Robert Gibbs

BA, MA (UNB), MA (Cambridge), PhD (UNB)

Robert Gibbs’ chief interest is poetry. Since retirement in 1989, he has concentrated more on his own writing than on research. He has published a chapbook, Earth Aches, his seventh collection of poems, and a second collection of stories, Angels Watch Do Keep (Oberon Press, 1997). As literary executor of the Alden Nowlan Estate, he has edited a selected poems and a selection in two parts of newspaper columns, one of which appeared in 1996 under the title White Madness from Oberon Press. His bio-critical essay “Various Persons Named Alden Nowlan” appears as the introduction to the archival catalogue, The Alden Nowlan Papers, published by the University of Calgary.