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	Purdy, Alfred Wellington
		Al Purdy was one of a group of important Canadian poets - Milton ACORN, Alden NOWLAN and Patrick LANE are others - who had little formal education and whose roots were in Canada's working-class culture.
		Important factors in Purdy's poetic liberation from his early dependence on moribund romantic models were the humour and the anger he began to introduce, a characteristic style and form with relaxed, loping lines and a gruff, garrulous and engaging poetic persona.
		Purdy was at the heart of the 1960s movements that set Canadian poets wandering the country, reading their poems to large audiences.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=A0006573 (782 words)

	100 Canadian Poets - Al Purdy - Profile
		Al Purdy was born in Wooler, Ontario in 1918.
		Purdy won the Governor General's Literary Award in the poetry category in 1965 with The Cariboo Horses and again in 1986 with Collected Poems, 1956-1986.
		"The Correspondence of Margaret Laurence and Al Purdy." Recherches Anglaises et Nord-Americaines 24 (1991): 91-101.
	www.ucalgary.ca /UofC/faculties/HUM/ENGL/canada/poet/a_purdy.htm (305 words)

	McClelland.com \| Books \| A Splinter in the Heart by Al Purdy
		Al Purdy’s only novel, A Splinter in the Heart, is an unforgettable coming-of-age story that unfolds against the real-life tragedy of what came to be known as the Trenton Disaster.
		Purdy also wrote radio and television plays for the CBC, served as writer-in-residence at a number of Canadian universities, and edited several anthologies of poetry.
		Al Purdy died in North Saanich on April 21, 2000.
	www.mcclelland.com /catalog/display.pperl?9780771071959 (649 words)

	The New Age Examiner - Spring TAHS concert notes end of Purdy era
		And the gentleman that Purdy is asked his wife to the stage to share his flowers and also be recognized for all that she has given to him and to the program.
		Purdy called the chorus back up to the risers for the final song, and while the robed singers were in place, Zellner took the microphone from Purdy once again and said there was one other thing.
		Purdy glided over to the piano in front of where his students were ready to sing their final number, and then paused to thank the Rotary for the award which he said he would remember for the rest of his life.
	www.newage-examiner.com /site/news.cfm?BRD=2310&dept_id=480505&newsid=16717880&PAG=461&rfi=9 (617 words)

	Forget Magazine - Remember, Remember, Remember
		Al Purdy was born December 30, 1918 in Wooler, Ontario.
		Purdy's rough, pure voice still rumbles across Canada like the fracturing of an ancient glacier in the vast Arctic or the hollow caw of a crow slicing through stiff winds above the wheat fields of the prairies.
		But the influence Purdy had on writers in the 60's, and the way he set about challenging them to find their own identity as distinctly Canadian writers, is a tradition that remains defiantly in tact.
	www.aioku.com /forget/022601.htm (1974 words)

	Al Purdy
		Purdy states at one point: I never decided to be a poet.
		Purdy is concerned with the idea of Authenticity, and what constitutes the good life.
		Purdy is a fervent Canadian nationalist, one who describes the arts as the soul of the country, and who describes our civilization as built on books.
	www.fsj.nlc.bc.ca /glainsbury/Purdy.htm (240 words)

	Canadian Literature: Review (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Purdy’s ethos is centred in a nationalistic identity that reached its apex at mid-century and, despite the virtual dismantling of that identity, his poetry has remained consistently grounded in it, reminding Canadians of a valuable tradition that, Solecki asserts, we neglect to our detriment.
		Purdy is both the culmination of that tradition and the emblem of what we have left behind.
		For example, he rightly notes that many of Purdy’s poems are characterized by endings that resist "poetic and narrative closure," yet the overall aim of Solecki's work seems to be a form of canonical closure in his analysis of Purdy’s oeuvre, to establish him as the "first and last" Canadian poet.
	www.canlit.ca /reviews/176/3512_querengesser.html (592 words)

