File 2021-005/018(02) - Notebook

File consists of handwritten prose with extensive annotations; betting receipts; photographs of dining at the home of Branko Gorjup with Anne Michaels and Greg Gatenby, of dinner at 20 Dale Avenue with Stephen Williams, Francesca Valente, Lui Liu, and David Sobelman, of visiting the exhibition, “Lui Liu: A Retrospective of Portraits” at 102 Scollard Street, Toronto, 19 Oct. 1996, of a formal supper at 20 Dale Avenue with Austin Clarke, Barry’s brother Michael, and Francesca Valente, and of an opening of an exhibition of new paintings by William Ronald with the Peter Appleyard Quartet at the Bravo Rehearsal Hall/Gallery on Queen Street West; the published version of “A hundred undulating feet of bravado” that began with the prose at the beginning of the notebook; and photographs of an evening at 20 Dale Avenue with Jane Urquhart, Margaret Atwood, Vera Frankel, Bruce Westwood, Graeme Gibson, Leon Rooke, Adele Friedman, Antonio Dalfonso, Branko Gorjup, and Judge James Clarke, poet, of Christmas with the family and guests at 20 Dale Avenue, and of New Year’s Eve with Vera Frankel, William Ronald, Lui Liu, Stephanie Raynor, M.T. Kelly, Ellen Seligman, and Sorel Etrog.