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Crossing the pass : new poems from Banff

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19867
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1986
Author
Burles, Gordon
Publisher
Gordon Burles
Call Number
05.1 B92c Pam
  1 website  
Author
Burles, Gordon
Responsibility
Gordon Burles
Publisher
Gordon Burles
Published Date
1986
Physical Description
55 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Poetry
Art
Banff National Park
Abstract
Pertains to the works of Gordon Burles, a poet of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. The poet includes works exclusively from the Banff area and covers topics pertaining to nature, places and people.
Notes
Annotated – the author has signed the inside front page with the following, “Best wishes Liz and Ron, from Gordon Burles”
Accession Number
2017.8683
Call Number
05.1 B92c Pam
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
The URL is linked to Gordon Burles archival fonds held at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
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Tears for old Lacerta : new poems

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1990
Author
Burles, Gordon
Publisher
Banff, Alta. : G. Burles
Call Number
05.1 B92t Pam
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Author
Burles, Gordon
Responsibility
Gordon Burles
Publisher
Banff, Alta. : G. Burles
Published Date
1990
Physical Description
92 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Poetry
Art
Rocky Mountains Canada
Abstract
Pertains to the works of Gordon Burles, a poet of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. The poet’s work reflects a somber undertone, and covers topics pertaining to people, places, and nature.
Notes
Annotated – the author has signed the front page with the following, “To Liz – best wishes, from Gordon Burles”
Accession Number
2017.8683
Call Number
05.1 B92t Pam
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
The URL is linked to the Gordon Burles fonds held at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies.
Websites
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The old cabin : poems from Banff

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1984
Author
Burles, Gordon
Publisher
Banff, Alta. : G. Burles
Call Number
05.1 B92o Pam
  1 website  
Author
Burles, Gordon
Responsibility
Gordon Burles
Publisher
Banff, Alta. : G. Burles
Published Date
1984
Physical Description
50 pages ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Poetry
Canadian Rockies
Banff
Abstract
Pertains to the works of Gordon Burles, a poet of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. The poet’ includes works exclusively from the Banff area and covers topics pertaining to nature, places and people.
Notes
Annotated – the author has signed the front page with the following, “Best wishes, Liz and Ron, from Gordon Burles”
Accession Number
2017.8683
Call Number
05.1 B92o Pam
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
The URL is linked to the Gordon Burles fonds held at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies.
Websites
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The old cabin : poems from Banff

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue4215
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1984
Author
Burles, Gordon
Call Number
05.1 B92 1984 July–Sep PAM
Author
Burles, Gordon
Published Date
1984
Physical Description
50p
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Notes
Contents: The heron (p.1); The hermit (p.2); Biskobad changes (p.3); Striving stone (p.4); The children on the hill (p.5); The old cabin (p.6); Vision for vision (p.7); With her (p.8); Rural roads (p.9); Bill Peyto alone (p.10); After the funeral (p.11); Among the poplars (p.12); A dream of moonlight (13); Night and day (p.14); The road home (p.15); She goes away (p.16); Love lesson (p.17); We sat here (p.18); The hike (p.19); Reunion (p.20); Plato in the twilight (p.21); The horsemen (p.22); Funeral (p.23); Bill Peyto old (p.24); Spring (p.25); Testament (p.26); A promise of mountain days (p.27); Banff (p.28); After the concert (p.29); Mountain camp (p.30); New love (p.31); The wedding (p.32); Old age(p.33); Seeing Mt. Cascade from the Spray River (p.34); Lane Johnson returns to Banff, 1919 (p.35); With Mr. Sanson (p.36); The old alpinist (p.37); Meeting a former love (p.38); Old Antophon remembers (p.39); Daybreak (p.40); The ballerina (p.41); The first snow (p.42); Mrs. Stone remembers (p.43); Summer moments (p.44); Mrs. Wheeler’s garden (p.45); At the Banff Springs Hotel (p.46); Plato dying (p.47); Snowfall (p.48); When she walked by (p.49); At the Chateau Lake Louise (p. 50)
Cover: drawing by Wayne Milburn of cabin with Mounts Stoney Squaw and Cascade
Accession Number
6340
17000
Call Number
05.1 B92 1984 July–Sep PAM
Collection
Archives Library
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Crossing the pass : new poems from Banff

