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Notes: Contents: (both copies signed by author); Experience in early summer (p.3); Incident for Reginald (p.4); Portrait for Elsie, Phyllis, and Kay (p.5);A letter in summer to Toshiko (p.6); Another tableau for Nigel Carmack (p.6); Tableau for Jackson Caulderwood (p.7); Tableau for Ostergaard Heseltine (p.7); Portrait for Nathaniel Moffatt (p.8); An evening out in late September (revision of poem previously titled “September Night Out”)(p.9); One portrait for Leighton Hammersmith (revision of poem previously titled “Portrait for Leighton Hammersmith”) (p.10); September storm (revision)(p.11); Memoir of May for Lucinda, Helen and Nigel (revision of poem previous titled “Memoir for Lucinda, Nigel, and Helen”)(p.11); Banff, 1900 (revision)(p.12); Carrot Creek (for Jane) (revision)(p.13); Tableau for Natalie Westbrook-Wassermann (revision)(p.14); One portrait for Adrian (revision)(p.15); Noctuary for Ada Westfall (revision)(p.16); Recollection for Nathaniel (revision)(p.16); Easter afternoon (for Wallace)(revision)(p.17); Another narrative for Elias Shrimpton (revision)(p.18); One more portrait for Natalia Van Der Wald (revision)(p.19); Portrait for Bernard Leigh-Windermere (revision) (p.20); Cover: photograph of Lower Triassic fossil fish, Bobastrania Canadensis, found by Bill Peyto near Johnston Creek in 1912; photographer unknown; fossil is three feet, eight and one-quarter inches long

Accession Number: 7637; 7650

Call Number: 05.1 B92 2006 Aug PAM

Collection: Archives Library

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That trellis of tombs : further selected poems of Gordon Burles

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2004

Author: Burles, Gordon

Publisher: Banff : Gordon Burles

Call Number: 05.1/ B92/ 2004 Mar

Author: Burles, Gordon

Publisher: Banff : Gordon Burles

Published Date: 2004

Physical Description: 117p

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Notes: Contents: With her (p.1); After the funeral (p.2); Old Antophon remembers (p.3); She goes away (p.4); We sat here (p.5); The horsemen (p.6); Bill Peyto old (p. 7-8); Walking home (p.9); Changes and then some (p.10); Must be Monday (p.10); Dennie (p.11); Buried alive (p.11); Life’s logolithos (p.12); On Mt. Cascade (p.12); In the Rundle lounge (p.13); Ballerina (p.13); At Aunt Nellie’s (p.14); Wen-shiang (p.14); Climbers in photographs (p.15); For Edward (p.15); Daybreak (p.16); June epiphany (p.16); Labour of love (p.17); Vision for Kathleen (p.18); Flirtation (p.18); Egypt (p.19); Century boogie (p.20); Near Castle Mountain (p. 21); The Night Council (p.22); Vision from a photograph (p.23); Finality (p.24); Homage to Adama Lassiter (p.25); Story for Boris Latimer (p.26); Those mortal days (p.27); The adventure (p.28); A day in late August (p.29); Summer’s end (p.30); Rainfall advisories (p.31); The mason reflects (p.31); At the lake (p.32); Memoir for Wallace (p.32); Summer holiday (p.33); Adventure in late August (p.34); Cemetery Tea House days (p.35); Vision in spring for Aldous Westlock (p.36); Letter to Martin Saddington (p. 37); Lament in March (p.38); What I saw (p. 38); Letter to Cymbeline Roehurst (p. 39); November in the suburbs (p.40); Incident for Nathan Guilderkamp (p.41); Liturgy for Amanda (p. 42); Narrative for Manyusya(p.43); Midsummer narrative (p.43); That fabled resurrection (p.44); Call it fate (p.45); Recollection for Tybalt (p.46); Saga for Espen Duddimore (p.47); Vernal sacrament (p.48); Incident in late August (p.49); Kezia of the snows (p.49); Afternoon visit (p.50); Portrait for Manyusya (p.51); Words of the mason (p.52); Portrait for Nehemiah (p.53); Nathaniel (p.54); Spring’s portrait (p.55); Portrait for Allan Castleridge (p.56); Portrait for Nehemiah Alderton (p.57); Pilgrimage (p.58); Evening visit (p.58); Letter to Solomon Sundergaard (p.59); Letter from the aged mason (p.60); Portrait of late summer (p.61); Holiday adventure (p.61); Incident for Hladislaw Trentholm (p.62); Portrait for Adrian (p.63); Portrait for Lexington Clerihew (p.64); Autumn memoir (p.65); Portrait for Joan (p.66); Portrait for Edgar Outhwaite (p.67); Narrative for Jillian (p.68); Narrative for Lucia Hawthornden (p.69); Portrait for Adrian (p.70); Portrait for Leandra (p.71); Portrait for Leighton (p.72); One more portrait for Jillian (p.73); Banff, 1958 (p.74); Memoir for Jackson (p.74); Another portrait for Atsuko and Ikumi (p.75); Another portrait for summer (p. 76); Nothing in the offing (p.76); Portrait dedicated to Kathleen (p.77); Portrait for Marygale (p.78); Letter to Jillian (p.78); Letter to Roland (p.79); Portrait for Roland (p.79); Incident in early summer (p.80); Portrait for Huay Tsin Tsu (p.81); Evening in the old Tyrol (p.82); Another portrait of spring (p.82); Portrait for Andrea Von Moskovitz (p.83); Portrait for Liana (p.84); Portrait for Yolanda (p.85); Portrait for Ebb (p.86); Portrait for Lathom Northrup (p.87); Portrait (p.88); My words to Lydia (p.88); Portrait for Cynara (p.89); Portrait of July for Katy (p.89); Portrait for Lorna Saddington (p.90); Solstitial letter (p.91); Incident in early August (p.91); Nocturne for Amanda (p.92); Portrait for Wendy (p.93); New portrait for Glenda (p.93); At the Tea House (p.94); The small hours (p.95); Portrait for Marion (p.95); November experience (p.96); September storm (p.96); Portrait for Leonora (p.97); Desperation (p.98); Portrait for Tara (p.99); Word of the magus (p.99); Letter to Wallace (p. 100); Portrait for Susanna (p.101); Will and testament (p.101); Beijing letter (p.102); Lydia Saddington (p.102); Adeimantus dying (p.103); Homage to Lydia (p.103); Recollection for Kathleen (p.104); Cleanthes’ vision (p.104); Portrait of Cyrenaica (p.105); Those many secrets (p.105); November portrait (p.106); Homage to Kathleen (p.106); Letter near the solstice (p.107); Portrait for Alicia (p.107); October meditation (p.108); Portrait for Emilia (p.109); Mountaineering days (p.110); Deep in November (p.111); Another portrait for Maria (p.112); Bucolic cerebration (p.113); Epistle for Lucius (p.114); Memoir for Andrea (p.114); Deleterium for Sudsy (p.115); Summer carnival (p. 116); No abbreviated attire (p.117); Cover: photograph by author of Old Banff Cemetery

