Robert Hogg (March 26, 1942 - November 13, 2022) was a Canadian poet, critic, professor, and organic farmer.

Biography

Born in

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on March 26, 1942, Robert Hogg studied English and Creative Writing at the

University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public research university with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, it is British Columbia's oldest university. The university ranks among the top thre ...

where he co-edited important Canadian little magazine ''

TISH ''TISH'' was a Canadian poetry newsletter founded by student-poets at the University of British Columbia in 1961. The publication was edited by a number of Vancouver poets until 1969. The newsletter's poetics were built on those of writers associa ...

''. He studied at SUNY Buffalo (under

Charles Olson Charles Olson (27 December 1910 – 10 January 1970) was a second generation modern American poet who was a link between earlier figures such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the New American poets, which includes the New York ...

) and taught at

Carleton University Carleton University is an English-language public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1942 as Carleton College, the institution originally operated as a private, non-denominational evening college to serve returning Wo ...

. He completed a Ph.D. on the works of Charles Olson. He died at age 80 on November 13, 2022, in Ottawa.

Writing

His poetry is collected in ''New Wave Canada'' (1966), edited by

Raymond Souster Raymond Holmes Souster (January 15, 1921 – October 19, 2012) was a Canadian poet whose writing career spanned over 70 years. More than 50 volumes of his own poetry were published during his lifetime, and he edited or co-edited a dozen volumes ...

and published by Contact Press, and the

Oxford University Press Oxford University Press (OUP) is the university press of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world, and its printing history dates back to the 1480s. Having been officially granted the legal right to print books ...

anthology, ''Modern Canadian Verse'' (1967), edited by A.J.M. Smith. He published books of poetry and poetics with Oyez Press,

Coach House Press Coach House Books is an independent book publishing company located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Coach House publishes experimental poetry, fiction, drama and non-fiction. The press is particularly interested in writing that pushes at the boundar ...

, Black Moss Press, ECW Press,

Talonbooks Talonbooks is an independent publisher of Canadian literature based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Its repertoire features authors writing in the literary genres of poetry, fiction and drama, as well as non-fiction books in the fields of ethnogra ...

, and chapbooks with above/ground press, battleaxe press, and hawkweed press. In 1987, Hogg's poem "Classic Lines" was published in Edges Literary Magazine. His poetry has been reviewed in Canadian and International journals, including ''

Poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...

'' and ''Open Letter''. Douglas Barbour described Hogg's first book as "one of the most powerful of its year." His 1978 collection, ''Of Light'', included dust jacket blurbs from

Victor Coleman Victor Coleman (born September 9, 1944) is a Canadian poet. Biography Born in Toronto, Coleman was the first editor at Coach House Books from 1966 until 1975. After his tenure in publishing, he managed the multidisciplinary art centre, A Space ...

Robert Creeley Robert White Creeley (May 21, 1926 – March 30, 2005) was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school. He was close with Char ...

, and Robert Duncan, with Duncan describing the book as "one of the very few radiantly present books I have read." Hogg has been profiled on CBC Radio and in the Globe and Mail. Hogg also founded and operated Mountain Path organics.

Publications

*''The Connexions''. Berkeley CA: Oyez Press, 1966. *''Standing Back''. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1972. *''Of Light''. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1978. *''Heat Lightning''. Windsor ON: Black Moss Press, 1986. *''There Is No Falling''. Toronto: ECW Press, 1993. *''An English Canadian Poetics:'' T''he Confederation Poets – Vol. 1''. Ed. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2009. *From ''Lamentations''. Ottawa: above/ground Press, 2012. *From ''Lamentations''. 2nd Expanded ed. Ottawa: above/ground Press, 2016. *''Ranch Days—for Ed Dorn''. Ottawa: battleaxe press, 2019. *''Ranch Days—The McIntosh''. Kemptville: hawkweed press, 2019. *''Question.'' New Westminster, BC: pagefiftyone, 2021. *''A Quiet Affair: Vancouver '63''. BC: Trainwreck Press, 2021. *''From Each Forthcoming''. Ottawa: above/ground press, 2021. *''The Red Menace''. Mountain, ON: Hogwallow Press, 2021. *''Apothegms''. Ottawa: Apt. 9 Press, 2021. *''The Cold Light of Morning''. Toronto/Tkaronto: Model Press, 2022.

References

External links

Online webpage
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