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue4216
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1986
Author
Burles, Gordon
Call Number
05.1 B92 1986 Oct PAM
Author
Burles, Gordon
Published Date
1986
Physical Description
55p
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Boom Lake
Cascade Mountain
Johnson Lake
Kain, Conrad
Phillips, Walter J
Wheeler, Clara
Wilcox, Walter J
Notes
Contents: Crossing the pass (p.1); Mt. Rundle twilight (p.2); The old trail (p.3); In the winter forest(p.4); Twilight (p.5); The meeting (p.6); Night-time parting (p.7); Mrs. Lewthwaite’s summer (p.8); Walter Wilcox in Paradise Valley (p.9); September hike (p.10); The night road (p.11); A July walk (p. 12); Exhortation (p.13); Banff dawn (p.14); The meadow (p.15); Elegy (p.16); Autumn at Johnson’s Lake (p.17); The aspens (p.18); Burial (p.19); The unknown woman (p.20); Reflection (p.21); Dusk (p.22); Lost love (p.23); The crocuses (p.24); At the zoo (p.25); Walking home (p.26); Fossil-hunting (p.27); Musings from Mt. Cascade (p.28); Two birches (p.29); Autumn requital (p.30); Manifestation (p.31); Two lovers in spring (p.32); Walter Phillips’ last dream (p.33); Near Boom Lake (p.34); Hypocrisy (p.34); Husband and wife (p.35); Avant-garde artist (p.36); Night adventure (p.37); For Conrad Kain (p.38); Darkling meditation (p.39); To Edward Thomas (p.40); On the road to Sundance Canyon (p.41); The death of the deer (p.42); Alone (p.43); Summer dusk (p.44); The stream (p.45); Famous thinker (p.46); Menthenuena (p.47); Autumn dawn (p.48); First love (p.49); The mining camp (p.50); For Katherine Mansfield (p.51); Stewart Canyon (p.52); Inglismaldie Creek (p.53); Old Miss Hastings and the Rockies (p.54); Mrs. Wheeler’s garden (revision)(p.55)
Cover: drawing by Wesley Watts, a Banff-born artist
Accession Number
6340
19000
Call Number
05.1 B92 1986 Oct PAM
Collection
Archives Library
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Tears for old Lacerta : new poems

