Earle Birney: Portrait of a Poet

Earle Birney Gives Address (1:51)

Canadian Poet (1:10)

Birney's Influence (2:28)

Birney and Purdy on Writing (1:58)

Process of Writing (2:44)

Birney's Early Life (3:02)

High School Years (1:37)

Reason for Writing "David" (1:48)

Birney's "David" (2:33)

Killing David (3:34)

Birney, Nature and Canadian Literature (1:23)

Birney's Trotskyism (2:09)

Break With Trotskyites (1:38)

Turvey (1:37)

Birney's Profanity (1:37)

"My Love is Young" (1:58)

"From the Hazel Bough" (2:16)

Creative Writing Discipline (1:24)

Neilsons and Bowen Island (2:02)

Isolated Retreat (2:26)

Poem Recitation (1:08)

Visual and Musical Adaptations (2:58)

Recreating Poem for Recitation (3:14)

Current Projects (1:39)

Dismissing Literary Immortality (1:25)

Earle Birney reads sound poetry to a class. Credits. (1:13)