ISBN: 097329891-X

Accession Number: 7525 (2 copies)

Call Number: 05.1/ B92/ 2004 Mar

Collection: Archives Library

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That tyrant sun : new poems and old favourites

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2009

Author: Burles, Gordon

Publisher: Banff : Gordon Burles

Call Number: 05.1 B92 2009 Dec PAM

Author: Burles, Gordon

Publisher: Banff : Gordon Burles

Published Date: 2009

Physical Description: 12p

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Notes: Contents: At early Lake Louise (p.3); At Fairholme (p.4); Another letter to Huay Tsin (p.5); Remembering Kathleen (p.6); Memoir of October (p.7); Noctuary for Alma Tidswell (revision) (p.8); Tableau for Kristelle in Autumn (reprint) (p.9); Autumnal incident for Lathom (reprint) p.10); One more suburban interlude (reprint) (p. 11); One more portrait for Latimer Heseltine, Esq. (reprint) (p.12); Cover: photograph looking east from summit ridge of Mount Sulphur at dawn; Mount Peechee on left, Mount Rundle on right; photographer and date unknown

Accession Number: 2015.8397 (2 copies)

Call Number: 05.1 B92 2009 Dec PAM

Collection: Archives Library

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Those grand poplars : a later selection of poems of Gordon Burles

