Métis in Canada: History, Identity, Law and Politics
Christopher Adams, Gregg Dahl & Ian Peach, Editors
978-0-88864-640-8
You Haven't Changed a Bit, Stories
Astrid Blodgett
978-0-88864-644-6
Massacre Street
Paul Zits
978-0-88864-675-0
Dear Sir, I Intend to Burn Your Book
Lawrence Hill
978-0-88864-679-8
The Last Temptation of Bond
Kimmy Beach
978-0-88864-558-6
Recognition and Modes of Knowledge
Teresa G. Russo
978-0-88864-558-6
Healing Histories
Laurie Meijers Drees
978-0-88864-650-7
Travels and Tales of Miriam Green Ellis:
Pioneer Journalist of the Canadian West
Patricia Demers
978-0-88864-626-2
Disinherited Generations:
Our Struggle to Reclaim Treaty Rights for First Nation Women and their Descendants
Nellie Carlson & Kathleen Steinhauer
as told to Linda Goyette
978-0-88864-642-2
Canada's Constitutional Revolution
Barry L. Strayer
978-0-88864-649-1
We Gambled Everything
The Life and Time of an Oilman
Arne Nielsen
978-0-88864-598-2
Canadian Folk Art to 1950
John A. Fleming & Michael J. Rowan
James A. Chambers, Photographer
978-0-88864-556-2 (paper)
978-0-88864-630-9 (cloth)
Game Plan: A Social History of Sport in Alberta
Karen Wall
978-0-88864-594-4
Dramatic Licence
Louise Ladouceur
Translator Richard Lebeau
978-0-88864-538-8
Countering Displacements
Daniel Coleman, Erin Goheen Glanville, Wafaa Hasan & Agnes Kramer-Hamstra, Editors
978-0-88864-605-7
Cross-Media Ownership and Democratic Practice in Canada
Walter C. Soderlund, Colette Brin, Lydia Miljan & Kai Hilderbrandt
978-0-88864-605-7
Civilizing the Wilderness
A. A. den Otter
978-0-88864-546-3
Anti-Saints: The New Golden Legend of Sylvain Maréchal
Sheila Delany
978-0-88864-604-0
Imagining Ancient Women
Annabel Lyon
978-0-88864-629-3
Continuations 2
Douglas Barbour, Sheila E. Murphy
978-0-88864-596-8
dear Hermes...
Michelle Smith
978-0-88864-597-5
Pursuing China:
Memoir of a Beaver Liaison Officer
Michael Mucz
978-0-88864-514-2
The Grads Are Playing Tonight!:
The Story of the Edmonton Commercial Graduates Basketball Club
M. Ann Hall
978-0-88864-602-6
Alfalfa to Ivy
Memoir of a Harvard Medical School Dean
Joseph B. Martin
978-1-55195-700-5
Not Drowning But Waving
Susan Brown, Jeanne Perreault, Jo-Ann Wallace & Heather Zwicker, Editors
978-0-88864-614-9
Narratives of Citizenship
Aloys N.M. Fleischmann, Nancy Van Styvendale & Cody McCarroll, Editors
978-0-88864-518-0
Winter in Fireland
Nicholas Coghlan
978-0-88864-547-0
The Sasquatch at Home
Traditional Protocols & Modern Storytelling
Eden Robinson
978-0-88864-559-3
At the Interface of Culture and Medicine
Earle H. Waugh, Olga Szafran & Rodney A. Crutcher, Editors
978-0-88864-532-6
Apostrophes VII
E. D. Blodgett
978-0-88864-554-8
Demeter Goes Skydiving
Susan McCaslin
978-0-88864-551-7
Kat Among the Tigers
Kath MacLean
978-0-88864-552-4
Retooling the Humanities
Daniel Coleman & Smaro Kamboureli, Editors
978-0-88864-541-8
Will the Real Alberta Please Stand Up?