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue4217
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1990
Author
Burles, Gordon
Call Number
05.1 B92 1990 Feb PAM
Author
Burles, Gordon
Published Date
1990
Physical Description
92p
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Notes
Contents: Poet’s night out (p.2); To my wife (p.2); Winter near Fairholme (p.3); Where Kathleen lives (p.3); Dawn reverie (p.4); At the Bankhead Station, autumn (p.4); Mt. Norquay Road (p.5); After the climb (p.6); Banff autumn(p.7); Motley (p.8); Boots and saddle (p.8); Cascade wash (p.9); The great trash dump (p.10); Would I were there (p.11); At the lake (p.12); Destiny (p.12); Fairholme spruce (p.13); The visitor (p.14); Going to Bourgeau Lake (p.14); The great house (p.15); The camp trip (p.16); The farewell (p.16); 1925 (p.17); For Fay (p.17); Midnight creed (p.18); For the Greek dead (p.19); Fairholme peak (p.19); Winter journey (p.20); From sadness (p.21); Grief (p.21); Prayer (p.22); Beatitude (p.22); Visions in August (p.23); Scottie and the moon (p.23); The honeysuckle (p.24); Summer idyll (p.24); For Will Durant (p.25); Anticipation (p.26); Imperial peace (p.27); Chinese market garden, 1956 (p.27); Wandering (p.28); That ancient vision (p.28); Cleomenes remembers (p.29); Anthracite (p.30); Midnight vision (p.30); The view (p.31); Adeimantus dying (p.31); There are mountains (p.32); Spring storm (p.32); Moments alone (p.33); Now, dear Leander (p.34); Life’s logolithos (p.34); The knight (p.35); Two friends (p.35); During the war (p.36); My story (p.37); Hermione’s rodeo (p.37); Funeral oration (p.38); Mistress of Fairholme (p.38); For Georgia Engelhard (p.39); Worship (p.39); Cyrenaica (p.40); Edwardian road (p.40); Plato’s confession (p.41); Scimitar (p.42); His rhapsody (p.42); Archaica (p.43); Sunday(p.43); Ariston (p.44); Sunday morning (p.44); Le cimetiere(p.45); Night avenue (p.45); L’Etre humain (p.46); Summer (p.46); Near Inglismaldie (p.47); Invitation (p.47); Plato (p.48); Saturday night (p.49); Chinatown (p.49); Late Victoriana (p.50); After the rain (p.50); Yuletide (p.51); The old story (p.51); To be oneself (p.52); Lydia (p.52); Metropolis (p.53); Life-soldier (p.53); China (p.54); Huay (p.54); Wind-song (p.55); The buntiad (p.55); Bankhead visit (p.56); Good intentions (p.57); Beijing (p.57); Antiquity (p.58); Nature (p.58); Bucolic cerebration (p.59); Dream tour (p.60); Shakespeare (p.60); In the land of the toy Teuton (p.61); Before waking (p.61); Sobbing: Rockbound Lake (p.62); At the Chateau Lake Louise (p.62); Cleanthes’ vision (p.63); Kathleen remembers (p.63); City (p.64); Natalie (p.64); Vision for Matsuko (p.65); The other (p.65); Mont. St. Eloi (p.66); At the forest’s edge (p.66); Afterwhere (p.67); The soldier (p.68); Abrasions (p.68); Rural sojourn (p.69); After the flowering (p.70); Plato in the canyon (p.71); Andalusia (p.72); Secrets (p.72); Tears for old Lacerta (p.73); Along the canal (p.73); The shadowy house (p.74); A rainy Sunday(p.74); The era of sleep (p.75); While we slumber (p.76); For Edward (p.76); Twilight (p.77); Sunday dancing (p.77); After the hike (p.78); Return of the Magi (p.79); The final afternoon (p. 80); The new improved ecstasy (p.81); Midnight at Banff (p.82); Out for a stroll (p.82); Vision from a landfill (p.83); Le grand hotel (p.83); Somewhere in Attica (p.84); Deleterium (p.85); Nightfall (p.85); Just one more palimpsest (p.86); Piche Peak (p.86); Isabel (p.87); Sacrament (p. 87); Aegean days (p.88); Meditation in a canyon (p.88); In Fairholme’s shadow (p.89); Ripeness is all (p.90); The temple (p.90); The canyon (p.91); Lewis Crescent (p.91); The refuge (p.92)
Cover: sketch by author
Accession Number
24-2-90 22500
Call Number
05.1 B92 1990 Feb 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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Those grand poplars : a later selection of poems of Gordon Burles

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12631
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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Much like a dream : more poems by Gordon Burles

