interviewed by Eric Mottram at The Poetry Society, London, 1972,
B. Jeff Nuttall interviewed by Eric Mottram, probably at the same event;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/250
1974 Dec 14
Barry MacSweeney interviewed by Eric Mottram at The Poetry Society, London, 1974;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/251
1974 Sep 23
Ken Smith interviewed by Eric Mottram at The Poetry Society, London, 1974;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/252
[1991]
Eric Mottram: Lecture at Institut d'Anglais, Paris, on The new British poetry (Paladin, London, 1988) and questions of editing;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/253
1991 Mar 15
Eric Mottram reading on Shakespeare & Co (bookshop) benefit occasion, Paris, 1991;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/254
1973
A. George Oppen reading Of being numerous (New Directions, New York, 1968) at Polytechnic of Central London conference, 1973,
B. Wallace Stevens reading 'The idea of order at Key West', recorded from gramophone recording going back to 1957;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/255
1974 Oct 17
Pierre Joris and Eric Mottram reading at Transgravity-Enterprise, Chalk farm, London, 1974;
capacity: 90 mins
note: sleeve note on participants is inaccurate
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/256
1975 Nov 1
Jerome Rothenberg reading at Polytechnic of Central London conference, followed by Michael McClure;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: tape too tight wound to play easily, so unable to verify condition of McClure reading, though Rothenberg present in potentially excellent condition
MOTTRAM: 14/1/257
1982 May 27
Robert Creeley reading at Commonwealth Club, Leamington Spa, 1982, part 1;
capacity: 60 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/258
1982 May 27
Robert Creeley reading at Commonwealth Club, Leamington Spa, 1982, part 2;
capacity: 60 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/259
1981
Jerome Rothenberg reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 26 Jun 1981, followed by interview of Rothenberg by Mottram, 29 Jun 1981, part 1;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/260
1981 Jun 29
Interview of Jerome Rothenberg by Mottram, part 2;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: faint
MOTTRAM: 14/1/261
1981
Interview of Jerome Rothenberg by Mottram, part 3, followed by item of music by Thea Musgrave, recorded from Radio 3, 2 Nov 1981;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/262
1979
A. James Koller reading at Institute of United States Studies, London, 6 Oct 1979,
B. Ian Sinclair reading from Suicide Bridge (Albion Village Press, London, 1978), at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 27 Nov 1979, part 1;
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/263
1979
A. Ian Sinclair reading from Suicide Bridge (Albion Village Press, London, 1978), at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 27 Nov 1979, part 1, B. Chris Torrance reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 23 Oct 1979, continued from #;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/264
1981 Nov 27
David Henderson reading at Institute of United States Studies, London, 1981;
capacity: 90 mins
note: only occupies side A
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/265
[1981]
Clarence Major reading at Institute of United States Studies, London,
capacity: 90 mins
note: not dated, but cassette type and inscription resembles item 14/1/264
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/266
1989
Eric Mottram interviewed by Wignesan at King's College London, 4 Sep 1989, continued on 7 Sep 1979, part 1;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: good, some slight traffic noise in background
MOTTRAM: 14/1/267
1989 Sep 7
Eric Mottram interviewed by Wignesan at King's College London, 7 Sep 1989, part 2;
note: uses side A only
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/268
1977
Allen Fisher reading versions, partly improvised, of his 'Apocaylptic sonnets', with covering note by Fisher on the sleeve;
capacity: 60 mins
condition: good, but some background hum
MOTTRAM: 14/1/269
1988 Dec 16
Cris Cheek reading at Sub Voicive, London, 1988
condition: good, but voice recorded at rather low level
MOTTRAM: 14/1/270
1976 Nov 14
Allen Fisher reading 'Art of flight', 1976;
capacity: 60 mins
note: variously marked as 'part 1', 'session two', though no sequel/prequel tape as yet located, though another version exists at 14/1/59
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/271
1974, 1975
A. Bill Griffiths reading at The Poetry Society, London, 10 Oct 1975,
B. F. T. Prince reading at The Poetry Society 11 Oct 1974;
capacity: 120 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/272
1991 Feb
Allen Fisher reading alternately with Robert Creeley, at Aberystwyth, 1991, marked as 'part 1';
capacity: 90 mins
note: no sequel tape has been found
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/273
1984, 1985
George Evans reading at Sub Voicive (The White Swan, London) Oct 1984, followed by 'part 2' of Hanne Bramness reading, 15 Oct 1985;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: considerable background noise during Evans, Bramness excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/274
1977 Sep 26
Lewis MacAdams reading his work, recorded at Guernsey Grove, marked 'part 1/2';
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/275
[1967-1968]
Robert Duncan reading 'Venice poem' ('continued'), and 'Passages 30-31' at Buffalo, followed by Bill Butler reading Byrne's Atlas (ready 1968, published Wallrich Books, London, 1970);
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/276
1980
A. Allen Fisher reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 19 Feb 1980, part 1,
B. music programme including David Toop recorded off Radio 3, 25 Feb 1980;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/277
1980
A. Allen Fisher reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 19 Feb 1980, part 2,
B. Peter Riley reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 4 Mar 1980;
capacity: 120 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/278
1976 Nov 19
Peter Barry reading at Sub Voicive (The White Swan, London) 1976, followed by Robert Hampson and Ken Edwards reading at the same event;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: poor, very variable voice levels
MOTTRAM: 14/1/279
1974 Mar
Eric Mottram reading at Kent State University, Ohio, Mar 1974;
capacity: 120 mins
note: starts some way in on side A, only occupies side A
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/280
1977 Aug 2
A. Roy Fisher reading at Lumb Bank, Yorkshire, 1977,
B. Eric Mottram reading at same event;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/281
1975 Oct 3
Pierre Joris reading alternately with Robert Vas Dias at The Poetry Society, London, 1975;
capacity: 120 mins
condition: good, but slightly remote
MOTTRAM: 14/1/282
1984 Jan 17
A. Clive Fencott reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 1984, assisted by Steven Moore,
B. Lee Harwood reading at the same event;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/283
1987
A. Elaine Randell reading at 'R.A.S.P.', 3 Apr 1987,
B. Gilbert Adair reading, followed by Ken Edwards, details uncertain;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/284
1988 Jun 21
Allen Fisher reading at Sub Voicive (The White Swan, London), 1988;
condition: initially, Fisher assisted by female voice, both reading against taped background, leads to poor definition; subsequently improves, but still intrusive background hum.
MOTTRAM: 14/1/285
1973, 1975
A. Clayton Eshleman reading at Compendium Bookshop, London, 13 Nov 1973,
B. Allen Fisher reading at The Poetry Society, London, 10 Oct 1975, followed by Bill Griffiths, no details;
capacity: 120 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/286
1977 Apr 27
A. Tadeusz Rozewicz reading at the Air Gallery, 1977,
B. Tom Raworth reading at same venue;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/287
1978, 1979
A. Douglas Oliver reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 13 Nov 1978,
B. Paul Matthews reading at same venue, 13 Feb 1979, starts some way in;
capacity: 120 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/288
1975
A. Bill Griffiths talking on George Crabbe followed by Eric Mottram talking on William Wordsworth at The Poetry Society, 16 Oct 1975,
B. Neil Oram reading at the same venue 17 Oct 1975;
capacity: 120 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/289
1976 Sep 22
Elaine Randell talking about her work and reading her work at Lumb Bank, Yorkshire, 1976;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/290
1976 Apr 2
A. Paul Buck reading at The Poetry Society, London, 1976,
B. Tony Lopez, reading at the same event;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/291
1979 May 8
John Welch reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 1979, followed by Brian Catling reading at the same event;
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/292
1980 Jun 14
Clive Fencott reading alternately with Bill Griffiths at the Poetry & Politics Conference at the Polytechnic of Central London, 1980;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/293
1990 Jan 26
A. Tony Baker reading at Sub Voicive, London, 1990, followed by Harry Gilonis at same event
B. The same poets reading together in a rengo sequence;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: good but voices faint
MOTTRAM: 14/1/294
1975 Feb 26
Elaine Randell reading alternately with Eric Mottram in the King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 1975;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/295
1978 Jun 24
Allen Fisher reading, and talking about his work, at Alembic, 1978;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/296
1976
Paul Buck reading his work 'xxxx7' at Colpitts Hotel, Durham, 19 Nov 1976, with some supplementary material recorded at home, 22 Nov 1976 and 4 Dec 1976;
capacity: 60 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/297
1978 Dec 12
Ken Edwards reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 1978, followed by Peter Barry and Robert Hampson;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/298
1972 Apr 2
Doug Lang reading his work;
capacity: 60 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/299
1978 Aug 31
Pierre Joris reading at Laundry Gallery, 1978;
capacity: 90 mins
note: details of reading on sleeve
condition: good, but some background ghosting from previous layer of recording
MOTTRAM: 14/1/300
1976 Mar 3
Allen De Loach, tape letter to Mottram;
capacity: 60 mins
condition: serious background noise (from car he is driving in)
MOTTRAM: 14/1/301
1986 Mar 18
Gilbert Adair reading at Sub Voicive (The White Swan, London), 1986;
capacity: 60 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/302
1977 Nov 10
Allen Fisher reading at Polytechnic of Central London [conference], 1977;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: good, voice slightly muffled
MOTTRAM: 14/1/303
1973 [Sep] 24
Nathaniel Tarn reading his work;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/304
1973 Oct 20
Writers Forum 100 celebration at The Poetry Society, 1973, featuring Bob Cobbing [with Paul Burwell?], and many authors published by Writers Forum;
capacity: 120 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/305
1976 Feb 13
A. Barry MacSweeney reading 'Black torch'(later published by New London Pride, 1978);
B. unidentified orchestral piece from Radio;
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/306
1975 Feb 5
Eric Mottram and Elaine Feinstein reading alternately at Essex (University);
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/307
1973 Sep 23
Harlow Poetry Society event, part 1:Introduction by Melville Hardiment followed by reading by Eric Mottram and Bill Butler;
capacity: 90 mins
note: side B is recorded prior to side A
condition: good, but voice slightly muffled
MOTTRAM: 14/1/308
1973 Sep 23
Harlow Poetry Society event, part 2:
Reading by Bill Butler concluded, followed by (possibly unrelated) readings by Richard Miller and Opal L. Nations;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: Butler and Miller somewhat muffled, Nations stronger
MOTTRAM: 14/1/309
1975
A. An account of the Cambridge Poetry Festival introduced by George Macbeth, recorded from Radio 3, 25 May 1975,
B. Jeremy Hilton reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 13 May 1975, followed by Iain Sinclair reading at the same event;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/310
1977 Jun 6
Brighton Festival of Arts, 1977: Readings by Bill Griffiths, Allen Fisher, Jeff Nuttall, Eric Mottram;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/311
1974 Nov 8
A. John James reading at The Poetry Society, London, 1974,
B. Douglas Oliver reading at the same event;
capacity: 90 mins
note: side B actually starts with a short stretch of Pierre Joris reading
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/312
1975 Feb 4
A. Ken Smith reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 1975,
B. Lee Harwood reading at same event;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/313
1983 Oct 18
