Alden Nowlan will not be remembered as a formative influence on literature in Canada. He has never considered stylistic innovation as necessary to communicate his experience; moreover, his views in th...
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Critical Essay by Keath Fraser
Reading the body of Alden Nowlan's work one begins to share his acute feeling for place. The ideal landscapes of Roberts and Carman, his literary ancestors, are ...
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Critical Essay by William H. New
[Nowlan's] Miracle at Indian River (1968) gathers together eighteen stories about the Maritimes. Laconic, witty, gentle, and perceptive, they look shrewdly at ...
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Critical Essay by George Woodcock
The most important contemporary poet of the Maritimes, as well as the most prolific, is Alden Nowlan…. Replying to a question by the editor of Contemporary Po...
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Critical Essay by Louis Dudek
Alden Nowlan's The Things which Are, taking its title from the Book of Revelation, plunges [into a kind of visionary sense of reality]…. It is native Canad...
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Alden (Albert) Nowlan
Critical Essay by Keath Fraser