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12699
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2004
Author
Burles, Gordon
Publisher
Banff : Gordon Burles
Call Number
05.1 B92 2005 Jan PAM
Author
Burles, Gordon
Publisher
Banff : Gordon Burles
Published Date
2004
Physical Description
53p
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Notes
Contents: (one copy signed by author); Biskobad changes (p.1-2 ); That night avenue (p.3); Aubade for caftans (p.3); In the late autumn (p.4); From Brewster Creek (p.4); Lady Bagnell (p.5); Looking east of Banff (p.5); Bereavement (for Joel)(p.6); Another portrait for Kay Ward (p.7); Maisy (for Jason) (p.7); Second narrative for Lilia Anguelova and friends (p.8); Another tableau for Jason Dunning (p.9); Another portrait for Etherspear Jackson (p.9); Penultimate latter to Pelagia and family (p.10); Another Narrative for Hawthorne Sandeman (p.10); Summertime letter for Eleanora Dunn (p.11); A portrait of August for Andzimiera (p.11); Remembering Anzimiera (p.12); Tableau for Dale Clapperton (p.12); Tableau for Eustace Wint (p.13); Portrait of twilight (p.13); A portrait for Jane (p.14); Young Buddy’s boots (p.14); Portrait for Lew Tottenham (p.15); Some summer night (p.15); Incident in spring (p.16); Tableau for Tully Van Kamp (p.16); Portrait of a moment for Marya (p.17); Portrait for Wallace Beckmair (p.17); Incident in springtime (p.18); Portrait for old Wallace (p.18); Tableau for Wallace Ahearne (p.19); Tableau for Jane Sibley (p.20); Recollection for Nathaniel (p.21); Incident for Eleanora Saddington (p.21); Tableau for Nathaniel Willoughby (p.22); Tableau for Hieronymus Eddington (p.23); Plato in the twilight (p.24); Tableau for Christy Sandringham-Woods (p.25); A portrait for Ulrika (p.25); Incident for Martha (p.26); In the winter forest (p.27); The winter garden (p.28); The revelation (p.29); Cascade Creek (p.30); From that hotel (p.31); The old photograph (p.32); Addressed to Kathleen Burles (p.32); At that museum (p.33); Portrait for Natalie Trent (p.34); Fresh tableau for Anzia (p.34); La vie metropolitaine (p.35); Sunday morning (p.35); Tableau for Jennifer Whitt (p.36); It is wedding day (p.36); Portait for Nathaniel Bestick (p.37); The “Titanic” (p.38); The old uncle (p.38); Stanley (for Jolene)(p.39); Liturgy for Lydia (p.39); Some incident in late August (p.40); Portrait for Ethelbert Sandringham (p.40); The twilight adventure (for Hetta)(p.41); One portrait for Linda (p.42); That dreaded epiphany (for Andreas)(p.42); Tableau for Lousandra (p.43); A vision of October for Kazia (p.43); Destiny (for Samantha)(p.44); Another portrait for Eva (p.45); A portrait for Hedda Westmore (p.45); Solitary musings (p.46); Penultimate letter to Andrea (p.46); Incident for Latimer Westhaverton (p.47); Tableau for Bessemer Considine (p.47); Histoire pour Lilia (p.48); Exhortation for Lousandra (p.49); Near Castle Mountain (p.50); Tableau for Sandra Bellechasse (p.50); Aah, westward to Quinquagesima! (p.51); One portrait for Adrian (p.51); Portrait of Sunday evening (revision)(p.52); Vernal narrative for Joel (reprint with error corrected of poem previously titled “Vernal Narrative”)(p.53)
Cover: photograph by author of Skyline Hikers on North Molar Pass in summer of 1979; looking north
ISBN
0 9732989 3 6
Accession Number
7576
Call Number
05.1 B92 2005 Jan PAM
Collection
Archives Library
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An avenue without end : more poems by Gordon Burles

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12844
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2005
Author
Burles, Gordon
Publisher
Banff : Gordon Burles
Call Number
05.1 B92 2005 Oct PAM
Author
Burles, Gordon
Publisher
Banff : Gordon Burles
Published Date
2005
Physical Description
32p
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Notes
Contents: (one copy signed by author); Incident for Jennifer Weston (p.3); A portrait in June (p.4); One portrait for Basil Roehampton-Northrup (p.5); Adventure for Natalia Von Humboldt (p.6); Sermon for Leander Oldstone (p.7); Tableau for Natalie Westbrook-Wassermann (p.7); Noctuary for Wyndham Saddington (p.8); Portrait of summer for Adrian (p.8); Portrait for Elmira Bracebridge (p.9); Tableau for Littleton Sundergaard (p.10); Portrait for Halliwell Dunn (p.10); Letter to Eleanor de Vavenarches (p.11); Noctuary for Ada Westfall (p.12); Portrait of a June morning (p.12); The elderly alpinist (p.13); Tableau for Ilya Gunning (p.14); Poem for householder (p.14); Memoir for Lathom Dunn (p.15); September dialogue (revision)(p.15); Tableau for Sandeman Westbrook (p.16); Another reckoning (p.16); One portrait for Lorna (revision)(p.17); The Cave and Basin (p.18); Long ago (for John) (p.18); Darkling meditation (p.19); One more narrative for Pelagia Sunderland (p.19); Larch Valley (for Judd) (p.20); Valencian interlude (p.21); Walter Phillips’ last dream (p.22); Life in three-quarter time (p.23); Noctuary for Alma Tidswell (p.24); Noctuary for Melinda Dunn (p.25); Tableau for Jackson Weston-Murtha (p.25); Plato’s last night-dream (p.26); Memoir for Jacob Boulton-Smith (p.26); Crossing that pass (p.27); Stewart Canyon adventure (p.28); Another portrait for Eva (revision) (p.29); Tableau for Jason, Greg and Wellington (p.30); Tableau for Jack Dunn-Bridgeman (p.31); The second portrait for Miyuki (p.32)
Cover: photograph by author of lane joining Otter street and Muskrat St. in 100 block; looking west from Otter street
Accession Number
7612 (2 copies)
Call Number
05.1 B92 2005 Oct PAM
Collection
Archives Library
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The jagged harmony : more poems by Gordon Burles