Thomas A. Clark and Ken Edwards reading alternately at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 1983;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: poor: voices faint and some crackle
MOTTRAM: 14/1/314
1975
Jeff Nuttall reading The patriarchs (later published by Arc, Todmorden, 1978) at Lumb Bank, Yorkshire, 20 Aug 1975, followed by Eric Mottram reading at the same venue, 21 Aug 1975;
capacity: 120 mins
condition: good, but low recording level
MOTTRAM: 14/1/315
1980 Jun 14
A. Ulli McCarthy (Freer) reading at the Poetry & Politics Conference at the Polytechnic of Central London, 1980,
B. Allen Fisher reading at the same event;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: good, but low recording level, poor sound level could result from distortion of position of pad that supports traveling tape; tape snapped on rewinding, apparently at point of previous repair
MOTTRAM: 14/1/316
1986 Sep 23
Nathaniel Tarn reading at Sub Voicive (White Swan, London), 1986;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/317
1976
A. Cris Cheek reading at Lumb Bank, Yorkshire, 22 Sep 1976, with other participants,
B. Elaine Randell reading at same venue, 23 Sep 1976, with other participants;
capacity: 60 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/318
1975, 1976
A. Ulli McCarthy (Freer) reading at The Poetry Society, London, 17 Oct 1975,
B. Ulli reading at home, 26 Jul 1976;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: side A rather echoing, B excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/319
1982 Dec 2
Allen Fisher reading at Jackson's Lane, 1982;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: good, some background hum
MOTTRAM: 14/1/320
[1970-1995]
Eric Mottram and Paul Evans reading alternately at Public House Bookshop, Brighton;
capacity: 120 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/321
1986 Jun 10
Ken Edwards reading at Sub Voicive (The White Swan, London), 1986;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent, but apparently tight wound
MOTTRAM: 14/1/322
1977, 1978
A. Survey of the Cambridge Poetry Festival 1977, recorded from the Radio,
B. Anthony Lopez reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 31 Oct 1978;
capacity: 120 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/323
1977, 1982
A. Lee Harwood reading at Lamont Library, Harvard, 16 Aug 1977,
B. Lee Harwood reading, recorded off Radio 3, 10 Nov 1982;
capacity: 60 mins
note: Dolby B engaged
condition: side A, good but some hiss, side B excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/324
1986
Allen Fisher talking about Joseph Beuys prior to a poetry workshop at R.A.S.P., 17 Oct 1986, followed by talk of 12 Dec 1986, part 1;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/325
1985, 1986
Tom Raworth reading at Sub Voicive (The White Swan, London) 29 Oct 1985, followed by Allen Fisher at R.A.S.P., 12 Dec 1986, part 2;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: good; volume level drops with Fisher on side B
MOTTRAM: 14/1/326
1973
'(Allen) Ginsberg reading with (Theodore) Enslin recently from the Kalevala-"Blues Improvisation"-Jun 1973', followed by Ginsberg reading with David Meltzer and George [Dewdney];
capacity: 120 mins
note: marked 'Tape 2-Michigan' and '3' in circle
condition: whole tape extremely faint
MOTTRAM: 14/1/327
(1973)
Allen Ginsberg reading and chanting, followed by Carl Rakosi reading his work;
capacity: 120 mins
note: marked 'Tape 2-Michigan continued', 'Tape 3' and '4' in circle;
condition: whole tape extremely faint
MOTTRAM: 14/1/328
(1973)
Continuation of Carl Rakosi reading, followed by George Oppen, then 'Objectivist discussion' involving Rakosi, Oppen, Mary Oppen, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Reznikoff;
capacity: 120 mins
note: marked 'Tape 3-Michigan' and '5' in circle;
condition: good but uniformly faint
MOTTRAM: 14/1/329
(1973)
End of 'Objectivist discussion' followed by readings by Robert Vas Dias and David Meltzer;
capacity: 90 mins
note: marked 'End of Tape 3-Michigan-Tape 4' and '6' in circle;
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/330
1982 Jan 19
A. Geoffrey Ward reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 1982,
B. Allen Fisher reading at same event, part 1;
capacity: 90 mins
note: no part 2 of the Fisher reading located
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/331
1973-1974
Bob Cobbing performing 'e colony' with Peter Finch, recorded Cardiff 1973, and 'Trigram', recorded from Swedish Radio Studies 1973, followed by Ken Irby reading at Mottrram's house, 18 Aug 1974;
capacity: 90 mins
note: Irby marked as continued elsewhere, but unlocated
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/332
1975-1976
A. David Tipton reading at The Poetry Society, 14 Nov 1975,
B. Elaine Randell, reading, 13 Feb 1976;
capacity: 60 mins
note: Tipton marked as 'cont' form prior tape, but unlocated
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/333
1982
Cris Cheek reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 2 Mar 1982, followed by Jeff Nuttall part 1;
capacity: 90 mins
note: second part of Nuttall reading unlocated
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/334
1981
Edward Dorn reading at Institute of United States Studies, London, 16 Jun 1981, followed by Gilbert Adair reading at Mottram's house, 18 Jun 1981;
capacity: 90 mins
note: Adair noted as continued on second tape with Rauschenberg, i.e. MOTTRAM 14/1/89
condition: poor, muffled and faint
MOTTRAM: 14/1/335
(1974)
Polytechnic of Central London Poetry Conference, 1974: Stuart Montgomery reading alternately with Roy Fisher, followed by Elaine Feinstein and Jeff Nuttall;
capacity: 120 mins
note: marked 'Poets 1'
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/336
(1974)
Polytechnic of Central London Poetry Conference, 1974: Peter Finch, joined by Bob Cobbing for some poems, followed by David Chaloner, Tom Pickard, Barry MacSweeney;
capacity: 120 mins
note: marked 'Poets 2'
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/337
(1974)
Polytechnic of Central London Poetry Conference, 1974: Colin Simms reading, followed by Jeremy Hilton;
capacity: 120 mins
note: marked 'Poets 3'
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/338
(1974)
Polytechnic of Central London Poetry Conference, 1974: Allen Fisher reading, followed by Iain Sinclair, Peter Riley, Elaine Randell;
capacity: 120 mins
note: marked 'Poets 4'
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/339
(1974)
Polytechnic of Central London Poetry Conference, 1974: Eric Mottram reading, followed by Bob Cobbing (performing as abAna, with David Toop, Paul Burwell), and Jeff Nuttall; introductions apparently by Roger Guedalla;
capacity: 120 mins
note: marked 'Poets 5'
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/340
(1974)
Polytechnic of Central London Poetry Conference, 1974:
A. Lee Harwood, followed by Andrew Crozier,
B. Ken Smith, followed by Jim Burns;
capacity: 120 mins
note: marked 'Poets 6'
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/341
(1974)
Polytechnic of Central London Poetry Conference, 1974: Thomas A. Clark reading, followed by Paul Evans, Harry Guest, M. Shayer;
capacity: 120 mins
note: marked as 'Poets 7'
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/342
(1974)
Polytechnic of Central London Poetry Conference, 1974: Bill Griffiths (joined in some two-voice pieces by Sean O Huigin), followed by John Hall, Paul Brown;
capacity: 120 mins
note: marked 'Poets 9'
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/343
[1970-1995]
A. Iain Sinclair reading at Talus Benefit reading, King's College London,
B. Wendy Mulford reading at Polytechnic of Central London, 3 July;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/344
[1978]
John James reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London [1978], followed by Barry MacSweeney reading Far cliff Babylon (Writers Forum, London, 1978);
capacity: 90 mins
note: sleeve says 'part 2 re-recorded'
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/345
1984 Feb 7
A. Roy Fisher reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, 1984,
B. Wendy Mulford reading at same event;
capacity: 60 mins
note: says 'continued on second tape' but unlocated
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/346
[1970-1995]
Robert Duncan, conclusion of reading, followed by Theodore Enslin reading;
capacity: 120 mins
note: marked '11' in a circle, no prior Duncan tape identified
condition: good but faint
MOTTRAM: 14/1/347
[1982]
Conclusion of Jeff Nuttall reading, followed by interview with Bud Freeman (saxophonist) recorded from Radio 3, 10 Mar 1982;
capacity: 90 mins
note: no prior Nuttall tape has been identified
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/348
[1984]
Reading at Pennsylvania University, including Eric Mottram, Simon Pettet, Bill Sherman;
capacity: 90 mins
note: marked as 'University of Pennsylvania-reading 2', also final Pettet item 'continued briefly on 2nd tape', neither tape located
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/349
[1970-1995]
Composite tape, titled 'American poetry 1', including work read by Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/350
[1970-1995]
Composite tape, titled 'American poetry 2', including work read by Robert Lowell and Robert Frost;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/351
[1970-1995]
Composite tape, titled 'American poetry 3' including work read by e. e. Cummings and Marianne Moore;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/352
[1945-1995]
Composite tape, titled 'Modern American poetry 1', including work read by Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky and Charles Olson;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/353
[1945-1995]
Theodore Enslin reading and discussing his work,with further reading on side B;
capacity: 60 mins
note: marked '1578' and '1 Enslin'
condition: poor, much background hum
MOTTRAM: 14/1/354
[1945-1995]
Theodore Enslin discussing his work;
capacity: 60 mins
note: marked '1613' and '2 Discussion'
condition: poor, faint signal, high background hum
MOTTRAM: 14/1/355
[1970-1995]
Fragment of David Meltzer reading, followed by a Small Press Editing and Publishing session, including contributions by George Economou, Robert Vas Dias and Allen De Loach;
capacity: 120 mins
note: marked '7 Small Press Discussion' and 'Tape 4-Meltzer continued'
condition: poor, signal faint
MOTTRAM: 14/1/356
[1970-1995]
Small Press discussion continued from previous cassette, followed by Robert Duncan lecturing on 'Ideas and the meaning of form';
capacity: 120 mins
note: marked '8 Duncan' and Tape 4-Little Mags session continued, Tape 5 Duncan'; compare 14/1/359
condition: good, but voice faint
MOTTRAM: 14/1/357
[1970-1995]
Robert Duncan continuing lecture series from previous cassette;
capacity: 120 mins
note: marked '9' and 'Tape 5-Michigan, Duncan lectures'
condition: good, but voice faint
MOTTRAM: 14/1/358
[1970-1995]
Robert Duncan concluding lecture series from previous cassette, followed by Duncan talking about his work;
capacity: 120 mins
note: marked '10' and 'Tape 5-Duncan-last lecture ... beginning of poetry'
note 2: pad on which tape runs displaced
condition: good, but voice faint
MOTTRAM: 14/1/359
[1970-1995]
Robert Duncan on 'Ideas and the meaning of form'. Only occupies opening of side A. It is uncertain how this fragment relates to 14/1/356 and subsequent cassettes;
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/360
[1970-1995]
Jack Spicer talking about his writing and answering questions in public session;
capacity:
note: in set comprising 14/1/360-365
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/361
[1969]
Paul Blackburn reading at St Mark's Poetry Project, New York, 'c,1969';
note: in set comprising 14/1/360-365
condition: poor, much background hiss
MOTTRAM: 14/1/362
1979 Feb 27
'Sonnet Workshop-for (St Mark's) Poetry Project 1979' conducted by Ted Berrigan;
note: in set comprising 14/1/360-365
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/363
1988 Apr 9
Panel discussion on the 'New York School' (of poetry) at St Mark's Poetry Project, New York,
note: in set comprising 14/1/360-365
condition: good, but some background hum
MOTTRAM: 14/1/364
1968
John Wieners reading at Brooklyn College, 1968;
note: in set comprising 14/1/360-365
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/365
1988
'Allen Ginsberg on censorship';
note: in set comprising 14/1/360-365
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/366
1981 May 16
'Poetry of Contemporary America' at the Institute of United States Studies, 1. Introduction by Howell Daniels and talk 'Sites & sounds of the contemporary in current American poetry' by Mottram;
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/367
1981 May 16
'Poetry of Contemporary America' at the Institute of United States Studies, 2. Talk on 'Ethnopoetics' by David Murray;
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/368
1981 May 16
'Poetry of Contemporary America' at the Institute of United States Studies, 3. Talk on Robert Kelly by Pierre Joris, followed by a discussion period;
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/369
1981 May 16
'Poetry of Contemporary America' at the Institute of United States Studies, 4. Talk on 'Pure poetry: the referential discussion in American poetry of the 1970s' by Allen Fisher;
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/370
