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Death will be his bailiwick: new poems and old favourites
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15324
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2010
- Author
- Burles, Gordon
- Publisher
- Banff : Gordon Burles
- Call Number
- 05.1 B92 2010 Feb PAM
- Author
- Burles, Gordon
- Publisher
- Banff : Gordon Burles
- Published Date
- 2010
- Physical Description
- 12p
- Notes
- Contents: No lichens need apply (p.3); Portrait for Anya (p.4); Winter incident (p.5); For Kathleen, Annie and Mary (revision) (p.6); Immanuel can’t (p.6); Incident in late spring (p.7); Incident for Katarina (p.7); A moonlit night (revision of previously titled “Midnight at Banff”)(p. 8); Tableau in late spring (p.9); Portrait of summer for Adrian (reprint) (p.10); Tableau for Littleton Sundergaard (reprint) (p.11); Tableau for Ilya Gunning (reprint) (p.12)
- Cover: photograph by author of gravestone in Old Banff Cemetery
- Accession Number
- 2015.8397 (2 copies)
- Call Number
- 05.1 B92 2010 Feb PAM
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The dolorous rain : some favourite Cemetery Tea House poems
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15316
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2008
- Author
- Burles, Gordon
- Publisher
- Banff : Gordon Burles
- Call Number
- 05.1 B92 2008 Sep PAM
- Author
- Burles, Gordon
- Publisher
- Banff : Gordon Burles
- Published Date
- 2008
- Physical Description
- 16p
- Notes
- Contents: (both copies signed by author); Portrait for Andalusia Himmelfarb (p.3); Tableau for Nathan Slingsby-Rothenburg (p. 4); Tableau for Marion Estabrook (p. 5); Portrait for Annalee Niverville (p. 6); Tableau for Miranda Costain (p. 7); Tableau for Ethel Harrow-Blakiston (p.8); Portrait for Eustace Lathomson (p.9); Incident for Nate Garson (p.10); Ripeness is all (reprint) (p. 11); October (reprint) (p.11);Portrait for Bronwen (reprint) (p. 12); Portrait for Andzia Norfolk (reprint) (p. 13); Portrait of evening (reprint) (p. 14) ; Portrait for Nathaniel Sandringham (reprint) (p. 15); One more portrait of August (reprint) (p. 16)
- Cover: photograph of (left to right) Stan Ward, Bill Ward, Kay Ward (author’s mother), and Annie Ward on top of Sulphur Mountain in about 1921; photographer unknown; children of William and May Ward
- Accession Number
- 2015.8397 (2 copies)
- Call Number
- 05.1 B92 2008 Sep PAM
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The eternity within us : new poems and revisions
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15375
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2015
- Author
- Burles, Gordon
- Publisher
- Banff : Gordon Burles
- Call Number
- 05.1 B92 2015 Dec PAM
- Author
- Burles, Gordon
- Publisher
- Banff : Gordon Burles
- Published Date
- 2015
- Physical Description
- 8p
- Notes
- Contents: Never Septuagesima (revision) (p.1); Memoir for Kristelle (p.2); Tableau for Mayumi (revision) (p.3); Hallowed be the night (revision)(p.4); Tableau for Ciera (p.5); Tableau for Megan (p.5); Another tableau for Jesse (p.6); In the city’s outskirts (revision) (p.7); Another portrait for Oliana (p.8)
- Cover: photograph of Kay Ward (author’s mother) hiking on Sulphur Mountain circa 1940; looking east; photographer unknown
- Accession Number
- 2015.8397 (2 copies)
- Call Number
- 05.1 B92 2015 Dec PAM
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Extravagant love : new poems and revisions
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15377
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2016
- Author
- Burles, Gordon
- Publisher
- Banff : Gordon Burles
- Call Number
- 05.1 B92 2016 Jun PAM
- Author
- Burles, Gordon
- Publisher
- Banff : Gordon Burles
- Published Date
- 2016
- Physical Description
- 4p
- Notes
- Contents: Tableau for Marika (p.1); Portrait for Andrea (p.2); Our strange being (p.3); Second portrait for Emi (revision) (p.4)
- Cover: wedding day photograph, April 9,1949; left to right, Helen Rathbun, Kay Burles, Jim Burles, Louis Burles; at St. George’s Anglican church; Canon Tully Montgomery in doorway; photographer unknown, possibly George Noble
- Accession Number
- 2015.8397 (2 copies)
- Call Number
- 05.1 B92 2016 Jun PAM
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- Archives Library
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Fine weather predicted : new poems
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15378
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Burles, Gordon
- Publisher