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12845
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2005
Author
Burles, Gordon
Publisher
Banff : Gordon Burles
Call Number
05.1 B92 2005 Mar PAM
Author
Burles, Gordon
Publisher
Banff : Gordon Burles
Published Date
2005
Physical Description
31p
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Notes
Contents: (one copy signed by author)Portrait of old age for Lousandra (p.2); Banff (for Kathleen)(p.3-4); Thoughts in solitude (p.5); A beautiful day (p.6); Poem for a friend (p.6); Along Muskrat Street (p.7); Some vision for Kezia Scopes-Turner (p.8); Mortality (for Jane)(p.8); Epiphany in late June (for Sandra) (p.9); The photograph (p.9); Along the Spray River (p.10); The winter adventure (for Simon)(p.10); Penultimate narrative for Lilia Westerlove (p.11); Indeed, time is no dream (p.12); Last letter to Kezia(p.13); Portrait for Kenneth (p.14); Late summer wooing (p.14); Adventure for Lucinda (p.15); Exhortations for Lydia (p.15); An incident on Muskrat Street (p.16); Noctuary for Jane Sibley (p.16); A letter to Dawson Micawber (p.17); Winter portrait for Kay (p.18); Tableau for Jake Wallace (p.18);Narrative for Hladislaw Winnton (p.19); Another autumn portrait (revision)(p.20); Letter to Nathaniel Applewhaite (p.21); Tableau for Vergil Summersby (p.22); Tableau for Natalie Everton (p.22); Memoir for Muriel Easton-Considine(p.23); Tableau for Jackson Saddington (p.24); The joy is in the nihility (p.25); Noctuary in late autumn (p.25); One portrait for Menander (p.26); Final encounter in summer (p.27); An incident for Kara Weston-Blacklock (p.28); Another portrait of August for Rachel (p.28); Noctuary for Helena Saddington (p.29); Portrait for George Leander (p.30); Tableau for Manyusya Hesseltine (p.31); Noctuary near winter’s close (p.31)
Cover: photograph of author on Storm Mountain by Toni Demuy, circa 1974
Accession Number
7612 (2 copies)
Call Number
05.1 B92 2005 Mar PAM
Collection
Archives Library
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All the universe of sight : more poems by Gordon Burles