1981 May 16
'Poetry of Contemporary America' at the Institute of United States Studies, 5. Talk on 'From Idaho out: Ed Dorn's "geographic business"' by Robert Hampson, followed by a discussion period;
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/371
1990 Feb 15
Eric Mottram reading his poems at Shakespeare & Co. bookshop benefit reading, Paris, 1990;
capacity: 90 mins
note: forms pair with following cassette
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/372
1990 Feb 17
Eric Mottram reading his poems at Attica, Pairs, 1990, followed by discussion period;
capacity: 90 mins
note: forms pair with preceding cassette
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/373
1990 May 12
Institute of United States Studies, London, conference: talk by Clive Bush on '"To their own true purpose": American poets & cultural studies';
capacity: 100 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/374
1990 May 12
Institute of United States Studies, London, conference: talk by David Murray on '"Understanding the alien": American ethnography and science fiction';
capacity: 100 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/375
1990 May 12
Institute of United States Studies, London, conference: talk by Dale Carter on 'Evasive action: America in the Fifties';
capacity: 100 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/376
1990 May 12
Institute of United States Studies, London, conference: talk by Robert Lee on 'Self inscriptions: the new American ethnicity';
capacity: 100 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/377
1990 May 12
Institute of United States Studies, London, conference: talk by Eric Mottram on '"What a place to sleep": intercultural and countercultural actions from 1950 in America', with notably introduction by Howell Daniels;
capacity: 100 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/378
1991 Jan 17
Eric Mottram, graduate seminar, session 1;
capacity: 90 ins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/379
1991 Jan 24
Eric Mottram, graduate seminar, session 2;
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/380
1991 Feb 7
Eric Mottram, graduate seminar, session 3;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/381
1991 Feb 14
Eric Mottram, graduate seminar, session 4;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/382
1991 Feb 21
Eric Mottram, graduate seminar, session 5;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/383
1991 Feb 28
Eric Mottram, graduate seminar, session 6;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/384
1991 Mar 7
Eric Mottram, graduate seminar, session 7;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/385
1991 May 16
Eric Mottram, graduate seminar, session 8;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: good, but some background hiss
MOTTRAM: 14/1/386
1991 May 23
Eric Mottram, graduate seminar, session 9;
capacity: 90 mins
condition; excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/387
1991 May 30
Eric Mottram, graduate seminar, session 10;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/388
1991 Jun 6
Eric Mottram, graduate seminar, session 11;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/389
1991 Jun 13
Eric Mottram, graduate seminar, session 12;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/390
1991 Jun 20
Eric Mottram, graduate seminar, session 13
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/391
1991 Jun 27
Eric Mottram, graduate seminar, session 14
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/392
1991 Jan 31
Eric Mottram seminar on Radical Poetics, possibly part of preceding sequence;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/393
1994 Oct 7
Eric Mottram seminar course on 'Radical Poetics: Inheritance', session 1;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/394
1994 Oct 14
Eric Mottram seminar course on 'Radical Poetics: Inheritance', session 2;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: exellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/395
1994 Oct 21
Eric Mottram seminar course on 'Radical Poetics: Inheritance', session 3;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/396
1994 Nov 11
Eric Mottram seminar course on 'Radical Poetics: Inheritance', session 4;
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/397
1994 Nov 18
Eric Mottram seminar course on 'Radical Poetics: Inheritance', session 5;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/398
1994 Dec 9
Eric Mottram seminar course on 'Radical Poetics: Inheritance', session 6;
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/399
1994
Eric Mottram seminar course on 'Radical Poetics: Inheritance', further material from session of 18 Nov 1994, according to sleeve, followed by Jerome Rothenberg reading at East West Gallery, London, 18 Nov 1994;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/400
(1994 Nov 18)
Jerome Rothenberg reading at East West Gallery, London, continued from previous tape. Notes are written on enclosed slips;
capacity: 120 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/401
1994 Nov 18
Jerome Rothenberg reading at East West Gallery, London, 1994. A separate recording from the previous tapes, with an introductory talk;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/402
1994 Nov 18
Jerome Rothenberg reading at East West Gallery, London, 1994. A third version, lacking introductory talk;
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/403
1994 May 19
New York University Beat Conference: session on 'Beat-overview and history' part 1;
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/404
1994 May 19
New York University Beat Conference: session on 'Beat-overview and history' part 2, followed by session on 'Beat and music';
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/405
1994 May 19
New York University Beat Conference: Town Hall reading, part 1, featuring William Burroughs, Ann Waldman, Allen Ginsberg;
condition: variable
MOTTRAM: 14/1/406
1994 May 19
New York University Beat Conference: Town Hall reading part 2, featuring Ed Sanders, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure;
condition: variable
MOTTRAM: 14/1/407
1994 May 20
New York University Beat Conference: session on 'Beat and visual arts';
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/408
1994 May 20
New York University Beat Conference: session on 'Beat and censorship', part 1;
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/409
1994 May 20
New York University Beat Conference: session on 'Beat and censorship', part 2, followed by 'Women and Beat' part 1;
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/410
1994 May 20
New York University Beat Conference: session on 'Women and Beat' part 2, followed by Beat Cabaret part 1, featuring Michael McClure and Ed Sanders;note: tape tight-wound
condition: otherwise excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/411
1994 May 20
New York University Beat Conference: Beat Cabaret part 2, featuring Jack Micheline and Allen Ginsberg, followed by St Mark's reading featuring Joyce Johnson and Anne Waldman;
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/412
1994 May 21
New York University Beat Conference: session on 'Beat and mysticism', followed by session on 'Dance and theatre', part 1;
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/413
1994 May 21
New York University Beat Conference: session on 'Dance and theatre', part 2, followed by 'Beat legacy: connections and influence', part 1;
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/414
1994 May 21
New York University Beat Conference: session on 'Beat legacy: connections and influence', part 2;
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/415
1994 May 21
New York University Beat Conference: session on 'American prophecy', featuring Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Gregory Corso, Jack Micheline, Michael McClure;
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/416
1991 [Aug] 1
(Lewis) Mumford colloquium at Institute of United States Studies, London University: talk by Eric Mottram;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/417
1996 Jul 27
Performance by Cris Cheek, followed by music session;
capacity: 90 mins
condition: excellent
MOTTRAM: 14/1/418
1977 Jun 9
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 9 Jun 1977;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/419
1977 Jun 14
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 14 Jun 1977, part 1;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/420
1977 Jun 14
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 14 Jun 1977, part 2;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/421
1977 Jun 16
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 16 Jun 1977, part 1;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/422
1977 Jun 16
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 16 Jun 1977, part 2;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/423
1977 Jun 21
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 21 Jun 1977, part 1;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/424
1977 Jun 21
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 21 Jun 1977, part 2;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/425
1977 Jun 23
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 23 Jun 1977, part 1;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/426
1977 Jun 23
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 23 Jun 1977, part 2;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/427
1977 Jun 28
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 28 Jun 1977, part 1;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/428
1977 Jun 28
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 28 Jun 1977, part 2;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/429
1977 Jun 30
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 30 Jun 1977, part 1;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/430
1977 Jun 30
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 30 Jun 1977, part 2;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/431
1977 Jul 5
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 5 Jul 1977, part 1;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/432
1977 Jul 5
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 5 Jul 1977, part 2;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/433
1977 Jul 7
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 7 Jul 1977, part 1;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/434
1977 Jul 7
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 7 Jul 1977, part 2;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/435
1981 Mar 23
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 23 Mar 1977;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/436
1981 Mar 26
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 26 Mar 1981;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/437
1981 Mar 30
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 30 Mar 1981;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/438
1981 Apr 1
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 1 Apr 1981;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/439
1981 Apr 2
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 2 Apr 1981;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/440
1981 Apr 6
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 6 Apr 1981;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/441
1981 Apr 9
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 9 Apr 1981;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/442
1981 Apr 13
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 13 Apr 1981;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/443
1981 Apr 16
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 16 Apr 1981;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/444
1981 Apr 27
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 27 Apr 1981;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/445
1981 Apr 30
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 30 Apr 1981;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/446
1981 May 4
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 4 May 1981;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/447
1981 May 7
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 7 May 1981;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/448
1981 May 11
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 11 May 1981;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/449
1981 May 14
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 14 May 1981;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/450
1981 May 18
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 18 May 1981;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/451
1981 May 21
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 21 May 1981;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/452
1981 May 25
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 25 May 1981;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/453
1981 May 28
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 28 May 1981;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/454
1982 Apr 6
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 6 Apr 1982, part 1;
note: mislabelled 1981
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/455
