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  Sunday, 7 December 2003

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Something rare and beautiful
In our excerpt from the new biography of Alden Nowlan we encounter the great poet as he is diagnosed with thyroid cancer and facing his own mortality

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TDR Interview: Gregory M. Cook
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. Gregory M. Cook, the author of five books of poetry, became a close friend of Nowlan during the last 20 years of his life. 

Cook, a journalist, former teacher and arts administrator, and one of three poets in his immediate family, has made writers and their survival a professional and personal study, which includes his biography of a close friend of twenty years, One Heart One Way / Alden Nowlan: a writer's life (Pottersfield Press, 2003).