	Northwest Passages - Canadian Literature Online bookstore! We ship worldwide.
		Alfred Wellington Purdy was born in 1918 in Wooler, Ontario.
		Purdy's poetry was profoundly influenced by both his working class experiences and his insatiable curiosity regarding history, literature, and the world around him.
		Purdy continued to write and publish throughout the 1980s and 1990s, producing, among other volumes of new poems, his first novel, A Splinter in the Heart (1990) and a number of volumes of selected and collected poems, including The Collected Poems of Al Purdy (1986), which won Purdy his second Governor General's Award.
	www.nwpassages.com /bios/purdy.asp (636 words)

	Al Purdy's Contemporary Pastoral
		Reading Al Purdy to find a single quotation, I find myself at the end of the poem, at the end of another poem, having forgotten my purpose, as if there were no single line shorter than a poem.
		Generally a Purdy poem focusses on a particular moment, a particular set of relationships, and then it goes round and round like an eddy, gathering up odds and ends, whatever comes to hand, whatever comes to mind, whatever can be caught up and borne along in the current of feeling.
		Purdy's poetry is dominated by the present participle and the continuous present: "I am sitting," "I am driving," a man "keeps hammering at the door." Whatever elements enter the poem tend to exist in the present mode.
	www.uwo.ca /english/canadianpoetry/cpjrn/vol10/jones.htm (3648 words)

	Remembering Purdy Interview
		Al was much more the realist; he presented people as he found them, flaws, failures, and all.
		TERRY BARKER: Purdy’s early mentors, Chesterton and Lawrence, were both part of the Georgian Movement in British poetry of the early decades of the twentieth century, and both wrote from clear spiritual perspectives (Christianity and Vitalism, respectively).
		In Purdy’s mature work, these (or other) intimations of the life of the spirit seem to me to be absent, to be replaced by a strong sense of existentialist angst and disorientation.
	www.danforthreview.com /features/interviews/remembering_purdy.htm (2965 words)

	ELASMO.COM Fossil - Lee Creek Batoids
		Purdy et al (2001) settle for Aetobatus sp from the Pungo (units 4 & 5) and Yorktown (units 1 & 2).
		Purdy et al (2001) include these teeth in the Pungo River fauna (units 1-6) but suggest that it should be classified as a rhinopterid.
		Purdy et al (2001) include this genus as evidenced by some thirty osseous masses with caudal spines recovered from Yorktown units 1 & 2.
	www.elasmo.com /leecreek/sp_ray.html (810 words)

	Books \| Al Purdy
		Purdy was born at Wooler, near Kingston, Ontario, "of degenerate loyalist stock," as he put it.
		Purdy came from an era of Canadian poets - such as Irving Layton, Alden Nowlan, Earle Birney and Milton Acorn - celebrated in the heady nationalist ambience of the 1960s and 1970s.
		Purdy won Canada's highest literary honour, the Governor-General's Award, for The Cariboo Hunters (1965) and later for the Collected Poems.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4016433-103684,00.html (777 words)

	TheStar.com - sciencetech - A picture and a thousand words
		Purdy wrote his first poem at 13 and published his first book of poetry in 1944.
		Purdy was chosen to speak at the ceremony because he was a pal of Birney's.
		Purdy was reluctant to part with the pad of paper, as it represented many weeks of work.
	www.thestar.com /printArticle/205885 (1031 words)

	Amazon.com: Beyond Remembering: The Collected Poems of Al Purdy: Books: Al Purdy,Margaret Atwood,Michael Ondaatje,Sam ...
		By the time Al Purdy succumbed to lung cancer at his waterfront home in Sidney BC on April 21, 2000, he was universally acknowledged to be one of the greatest writers Canada has produced.
		Purdy is always questioning, always probing, and among those things that he questions and probes are himself and his own poetic methods.
		Al, a man who had the looks and manner of a brawler, wanted to be a poet.
	www.amazon.com /Beyond-Remembering-Collected-Poems-Purdy/dp/product-description/1550172255 (2095 words)