1982 Apr 6
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 6 Apr 1982, part 2;
note: mislabelled 1981
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/456
1982 Apr 8
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 8 Apr 1982, part 1;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/457
1982 Apr 8
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 8 Apr 1982, part 2;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/458
1982 Apr 13
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 13 Apr 1982, part 1;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/459
1982 Apr 13
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 13 Apr 1982, part 2;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/460
1982 Apr 15
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 15 Apr 1982;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/461
1982 Apr 20
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 20 Apr 1982;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/462
1982 Apr 22
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 22 Apr 1982;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/463
1982 Apr 27
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 27 Apr 1982;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/464
1982 Apr 29
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 29 Apr 1982;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/465
1982 May 4
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 4 May 1982;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/466
1982 May 6
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 6 May 1982;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/467
1982 May 11
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 11 May 1982;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/468
1982 May 13
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 13 May 1982;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/469
1982 May 18
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 18 May 1982;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/470
1982 May 20
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 20 May 1982;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/471
1982 May 25
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 25 May 1982;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/472
1982 May 27
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 27 May 1982;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/473
1982 Jun 1
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 1 Jun 1982;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/474
1982 Jun 3
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 3 Jun 1982;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/475
1982 Jun 21
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 21 Jun 1982. part 1;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/476
1982 Jun 21
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 21 Jun 1982, part 2;
note: mislabelled 23 Jun
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/477
1982 Jun 23
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 23 Jun 1982, part 1;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/478
1982 Jun 23
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 23 Jun 1982, part 2;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/479
1982 Jun 28
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 28, part 1;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/480
1982 Jun 28
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 28 Jun 1982, part 2;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/481
1982 Jun 30
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 30 Jun 1982, part 1;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/482
1982 Jun 30
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 30 Jun 1982, part 2;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/483
1982 Jul 5
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 5 Jul 1982, part 1;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/484
1982 Jul 5
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 5 Jul 1982, part 2;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/485
1982 Jul 7
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 7 Jul 1982, part 1;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/486
1982 Jul 7
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 7 Jul 1982, part 2;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/487
1982 Jul 12
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 12 Jul 1982, part 1;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/488
1982 Jul 12
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 12 Jul 1982, part 2;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/489
1982 Jul 14
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 14 Jul 1982, part 1;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/490
1982 Jul 14
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 14 Jul 1982, part 2;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/491
1982 Oct 7
Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 7 Oct 1982;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/492
1982 Dec 2
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at the Naropa Institute, Colorado, 2 Dec 1982;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/493
1987 Feb 2
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at Brooklyn College, New York, 2 Feb 1987, part 1;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/494
1987 Feb 2
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at Brooklyn College, New York, [part 2];
note: this tape is labelled both 2 Feb 1987 part 2 and 19 Feb 1987 part 2. However it seems to follow on in neither case.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/495
1987 Feb 9
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at Brooklyn College, New York, 9 Feb 1987, part 1;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/496
1987 Feb 9
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at Brooklyn College, New York, 9 Feb 1987, part 2;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/497
1987 Feb 18
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at Brooklyn College, New York, 18 Feb 1987, part 1;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/498
1987 Feb 18
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at Brooklyn College, New York, 18 Feb 1987, part 2;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/499
1987 Feb 19
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at Brooklyn College, New York, 19 Feb 1987;
note: see note at 2 Feb 1987 above.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/500
1987 Feb 23
Allen Ginsberg and Herbert Huncke: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at Brooklyn College, New York, 23 Feb 1987, part 1;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/501
1987 Feb 23
Allen Ginsberg and Herbert Huncke: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at Brooklyn College, New York, 23 Feb 1987, part 2;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/502
1987 Mar 2
Allen Ginsberg and Robert Creeley: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at Brooklyn College, New York, part 1;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/503
1987 Mar 2
Allen Ginsberg and Robert Creeley: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at Brooklyn College, New York, 2 Mar 1987, part 2;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/504
1987 Mar 9
Allen Ginsberg and Philip Whalen: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at Brooklyn College, New York, 9 Mar 1987, part 1;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/505
1987 Mar 9
Allen Ginsberg and Robert Creeley: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at Brooklyn College, New York, 9 Mar 1987, part 2;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/506
1987 Mar 16
Allen Ginsberg and Ray Bremser: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at Brooklyn College, New York, 16 Mar 1987, part 1;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/507
1987 Mar 16
Allen Ginsberg and Ray Bremser: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at Brooklyn College, New York, 16 Mar 1987, part 2;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/508
1987 Mar 30
Allen Ginsberg and Carl Solomon: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at Brooklyn College, New York, 30 Mar 1987, part 1;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/509
1987 Mar 30
Allen Ginsberg and Carl Solomon: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at Brooklyn College, New York, 30 Mar 1987, part 2;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/510
1987 Apr 27
Allen Ginsberg and Michael McClure: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at Brooklyn College, New York, 27 Apr 1987, part 1;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/511
1987 Apr 27
Allen Ginsberg and Michael McClure: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at Brooklyn College, New York, 27 Apr 1987, part 2;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/512
1987 May 4
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at Brooklyn College, New York, part 1;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/513
1987 May 4
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at Brooklyn College, New York, part 2;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/514
1987 May 11
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at Brooklyn College, New York, 11 May 1987, part 1;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/515
1987 May 11
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at Brooklyn College, New York, 11 May 1987, part 2;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/516
1987 May 18
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at Brooklyn College, New York, 18 May 1987, part 1;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/517
1987 May 18
Allen Ginsberg: The Literary History of the Beat Generation, delivered at Brooklyn College, New York, 18 May 1987, part 2;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/518
[Undated, but 1960s-1970s]
[William] Burroughs poems considered as 'work in progress', early 1960s to c 1978. Cassette includes detailed information on some tracks, including date and/or place. From the William Burroughs Archive.
capacity: 60 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/519
Undated
Modern American Poetry: [Charles] Olson, [John] Ashbery, [Robert] Duncan, [Allen] Ginsberg. Created by the Audio-Visual Dept at KCL, marked as cassette 2.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/520
1974 February 24
[Allen] Ginsberg early poems 1947-1956. 'Present' poems 1974. Reading at Buffalo State University.
capacity: 120 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/521
1985 April 22
Side A: [Allen] Ginsberg and Stephen Taylor at the Riverside Studios. Lew Welch, introduced by Ginsberg, University of California at Berkeley in 1965.
capacity 90: mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/522
Undated
[Jack] Kerouac, [Allen] Ginsberg (excerpts from 'Kaddish'), [William] Burroughs reading from The naked lunch.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/523
1985
NYC miscellaneous selection 'for Eric'. Allen Ginsberg reading 'White Shroud'. [Jack] Kerouac/Lowell radio interview. Billie Holliday, rare rehearsal tape. John Wieners reading and interview excerpt.
capacity: illegible
MOTTRAM: 14/1/524
1980
Side A: song recordings by UB40
1981 January 27
Side B: Clive Fencott at King's Poetry
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/525
1974 April 27
Side A: [William] Burroughs reading at NY Buffalo
1974 February 20
Side B [William] Burroughs' 'Lecture No. 4' at CCNY [City College of New York]
capacity: 120 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/526 (see also 14/1/556)
1980 December 14
Tape 1 of 2 (see also 14/1/527): [William] Burroughs, The four horsemen of the apocalypse (parts 1 and 2) introduced by Randall Gibson at the Planet Earth Conference, 1980, Aix-en-Provence. Recorded for Mottram by John Whiting. Also a letter from John Whiting, dated 31 December 1980.
capacity: 60 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/527
1980 December 14
Tape 2 of 2 (see also 14/1/526): continuation of [William] Burroughs' The four horsemen of the apocalypse, at the Planet Earth Conference, Aix-en-Provence (possibly one side only).
capacity: 60 mins
See also 14/1/557
MOTTRAM: 14/1/528
1977 August 5
[Basil] Bunting reading at Lumb Bank, Yorkshire.
capacity: 120 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/529
1984 January 24
Tony Baker reading at King's Poetry, 'True West'.
capacity 60 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/530
Undated
Tape 1 (of 5), Friday: A Festival of British Poets.
capacity: 90 mins
See also 14/1/531, 14/1/582, 14/1/583 and 14/1/584
MOTTRAM: 14/1/531
Undated
Tape 2 (of 5), Saturday, part 1: A Festival of British Poets.
capacity: 90 mins
See also 14/1/530, 14/1/582, 14/1/583 and 14/1/584
MOTTRAM: 14/1/532
1974 December 14
Allen Fisher and Tom Pickard reading at King's Poetry.
capacity: 90 mins
[NB cassette tape has no case]
MOTTRAM: 14/1/533
Undated
[Basil] Bunting readings:
Side A: [Thomas] Campion, [Robert] Herrick, [Thomas] Wyatt.
