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	100 Canadian Poets - Alden Nowlan - Profile
		Alden Nowlan was born January 25, 1933 at Windsor, Nova Scotia.
		Nowlan was central in the Fredericton and Altlantic literary community and became writer- in-residence at University of New Brunswick in 1969.
		"Nowlan's 'The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner.'" Explicator 55.
	www.ucalgary.ca /UofC/faculties/HUM/ENGL/canada/poet/a_nowlan.htm (458 words)

	Nowlan, Alden
		Nowlan, Alden, poet (b at Windsor, NS 25 Jan 1933; d at Fredericton, NB 27 June 1983).
		Largely self-educated, Nowlan was a former newspaperman whose many collections of poetry grew steadily in their power and intensity.
		He was often at the centre of the literary community in Fredericton and Atlantic Canada generally, through the vivid example of his craftsmanship, through his work at University of New Brunswick, where he became writer-in-residence in 1969, and through his individualistic personality.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0005840 (171 words)

	MenWeb - Men's Issues: WebCast: Alden Nowlan, Canadian poet
		Alden Nowlan, who died in 1983, is widely recognized as one of the most important poets to appear in Canada in the last thirty years.
		Nowlan speaks in a voice at once personal and rhetorical, sketching with equal precision the psychologocal paradoxes of the powt's inner world and the political complexities of the outer world.
		Alden Nowlan, who died in 1983, is virtually unknown in the United States, but widely recognized as one of the most important Canadian poets in the last thirty years.
	www.menweb.org /nowlan.htm (678 words)

	Nowlan, Alden
		Nowlan, Alden, poet (b at Windsor, NS 25 Jan 1933; d at Fredericton, NB 27 June 1983).
		Largely self-educated, Nowlan was a former newspaperman whose many collections of poetry grew steadily in their power and intensity.
		He was often at the centre of the literary community in Fredericton and Atlantic Canada generally, through the vivid example of his craftsmanship, through his work at University of New Brunswick, where he became writer-in-residence in 1969, and through his individualistic personality.
	www.canadianencyclopedia.ca /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0005840 (163 words)

	::Arc Poetry::How Poems Work::Shane Neilson on Alden Nowlan's "In the Operating Room"::
		The late Alden Nowlan was a cancer survivor who wrote a significant body of work devoted to his illness and treatment.
		Nowlan then infuses the poem with the precise physical detail of the anesthetist's arms, which are covered in “red, curly hair/ like little coppery ferns.” Nowlan's attention is devoted to the hairs on the anesthetist's arms, and on first reading this may seem absurd.
		The poem has a bravura ending: its syllabic quickness reflects the rapid onset of loss of consciousness from drugs; “everything/ is dark/ and nothing/ matters.” This is a discomfiting sensation as related by the poet, a violent acceleration.
	www.arcpoetry.ca /howpoemswork/features/2004_05_neilson.php (492 words)

	Alden Nowlan Biography and Summary
		Alden Nowlan will not be remembered as a formative influence on literature in Canada.
		Alden Nowlan(January 25, 1933- June 27, 1983) was a Canadian poet.
		Alden Nowlan's The Things which Are, taking its title from the Book of Revelation, plunges [into a kind of visionary sense of reality]….
	www.bookrags.com /Alden_Nowlan (290 words)

	Gregory M. Cook
		My memoir of Alden Nowlan and our 20-year friendship -- sustained by letters, visits in each other's homes and on the reading circuit -- will continue his first magazine interview to be published in Canada, which I conducted in the summer of 1963.
		The biography examines Nowlan's life and work in the context of the growth of the Canadian arts and cultural infrastructure we shared, as well as political and economic threats to the life of the bravest of Canadian writers.
		Alden Nowlan, is born in Hants County, Nova Scotia, January 25th, 1933, the year Canada's birthrate hits bottom.
	personal.nbnet.nb.ca /cookgreg/pages/memories.htm (478 words)

	University of New Brunswick-Archives & Special Collections-Alden Nowlan fonds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Administrative History: Poet Alden Nowlan was born at Windsor, Nova Scotia on 25 January 1933.
		Largely self-educated, Nowlan was named writer-in-residence at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton in 1968 and held that post until his death in 1983.
		Alden Nowlan died at Fredericton on 27 June 1983.
	www.lib.unb.ca /archives/anowlan.html (339 words)

	TDR Interview: Gregory M. Cook
		Alden’s life is a manifestation of mythological proportions – his omnivorous reading, his connectedness to all that is, his insatiable curiosity, and his absolute faith in his craft.
		Alden wrote to me that most literary criticism seems to be based on the fallacy that the writer writes his life, yet he also wrote to me that when people ask him what he writes about, he replies: "What it’s like to be Alden Nowlan.
		Alden was born in a margin of such a retreat thirty-two kilometres from Windsor, Nova Scotia – that location of the first agricultural fair in North America.
	www.danforthreview.com /features/interviews/gregory_m_cook.htm (3089 words)

