Product Details:
Paperback: 109 pages
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart (January 1, 1981)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0771072120
ISBN-13: 978-0771072123
Editorial Reviews About the Author Al Purdy was born in 1918 in Wooler, Ontario google sketchup level one 2nd edition torrent. He wrote his first poem at the age of thirteen and published his first book of poems, The Enchanted Echo, in 1944 google sketchup level one 2nd edition torrent. In a writing career that lasted over 50 years, he has more than thirty books of poetry, one novel, two volumes of memoirs, published recently in the Beaufort Sea, and four books of correspondence, including Margaret Laurence - Al Purdy: A Friendship in Letters . His latest book of poems, Beyond Memory: The Collected Poems of Al Purdy, will be published posthumously in the fall of 2000. Purdy has also served as radio plays and television for the CBC, as writer-in-residence at several Canadian universities, and editor of several anthologies poetry.As written a teenager during the Great Depression, Purdy went by train across Canada. During the Second World War he served in the RCAF, and after the war he worked in a variety of jobs until the early sixties, when he is able to support himself as a writer, editor and poet. Moving to Roblin Lake in Ameliasburg, Ontario in the late fifties made available Purdy with a base from which he traveled and wrote. Later, he divides his time between North Saanich, British Columbia, and the Roblin Lake cottage. Purdy has won numerous awards for his poetry, including the award of the Association of Canadian authors, two Governor General's Award (for the horses of the Cariboo in 1965 and The Collected Poems of Al Purdy, 1956 to 1986 in 1986) and recently won the Voice of the Land Award, an award from the League of Canadian Poets specifically to honor the unique contribution of Purdy in Canada. He was appointed to Canada in 1982, the Order of Ontario in 1987. Al Purdy died in North Saanich, 21 April 2000.
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