The Sakatchewan-born poet John Newlove was also a school teacher, social worker, editor, and civil servant. He has won the Governor General's Award in 1972, the Saskatchewan Writer's Guild Founders Award in 1984, and the Literary Press Group Award in 1986. -- The collection contains his personal, literary and business papers; diaries, journals and notebooks; a large assortment of his published and unpublished poems; literary manuscripts to his books Moving in Alone (1965), What They Say (1967). Black Night Window (1968), The Cave (1970), Lies (1972), The Fat Man (1977), The Green Plain (1981), and The Night the Dog Smiled (1986); copies of anthologies which include his works; copies of those periodicals and reviews that feature his work; Various literary manuscripts by others which Newlove edited; rich and varied corespondence with other Canadian writers with particularly strong representations from Margaret Atwood, George Bowering, Barney Childs, Pat Lane, Dennis Lee, John Metcalf, Al Purdy, Joe Rosenblatt, Glen Sorestad, and Michael Yates. Finding Aid available in reading room.