Side B: [Edmund] Spencer, [Sir Philip] Sidney, [William] Shakespeare, [Edmund] Waller, [William] Wordsworth, Songs of Solomon, [Walt] Whitman.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/534
1985 July 9
Chris Cheek at Sub Voicive, the White Swan.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/535
1976 January 16
Lee Harwood reading at the Poetry Society, Earls Court.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/536
1975 December 5
Side A: Basil Bunting reading at the Poetry Society, Earls Court
1976 January 20
Side B: recording from 'TV2' [BBC2?] - An evening of poetry, from the King's Head, Acton, introduced by Robert Robinson.
capacity: 120 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/537
1977 May 7
Side A: [H Arijid ?] and Tom Pickard.
Side B: Basil Bunting. Reading at the Air Gallery.
capacity: 120 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/538
1987 February 6
Tape 1 (of 2), Side A: Ian Sinclair at RASP (marked 'Eric's tape').
Side B: Ian Sinclair and Brian Catling (marked 'recorded by Clive Bush'). Condition: sporadic tapping at start of Side A, improves further on.
capacity: 90 mins
See also 14/1/539
MOTTRAM: 14/1/539
1987 February 6
Tape 2 (of 2), part 1: Ian Sinclair at RASP - Clive Bush's tape [possibly a clearer version of 14/1/538, side A]
capacity: 90 mins
See also 14/1/538
MOTTRAM: 14/1/540
1989 January 13
Allen Fisher reading at Sub Voicive at The Moon.
capacity: illegible
MOTTRAM: 14/1/541
1990 September 20
Allen Fisher reading at Sub Voicive.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/542
1992 November 17
Side A: Raul Zorita.
Side B: D Prikau [?] reading at Sub Voicive.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/543
1992 March 31
Side A: Denise Riley,
Side B: Denise Riley and Tom Raworth reading at Sub Voicive, The Archers, Brick Lane.
capacity: 60 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/544
1990 June 15
Colin Sims reading at Sub Voicive at the Prince George of Cumberland.
capacity: illegible
MOTTRAM: 14/1/545
1982 October
Bob Cobbing and Clive Fencott, a talk at Sub Voicive. Missing the end. (Also note to say the recording continues on a Tom Pickard Sub Voicive tape - not found).
capacity: 60 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/546
1989 May
Recorded by John Woolford
Side A: Basil Bunting, followed by a [Luigi] Dallapiccola Piano Suite.
Side B: [Luigi] Dallapiccola Songs, [Olivier] Messiaen 4 Studies for Piano, Piece pour la Tombeau de Paul Dukas (1936), and Rondeau for Piano (1943)
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/547
1983
Side A: sound recording of a television documentary, '83 Answers … and some Questions', Richard Else, then Eric Robinson introduces Jonathan Williams [a BBC TV programme first broadcast on BBC North East, 1983]
Side B: Basil Bunting.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/548
1975
Side A: Basil Bunting birthday reading, 'Brigg Flatts'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/549
1966 July 29
Basil Bunting private reading of 'Brigg Flatts' at Buffalo, New York.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/550
No date
Side A: 'A tapestry of British birds' recorded from HMV CLP 1723.
Side B: [Michael] McClure, 'Zoo'.
capacity: 60 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/551
1988 December 10
'Howard Barker and political theatre', an extra-mural Saturday school held at Birkbeck College, University of London.
Side A: Eric Mottram, 'History … recent plays by Howard Barker'.
Side B: Danny Boyle, 'Directing Howard Barker's 'Victory' and the 'Bite of the night' '.
capacity: illegible
See also 14/1/552 and 14/1/553
MOTTRAM: 14/1/552
1988 December 10
2 (of 3)
'Howard Barker and political theatre', an extra-mural Saturday school held at Birkbeck College, University of London.
Side A: David Rabey, 'Howard Barker's theatre of education'.
Side B: Howard Barker, 'Beauty and terror: approaches to writing political theatre' (continues on 14/1/553).
capacity: illegible
See also 14/1/551 and 14/1/553
MOTTRAM: 14/1/553
1988 December 10
(3 of 3)
'Howard Barker and political theatre', an extra-mural Saturday school held at Birkbeck College, University of London.
Side A: final part of Howard Barker's lecture, 'Beauty and terror' Followed by: Ian MacDiarmid 'An actor's winter: an actor's experience of Howard Barker's theatre'.
1989 September 8
Side B: Bob Cobbing, recorded from Kaleidoscope [an arts review programme], BBC Radio 4.
capacity: illegible
See also 14/1/551 and 14/1/552
MOTTRAM: 14/1/554
Undated
Basil Bunting reading [Walt] Whitman, and [Ezra] Pound (Canto 4).
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/555
1977 June 16
Side A: Bill Griffiths and Allen Fisher reading in Brighton.
Side B: A century of recorded sound, recorded from Radio 4
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/556
1979 November 14 and 21
Side A: Norman Mailer interview with Michael Parkinson, recorded from BBC1.
Followed by Allen Ginsberg.
Side B: Allen Ginsberg.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/557
1980 December 14
[William] Burroughs, The four horseman of the apocalypse, at the Planet Earth Conference, Aix-en-Provence. Recorded for Mottram by John Whiting.
capacity: [60] mins
See also 14/1/526 and 14/1/527
MOTTRAM: 14/1/558
Undated
(Marked 'tape 2', but tape 1 not identified)
[William] Burroughs, Cities of the red nights, continued. Excerpts from Junkie, The naked lunch, Exterminator, and 'From here to eternity'. Also a hand written list.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/559
1959
Side A: Selections from Harvard: [Allen] Ginsberg reading 'Howl', and [Allen] Ginsberg and [Gregory] Corso.
Side B: Interview with [Allen] Ginsberg and [Gregory] Corso with readings. Followed by readings by [Charles] Olson and [Peter] Orlovsky.
Also a handwritten list of readings
capacity [60 mins]
MOTTRAM: 14/1/560
1978 June 10
Joint Buffalo Series in Allentown Com. Centre [Allentown Community Center?]: Leslie Fiedler, Irving Layton, Allen Ginsberg.
capacity: 120 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/561
Undated
Unidentified 'Tape for Eric' (possibly recorded by John Whiting)
Side A: Clark Coolidge, Wallace Stevens, Jack Kerouac.
Side B: Ronald Reagan, Alan Tomlinson and others. (Cassette case includes a handwritten note on the recordings).
capacity: [120 mins]
MOTTRAM: 14/1/562
1975
Side A: 'Police' c1971 and Columbia University, 1974.
Side B: (Cassette case has a hand written note by Mottram on the readings at St Marks Poetry Project), various readings by [Gregory] Corso.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/563
1982 November 6
Side A: labelled as part 2 of a WBAI programme interview of William Burroughs with John Walters. Possibly recorded from BBC Radio 1.
Side B: [William] Burroughs discussion with Felicity Mason on the Tangier days, plus a reading from The naked lunch, New York, 1975.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/564
1970 November 17
Allen Ginsberg reading at SUNYAB [State University of New York at Buffalo], 'Eclogue' and various other poems.
capacity: 60 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/565
1978 June 10
Side A: Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky at SUNY [State University of New York], Buffalo, with Robert Creeley. Side B: The Gray Chair lectures, Robert Creeley.
capacity: 120 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/566
1973 June
Allen Ginsberg at Rotterdam.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/567
1978 June 10
Side A: Letters to Eric (no other information).
Side B: [Allen] Ginsberg, [Peter] Orlovsky, Allen de Loach at SUNY [State University of New York], Buffalo.
[cassette case broken]
capacity: 60 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/568
Undated
[William] Burroughs - 'Tangiers', [Gregory] Corso, and (possibly) [Brion] Gysin.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/569
1977 Autumn
'Supranormal' tape number 3 (by Robert Sheppard). Stefan Themerson, Paul Evans (9 poems), Bill Griffiths with Paul Burwell, two 'works'.
capacity: not known.
MOTTRAM: 14/1/570
1977 August 4
[Basil] Bunting at Lumb Bank, Yorkshire, reading [Algernon Charles] Swinburne, [William Butler] Yeats, [Ford Madox] Ford and [Sir Thomas] Wyatt.
capacity: 120 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/571
Undated
[William] Burroughs: Ali's smile. (possibly one side only).
capacity: 120 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/572
1986 February 3
Allen Fisher at the White Swan reading 'Brixton fractals'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/573
1987 May 12
Side A: Allen Fisher at Sub Voicive: 'Sicily', 'Sign on in water'.
Side B: 'Buzzards and bees'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/574
(poor sound quality at start)
Side A: Wendy Mulford.
Side B: Allen Fisher at Sub Voicive, The Moon, New North Street.
capacity: not known.
MOTTRAM: 14/1/575
1975
Allen Fisher at COUM Studios: 'The Art of Flight' numbers: 5-13 and 15, with typed titles on cassette sleeve.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/576
1978 October 31
Side A: Allen Fisher reading at King's Poetry.
