Seed Catalogue
Robert Kroetsch • Illustrated by Jim Westergard
Poetry / Canadian
40 pages • 7 x 11"
ISBN 0–88995–309–0 cloth limited edition • CDN 19.95 • USA 17.95

Seed Catalogue is an autobiographical long poem by Canadian prairie poet Robert Kroetsch, This new limited edition is illustrated with wood engravings by Jim Westergard.

First published in the 1970s, Seed Catalogue is the seminal work of poetry that first gave voice to the long root in Prairie writings of the metaphor of the seed catalogue. The poem explores the actual world of history transformed into the mythical world of poetry, where what we remember about the past may be more real than history tells us.

Reviews
"[Kroetsch] enters into an artistic exploration of what he calls ‘the real imagined real place.’ It is an intense, exciting, revealing exploration."
–NeWest Review