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12991
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2006
Author
Burles, Gordon
Publisher
Banff : Gordon Burles
Call Number
05.1 B92 2006 April PAM
Author
Burles, Gordon
Publisher
Banff : Gordon Burles
Published Date
2006
Physical Description
30p
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Notes
Contents: (one copy signed by author); Portrait of old age (revision of poem previously titled “Portrait for Sandra) (p.1); I’ll call the surveyor tomorrow (revision)(p.2); Noctuary for Helena Saddington (revision) (p.3); August at the Cemetery Tea House (p.4); After the holiday(for Jenna)(p.5); A portrait for Victoria (p.5); Noctuary for Jacobson Penner (p.6); Metropolis (for Leanna)(p.6); Noctuary for Lathom Crittenden (p.7); Noctuary for Lathom Srigley (p.7); Tableau for Nigel Dunn (p.8); Esplanade of divinity (for Gisela) (p.8); Daydream (for Kathleen)(p.9); Ode to Natalie (p.9); Story for Etherspear Ghently (p.10); Noctuary for Hermione Grafton (p.11); Otter Street (for Miranda)(p.11); A lament in March (p.12); The Saturday adventure (p.13); Ode to a sunny day (p.14); Penultimate letter to Kezia Upton (p.14); An incident in early June (p.15); One vernal portrait for Mary (p.16); One more portrait for Bridget Hawthorne (p.17); Another memoir for Nathan (p.18); A noctuary for Andzia (p.19); One portrait for Nigel Westfall (p.19); A portrait for Nigel Westlock (p.20); That old Tyrolean dream (p.21); Carrot Creek (for Jane)(p.22); Tableau in the desert (p.23); Portrait of July for Wallace (p.23); The warning (for Astrid)(p.24); The great trash dump(p.25); Ah, when I was young (p.26); The things that are no more (revision)(p.26); Another noctuary in memory of her (revision)(p.27); Tableau for Jessop Dunn-Easton (p.28); Experience in November (for Kazimiera)(p.28); Last narrative for Lilia (p.29); Autumn vision (for Nathaniel)(p.29); Not long after her funeral (p.30)
Cover: photograph by author looking south from Mount Thompson in evening in 1979; Mount Hector in distance on left; Margo McTaggart standing on other peak of Thompson on right
Accession Number
7629 (2 copies)
Call Number
05.1 B92 2006 April PAM
Collection
Archives Library
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The closing of many doors : more poems by Gordon Burles

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13128
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2006
Author
Burles, Gordon
Publisher
Banff : Gordon Burles
Call Number
05.1 B92 2006 May PAM
Author
Burles, Gordon
Publisher
Banff : Gordon Burles
Published Date
2006
Physical Description
28p
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Notes
Contents: (both copies signed by author); Penultimate tableau for Nathan Ostgaard (p.3); Tableau for Exeter Sentance (p.3); Noctuary for Tanya Everson (p.4); Tableau for Muriel Eastmonde (p.5); The second portrait for Miyuki Sato (revision)(p.6); Meditation for Eli Braunshweig (p.7); Letter to Latimer Sansonby (p.7); Noctuary for Louis Sexton (p.8); Tableau for Nigel Wakelyn (p.9); Tableau for Jim and Kay Burles (p.9);Penultimate Noctuary for Hermione Fenton (revision of poem previously titled “Noctuary for Hermione Fenton)(p.10); Letter to Audrey Cawthorne (p.11); A drop of rain is the truth (p.12); Another portrait for Nigel Upton (p.12); One portrait for Annabelle Luscar (p.13); Another September adventure (p.14); September entreaty (for Louise) (p.14); Tableau for Vincent (p.15); Another portrait of October (p.15); One more narrative for Barrymore Hamilton (p.16); Yes, rejoice—we conquer! (p.17); Memoir for Lucinda, Nigel, and Helen (p.17); Memoir for Lathom Dunn (p.18); On Cascade Mountain (p.19); Another adventure in August (p.20); One more portrait for Nathaniel Von Ostmark(p.20); Portrait for Gertrude Morstein (p.21); Experience near Banff (p.21); Melancholy moments (p.22); A wind-song (p.22); The honeysuckle (p.23); Banff, 1900 (p.24); The cherry tree (p.24); Yearnings in springtime(p.25); Portrait for springtime (p.26); Tableau for Nathaniel Dunstan (p.27); Episode in spring (for Kathleen)(p.27); A letter to Katharine (p.28)
Cover: photograph by author of Kay and Jim Burles on horseback along Carrot Creek circa 1990; buttress of Mount Peechee in background
Accession Number
7637 (2 copies)
Call Number
05.1 B92 2006 May PAM
Collection
Archives Library
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That perfect elsewhere : new poems and revisions by Gordon Burles

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13163
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2006
Author
Burles, Gordon
Publisher
Banff : Gordon Burles
Call Number
05.1 B92 2006 Aug PAM
Author
Burles, Gordon
Publisher
Banff : Gordon Burles
Published Date
2006
Physical Description
20 p
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
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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The orchard of humanness