Side B: Hans Keller, Mozart K516, recorded 1978.
capacity: 120 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/577
1983 November 1
King's Poetry:
Side A: Allen Fisher and David Miller.
Side B: Allen Fisher.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/578
1984 November 13
Allen Fisher reading at the Black Swan.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/579
Undated
Tape 1 (of 2): Allen Fisher and Eric Mottram: 'The Beat writers', at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
capacity: 90 mins
See also 14/1/580
MOTTRAM: 14/1/580
1987 May 11
Side A: Eric Mottram at the Oxford Poetry Society.
Side B, Tape 2 (of 2): Eric Mottram: 'The Beat writers', at Goldsmiths College, University of London, concluding with [William] Burroughs. See also 14/1/579.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/581
1982 March 13
'Poetry Lives OK' Thomas A Clark, Wendy Mulford and Allen Fisher reading at the University of Warwick.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/582
Undated
Tape 3 (of 5): A Festival of British Poets ('Saturday', continued)
capacity: 90 mins
See also 14/1/530, 14/1/531, 14/1/583 and 14/1/584
MOTTRAM: 14/1/583
Undated
Tape 4 (of 5)
Side A: A Festival of British Poets ('Saturday' continued)
Side B: A Festival of British Poets ('Sunday').
capacity: 90 mins
See also 14/1/530, 14/1/531, 14/1/582 and 14/1/584
MOTTRAM: 14/1/584
Undated
Tape 5 (of 5)
A Festival of British Poets ('Sunday' continued).
capacity: 90 mins
See also 14/1/530, 14/1/531, 14/1/582 and 14/1/583
MOTTRAM: 14/1/585
1986 June 4
Reading at Goldsmiths' College, University of London
Side A: Denise Riley reading 'Dry Air'.
Side B: Denise Riley reading early poems from 'Dry Air', and recent work in the Grossteste Review, 1982.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/586
Undated
Tape 1 (of 4)
Sub Voicive Colloquium: introduction by Gilbert Adair. Chairman, Lawrence Upton. Readings by Adrian Clarke, Ken Edwards and Eric Mottram.
capacity: 90 mins
See also 14/1/587, 14/1/588 and 14/1/589
MOTTRAM: 14/1/587
Undated
Tape 2 (of 4)
Sub Voicive Colloquium: Gilbert Adair
capacity: 90 mins
See also 14/1/586, 14/1/588 and 14/1/589
MOTTRAM: 14/1/588
Undated
Tape 3 (of 4)
Sub Voicive Colloquium:
Side A: Robert Sheppard.
Side B: Allen Fisher.
capacity: 90 mins
See also 14/1/586, 14/1/587 and 14/1/589
MOTTRAM: 14/1/589
Undated
Tape 4 (of 4)
Sub Voicive Colloquium:
Side A: Lawrence Upton and Virginia Firnberg.
Side B: Chris Cheek.
capacity: 90 mins
See also 14/1/586, 14/1/587 and 14/1/588
MOTTRAM: 14/1/590
1976 March 19
Tony Jackson and Jim Burns reading at NPC [National Poetry Competition?]
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/591
1987 May 26
Lee Harwood reading at Sub Voicive, the White Swan.
capacity: not known.
MOTTRAM: 14/1/592
Mixed dates
1977 March: Music by [Thea] Musgrave and [Luciano] Berio.
1978 November 1978: King's Poetry, Boris Berman and Tom Clark.
1979 May 8: King's Poetry, Brian Catling.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/593
1983 November 15
King's Poetry: Tom Pickard reading poetry and prose.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/594
1983 March 15
Chris Cheek reading at Sub Voicive, the White Swan.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/595
1983 December 13
Side A: King's Poetry: Chris Cheek.
Side B: King's Poetry: Bob Cobbing, Tony Wright and Bill Griffiths.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/596
1988 March 10
Chris Cheek, 'Ethnocentrism', a graduate seminar at King's College London.
capacity: not known.
MOTTRAM: 14/1/597
Undated
Pereira interview [? possibly an interview of Eric Mottram by Steven Pereira, 1986 – see also Mottram 3/8/5].
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/598
1991 October 29
Lawrence Upton reading at Sub Voicive, at the Archers.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/599
1991 July 4
David Chaloner reading at Sub Voicive at the Institute of United States Studies, University of London.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/600
1988 May 22
Barry MacSweeney reading at the Battersea Arts Centre.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/601
1976 February 13
Side A: recording of BBC television comedy Monty Python.
Side B: Barry MacSweeney reading 'Black torch'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/602
Undated
[Possibly Eric Mottram, and/or Tom Clark, and/or blank tape]
capacity: not known.
MOTTRAM: 14/1/603
1975 November 13
Side A; Thomas Mayer and Jonathan Williams reading at the V&A Museum, London.
Side B: Jeremy Hilton and David Tripton reading at the Poetry Society.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/604
Undated
Side A: E M Mathews (no further information on cassette case).
capacity: not known.
MOTTRAM: 14/1/605
1979 February 28
Side A: King's Poetry: Paula Claire and Dom Sylvester Houedard.
Side B: Dom Sylvester Houedard.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/606
1973 January 5
Jeff Nuttall and Eric Mottram at the Poets Conference, held at the Poetry Society.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/607
1978 February 7
King's Poetry: Jeff Nuttall reading 'Muscle'.
capacity: 120 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/608
Undated
Recorded by John Whiting for Eric Mottram.
Side A: Clive Fencott 'The Compleat Gulliver's Travels'.
Side B: Bob Cobbing, Clive Fencott, John Whiting - 'Woodwork'.
capacity: not known.
MOTTRAM: 14/1/609
1976 May, September
Bob Cobbing, 'Round Dance' at the ICA and four other 'events' with various people, including Paul Burrell.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/610
1988 May 10
Bob Cobbing reading at Sub Voicive
capacity: not known.
MOTTRAM: 14/1/611
1989 May 5
Bob Cobbing and Bill Griffiths reading at Sub Voicive.
capacity: not known.
MOTTRAM: 14/1/612
1986 March 1
Tape 1 (of 2)
Basil Bunting tribute readings, Newcastle.
Side A: Tom Pickard, Koef Nielsen, Eric Mottram.
Side B: Barry MacSweeney, Tom Raworth, Colin Simms.
capacity: 90 mins
See also 14/1/613
MOTTRAM: 14/1/613
1986 March 1
Tape 2 (of 2)
Basil Bunting tribute readings, Newcastle.
Side A: Richard Caddel, Gael Turnbull, Stuart Montgomery.
Side B: Allen Fisher and Tony Baker.
capacity: 90 mins
See also 14/1/612
MOTTRAM: 14/1/614
1982 September 22
Tape made by Bill Griffiths for Eric Mottram, recorded in 1981, 'April work/July week'.
capacity: not known.
MOTTRAM: 14/1/615
1986 October 14
Bill Griffiths at Sub Voicive, the White Swan, reading 'The rabbit hunt'.
Note on cassette wrapper that sound quality is initially indistinct.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/616
1987 April 30
Bill Griffiths: 'Children's Book', graduate seminar at King's College, London.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/617
1988 February 2
Bill Griffiths reading at Sub Voicive, the White Swan. Very little on Side B.
capacity: not known.
MOTTRAM: 14/1/618
1979 October 23
Chris Torrance reading at King's Poetry.
capacity: 120 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/619
1976 July
Side A: Noam Chomsky interviewed by Peter Jay, recorded from a television broadcast [The Jay interview] made by London Weekend Television
1978 August 19
Side B: Allen Fisher, Pierre Joris, Eric Mottram, recorded at Mottram's home, 40 Guernsey Grove, south London.
capacity: 120 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/620
1982 January 19
Side A: Allen Fisher reading at King's Poetry, then Cornelius Cardew music
Side B: Cardew music, continued. Also interview by Keith Potter, November 1981.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/621
1984 February 7
Side A: Roy Fisher and Wendy Mulford reading at King's Poetry.
Side B: True West Side
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/622
1991 December 17
Allen Fisher and Lol Coxhill at Sub Voicive/Eonta at Compendium Bookshop, Camden Town, London
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/623
Undated
Side A: Allen Fisher.
Side B: Eric Mottram. Talus (2).
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/624
Undated
Side A: John James, labelled 'Part 2' (part 1 not found), reading at King's Poetry.
1981 March 10
Side B: Geraldine Monk reading at King's Poetry.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/625
1974 June 14
Side A: Bill Griffiths reading at the Poetry Society.
1975 March 18
Side B: Basil Bunting, reading from [Jonathan] Swift, then a BBC Radio 3 interview with Bunting, 21 July 1975.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/626
1974
Basil Bunting reading from Ezra Pound, [Louis] Zukofsky and from his own work. Labelled Tape 3 (Tape 1 and Tape 2 not identified).
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/627
1981 February 14
Basil Bunting: BBC Radio 3 interview (30 mins), in a series, Living poets.
Ulli McCarthy (later Ulli Freer) reading at King's Poetry. Cassette wrapper includes a brief description of the performance, in Mottram's hand.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/628
1974 March 10
Hugh MacDiarmid reading at Woodland Air Gallery, London SE3: 'Scottish Poems' and poems on Scottish island people.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/629
Undated
Hugh MacDiarmid reading his own poems (possibly a continuation of 14/1/628).
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/630
Undated
Side A: John James and Hugh MacDiarmid.
Side B: Hugh MacDiarmid, Gael Turnbull and Basil Bunting. Cassette wrapper includes a list of the Bunting poems, in Mottram's hand.
capacity: 120 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/631
1978 May 2
Tom Pickard reading at King's Poetry.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/632
1972 February 8
Tom Pickard reading at Better Books, London.
capacity: 120 [?] mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/633
1988 March 17
Tape 1: John Whiting at King's College London, electronic music.
capacity: not known.
MOTTRAM: 14/1/634
1988 March 17
Tape 2: John Whiting at King's College London, electronic music.
capacity: not known.
MOTTRAM: 14/1/635
1993 July 20
Side A: Gavin Selerie.