	Pottersfield Press: One Heart, One Way (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Born near Windsor, Nova Scotia, poet, journalist and novelist Alden Nowlan challenged the apparent disadvantages of poverty, and a mere four grades of formal education, to publish 25 books, including three plays.
		Nowlan's empathy with society's poor, as well as the earth beneath his feet, finds him cited as often in medical school, pulpit, or military mess, as in the work of the poets he inspired.
		The day they met for the senior poet's first published interview, Cook records magic moments of Nowlan's paternal and romantic love, his phenomenal compassion for the less fortunate other, and his intrinsic intelligence that was exhibited in his life and his works.
	www.pottersfieldpress.com /books/oneheartoneway.html (435 words)

	Michigan State University Press \| Alden Nowlan Papers, The \| Jean Moore Apollonia Steele (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The majority of the material listed here was generated by the author between 1966 and 1983.
		Some published work extends back to the early 1950s, when Nowlan's poetry was first published in little magazines in the United States.
		Also included in the archive are examples of his early newspaper work, a rich collection of correspondence, ideas for literary work, manuscripts ranging from holograph preliminary work to publishers' galleys, as well as published work and reviews.
	msupress.msu.edu /bookTemplate.php?bookID=652 (91 words)

	[minstrels] The Mysterious Naked Man -- Alden Nowlan
		I don't know too much about Alden Nowlan, although in Canada he can often be found in the ubiquitous poetry books we have to use for school.
		Nowlan strikes me as an observer, and much of his poetry recounts everyday events, with a little quirk that makes them instantly extraordinary and unforgettable.
		I was his sister-by-choice (known in his poetry as Sylvia), and Alden occasionally used to have me read from his 3 ring book of unpublished poems.
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/824.html (320 words)

	Alden Nowlan in Perspective
		Nowlan, after all, was a colourful, provocative figure, as well as something of a mystery, and the temptation to emphasize the more bizarre and raunchy aspects of his life was obviously considerable.
		In Nowlan’s case, the writing of a literary biography is further exacerbated by the poet’s uneasy relations with the academic world which he both depended upon and mistrusted.
		Now Nowlan wrote and published literally hundreds of poems in his relatively short life, and even the specialist cannot be expected to remember the location of all of them.
	www.uwo.ca /english/canadianpoetry/cpjrn/vol47/keith.htm (1518 words)

	Review - The Life of Alden Nowlan by Patrick Toner
		Instead, they detail not only Nowlan but also his ancestry and immediate parentage (save for the missing account of Grace, Nowlan's mother, who is in the book second-hand) in a manner much like that of Nowlan's poetic method: plain-speaking straight talk.
		Alden's mother also refused an interview; a reader wistfully wonders what either would have to say -or have already written- about him.
		Nowlan is playing another role, acting out another of his selves." Using Nowlan's writings is a double-edged sword: Toner often presents supposed fact that, in actuality, is taken from Nowlan's own writings.
	www.danforthreview.com /reviews/nonfiction/toner.html (925 words)

	The Antigonish Review 129: Leo C. Ferrari article
		One evening Alden took it upon himself to suggest that James was indeed descended from the royal Stuarts and was therefore the rightful claimant to the throne of England.
		Alden, as if instinctively prepared for the coming ordeal had taken to a folding chair, which from an upright sitting position could be gradually extended, first to support the sitter's legs, then by a gradual lowering of the back support, to allow the whole body to be horizontal.
		After further questioning, Alden periodically repeated his ritual, each time lowering a little more the slope of the back of the chair until finally he lay horizontal and sleeping soundly, despite the promptings, pokings and now loud questions of the Inquisitor.
	www.antigonishreview.com /bi-129/129-article_leo_c_ferrari.html (1400 words)

	If I Could Turn and Meet Myself If I Could Turn and Meet Myself (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Nowlan preferred to think of himself as a writer of universal themes, and as such, felt himself unjustly represented by academic critics.
		There is justice in Michael Brian Oliver's claim that "Alden Nowlan may well be the most misunderstood poet in Canadian literature."' Reviewers of Nowlan have been split between those who seek to criticize or contextualize his work and those who seek to defend him and protect him from pigeonholes.
		If Nowlan is Canada's most misunderstood poet, it may be fairly said that the contradictions of his life and persona make him difficult to understand.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/711/toner98.html (634 words)

	House of Anansi Press : titles
		Alden Nowlan Edited and with an Introduction by Patrick Lane and Lorna Crozier
		Alden Nowlan, one of Canada's finest and most influential poets, died in 1983.
		This new volume is truly the best of Alden Nowlan's poetry, and above all is a tribute to a poet who deserves to be treasured for all time.
	www.anansi.ca /titles.cfm?pub_subid=42 (278 words)

	My Discovery of Alden Nowlan
		Amongst a bunch of books that I found at a half-off sale in December 2004, was Selected Poems by Alden Nowlan.
		Found out that most of his books are out of print and scraped my pennies together to purchase my very own copy of "Early Poems", soon to be accompanied by "An Exchange of Gifts" and "I Might Not Tell Everybody This" if they are anywhere to be had.
		For reasons known and understood by noone, not even me, I have made a list of all Nowlan's poems, showing the names of the books in which each was published.
	norma.fritzy.ca /Nowlan.html (314 words)