- Banff : Gordon Burles
- Call Number
- 05.1 B92 2017 Jan PAM
- Author
- Burles, Gordon
- Publisher
- Banff : Gordon Burles
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 8p
- Notes
- Contents: Tableau for Huay Tsin (p.1); Incident for Laetitia (p.2); Memory of summer (p.3); Letter to Eileen (p.4); Incident in spring (p.5); Second portrait of August (p.6); Homage to Drucilla Lewthwaite (p.7); Memoir for Herbert (p.8)
- Cover: photograph by author of pony wall and honeysuckle on Kidney house lot at corner of Muskrat and Wolf Streets in Banff; looking northwest
- Accession Number
- 2015.8397 (2 copies)
- Call Number
- 05.1 B92 2017 Jan PAM
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- Archives Library
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Fleeting summer : new poems and revisions by Gordon Burles
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15484
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Burles, Gordon
- Publisher
- Banff : Gordon Burles
- Call Number
- 05.1 B92 2018 Feb PAM
- Author
- Burles, Gordon
- Responsibility
- Gordon Burles
- Publisher
- Banff : Gordon Burles
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- 4p
- Notes
- Contents: Tableau for Kylie (p.1); Tableau for Lucia (p.2); Tableau for Deirdre Wasserman (p.3 revision of poem on page 3 of World Without End); The kingdom of the free mind (p.4 revision of poem on page 6 of The Lilies of the Sea)
- Accession Number
- 2018.need (2 copies)
- Call Number
- 05.1 B92 2018 Feb PAM
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The furious plenitude : new poems and revisions
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15332
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2011
- Author
- Burles, Gordon
- Publisher
- Banff : Gordon Burles
- Call Number
- 05.1 B92 2011 Nov PAM
- Author
- Burles, Gordon
- Publisher
- Banff : Gordon Burles
- Published Date
- 2011
- Physical Description
- 8p
- Notes
- Contents: Memoir for Suzanne (p.3); Tableau for Hilary (p.4); Incident for Amanda (p.5); Tableau for Jansen Vanderveen (revision) (p.6); Incident for Latimer Westhaverton (revision)(p.7); Anthracite (revision)(p.8)
- Cover: photograph of Mary Murphy, author’s maternal great grandmother, in England; photographer and date unknown
- Accession Number
- 2015.8397 (2 copies)
- Call Number
- 05.1 B92 2011 Nov PAM
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Gordon Burles fonds
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- Part Of
- Gordon Burles fonds
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists mainly of poems by Gordon Burles, 1970-2017. Manuscripts contain about twenty-seven hundred poems, mainly in free verse, some with revisions. Poems are numbered in chronological order. About 2016 Burles stopped numbering each poem. The year of creation is indicated with each poem.…
- Date Range
- 1970-2017, 2022
- Reference Code
- M196 / V103
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- GMD
- Photograph
- Negative
- Photograph print
- Textual record
- Machine-readable data file
- Private record
1 Electronic Resource
- Part Of
- Gordon Burles fonds
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- Fonds Number
- M 196
- V 103
- Sous-Fonds
- M 196
- V 103
- Accession Number
- 1199, 1367, 1414, 1674, 2061, 2212, 2239, 2890, 3233, 3769, 3874, 5526, 5689, 5903, 6347, 6487, 6927,7215, 7483, 7486, 7612
- Reference Code
- M196 / V103
- Date Range
- 1970-2017, 2022
- Physical Description
- ca. 36.5 cm textual records + 9 CD-R (textual records). -- 7 photographs : prints, negatives.
- History / Biographical
- James Gordon Burles, b.1949, is a poet, surveyor and civil servant at Banff, Alberta, Canada. A native of Banff, Burles is a student of the Canadian Rockies. In Burles' own words, much of his poetry is inspired by four environments: the life and history of Banff National Park, the town of Banff, the Okanagan Valley, and Calgary.
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists mainly of poems by Gordon Burles, 1970-2017. Manuscripts contain about twenty-seven hundred poems, mainly in free verse, some with revisions. Poems are numbered in chronological order. About 2016 Burles stopped numbering each poem. The year of creation is indicated with each poem. Some poems pertain to mountain personalities such as Bill Peyto, Norman Sanson, Margaret Stone, Walter D. Wilcox, Walter J. Phillips, Conrad Kain, and Georgia Engelhard. Many are surrealist or nonsense poems and many deal with the Cemetery Tea House, an imaginary teahouse frequented by various characters.