Geo Takach
978-0-88864-543-2
Un art de vivre par temps de catastrophe
Dany Laferrière
978-0-88864-553-1
Rudy Wiebe: Collected Stories, 1955–2010
Rudy Wiebe
Introduction by Thomas Wharton
978-0-88864-540-1
Prodigal Daughter: A Journey to Byzantium
Myrna Kostash
978-0-88864-534-0
The Contemporary Arab Reader on Political Islam
Ibrahim Abu-Rabi', Editor
978-0-88864-557-9
Locating the Past / Discovering the Present: Perspectives on Religion, Culture, and Marginality
David Gay & Stephen R. Reimer, Editor
978-0-88864-499-2
"Collecting Stamps Would Have Been More Fun": Canadian Publishing and the Correspondence of Sinclair Ross, 1933–1986
Jordan Stouck & David Stouck, Editors
978-0-88864-521-0
The Beginning of Print Culture in Athabasca Country
Patricia Demers, Naomi McIlwraith & Dorothy Thunder, Translators
Arok Wolvengrey, Foreword
Patricia Demers, Introduction
978-0-88864-515-9
The Measure of Paris
Stephen Scobie
978-0-88864-533-3
Emblems of Empire: Selections from the Mactaggart Art Collection
John E. Vollmer & Jacqueline Simcox
978-0-88864-486-2
Taking the Lead: Strategies and Solutions from Female Coaches
Sheila Robertson, Editor
Dru Marshall, Introduction
978-0-88864-542-5
Ukrainian Through its Living Culture: Advanced Level Language Textbook
Alla Nedashkivska
978-0-88864-517-3
Bosnia: In the Footsteps of Gavrilo Princip
Tony Fabijancic
978-0-88864-519-7
wild horses
rob mclennan
978-0-88864-535-7
Memory's Daughter
Alice Major
978-0-88864-539-5
Too Bad: Sketches Toward a Self-Portrait
Robert Kroetsch
978-0-88864-537-1
J.B. Harkin: Father of Canada's National Parks
E. J. (Ted) Hart
978-0-88864-512-8
People of the Lakes: Stories of Our Van Tat Gwich’in Elders/Googwandak Nakhwach’ànjòo Van Tat Gwich’in
Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation
Shirleen Smith
978-0-88864-505-0
The rose that grew from concrete: Teaching and Learning with Disenfranchised Youth
Diane Wishart
978-0-88864-516-6
The Meteorites of Alberta
Anthony J. Whyte / Chris Herd, Foreword
978-0-88864-475-6
When Edmonton Was Young
Tony Cashman / Leslie Latta-Guthrie, Foreword
978-0-88864-511-1
Heavy Burdens on Small Shoulders: The Labour of Pioneer Children on the Canadian Prairies
Sandra Rollings-Magnusson
978-0-88864-509-8
Retiring the Crow Rate: A Narrative of Political Management
Arthur Kroeger / John Fraser, Afterword
978-0-88864-513-5
Very upset to hear this news. Mr. Kroetsch has played an enormous role in my own understanding of myself as a writer, a reader, a Westerner, a Canadian. His literature opened up so many possibilities. I believe my life would be less if someone hadn’t handed me Badlands so many years ago. We owe him so much.
[...] Such sad news. Robert Kroetsch, Alberta writer, alterer of the language, died in a car crash while on his way home from a literary festival in Canmore. Read about it on the University of Alberta Press’s blog. [...]
He told me to believe in my voice and to keep writing my stories. I think of him often. In fact today he crossed my mind before I heard the sad news.
My heart goes out to the Kroetsch family; my thoughts and prayers are with them. Robert was a very dear friend to my family. His kindness, his love, his sense of humor, his jokes & his zest for life will never be forgotten. Rocio Avila-Wiebe, granddaughter of Rudy Wiebe
Dr. Kroetsch was an excellent teacher who taught by letting his students unlayer the text under his thoughtful watch. He became my advisor and I enjoyed his exploration of Patrick White’s work , a new author for him, as I wrote my Master’s thesis. Under his tutelage, I became a myth critic. “Goodnight sweet prince: And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.”
I am utterly bereft at this suddenness – Robert joined us fellow artsPeak writers Tuesday morning for greasy spoon breakfast, along with sweet Italian Ph.D student, Roberta. She was interested in the idea of place, and together they were going off to visit places that held meaning in his life and work. Goddamn you Alberta country road for taking him.
Terrible news. Robert Kroetsch touched my life so deeply, his influence reverberates in my work to this day. We all owe him so much.
Moti Shojania
University of Manitoba
I am saddened to hear that this Canadian literary giant has died so suddenly. His legacy will remain to inspire younger writers. The whole literary community in Alberta and Canada and beyond grieves his loss. Susan McCaslin
This is awful. Robert was one of the kindest people I ever met in any context, anywhere. He’ll be sorely missed.
