At the Crossroads: A History of Sackville New Brunswick. Kentville, Nova Scotia: Gaspereau Press, p.13,September 22the horse limps out of the covered bridge. a girl leads it. she is teaching it to go into darkness. into new noises, silences. into darkness. yes---High Marsh RoadLochhead retired from teaching at Mount Allison in 1987 to accept a three-year appointment as the university's first writer-in-residence. After his formal retirement in 1990, he produced 16 more books of poetry. "A day Douglas didn't write was a day lost," his friend Peter Sanger told a New Brunswick newspaper. "For him, poetry was celebration and he wanted others to share that celebration." When his wife, Jean, died of cancer in 1991, Lochhead elegized her in the sequence Black Festival (1991) and in “Elegies 1-10,” which appeared in Homage to Henry Alline & Other Poems (1992). In 1998, heart problems required him to undergo triple-bypass surgery. He was named Sackville's first poet laureate in 2002 in recognition of his status as a writer whose work reflected an intense interest in and sensitivity to local places. Increasingly frail, he moved to a Sackville nursing home in 2009 and died there on March 15, 2011. Honours In 1977 Lochhead received the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal. The Bibliographical Society of Canada awarded him the Marie Tremaine Medal in 1985. In 1987 he received honorary doctorates from Saint Mary's University (D.Litt.) and Dalhousie University (L.L.D). In 2006 the University of New Brunswick awarded Lochhead an honorary doctor of letters degree. His High Marsh Road was a finalist for the Governor-General's Award for Poetry, and in 2005 he received the Carlo Betocchi International Poetry Prize for High Marsh Road / La Strada di Tantramar. He was also a recipient of the Alden Nowlan Award for Excellence in English-language Literary Arts.The Red Jeep and Other Landscapes: A Collection in Honour of Douglas Lochhead, edited by Peter Thomas, appeared on his retirement in 1987. WorksThe Heart is Fire (1959)An old woman looks out on Gabarus Bay remembering history, June 8, 1958 (1959)It Is All Around (1960)Shepherds Before Kings (1963)Poet Talking (1964)A & B & C &: An Alphabet (1969)Millwood Road Poems (1970)Prayers in a Field: Ten Poems (1974)The Full Furnace: Collected Poems (1975)High Marsh Road: Lines for a Diary (1980). Published in Italian as La Strada di Tantramar (2004)A & E, 16/3/80-23/3/80: A Long Poem. (1980; rev. ed. Harrier Editions, 1998) Battle