A member of the Tish group of poets in the 1960s, There Is No Falling is Hogg's first published work since 1986. Written in his usual sparse style, Hogg's poetry deals with the intricate details of everyday life.

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 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 and took a job teaching American and Canadian Poetry at Carleton University in Ottawa for the next thirty-eight years.Hogg’s collections include Lamentations; The Cariboo Poems; Postcards, from America; and The Vancouver Work. His publications 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; and from Lamentations, Ottawa: above/ground, 2016.

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"Hogg invokes resources as diverse as the art of Escher and Gaugin, and the philosophies of Zen and Kant for parallels to his own desire to seize, with Language, the ephemeral thought." — The Ottawa Citizen