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Alden Nowlan

Alden Nowlan (1933-1983) 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 General's Award for Poetry in 1967 for Bread, Wine and Salt and a Guggenheim Fellowship (1967-68). Alden Nowlan: Selected Poems was 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.

Books by Alden Nowlan

Collected Poems of Alden Nowlan

by (author) Alden Nowlan
edited by Brian Bartlett

six@sixty

by (author) Alden Nowlan, Douglas Glover, Shauna Singh Baldwin, Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer & Mark Anthony Jarman
by (artist) Lynn Coady

A Boy's Life of Napoleon

by (author) Alden Nowlan

The Wanton Troopers

by (author) Alden Nowlan
afterword by David Richards

An Orange from Portugal

Christmas Stories from the Maritimes and Newfoundland

edited by Anne Simpson
by (author) Alden Nowlan, Herménégilde Chiasson, Alistair MacLeod & Mark Anthony Jarman

Coastlines

The Poetry of Atlantic Canada

edited by Ross Leckie, Anne Compton, Laurence Hutchman & Robin McGrath
by (author) M. Travis Lane & Alden Nowlan

Alden Nowlan Selected Poems

by (author) Alden Nowlan
volume editor Patrick Lane & Lorna Crozier

Gifts to Last

Christmas Stories from the Maritimes and Newfoundland

by (author) Walter Learning, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Deirdre Kessler, Alistair MacLeod, Tessie Gillis, Clive Doucet, Carol Bruneau, Lawrence O'Toole, Antonine Maillet, Alden Nowlan, Helen Fogwill Porter, Joseph Sherman, Ray Guy, M.T. Dohaney, David Adams Richards, Jon Conway Dewar, Ellison Robertson, Deannie Sullivan-Fraser, Herb Curtis & Grahame Woods

Early Poems

by (author) Alden Nowlan