	ELASMO.COM Fossil - Lee Creek non-carcharhinid sharks
		Purdy et al (2001) indicate that they were only able to positively identifiy upper teeth of this species.
		Purdy et al (2001) note this species as rare in the Pungo (units 1-5) and common in the Yorktown (units 1-3).
		Purdy et al (2001) reflect the disagreement of the authors on the identity of these teeth by settling on G.
	www.elasmo.com /leecreek/sp_shrk2.html (1510 words)

	Forget Magazine - Remember, Remember, Remember
		Al Purdy was born December 30, 1918 in Wooler, Ontario.
		But the influence Purdy had on writers in the 60's, and the way he set about challenging them to find their own identity as distinctly Canadian writers, is a tradition that remains defiantly in tact.
		That Purdy came to an understanding of himself when writing about Canada and its geographic and social position, is probably the most important part of his writing.
	www.forgetmagazine.com /022601.htm (1974 words)

	Eye Problems and the Waters of Life
		Al and Norval, and their work, are in many ways so different.
		I met Al in the late seventies, when I latched on, as nervous latecomer, to a creative writing course he was leading in northern Ontario.
		Al insisted that developing a sense of audience is absolutely integral to developing a sense of poetry.
	webdelsol.com /LITARTS/Robert_Sward/Writers_Friendship/nash.htm (894 words)

	Constructing Realities with/in Literature: Al Purdy
		Firstly, from discussion class on friday, I agree that Al Purdy's poems are hard to connect with because of the language he uses.
		I do agree that Purdy's poems don't appeal to the senses very much and therefore it is hard to really get into his poems and really feel the deeper meaning that he is trying to get across.
		Purdy's poem offers a in-depth analysis of history, which you can't capture once, but as you re-read and draw connections, you soon realize the 'message'.
	weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca /johnston/archives/020683.html (3487 words)

	\| Stephen Morrissey \| Articles & Reviews \|
		Al Purdy's latest collection of poems, The Woman on the Shore, confirms Purdy's unofficial status as English Canada's poet laureate.
		Purdy easily joins a number of creative people whose work has been crucial in the evolu-tion of a Canadian identity: I refer to Margaret Laurence, Hugh MacLennan, F.R. Scott, the members of the Group of Seven, Emily Carr, E.J. Pratt, and others.
		Purdy's is ultimately the voice of an individual who is profoundly aware of his isolation and the in-evitability of death.
	www.stephenmorrissey.ca /articles_reviews/SM_Purdy.html (1008 words)

	Esther McIlveen : Remembering Canada’s Great Poet (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Purdy is a two-time winner of Canada’s Governor's General Award and has also been awarded the Order of Canada.
		Al Purdy was born in Wooler, Ontario, in 1918 and was known as a “poet of the people”.
		Purdy admits that he was a lousy poet in his beginnings.
	www3.telus.net /mcilveen/purdy.htm (448 words)

	Canadian poet Al Purdy, 1918-2000
		Al Purdy was a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for his collections of poetry.
		Al Purdy near his home in B.C. Born in Wooler, Ontario, Purdy was educated in Trenton and Belleville.
		Purdy recalled seeing the poems in the student periodical and assumed it was an easy way to make a buck.
	www.cbc.ca /canada/story/2000/04/23/purdy000423.html (1334 words)

	PSH Webstore - Beyond Remembering - The Collected Poems of Al Purdy - Canadian Poetry and Poets
		Grounded in Roblin Lake, Purdy’s Walden Pond, of a "boy fishing for sunfish in a river", it is journey that reaches out to the extremes of the country: to Newfoundland, British Columbia, the high Arctic, and beyond.
		As George Woodcock noted, Purdy is the history-conscious poet, the philosophizer on the human condition, the geographer of the imagination, and the high poet of comedy.
		Al Purdy died this year, passing on to the realm of legend.
	www.poets.ca /pshstore/profile_book.asp?ISBN=1550172255 (972 words)

