Harry Hooton collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 65223
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Hooton, Harry, speaker
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
-
- 1960 - 1961?
- 11 tape reels (ca. 510 min.) ; 7 in.
- Summary:
-
Poet and philosopher Harry Hooton speaks on life, society, his work and reads his own works.
- Full contents:
- Tape 1: Extemporization on the relationship of poetry to philosophy. Tape 2: Hooton speaks of the philosophers problem of condensing his thoughts into a short readable form, reads Militant materialism. Tape 3: Extracts from The inhuman race, part 1. Tape 4: From the Inhuman race part 2, Law and disorder, war and order, The greater war, Moonlight, Womb to let, Words of love. Tape 5: Hooton talks with fellow poet Robert Cumming. Tape 6: Hooton and Robert Cumming cont., Hooton speaks of his approaching death and his inspiration for his last writing The god child. Tape 7: Hooton reads his works, School teacher mentality, poetry, The wise and the dead, It's great to be alive, It's all bunk, Dream of fire, The world is too much withered, For the last time, My poems. Tape 8: Letter to James Boyer May, Notes on the Nohopians etc, The bedroom revolution, The land, I'l tell you something, The eyes have it. Tape 9: Letter to James Boyer May con't, On John Hargrave, Extracts from Militant materialism, Animal farce, Man under arrest. Tape 10: Posies in enantiosis, The universe, The devine light of things, Sea semen, part 1. Tape 11: Sea semen, part 2, Machines, James Joyce.
- Notes:
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- Tapes are copies of 5 original tapes. Copies were deposited in the National Library in 1969.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-222766616
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Transcript (112 p.)
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Cunningham, Robert, speaker
- Copyright:
-
In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2031 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1961
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