From Each Forthcoming
Robert Hogg
$5
Another Way
Difficult to say how
but the dancers
move themselves
gesture
not necessarily
to me
nor to the music
tinkling to itself
a flurry of notes
bare feet
hands in a windmill
by design
one direction
only
the music
another way
RLH: Vanc: 1964; Rev: Mtn: 2021-03-04
published in Ottawa by above/ground press
August 2021
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
Robert Hogg was born in Edmonton, Alberta, grew up in the Cariboo and Fraser Valley in British Columbia, and attended UBC during the early Sixties where he was associated with the Vancouver TISH poets, co-edited
MOTION - a prose newsletter, and graduated with a BA in English and Creative Writing. In 1964 he hitchhiked east to Toronto, then visited Buffalo NY where Charles Olson was teaching. After spending a few months in NYC, Bob entered the graduate program at the State University of NY at Buffalo, completed a PhD on Olson under Robert Creeley, and took a job teaching American and Canadian Poetry at Carleton University in Ottawa for the next 38 years. His books include: The Connexions, Berkeley: Oyez, 1966;
Standing Back, Toronto: Coach House, 1972;
Of Light, Toronto: Coach House, 1978;
Heat Lightning, Windsor: Black Moss, 1986;
There Is No Falling, Toronto: ECW,1993; and as editor,
An English Canadian Poetics, The Confederation Poets – Vol. 1, Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2009. He recently published four chapbooks:
from LAMENTATIONS, Ottawa: above/ground, 2016;
two Cariboo poems,
Ranch Days – The McIntosh from hawk/weed press in Kemptville, ON;
Ranch Days—for Ed Dorn from battleaxe press (Ottawa 2019);
A Quiet Affair – Vancouver ’63 (Trainwreck, May 2021). In April 2019 Hogg edited a Canadian Poetry issue of
The Café Review in Portland, ME. His poems have appeared in over seventy periodicals, most recently:
Pamenar Online;
Empty Mirror;
The Café Review;
Dispatches;
Arc;
Some;
BlazeVox Online Journal,
The Typescript,
Caesura,
Ottawater 16,
Sulfur Surrealist Jungle,
Touch the Donkey and recent issues of
Periodicities,
Bandoneon, and
Taint Taint Taint. In early July 2021 a Spoken Web podcast was presented by the UBC Kelowna Amp Lab featuring Robert Hogg’s life and career;
it can be heard here. Books currently in the works for publication include: Lamentations;
The Cariboo Poems;
Postcards, from America;
Amber Alert;
Not to Call It Chaos – The Vancouver Poems;
Oh Yeah—More Poems. In progress are
The Offending Temple, and
Ill Parodies – O, a selection of satires on various Shibboleths and current affairs. Now retired, Hogg continues to write at his organic farm in Mountain thirty-five miles south of Ottawa.
This is Hogg's third above/ground press chapbook, after
from Lamentations (2012) and
from Lamentations (second edition) (2016).
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