Born in Hants Co., Nova Scotia, in 1933, Alden Nowlan moved to Hartland, New Brunswick, when he was nineteen, and worked on the Hartland Observer as reporter, editor, and general facilitator until he went to Saint John (and the Telegraph Journal) in 1963. In 1968 he was invited to take up the position of Writer-in-Residence at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. Alden Nowlan died on June 27th, 1983. A professor of literature and creative writing at St. Mary's University, Brian Bartlett (1953) won the 2000 Petra Kenney Poetry Competition. In 1997 he won the Malahat Review Long Poem Prize for the second time. He was born and raised in New Brunswick, and as an undergraduate at the University of New Brunswick, he was part of the circle of writers who gathered at "Windsor Castle," Alden Nowlan's home. Bartlett has published many books of poetry and non-fiction, including The Watchmaker's Table, Ringing Here & There: A Nature Calendar, and Wanting the Day: Selected Poems.
"The publication of this book is an historic event in our
literature. The collection is a life's work, and like the work of
life, this writing wrestles with ancient forces that are pure and
unchanging. Nobody else saw the world with Alden's kind of clarity
and nobody else worked the language so hard — trying to make it
hold, or embrace, our shared experience with such furious
tenderness. If you still think honesty is possible, if you worry
sometimes about truth and the struggle for sincere connection,
Collected Poems of Alden Nowlan will give you comfort."
*Alexander MacLeod*
"Well over thirty years after his death, Alden Nowlan's poems are
still hot-blooded — living, breathing incantations that beat with
the pulse of Eastern Canada. Imbued with what Brian Bartlett dubs
"the illusion of speech," Collected Poems of Alden Nowlan brings
together the work of a master craftsman, a writer whose rangy,
conversational poems benefit from appearing where they emerged
within his career arc. A definitive volume that consolidates
Nowlan's standing in Canadian letters."
*Jim Johnstone*
"The Collected Poems of Alden Nowlan may be the most important book
of poetry published in Canada this year."
*Today's Book of Poetry*
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