Side B: Alan Halsey, reading at Sub Voicive, The Three Cups, Holborn.
capacity: not known.
MOTTRAM: 14/1/636
1988 May 31
Simon Pettit reading at Sub Voicive, the White Swan.
capacity: not known.
MOTTRAM: 14/1/637
1981 February
Side A: Dick Higgins, Poems and Metapoems (cassette case includes a typed list of the poems/metapoems, dated February 1981).
1982 January 23 and 24
Side B: Henry Threadgill.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/638
1993 April 6
Andrew Duncan reading at Sub Voicive, the Three Cups, Holborn (very brief recording)
capacity: 60 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/639
1989 July 7
Lawrence Upton reading at Sub Voicive.
capacity: not known.
MOTTRAM: 14/1/640
1972 November 30
Tape 1 (of 18): lecture by Eric Mottram, 'Henry Adams'
capacity: 120 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/641
1972 December 7
Tape 2 (of 18): lecture by Eric Mottram, 'Henry Adams: bridges from Adams to the next stages'.
capacity: 120 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/642
1973 January 11
Tape 3 (of 18): lecture by Eric Mottram: 'Psychology: [Norman] Mailer's 'White Negro' and the psychopathic in US society' [re psychoanalysis in the 1950s].
capacity: 120 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/643
1973 January 18
Tape 4 (of 18): lecture by Eric Mottram: 'Gestalt psychology: [Laurence] Kohlberg and [Stanley] Milgram's experiment. Development of Gestalt psychology in the USA'.
capacity: 120 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/644
1973 January 25
Tape 5 (of 18): lecture by Eric Mottram: 'Tribalism and encounter groups. Method as permissive alibi, [Sir James George] Frazer, [Sigmund] Freud'.
capacity: 120 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/645
1973 February 1
Tape 6 (of 18): lectures by Eric Mottram: 'William James: the moral equivalent of war'. 'Wilhelm Reich: part 1'.
capacity: 120 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/646
1973 February 8
Tape 7 (of 18): lecture by Eric Mottram: 'Wilhelm Reich: part 2: structures, forms and sources of energy'.
capacity: 120 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/647
1973 February 15
Tape 8 (of 18): lecture by Eric Mottram: 'Redefinitions of nature and design structure. Design structure and the Bauhaus'. (Note: 'Noise from TV on both sides')
capacity: 120 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/648
1973 February 22
Tape 9 (of 18): lecture by Eric Mottram: 'Marshall McLuhan'.
capacity: 120 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/649
1973 March 1
Tape 10 (of 18): lecture by Eric Mottram: 'Buckminster Fuller'
capacity: 120 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/650
1973 March 14
Tape 11 (of 18): lecture by Eric Mottram: 'Music: Richard Wagner'
capacity: 120 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/651
1973 March 21
Tape 12 (of 18): lecture by Eric Mottram: 'Music: Charles Ives and John Cage'.
capacity: 120 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/652
1973 May 3
Tape 13 (of 18): lecture by Eric Mottram: 'Music: - rock music (Black origins, Motown and Phil Spector). Then Dawes, Manson and the West Coast'.
capacity: 120 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/653
1973 May 10
Tape 14 (of 18): lecture by Eric Mottram: 'Ezra Pound: Canto LXXIV, and William Carlos Williams'.
capacity: 120 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/654
Tape 15 (of 18): lecture by Eric Mottram: 'Introduction to mythology: Charles Olson. 20th century approaches, Levi-Strauss etc'.
capacity: 120 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/655
1973 May 24
Tape 16 (of 18): lecture by Eric Mottram: 'Charles Olson and Creation. Then Charles Olson and Painting'.
capacity: 120 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/656
1973 May 31
Tape 17 (of 18): lecture by Eric Mottram: 'Painting: [Jackson] Pollock, [Arshile] Gorky and [Willem] de Kooning'.
capacity: 120 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/657
1973 June 6
Tape 18 (of 18): lecture by Eric Mottram: 'Drug culture'. (side B only. Some of lecture missing, due to interruption by a fire alarm).
capacity: 60 mins of 120 mins tape.
MOTTRAM: 14/1/658
Undated
Lecture by Eric Mottram: 'Jazz'. Includes [Albert] Ayler and Miles Davies. Possibly part of the 1973 Mottram lecture series.
capacity: 60 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/659
Undated
Lecture by Eric Mottram: 'Jazz - new version'. Possibly part of the 1973 Mottram lecture series.
capacity 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/660
1983 November 29
Eric Mottram's inaugural lecture as Professor of English and American Literature, King's College London.
capacity: not known
MOTTRAM: 14/1/661
1989 November 11
Tape 1 (of 15): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Creativity'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/662
1989 October 12
Tape 2 (of 15): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Creativity'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/663
1989 October 19
Tape 3 (of 15): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Creativity'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/664
1989 October 26
Tape 4 (of 15): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Creativity'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/665
1989 November 2
Tape 5 (of 15): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Creativity'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/666
1989 November 16
Tape 6 (of 15): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Creativity'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/667
1989 November 23
Tape 7 (of 15): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Creativity'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/668
1989 November 30
Tape 8 (of 15): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Creativity'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/669
1989 December 7
Tape 9 (of 15): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Creativity', Side A only (Side B is blank).
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/670
1989 December 12
Tape 10 (of 15): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Creativity' (Side A interrupted by fire alarm).
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/671
1990 January 18
Tape 11 (of 15): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Creativity'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/672
1990 January 25
Tape 12 (of 15): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Creativity'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/673
1990 February 2
Tape 13 (of 15): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Creativity'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/674
1990 February 8
Tape 14 (of 15): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Creativity'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/675
1990 February 22
Tape 15 (of 15): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Creativity'.
capacity: 90 mins
See also ten further lectures in the 'Creativity' series, at 14/1/724-733
MOTTRAM: 14/1/676
1985 July 22
Tape 1 (of 4): William Burroughs Conference, Boulder, Colorado. Conference opening address by Mottram, followed by question and answer session (continued on 14/1/677).
capacity: 60 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/677
1985 July 22
Tape 2 (of 4): William Burroughs Conference, Boulder, Colorado. Question and answer session continued (see 14/1/676 for beginning).
capacity: 60 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/678
1985 July 26
Tape 3 (of 4): William Burroughs Conference, Boulder, Colorado.
Side A: presentation by Eric Mottram.
Side B: question and answer session.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/679
1985 July 27
Tape 4 (of 4): William Burroughs Conference, Boulder, Colorado: Eric Mottram on 'Burroughs' Circle'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/680
1991 October 22 and November 5
Tape 1 (of 4): lecture by Eric Mottram, 'Law in America: acceptances and resistances'. Continued on 14/1/681.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/681
1991 November 5
Tape 2 (of 4): lecture by Eric Mottram, 'Law in America', continued from 14/1/680.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/682
1991 November 19
Tape 3 (of 4): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Law in America'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/683
1991 December 3
Tape 4 (of 4): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Law in America'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/684
1991 October 15
Tape 1 (of 10): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Law, religion and polis'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/685
1991 October 21
Tape 2 (of 10): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Law, religion and polis'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/686
1991 October 28
Tape 3 (of 10): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Law, religion and polis'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/687
1991 November 4
Tape 4 (of 10): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Law, religion and polis'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTTRAM: 14/1/688
1991 November 11
Tape 5 (of 10): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Law, religion and polis'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/689
1991 November 15
Tape 6 (of 10): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Law, religion and polis'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/690
1991 November 21
Tape 7 (of 10): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Law, religion and polis'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/691
1991 December 2
Tape 8 (of 10): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Law, religion and polis'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/692
1991 December 9
Tape 9 (of 10): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Law, religion and polis'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/693
1991 December 16
Tape 10 (of 10): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Law, religion and polis'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/694
1990 November 15
Tape 1 (of a numbered series of 30): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Radical poetics'. [Tapes 1-2 in the series are dated 1990, tapes 4-30 are dated 1993-1994]
capacity: 90 mins
See also 14/1/393-399 for Mottram's autumn 1994 lecture series on 'Radical poetics'
MOTTRAM: 14/1/695
1990 November 22
Tape 2 (of 30): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Radical poetics'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/696
Undated
Tape 3 (of 30): possibly lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Radical poetics' (marked '3'), also marked 'Possible blank tape'
capacity: unknown
MOTTRAM: 14/1/697
1993 January 13
Tape 4 (of 30): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Radical poetics'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/698
1993 January 25
Tape 5 (of 30): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Radical poetics'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/699
1993 February 1
Tape 6 (of 30): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Radical poetics'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/700
1993 February 8
Tape 7 (of 30): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Radical poetics'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/701
1993 February 15
Tape 8 (of 30): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Radical poetics'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/702
1993 February 22
Tape 9 (of 30): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Radical poetics'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/703
1993 March 1
Tape 10 (of 30): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Radical poetics'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/704
1993 March 8
Tape 11 (of 30): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Radical poetics'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/705
1993 March 15
Tape 12 (of 30): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Radical poetics'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/706
1993 May 6
Tape 13 (of 30): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Radical poetics'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/707
1993 May 10
Tape 14 (of 30): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Radical poetics'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/708
1993 May 17
Tape 15 (of 30): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Radical poetics'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/709
1993 May 24
Tape 16 (of 30): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Radical poetics'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/710
1993 June 7
Tape 17 (of 30): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Radical poetics'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/711
1993 June 2
Tape 18 (of 30): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Radical poetics'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/712
1993 October 11
Tape 19 (of 30): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Radical poetics'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/713
1993 October 25
Tape 20 (of 30): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Radical poetics'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/714
1993 November 1
Tape 21 (of 30): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Radical poetics'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/715
1993 November 15
Tape 22 (of 30): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Radical poetics'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/716
1993 November 22
Tape 23 (of 30): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Radical poetics'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/717
1993 November 29
Tape 24 (of 30): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Radical poetics'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/718
1993 December 6
Tape 25 (of 30): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Radical poetics'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/2/719
1993 December 13
Tape 26 (of 30): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Radical poetics'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/2/720
1994 January 17
Tape 27 (of 30): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Radical poetics'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/721
1994 January 24
Tape 28 (of 30): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Radical poetics'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/722
1994 January 31
Tape 29 (of 30): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Radical poetics'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/723
1994 February 14
Tape 30 (of 30): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Radical poetics'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/724
1990 March 1
Tape 1 (of 10): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Creativity'.