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2004

Author: Burles, Gordon

Publisher: Banff : Gordon Burles

Call Number: 05.1 B92 2004 June PAM

Author: Burles, Gordon

Publisher: Banff : Gordon Burles

Published Date: 2004

Physical Description: 80p

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Notes: Contents: (one copy signed by author) Reunion (for Eleanora) (p.4-5); Snowfall (for Janine)(p.6-7); Mt. Rundle twilight (p.8-9); Dawn close to Banff (p.10); Burial (for Hadrian) (p.11); On Tunnel Mt. Drive (p.12); Autumn around Banff (p.13); Scottie and the moon (p.14); A dawn reverie for Eleonara Saddington (p.14); Poem for Will Durant (p.15); Anticipation (for Judith)(p.16); Mt. Daly (for Jason)(p.17); Cemetery (for Nathan) (p.18); Xenophon remembering (p.18); September storm (p.19); Sunday afternoon (p.19); The new improved ecstasy (p.20); Memoir for Jane Eastmoreland (p.21); Broaching the facts (p.22); On the second voice (p.23); Museum (for Elizabeth)(p.24); Near Johnson’s Lake (p.25); Levant (for Mary Jackson)(p.26); An October afternoon (p.27); Late summer universe (p.28); A Victorian nocturne (p.29); Vision for Mabel Delavega (p.30); Midsummer story for Jamie Westcottman (p.31); Last letter to Natalie (p.32); Vision for Heinz (p.32); Aah, you’re a genius, Kezia (p.33); Some inevitable adventure (p.34); Adventure late in August (p.35); Some summer story (p.36); An early August incident (p.37); On the night road (p.38); Final note for Andzia (p.39); Portrait in memory of her (p.39); Confession for Hidalgo Whipsnade (p.40); That spring sojourn (p.41); Narrative for Horace Von Ostmark, Esquire (p.42); Penultimate letter to Angelica Upham (p.42); It’s not Quinquagesima, darling! (p.43); The second narrative for Lilia (p.44); Memorandum for Lousandra (p.45); Summer adventure for Virginia (p.46); Contrition for Kathleen (p.46);Letter to Charlotte Westmoreland (p.47); More broodings for Adrian Graham (p.47); Another portrait of October (p.48); Final letter for Anzimiera (p.48); Autumnal incident for Lathom (p.49); Another portrait for Romona (p.50);Those houses on the shore (p.51);On Kallisthenes (p.51); A letter for Wallace (p.52); Portrait for Eunice (p.52); Another portrait for Myrna (p.53); A portrait for Edward (p.54); Portrait for Katherine (p.54); Poem, the shadowy house (p.55); Ah, another portrait for Lynney (p.55);Wee hour adventure (p.56); Portrait for Deirdre Easton (p.56); Ah, another letter to Lydia (p.57); Memoir for Kay Ward (p.58); A portrait for Tina (p.58); Such a dream voyage (p.59); Nineteen hundred eleven (p.60); A portrait for Lathom Roebuck (p.61); The portrait for Lyndon (p.62);One more suburban interlude (p.63); Homage to James Percy Burles (p.64); Memoir for Edward and Karen (p.65); Now you are famous, darling (p.66); A portrait for Dena (p.66); Memoir for Lousandra and Lathom (p.67); One memoir for Lucia Upham (p.68); One portrait of autumn for Marilee (p.69); Some incident for Katy (p.69); One incident for Northrup (p.70); Additional letter to Anzimiera (p.70); Tableau for Northrup Browning (p.71); One summer at the villa (p.71); One more portrait for Latimer Heseltine, Esq. (p.72); Portrait for Lathom Considine (p.72); Inglismaldie Creek (p.73-74); Old Mrs. Wheeler’s garden (p.75); Letter to Wallace in spring (p.76); When I was six years (p.77); Prologue for Beryl Wotypka (p.77); Easter afternoon (for Wallace) (p.78); Portrait for Wallace Black (p.79); Memoir for Leif Clapperton (p.80); Cover: photograph by author of poplars on south side of Kidney house lot at the corner of Muskrat and Wolf streets in Banff; Tunnel Mountain in background

ISBN: 097329891-X

Accession Number: 7551 (2 copies)

Call Number: 05.1 B92 2004 June PAM

Collection: Archives Library

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The universe of dreams : more poems

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2009

Author: Burles, Gordon

Publisher: Banff : Gordon Burles

Call Number: 05.1 B92 2009 Jan PAM

Author: Burles, Gordon

Publisher: Banff : Gordon Burles

Published Date: 2009

Physical Description: 16p

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Notes: Contents: (both copies signed by author); Tableau for Jesperson Gravenhurst (p.3); Tableau of summer for Geraldine Eastlock (p. 4); Farewell in springtime (p.5); Penultimate tableau for Wallace (p. 6); Tableau for Jennifer (p.7); Tribute written in December(p.8); Penultimate letter to Lucinda (p.9); Memoir for dear old Doolan (p.10); Memoir for Hannelore Westbrook (p.11); A portrait for Emmeline Morecambe (p. 12); Memoir for Samantha (p.13); Portrait for Sandra Holt-Simmons (p. 13); An adventure in a trainyard (p.14); A vision of October for Kazia (revision) (p.15); Memoir for Leif Clapperton (revision) (p.16); Cover: drawing by author; expanded version of drawing on cover of “Tears For Old Lacerta” (1990)

Accession Number: 2015.8397 (2 copies)

Call Number: 05.1 B92 2009 Jan PAM

Collection: Archives Library

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