	Frog Hollow Press
		We were delighted to start the series by featuring the work of Alden Nowlan.
		The poems were chosen by the young Maritime poet and essayist, Shane Neilson; the book also contains an essay on the influence of illness on Alden Nowlan's writing and on the influence Nowlan has had on Shane's careers as writer and medical doctor.
		Alden Nowlan and Illness was published in a hardcover, cloth-bound edition, hand-printed on Magnani Book Biblos, a mould-made paper from Italy.
	www.froghollowpress.com /catalogue.html (1954 words)

	Alden Nowlan playwright - plays biography information
		Born to the challenges of poverty and a rural life, Canadian poet, journalist and novelist Alden Nowlan wrote twenty-four books and plays in just twenty-seven years.
		The personal happinesses of marriage to Claudine Orser, an affectionate relationship with son John, and the 1967 book of poems Bread, Wine and Salt, were soon followed with an arts grants from the Canada Counci, a Guggenheim fellowship and the 1968 Governor General's Award For Poetry.
		In 1968 Nowlan became writer in residence at The University of New Brunswick, a position he filled until his death in 1983.
	www.doollee.com /PlaywrightsN/NowlanAlden.htm (251 words)

	Here's Life Inner City - Twin Cities - News
		Alden Nowlan was one of the most significant Canadian writers of the latter 20th century and the most genuinely popular poets of his generation.
		He was born in poverty near Windsor, Nova Scotia, in January 1933, to a girl not yet 15 years old and her hard-drinking husband, twice her age.
		Abandoned, Nowlan spent his childhood under the care of his paternal grandmother.
	www.hlictwincities.org /news/news_detail.cfm?NEWS_ID=17 (677 words)

	Alden Nowlan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was the Writer-in-Residence at the University of New Brunswick from 1969 until his death in 1983, and currently has a provincial poetry (New Brunswick) award named after him, with other notable New Brunswick poets such as Fred Cogswell (1995) being recipients of it.
		The Alden Nowlan House at the University of New Brunswick is named in his honour.
		It is currently the home of UNB's Graduate Student Association, and Windsor Castle, a student-run bar.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alden_Nowlan (167 words)

	Nowlan, Alden Arts, Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Canadian Literary Archives: Alden Nowlan Description of the collection, held at the University of Calgary, and a biocritical essay.
		MenWeb: Alden Nowlan RealAudio files of a reading by Robert Bly and Thomas R. Smith from the anthology, 'What Happened When He Went to the Store for Bread: Poems by Alden Nowlan'.
		Wrestling with Nowlan's Angel Essay by Elizabeth Bieman, discussing Nowlan's poem, 'The Anatomy of Angels'.
	www.wtcpa.org /d3RfMjU3NzA5.aspx (139 words)

	In a Dark Time » Alden Nowlan’s “Britain Street”
		It seems a little strange that my favorite poet in 100 pages of a good anthology should be quite as depressing as Alden Nowlan, but one can't always control one's taste.
		Perhaps the poem struck a chord with me because I witnessed an event similar to the one in the first stanza in my own neighborhood and was nearly struck dumb by the incident.
		Alden Nowlan’s depiction of war on a neighborhood level is apt.
	www.lorenwebster.net /In_a_Dark_Time/2005/12/08/alden-nowlans-britain-street (617 words)

	Alden Nowlan: The Mysterious Naked Man - Moviefone
		Alden Nowlan: The Mysterious Naked Man - Trailer - Showtimes...
		NFB - Alden Nowlan: The Mysterious Naked Man Alden Nowlan: The Mysterious Naked Man is a tribute to a remarkable writer and a moving appreciation of his life and work.
		Alden Nowlan: The Mysterious Naked Man - Alden Nowlan: The Mysterious Naked Man movie details.
	movies.aol.com /movie/alden-nowlan-the-mysterious-naked-man/1278715/main (143 words)

	Frog Hollow Press
		Robert Moore, "The Charm of the Souvenir," review of Alden Nowlan and Illness, in Books in Canada, January-February 2006, pp.
		Eric Marks, "Collection Shows How Illness Changed Alden Nowlan," in The New Brunswick Reader, November 5, 2005, p.
		Vincent Hanlon, "Knowing Nowlan: Alden Nowlan and Illness," in "The Left Atrium," The Canadian Medical Association Journal, Vol.
	www.froghollowpress.com /articles.html (327 words)

	MenWeb: Alden Nowlan
		Mangala God of War & Empire, an ongoing and slightly strange satire on America's Mesopotamian misadventures.
		RealAudio files of a reading by Robert Bly and Thomas R. Smith from the anthology, ''What Happened When He Went to the Store for Bread: Poems by Alden Nowlan''.
		If you are like us, you have strong feelings about poetry, and about each poem you read.
	www.daypoems.net /nodes/2352.html (377 words)

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