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Robert Hogg

Robert Hogg (1942-2022) was born in Edmonton, AB, and grew up in Cariboo and Fraser Valley, BC. Hogg graduated from UBC with a BA in English and Creative Writing. During his time at UBC, Hogg became affiliated as a poet and co-editor a part of TISH. In 1964, Hogg hitchhiked to Toronto and visited Buffalo NY, where Charles Olson had been teaching at the time. At SUNY at Buffalo, he completed a Ph.D. on the works of Charles Olson. Shortly after, Hogg taught American and Canadian poetry at Carleton University for the following thirty-eight years and kept a farm near Ottawa.

A black-and-white portrait of Robert Hogg. Robert is captured in motion writing at a table in front of him.
"Vancouver 1964. My flat at 4th and Burrard, with stubby beer, clipboard, & trusty Halda typewriter which I still have—just before hitchhiking east to TO, Buffalo, and NYC."

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  • A black-and-white portrait of Robert Hogg. Robert is captured in motion writing at a table in front of him.

    Robert Hogg reads from There is No Falling at Black Sheep Books (1995)

    Citation: Hogg, Robert. “Robert Hogg Vancouver – 9 VI ’95 / Peggy Kelley Austin Summer ’95” (clip) June 9, 1995. From There is No Falling at Black Sheep Books, Vancouver. 2018.002.001. Robert Hogg fonds. Soundbox Collection, AMP Lab at UBC Okanagan, Kelowna, B.C. https://soundbox.ok.ubc.ca/robert-hogg/ This opening excerpt is from a longer reading that happened on…

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| Remediations

  • A black-and-white portrait of Robert Hogg. Robert is captured in motion writing at a table in front of him.

    Excerpt from Oral History with Deanna Fong and Karis Shearer

    Excerpt from Oral History with Deanna Fong and Karis Shearer A selection from an oral history in which Robert Hogg talks with Deanna Fong and Karis Shearer about his family history, early life, and beginning of his writing career. In this excerpt, Hogg tells the story of meeting Frank Davey and attending a reading and…

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