capacity: 90 mins
See also 14/1/661-675 for earlier lectures in the same series
MOTTRAM: 14/1/725
1990 March 8
Tape 2 (of 10): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Creativity'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/726
1990 March 15
Tape 3 (of 10): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Creativity'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/727
1990 April 26
Tape 4 (of 10): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Creativity'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/728
1990 May 3
Tape 5 (of 10): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Creativity'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/729
1990 May 10
Tape 6 (of 10): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Creativity'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/730
1990 May 17
Tape 7 (of 10): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Creativity'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/731
1990 May 24
Tape 8 (of 10): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Creativity'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/732
1990 May 31
Tape 9 (of 10): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Creativity'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/733
1990 June 7
Tape 10 (of 10): lecture by Eric Mottram on 'Creativity'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/734
1989 May 25
Tape 1 (in a numbered series of 6): Eric Mottram, King's College London graduate seminar
[Tapes 1-2 in the series are dated 1989, tapes 3-6 are dated 1991]
capacity: 90 mins
See also 14/1/378-391 for 1991 graduate seminars
MOTTRAM: 14/1/735
1989 June 15
Tape 2 (of 6): Eric Mottram, King's College London graduate seminar.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/736
1991 April 25
Tape 3 (of 6): Eric Mottram, King's College London graduate seminar.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/737
1991 May 2
Tape 4 (of 6): Eric Mottram, King's College London graduate seminar (or lecture?).
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/738
1991 May 9
Tape 5 (of 6): Eric Mottram, King's College London graduate seminar (or lecture.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/739
undated (marked 'Nov only')
Tape 6 (of 6): Eric Mottram, King's College London graduate seminar, 'The poetics of 'Frame Work' and 'Nature''. Followed by a discussion including John Woolford, Clive Bush and Michael Hrebeniak.
capacity: not known, but probably 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/740
1987
Side A: Brian Catling.
Side B: Ian Sinclair, reading at RASP.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/741
1987 January 2
Eric Mottram reading at RASP, 67 Balfour Street.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/742
1986 April 22
Eric Mottram reading at the White Swan.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/743
1984 March 13, 1985 May 13
Tape 1 (of 2)
Side A: Eric Mottram, at SEQUE, New York, introduced by Charles Bernstein, May 1985. Starts with 10 minutes of discussion.
Side B: Eric Mottram at the Bowery, March 1984.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/744
1985 May 13
Tape 2 (of 2): Eric Mottram at SEQUE, New York.
capacity: 60 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/745
1985 April 18
Eric Mottram reading at the Black Swan.
capacity: 60 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/746
1985 July 27
Eric Mottram reading at the 'Other Branch' Poetry Society, Leamington Spa.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/747
1984 September 28 and 29
Side A: Eric Mottram reading at The Auditorium, Central Institute for English & Foreign Languages, Hyderabad, India, at a seminar on Gabriel Marquez and Latin America.
Side B: reading at the Poetry Society of Hyderabad.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/748
1984 March 20
Side A: Eric Mottram reading at King's Poetry.
1984 November 2
Side B: 'Rebels', a BBC Radio 4 programme about Lenny Bruce.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/749
1984 March
Side A: Brian Catling.
Side B: Bill Griffiths. Recorded for Eric Mottram by John Porter at King's Readings.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/750
1984 January 24
Side A: King's Readings, including Bob Cobbing, Peter Middleton, Robert Sheppard, Allen Fisher and Eric Mottram.
Side B: David Jones.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/751
1983 October 2
A recording of Eric Mottram from French Radio. Also a letter, dated 18 March 1984, from Pierre Joris to Mottram, enclosing the tape.
capacity: not known.
MOTTRAM: 14/1/752
1982 June 7
Eric Mottram reading at the Mid-Pennine Arts Association, Burnley.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/753
1979 May 22
Eric Mottram reading at King's Poetry.
capacity: not known.
MOTTRAM: 14/1/754
1979 April 17 and May 1
Side A: Allen de Loach reading at Albuquerque, April 1979.
Side B: Eric Mottram reading at Buffalo, May 1979.
capacity: 120 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/755
1977 December 8
Eric Mottram at the Polytechnic of Central London.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/756
1976 December 1, 1978 April 13
Side A: Eric Mottram reading at the White Swan, 1976.
Side B: Ronald Dworkin, Profess of Jurisprudence, Oxford, recorded from a television programme, 1978.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/757
Undated
Eric Mottram reading at the Torriano, London.
capacity: not known.
MOTTRAM: 14/1/758
1993 November 24
Eric Mottram introductions at WSB.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/759
1993 April 6
Eric Mottram reading at Sub Voicive, The Three Cups.
capacity: 60 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/760
1993 February 20
Eric Mottram reading at the Horniman Museum, London.
capacity: not known.
MOTTRAM: 14/1/761
1992 November 11
Eric Mottram reading at the State University of New York, Albany, introduced by Pierre Joris.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/762
1991 May 10
Eric Mottram reading at Sub Voicive, The Prince George of Cumberland.
capacity: not known.
MOTTRAM: 14/1/763
1991 March 2
Eric Mottram reading at the Basil Bunting Birthday Greeting in Durham.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/764
1990 June 13
Eric Mottram with Allen Ginsberg and Carolyn Cassady, recorded from Jazz FM radio station.
duration: 60 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/765
1990 March 1
Eric Mottram reading at Sub Voicive.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/766
1989 September 6
Tape 1 (of 2): Clive Bush and Eric Mottram reading at the Moon, Holborn, London.
capacity: 60 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/767
1989 September 6
Tape 2 (of 2): Clive Bush and Eric Mottram reading at the Moon, continued.
capacity: 60 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/768
1989 May 28
Side A: Thomas A Clark reading at Battersea Arts Centre.
Side B: Eric Mottram reading at Battersea Arts Centre.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/769
1988 September 27
Lecture given by Eric Mottram at the Polytechnic of Central London, 'A man of the most universal knowledge: Sir George Cayley'.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/770
1988 November 23
Eric Mottram reading at the Moon, London (33 minutes on Side B only).
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/771
1987 July 21
Eric Mottram reading at Sub Voicive, the White Swan.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/772
1987 May 11
Ken Edwards reading at the Oxford Poetry Society.
capacity: not known.
MOTTRAM: 14/1/773
1987 May 1
Latin American poetry at RASP, including [Cesar Abraham] Vallejo [Mendoza], [Pablo] Neruda and [Ana] Castillo. Read by Will Rowe, Eric Mottram and Ken Edwards.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/774
1992 November 16
Tape 1 (of 2): Robert Creeley in discussion with Eric Mottram at Buffalo, New York.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/775
1992 November 2
Tape 2 (of 2): Robert Creeley in discussion with Eric Mottram, at Buffalo, New York.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/776
1992 November 18
Eric Mottram, introduced by Robert Kelly and Pierre Joris, at Bard College, New York.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/777
1992 September 23
Eric Mottram reading at the Poetry Rare Books Collective, Buffalo, New York.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/778
1992 'Autumn'
Lecture by Eric Mottram on Basil Bunting, given at Buffalo, New York.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/779
Undated
Side A: Eric Mottram reading from his 'Interrogation Rooms', followed by some [Tom] Pickard poems, then an introduction for Allan de Loach, at the University of Pennsylvania.
Side B: Simon Pettit.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/780
[1993]
Side A: Ian Sinclair reading at the Battersea Arts Centre.
Side B: book launch for Eric Mottram's Selected Poems, at the Polytechnic of Central London.
capacity: not known.
MOTTRAM: 14/1/781
1976 September 19
Tape 1 (of 2): Eric Mottram reading at Foster Clough, Hebden Bridge, recorded by Paul [Buck].
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/782
1976 September 19
Tape 2 (of 2):
Possibly a duplicate of 14/1/781
Cassette case includes a list of Mottram's readings, including 'The painters', 'Elegies', 'The he expression' and 'Against tyranny'. Labelled as Tape 1 in a series of 10, titled 'Pressed curtains', of readings by various poets;
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/783
Undated
[Possibly some William Burroughs on Side B]
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/784
1976 January 17
Side A: an interview with Pierre Joris, 1976
Side B: launch for Talus magazine at Sub Voicive [1987]
capacity: not known.
MOTTRAM: 14/1/785
1975 February 7
Thomas A Clark and Eric Mottram reading at the Poetry Society.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/786
1992 February 24
Lecture by Eric Mottram, 'Basil Bunting, David Jones and Hugh MacDiarmid', given at the Basil Bunting Centre, University of Durham, with a subsequent question and answer session.
capacity: 90 mins
MOTTRAM: 14/1/787
1989 January 19
Eric Mottram 'Cultural Studies' seminar at King's College London.
capacity: not known.
MOTTRAM: 14/1/788
1988 March 5
Tape 1 (of 2): lectures on American literature and culture, 'Opening the field, 1950-1965', given at Goldsmiths' College, London by Eric Mottram, speaking on 'The later art of William Carlos Williams', and Allen Fisher, on 'Charles Olson and his painting contemporaries'.
capacity: not known.
MOTTRAM: 14/1/789
1988 March 5
Tape 2 (of 2): lectures on American literature and culture, 'Opening the field: 1950-1965', given at Goldsmith's College, London by Eric Mottram and Allen Fisher.
capacity: not known.
MOTTRAM: 14/2 Commercial tape cassettes or copies of commercial tapes, unsorted, [1950-1995]
MOTTRAM: 14/3 Reel-to-reel tapes, unsorted,[1950-1995]
MOTTRAM: 14/4 Documentation, relating to tape recordings, unsorted, [1950-1995]
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