Hiebert Collection

: The Morning Edition Sarah Binks Segment Part 4 [Thursday]; The Morning Edition is broadcast daily (Monday to Friday) on CBC Radio 1 and has a host discuss "breaking news, issues, and water cooler talk from across Saskatchewan and around the world" (from www.cbc.ca/morningeditionabout). "This 4th installment begins with [Professor Ron Marken] introducing us to Sarah's creator, Paul Hiebert. There follows an appreciation of Hiebert's creation as a vehicle for satire: how vividly Hiebert is able, through Sarah, to satirize the bad poetry, pompous self-serving criticism, and banal public taste which surrounds us to this day." - Doug Millington, former The Morning Edition Reporter

: The Unofficial Sarah Binks Golden Jubilee Poetry Anthology 1947-1997; A small booklet with poetry from the finalists in the Sarah Binks Poetry Competition. First page is the Evening Program in Marquis Hall with a Saskatchewan Dinner Theme, the Silver Strings Old-Time Fiddlers, the poetry reading, and social time with a display of the Sarah Binks and Willows Revisited manuscripts. Poem titles: "The Orchestra, " "Ode to Solonetz, " "Ode to Interdisciplinary Community Based Research, " "TheRoads of Saskatchewan (Part I)*Asummer Drive), ""The Roads of Saskatchewan (Part II)(Ode to a Faithful Old Car), " "Oh!Pecos Lands!, " "Scott's Bluffs (or How Scarp Got His Nickname), " "Mellon-Head, " "Season of the Snake, " "Ode to Sam McGee, " "Prairie Stock, ""The Combine Trade (A True Story?), " "Revelation of a Lotus Lander, " "Ode to the Surveyors, " "A Graduate Student Enters the Real World, " "Springtime in Wheat Country A Sonnet, " "Snow Derby Junkeie, " "A Researcher's Lament, "

: The Wonderful World of Sarah Binks (Reviews); A photocopy of a promotional poster for The Wonderful World of Sarah Binks, along with several reviews of it and of Donkin's other major roles. There is also brief biographical notes on Donkin, Sarah Binks, and Miss Rosalind Drool. Lastly, included is an overview of the production requirements for a proposed 1980-81 tour of The Wonderful World of Sarah Binks.

: U of S Library Gets Binks' Papers; U of S Library gets Binks' PapersDr. Paul Hiebert has presented the typescripts of "Sarah Binks" and Willows Revisited to the University Library. They are now in the Special Collections Department (although on temporary loan to the display on women writers.)"Sarah Binks", first published in 1947, is centred about some hundred poems supposedly written by "The Sweet Songstress of Saskatchewan". "Unschooled but unspoiled,this simple country girl has captured in her net of poetry the flatness of that great province...in deathless lines so much of its elusive spirit, the baldness of the prairies, the alkalinity of its soil, the richness of its insect life"."Willows Revisited", published in 1967, is a sequel to the first book, and examines the followers of Sarah who made up the poetic school of seven-and-a-half in Saskatchewan.Hiebert was born in Pilot Mound, Manitoba, in 1892 and was educated at the Universities of Manitoba, Toronto, and McGill. In 1924, he joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of Manitoba, which he left in 1953 to pursue his interests in gardening and philosophy at Carmen, Manitoba.The typescripts were secured for the library by Mrs. Bruce Rothwell, associate librarian., A photocopy of a newspaper article, possibly from the Saskatoon Star Phoenix, indicating the U of S library's gift of Hiebert's manuscripts.

: Willows Revisited; typescript copy (186 pages). This book was published in 1967, and it examines the followers of Sarah who made up the poetic school of seven-and-a-half in Saskatchewan

: You Are Like One Flower; you are like one flower,So swell, so good, and clean,I look you on and longing,Slinks me the heart between:Me is as if the hands IOn head yours put them should,Praying that God you preserve,So swell, so clean, and good., "Sarah Binks a Musical Tribute" created by Ken Mitchell (book) and Douglas Hicton (music) using lyrics by Paul Hiebert. Recorded live at the majestic Theatre in Biggar Saskatchewan. Directed by John Huston, with Angie Tysseland as musical director and pianist. Dana Wylie played the part of Sarah Binks, and Carol Wylie played "All the Other Gals"; Ian C Nelson plays Paul Heibert and RJ Nichol "All the Other Guys." "You are Like One Flower" is Sarah's poorly translated version of "Du Bist Wie Eine Blume" by famous German poet Heinrich Heine.

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