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13374
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2006
Author
Burles, Gordon
Publisher
Banff : Gordon Burles
Call Number
05.1 B92 2006 Dec PAM
Author
Burles, Gordon
Publisher
Banff : Gordon Burles
Published Date
2006
Physical Description
24 p
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Notes
Contents: (both copies signed by author); Portrait for Eustace Clapperton (p.3); Letter to Andzimiera (p.3); Incident for June for Natali (p.4); Portrait for Jensen Cawlderwood (p.5); Tableau for Lucia Anders (p.6); Only say he lingered in a garden (p.7); A noctuary for Halliwell Saddington (p.8); Another portrait for Tabitha (p.9); Another portrait for Eva (revision)(p.10); Another portrait for Roma, Eva and Maja (revision)(p.11); Vision for Bertrand Clerihew-Guggenheim (revision)(p.12); Portrait for Nigel Colclough (revision)(p.12); How impure was yesterday (revision of poem previously titled “Yesterday was impure”)(p.13); Memoir for Kathleen and Phyllis (revision)(p.14); A day in late August (revision)(p.15); Vision in spring for Aldous Westlock (revision)(p.16); Adventure for Natalia Von Humboldt (revision)(p.17); Noctuary for Wyndham Saddington (revision)(p.18); Portrait for Natalie Trent (revision)(p.19); Tableau for Jane Sibley (revision)(p.20); Portrait for Halliwell Dunn (revision)(p.21); Tableau for Latimer Oglesmith (p.22); Narrative for Billington Alderby (p.23); Tableau for Halberd Dunnworth (p.24)
Cover: photograph of May Ward (author’s grandmother) with her children Kay (author’s mother) and Stan circa 1920 on summit ridge of Tunnel Mountain; looking east; photographer unknown
Accession Number
7819
Call Number
05.1 B92 2006 Dec PAM
Collection
Archives Library
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Light and dark remain : more poems

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13375
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2007
Author
Burles, Gordon
Publisher
Banff : Gordon Burles
Call Number
05.1 B92 2007 Mar PAM
Author
Burles, Gordon
Publisher
Banff : Gordon Burles
Published Date
2007
Physical Description
20p
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Notes
Contents: (both copies signed by author); Tableau for Caulder Hallamson (p.3); Tableau for Nathaniel Weston-Magnius (p.4); Incident for Ilya Driscoll (p.5); Noctuary for Pendleton Surrey (p.6); Portrait for Ethelbert Waldron (p.7); Another noctuary for Hallam Lewis (p.8); One portrait for Huay Tsin Tsu (p.9);Tableau for Worthington Jessop (p.9); That final answer (p.10); Another tableau for Ritsuko Magami (p.11); Another noctuary for Huay Tsu (p.12); One portrait for Natalia Westby (p.12); Another portrait for Eva Weston (p.13); Another letter to Sebastian (p.14); A midsummer epiphany for Jackson Appleby (p.15); Incident in June for Ilya Westlock (p.16); In the Rundle Lounge (p.17); Seeing Mt. Cascade (for Fay) (p.18); City—oh, city! (for Anzia)(p.19); Incident for Hortensia (p.20)
Cover: photograph of fresh grave of William Ward (author’s grandfather) in Old Banff Cemetery in August of 1948; photographer unknown
Accession Number
7819 (2 copies)
Call Number
05.1 B92 2007 Mar PAM
Collection
Archives Library
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Pangs of yesterday : more poems

