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B. W. Powe fonds

  • F0103
  • Fonds
  • 1955-2017

Fonds consists of diaries, journals, professional and personal correspondence, manuscript drafts and other material that document Powe's career as a writer and educator.

Powe, B. W (Bruce W.), 1955-

Baby book

Item is a baby book consisting of greeting cards sent to Powe's parents celebrating his birth.

Baby book

Item is a baby book for Powe maintained by his parents. It includes two photographs of Powe as a newborn and other ephemera relating to his birth.

Personal files

The series consists of material which documents Powe's personal life and his relationship with his family. It includes correspondence, photographs, legal and medical records and other collected ephemera.

Family photographs

File consists of childhood photographs of Powe with his sister, Kathleen, and mother Alys, as well as a photograph of Powe with Kathleen in 1980.

Class photos

File consists of two class photographs featuring Powe and his classmates from Armour Heights Public School and Ledbury Park Junior High School. Included is a booklet featuring images of staff and student council from Ledbury Park Junior High School.

Printed material

The series consists of copies of published works inscribed by their respective authors.

Literary manuscripts and other writings files

The series consists of research material, notes, drafts and manuscripts of Powe's published and unpublished works including his books "A Climate Changed" (1984), "Noise of Time" (1989), "A Tremendous Canada of Light" (1993), "Outage: A Journey Into Electric City" (1995), "The Solitary Outlaw: Trudeau, Lewis, Gould, Canetti, McLuhan", "Mystic Trudeau" (1997), "Towards a Canada of Light" (2006), "These Shadows Remain" (2011), his 2009 PhD thesis, "Apocalypse and alchemy: visions of Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye", the reworked and published version of his PhD thesis, "Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye: Apocalypse and Alchemy" (2014), "Where Seas and Fables Meet" (2015), and "Decoding Dust" (2016). It also includes drafts and/or printed copies of numerous reviews, essays and articles written by or about him, and drafts pertaining to the "Opening Time: On the Energy Threshold" collaborative project. Series also includes correspondence with publishers and fellow writers such as Irving Layton, Hugh Kenner and J.G. Ballard in reference to his work, publicity material for several of his books, and copies of journals and magazines in which Powe's work appeared.

Photographs of B.W. Powe

Photographs in this file also depict Kate and T.C. Powe, Alys Brady, Kathleen Powe, Mary and Brian Brady.

Photos, memorabilia

File consists of a Christmas card from Pierre Elliott Trudeau featuring a photo of his family, Powe's 1977 graduation portrait, a photograph of Powe and his mother, Alys, at his 1980 graduation ceremony, and two other photographs of Powe.

Journals, calendars, notebooks

The series consists of notebooks and journals kept by Powe in which he documented his thoughts and reflected on both his personal life and on works in progress. Also included are calendars on which Powe recorded appointments and other scheduled events.

Convocation programs

File consists of convocation programs pertaining to conferring of Powe's Master of Arts (University of Toronto) and PhD (York University) degrees.

Correspondence and subject files

The series consists of personal and professional correspondence including manuscript and typescript copies of letters received by Powe, copies of letters written by Powe, as well as printed copies of incoming and outgoing e-mail. It includes correspondence with friends, students, publishers, fellow writers and academics, among them R. Murray Shafer, Don DeLillo, Gary Geddes, Susan Swan, John Ralston Saul, Joe Keogh, John Robert Colombo, Eric McLuhan and Pierre Trudeau. Series also consists of subject files containing clippings, publicity material, audio recordings, video cassettes, photographs, brochures, notes and other material pertaining to speaking engagements, conferences such as the "Trudeau Era Conference" and "Rethinking McLuhan", and York University's Living Literacies Initiative, Foundation and Endeavour (LLIFE).

Academic and teaching files

The series consists of course/lecture notes, research materials, correspondence, course syllabi, teaching proposals, course evaluations, official York University publications and other material related to Powe's instruction of courses at York University and Humber College, his position as Academic Advisor at Winter's College, the completion of his PhD, his applications for tenure and promotion, and his work as coordinator of the Creative Writing Program at York University. Also documented in this series are Powe's activities while a visiting scholar at IN3, University of Catalunya, Barcelona.

Essays (selection)

File consists of draft and published writing by Powe, including a tribute to Saul Bellow, a Noam Chomsky book review, a poem about 9-11, and an essay about the Rolling Stones.

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