Robert Kroetsch: I have never met you but you were my mother’s cousin (Adeline Kroetsch Schatz). I had many happy hours in Heisler and know what you write about. How wonderful to have met you through the eyes and hearts of others. Josephine Schatz
Here is a little poem I wrote for Bob June 22, after watching brilliant the U of A video, which now seems such an elegiac, fit tribute:
“A great illumination”
On Solstice night, Bob Kroetsch
is killed in an automobile crash.
Killed coming home from Canmore
from ArtsPeak Festival, a poetry fest,
the art he maybe loved best, spoken.
He who lit the way for so many
talks of “a moment of illumination”,
himself illuminating possibilities.
A week before turning eighty-four,
in the hour of most intense light, on
the longest day, the dark centre in
focus has pulled his radiance home.
Down from the mountains, down to
the plain. Down from ArtsPeak into
uproar. And silence. That strong voice,
the voice of Alberta, not eliminated.
No longer to be heard alive. How can
we bear the loss of such a giant, such
generous presence. Of kindness one
of a kind, so much more to be missed.
PK
I first read Robert Kroetsch’s The Ledger, Applegarth Follies, London ON, 1975, and met him shortly afterward when I was asked to be their poetry editor. I could listen to him tell stories, speak poetry for ever!
This is a very elegant farewell, Penn Kemp.
Per Asplund and I worked with Bob for about a decade in the 80′s trying to make a quality feature film of “The Studhorse Man” and had just reconnected with him this past year. All you say is true. So much more to be missed.
Michelle Stirling-Anosh
ROBERT KROETSCH TOUCHED THE LIFE OF EVERYONE HE MET AND TALKED TO AT ANY LENGTH. I SPENT MANY HOURS IN CONVERSATION WITH HIM ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS AND KNOW HOW GENEROUS HE WAS IN TAPPING INTO WHOMEVER HE WAS TALKING TO, TEASING OUT THE BEST IN THEM AND ENCOURAGING THEM ALWAYS. BUT HE WAS ALSO A BRILLIANT LISTENER TO ANYONE WHO COULD OFFER HIM EVEN A SHARD OF LIGHT ABOUT HIS OWN WORK. LESS AMERICAN TALL-TALE, I ONCE CASUALLY SUGGESTED, THAN THE GROTESQUE OF SOMEONE LIKE GUNTER GRASS. IT WAS JUST AN ASIDE THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN LOST ON ANYONE ELSE, BUT HE PAUSED LONG AND HARD ON THAT ONE. INTERESTING…VERY INTERESTING, HE REPLIED.
BUT IT WAS THE MIND THAT HEARD THE COMMENT THAT WAS SPECIAL, ABOVE ALL, ALWAYS OPEN AND RECEPTIVE. SO MANY OF HIS OWN INSIGHTS WERE OFFERED AS QUESTIONS, BUT THE TENTATIVENESS OF THEIR FRAMING WAS JUST A SIGNAL MARKER OF HIS REFUSAL TO PLAY THE PUNDIT — OR GENIUS. BUT HE WAS BOTH.
BARBARA GABRIEL
From: A Burke
To: Writers Guild of Alberta
Sent: Sat, June 25, 2011 7:15:17 PM
Subject: Re: Special Message from the WGA: Robert Kroetsch
Robert Kroetsch is a founding member of our Editorial Advisory Board (1983-2011).
Through the years, I met him when he was a Professor visiting the University of Calgary, at the Writers Guild of Alberta, and at the League of Canadian Poets. He was a wonderful support for his students, collegial with his colleagues, and gracious to strangers.
We will be dedicating our “Alberta Arts Days” Issue 56 to Robert Kroetsch. With Eli Mandel, John V. Hicks, and Fred Cogswell, he will remain a founding member on our Masthead page for as long as we are publishing. He will remain in our hearts and memories forever.
Anne Burke
Literary Editor
The Prairie Journal
Fiercely indeed. I was lucky to be a participant at Sage Hill during a period when he taught novel writing. Although I was not in his course, I found myself gravitating to his table at meals and after-hours for his comments about myths, writing, and life in general. I loved his books, but I was impressed by his generosity of mind and willingness to mentor anyone who cared to listen. He will be greatly missed by the writing community.