"Begins with an introduction by Douglas Barbour, who mentions Kraft Dinner, the True Eventual Story of Billy the Kid. He also mentions Nichol's performances in Glasgow and with the Four Horsemen at the Sound Poetry Festival of Toronto. Lastly he mentions the Martyrology as a testament to the value of this work.
Nichol begins by mentioning he has the Martyrology Book 5, Chain 8 for sale for one dollar each.
02:27 - ""Six Thots""
03:50 - ""Five images,"" which Nichol notes documents his and Eleanor's visit with Michael Ondaatje's family.
05:41 - ""Two Words: a wedding""
08:02 - Interlude wherein Nichol mentions his experiments with translations as conversations with the dead: collaborating with the writer who is no longer here. The next two poems, he writes, he took the English words which the Kwakiul words looked most like and translated them as such. The second employs the same process except from a Chipiwa text.
09:00 - ""[interpretive translation of] Kwakiutl working man's song""
10:03 - ""[interpretive translation of] Chippewa chant to the firefly""
10:30 ""From Cattulis, Poem 89""
11:17 ""From Cattlus, Poem 85""
Interlude on writing a poem-a-day in '76 and using Canadian Singers and their Songs, published by McLellan and Stewart (1925).
12:45 - ""After Frank O Calls""
14:35 - ""May 18 after James V Dollar""
15:56 - ""May 21, after Alexander Louis Fraser""
16:58 - ""May 23, after Alfred Gordon""
19:19 - ""Three months in New York City"" which Nichol notes is drawn from newspaper headlines in NY for about three months
20:38 - ""TTA 52"" from a longer series called translating translating Apollinaire. It could be called a book of research.
23:30 ""from Translating Apollinaire""
24:49 ""TTA 19, replacing words with their meanings, using Webster's dictionary for everyday use""
27:39 - Interlude where Nichol sells and hands out copies of The Martyrology Book V, Chain 8
28:35 - Introduction on the Martyrology and how Book V was supposed to be the end of the series, the personal nature of the project, and his fascination with language.
30:21 - from ""The Martyrology Book V, Chain 8""
38:30 - Interlude on Book V's chains and the different paths through the text, and the little poems at the end of the journal section of Book V.
39:45 - ""Maps""
40:40 - Interlude on writing and the muse and how writing may be a state of mind, an issue of getting in touch with it, rather than waiting.
""Hours, from a Counting"" (later to become Book of Hours in Book 6). and Basho's Uttanniki, which was inspirational for Nichol's own work with the Martyrology.
44:01 - ""First hour, 10:35pm-11:35pm, February 11 1979""
46:57 - Tape ends"