Sounding the Name and The Poets Mother

This exhibit contains documents contained in the Archives and Special Collections at the University of Calgary, regarding Robert Kroetsch's poems: Sounding the Name, and The Poets Mother. 

The following materials are drafts from Robert Kroetsch's poems, including two photographs that helped to inspire his writing. 

The textual images give insight into what the full extent of what Kroetsch's archive looks like, as well as Kroetsch's writing process. The textual pages also include many handwritten notes and annotations in the writers own handwriting. 

Credits

Lamontagna, Morgan; Korek, Athen