People's Poet: Alden Nowlan

Alden Nowlan was not the literary figure described in Encyclopaedias. He grew up dirt-poor in the province of Nova Scotia and lived most of the rest of his life in New Brunswick. He quit sch... Read allAlden Nowlan was not the literary figure described in Encyclopaedias. He grew up dirt-poor in the province of Nova Scotia and lived most of the rest of his life in New Brunswick. He quit school in the middle of grade five (like many working class Maritime boys of his generation) ... Read allAlden Nowlan was not the literary figure described in Encyclopaedias. He grew up dirt-poor in the province of Nova Scotia and lived most of the rest of his life in New Brunswick. He quit school in the middle of grade five (like many working class Maritime boys of his generation) and became, in the opinion of many, Canada's greatest poet. People's Poet: Alden Nowlan br... Read all