Alden Nowlan
Alden Nowlan 鴁3-1983) was born in Windsor, NS. Primarily self-educated, Nowlan worked as a newspaperman, and published poetry, plays, short stories, and novels. Writer-in-residence at the University of New Brunswick from 1969 to 1983, he was famous for the gatherings at his home, known as Windsor Castle. His awards include the Governor Generals Award for Poetry in 1967 for Bread, Wine and Salt and a Guggenheim Fellowship 鴄7-68). Alden Nowlan: Selected Poems wa published in 1996. The literary award for excellence for the province of New Brunswick is named in his honour. The annual Alden Nowlan Literary Festival in Fredericton honours his contribution to Canadian literature.
Alden Nowlan Selected Poems
Alden Nowlan, one of Canada's finest and most influential poets, died in 1983. He leaves a rich legacy of poetry that is accessible yet profound, and that speaks to people's lives with wry observation and keen insight. For Nowlan fans and new readers alike, award-winning poets, editors, and critics Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane help to re-view and …
An Orange from Portugal
It’s often said that the main export of the Maritimes is Maritimers, and the same is true of Newfoundland. “Going down the road” is a way of life, but so is coming home for Christmas. It is tradition marked by happiness, fun, and sometimes less comfortable emotions. Given the regional penchant for yarn spinning, this common experience yields …
Coastlines
Atlantic Canada is enjoying a renaissance unknown since the days of Alden Nowlan, Milton Acorn, and John Thompson. Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada features work by 60 of the region’s finest poets in a volume that will whet appetites for more. The earlier poetry renaissance began in 1945, with the establishment of The Fiddlehead magazine …
Early Poems
The Early Poems contain all Nowlans poetry published in book or pamphlet form up to and including 1963. They represent in a remarkably complete form a distinct phase of his life and work, from the trials and joys of childhood and adoldescence in rural Nova Scotia to eloquent, sometimes sharp, but always loving commentaries upon people and scenes …
Gifts to Last
Christmas a-glitter, Christmas on a shoestring. Christmas wrecked. Christmas salvaged. Christmas in city, village and country, in church and shopping mall and barn -- they're all here, in stories by the best writers in the Maritimes and Newfoundland. Walter Learning's Christmas treat opens with "Matthew Insists on Puffed Sleeves," from Anne of Gree …
The Wanton Troopers
In this new edition of Alden Nowlan’s poignant first novel, published posthumously in 1988, a boy growing up in a small Nova Scotia mill town is abandoned by the young mother he adores. Family relationships, sexual confusions, and the pains of love are rendered with deep and authentic feeling. This is an essential book for all readers who have ad …