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13376
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2007
Author
Burles, Gordon
Publisher
Banff : Gordon Burles
Call Number
05.1 B92 2007 July PAM
Author
Burles, Gordon
Publisher
Banff : Gordon Burles
Published Date
2007
Physical Description
20p
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Notes
Contents: (both copies signed by author); Noctuary for Amanda Westby (p.3); Narrative for Kezia Westhaven (p.4); Portrait in June for Ethelbert Dunn (p.5); A letter in summer to Toshiko (revision)(p.6); Noctuary for Miranda Ward (p.7); Noctuary for Annalee Saddington (p.7); Memoir for Huay Tsin Tsu (p.8); Hillsdale in spring (p.9); Audrey (p.10); Wigmore Creek (p.10); Summer afternoon (p.11); Oeuvre pour Kay (p.11); Mildred (p.12); The trail (p.13); Charlotte (p.14); Incident for Raphael Kentigern (p.15); Portrait for Lathom Jessopson (p.15); Wee hours (p.16); An evening in August (p.17); A night in June (p.18); Poem for Lucinda (p.19); A mountain story (p.20)
Cover: photograph by author of Jim Burles (author’s father) on horseback on Forty-Mile Creek Pass in autumn of 1973; looking north
Accession Number
7819 (2 copies)
Call Number
05.1 B92 2007 July PAM
Collection
Archives Library
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Author
Burles, Gordon
Publisher
Banff : Gordon Burles
Call Number
05.1 B92 test
Author
Burles, Gordon
Publisher
Banff : Gordon Burles
Physical Description
20p
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Call Number
05.1 B92 test
Collection
Archives Library
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The logic of light and dark : new poems and old favourites

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15312
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2007
Author
Burles, Gordon
Publisher
Banff : Gordon Burles
Call Number
05.1 B92 2007 Oct PAM
Author
Burles, Gordon
Publisher
Banff : Gordon Burles
Published Date
2007
Physical Description
20p
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Notes
Contents: Memory from when I was young (p.2);Portrait for Adriana Luscar (p.3); Memoir for Lousandra Noble (p.3); Tableau for Natali Etheridge (p. 4); Memoir for Lathom Dunn (revision) (p. 4); Portrait for Latimer Estabrook (p. 5); Funeral oration for poet (p. 6); The journey of a poetess (p. 7)); Vision for Helena Richmond (reprint) (p. 8); Epiphany for Kasimira (reprint) (p.9); Summertime Incident (reprint) (p. 10); Fine weather predicted (reprint) (p. 11); After Andzia’s funeral (reprint) (p.12); October epiphany (reprint) (p. 13); Narrative for Adeline Frere (reprint) (p. 14); Portrait of August (reprint) (p. 15); Portrait for Wendy Saddington (reprint) (p. 15); Portrait for Latimer Stratton (reprint) (p. 16); Portrait for Helen Saddington (reprint) (p. 17); Portrait for Adrian Hazeldean (reprint)(p. 18); Letter to Kezia (reprint) (p. 19); Memoir for Hadrian (reprint) (p.20)
Cover: photograph by author of cars on Wolf Street in Banff between Beaver Street and Otter Street at dusk
Accession Number
2015.8397 (2 copies)
Call Number
05.1 B92 2007 Oct PAM
Collection
Archives Library
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Laneways of humanness : new poems and revisions

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15313
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2008
Author
Burles, Gordon
Publisher
Banff : Gordon Burles
Call Number
05.1 B92 2008 Feb PAM
Author
Burles, Gordon
Publisher
Banff : Gordon Burles
Published Date
2008
Physical Description
16p
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Notes
Contents: (both copies signed by author); Now you are famous, darling (revision)(p.2); A portrait for Jansen Westermere (p. 3); Christmas letter to Kathleen (p. 5); Vision for Audrey Semple (revision) (p.6); Adventure for Natalia Von Humboldt (revision) (p. 7); The camp trip (revision) (p. 8); December interment (revision) (p.9); Portrait for Augustus Honegger (revision) (p.10); Portrait for Westermere Beckwith (revision) (p. 11); Portrait for Heather (revision) (p.12); Adventure for Lucinda (revision) (p. 13); Exhortations for Lydia (revision)(p.14); Another letter to Kay (revision) (p. 14); Portrait for Wallace Black (revision) (p.15);Letter to Samantha Wisterbeck (p. 16); Aah, westward to Quinquagesima! (revision) (p. 16)
Cover: photograph by Christine Thel of Banff of alley east of two hundred block of Otter Street in Banff, looking north
Accession Number
2015.8397 (2 copies)
Call Number
05.1 B92 2008 Feb PAM
Collection
Archives Library
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