- Fonds consists of three series: I : Poetry Manuscripts; II : Prose and research; III: Digital typeset copies of published poems
- Some poems deal with Burle's parents and family. The collection also holds fifty-three books and booklets, self-published by the author from 1984 to 2017. The books published from 2003 to 2017 contain all the poems which the author considers worth preserving. Some in one book have been revised in a later book. Some poems were revised more than once. The three books published in 1984, 1986, and 1990 are considered by the author as early works. Only the poems in those books that the author considered worth publishing have been republished in the 2003-2017 books. Names in the poem titles are usually made up.
- Some titles are tongue-in-cheek. There were so many poems that the author resorted to names like "Portrait for Bertrand Clerihew-Guggenheim" to make it easier. Some titles, of course, are obviously connected to the content of the poem. Many titles were long enough to preclude the difficulty of getting the graphic designer to centre the title over the poem! Also included are manuscripts, research materials, articles, and notes etc. regarding Bill Peyto, the Copper Mountain Mine, Banff National Park museum, logging roads in the Johnson Lake area, and the Sanson-Bethune connection.
- Photographs pertain to remains of hay rake and wagon in the Third Vermilion Lake area (1975) and remains of the Queen of the Hills Mine, above Silver City (1977).
- CD-ROMS's contain typeset copies of manuscripts by Gordon Burles in Pagemaker, In Design and .pdf file formats. Manuscripts include "The Jagged Harmony," 2005, "An Avenue Without End," 2005, "That Perfect Elsewhere," n.d., "Much Like A Dream," 2004, "All the Universe of Sight," 2006, "Those Grand Poplars," 2004, "Lords of Many Orchards: Selected Best Poems of Gordon Burles," 2003, "That trellis of tombs: Further Selected Poems of Gordon Burles," 2004, "The Closing of Many Doors: More Poems by Gordon Burles," 2006.
- II : Prose and research includes "Life story of James Gordon Burles," 2022
- Notes
- Books of poetry published by Gordon Burles are located in the Whyte Museum Archives Library 05.1/B92. In 2018 Gordon Burles compiled a listing of the original poems that were edited and re-published. This list is in the M196 document file, and is also a PDF attached to the fonds level record
- Name Access
- Burles, Gordon
- Subject Access
- Arts
- Access Restrictions
- No restrictions on access
- Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply
- Language
- Language is English
- Finding Aid
- Finding aids and reference tools: file level descriptions with inventory
- Creator
- Burles, Gordon
- Category
- Arts
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of fonds
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Grand unknowingness: new poems
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15371
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2014
- Author
- Burles, Gordon
- Publisher
- Banff : Gordon Burles
- Call Number
- 05.1 B92 2014 Sep PAM
- Author
- Burles, Gordon
- Publisher
- Banff : Gordon Burles
- Published Date
- 2014
- Physical Description
- 4p
- Notes
- Contents: Tableau for Gerard (p.1); Portrait for Phyllis (p.2); Dreams die quietly (p.3); Recollection for Sandra (p.4)
- Cover: photograph by author of first and second peaks of Mount Rundle taken from first peak in late 1960s; looking south
- Accession Number
- 2015.8397 (2 copies)
- Call Number
- 05.1 B92 2014 Sep PAM
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Halcyon summers : revisions and old favourites
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15330
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2011
- Author
- Burles, Gordon
- Publisher
- Banff : Gordon Burles
- Call Number
- 05.1 B92 2011 Mar PAM
- Author
- Burles, Gordon
- Publisher
- Banff : Gordon Burles
- Published Date
- 2011
- Physical Description
- 8p
- Notes
- Contents: Narrative for Adrian (revision) (p.3); Portrait for Ethelbert Dunn (revision of previously titled “Portrait in June for Ethelbert Dunn”)(p. 4); Portrait for Nehemiah (revision) (p.5); Portrait for Hortensia (revision)(p.6); Vernal sacrament (reprint)(p.7); Portrait for Yolanda (reprint) (p.8)
- Cover: photograph of (left to right) Kay Ward (author’s mother), Jean Watt and unknown lady near Sunshine Village; Mount Bourgeau in background; photographer unknown; date unknown, probably 1940s
- Accession Number
- 2015.8397 (2 copies)
- Call Number
- 05.1 B92 2011 Mar PAM
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- Archives Library
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