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Al Purdy
1918 - April 21, 2000
works by
- The Crafte So Longe to Lerne (1959)
- Poems for All the Annettes (1962)
- The Cariboo Horses (1965)
- North of Summer: Poems from Baffin Island (1967)
- Wild Grape Wine (1968)
- Sex and Death (1973)
- In Search of Owen Roblin (1974)
- Sundance at Dusk (1976)
- No Other Country (1977)
- Being Alive: Poems 1958-1978 (1978)
- The Stone Bird (1981)
- Piling Blood (1984)
- The Collected Poems of Al Purdy (1986)
- Naked with Summer in Your Mouth (M&S, 1994)
- Starting from Ameliasburgh, Collected Prose (Harbour Publishing, 1995)
- Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets, Selected Poems, 1962-1996 (Harbour Publishing, 1996)
memoir and letters
- Reaching for the Beaufort Sea (Harbour Publishing, )
- Margaret Laurence-Al Purdy--a Friendship in Letters (M&S, 1993)
works on
- George Bowering, Al Purdy (1970)
- George Woodcock, "On the Poetry of Al Purdy," in The World of Canadian Writing (1980):261-69
- Marianne Micros, "Al Purdy: An Annotated Bibliography," The Annotated Bibliography of Canada's Major Authors, ed. Robert Lecker and Jack David (1980), 2:221-77
- George Woodcock, "Al Purdy," The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature, ed. William Toye (1983)
- Peter Stevens, "In the Raw: The Poetry of Al Purdy," Canadian Literature, 28 (1966):22-30
- Ants Riego, "The Purdy Poem," Canadian Literature, 79 (1978):127-31
- Mike Doyle, "Proteus at Roblin Lake," Canadian Literature, 61 (1974):7-23
awards
- Governor General's Award for poetry in 1965 for The Cariboo Horses
- Governor General's Award for poetry in 1986 for The Collected Poems of Al Purdy
- Order of Canada, for career as a writer in 1982
- Peoples' Poet Award, for Collected Poems, in memory of Milton Acorn in 1987
- Order of Ontario, for career as a writer in 1987
resources
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twuc
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picture, brief bio, & publishing info from the writers' union of canada
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Al Purdy: "A Sensitive Man"
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1988 nfb film
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Scream 94
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picture and bio from Al's reading at Scream in High Park in 1994
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