	Signature Editions
		Al Purdy was born Alfred Wellington Purdy in Wooler, Ontario in 1918.
		Purdy began writing poetry as a teenager and was first published in 1944 (Enchanted Echo) but it wasn't until the early 1960's that he was able to make a living as a writer.
		By his death in the spring of 2000, Purdy had published over 600 poems and over 30 volumes of new and selected work.
	www.signature-editions.com /xbalp.htm (259 words)

	The Antigonish Review
		Purdy easily joins a number of creative people whose work has been crucial in the evolution of a Canadian identity: I refer to Margaret Laurence, Hugh MacLennan, F.R. Scott, the members of the Group of Seven, Emily Carr, E.J. Pratt, and others.
		Purdy isn't afraid to look beyond our society's preoccupation with escaping from the self; the cosmic dimension lies specifically in transcending the self.
		Purdy's is ultimately the voice of an individual who is profoundly aware of his isolation and the inevitability of death.
	www.antigonishreview.com /bi-08586/08586-morrissey.html (1158 words)

	Poems at the Poetry Free-for-all - Al Purdy
		I also get the impression that Purdy is slightly frowned on in some circles - an academic I met recently was a tad apologetic in confessing that her thesis was on various Canadian landscape poets...
		Al Purdy had his moments, and you're right, he didn't really get going until later in his poetry-writing career.
		Generally a Purdy poem focuses on a particular moment, a particular set of relationships, and then it goes round and round like an eddy, gathering up odds and ends, whatever comes to hand, whatever comes to mind, whatever can be caught up and borne along in the current of feeling.
	www.everypoet.org /pffa/showthread.php?t=45704 (4872 words)

	Harbour Publishing - Al Purdy
		Al Purdy was born December 30, 1918, in Wooler, Ontario and died at Sidney, BC, April 21, 2000.
		His ashes are buried in Ameliasburg at the end of Purdy Lane.
		Al Purdy's final volume of poems includes some of the best work of his half-century of writing.
	www.harbourpublishing.com /author/AlPurdy (418 words)

	Dave Carley - Radio
		Al Purdy was one of the greats of Canadian literature.
		In this celebration of his work, Purdy takes his audience on a tour of the land he loves, and the passionate characters who people it.
		Al Purdy at the Quinte Hotel premiered on CBC Radio in February, 2004.
	www.davecarley.com /radio/radio1.htm (82 words)

	Geologic origins of Ambergris Caye, study by Dr. Sal Mazzullo,
		(2000), Wilhite (2000), Wilhite and Mazzullo (2000), Dimmick-Wells (2002), Purdy and Gischler (2003), Gischler and Hudson (2004), and Yang et al.
		Post-depositional karsting (Purdy, 1974a; Purdy et al., 2003) during ca 110 000 years of subaerial exposure from the Late Pleistocene (ca 115 000 cal yr BP according to the Shackleton, 1987 curve) into the Early Holocene sculpted the topography of the limestone bedrock on top of which Holocene sediments in the study area were deposited.
		Purdy et al., 2003); and (ii) Late Neogene to Recent tectonic activity is documented in offshore Belize (Dillon and Vedder, 1973; Mazzullo and Bischoff, 1992; Lara, 1993; Ferro et al., 1999; Purdy et al., 2003).
	ambergriscaye.com /pages/mayan/Sedimentology-mazzullo.html (15238 words)

	PoetryReviews.ca » The More Easily Kept Illusions: The Poetry of Al Purdy edited by Robert Budde
		Those in need of a Purdy sampler could turn to the 1996 edition Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets: Selected Poems 1962-1996, while those with heartier appetites could munch their way through Purdyâs posthumously released Beyond Remembering: Collected Poems (2000).
		The point should be made, though, that any âintroductoryâ book on Purdy that leaves out âThe Country North of Belleville,â âThe Cariboo Horses,â and many other of his most well known and heralded poems will leave the reader with an incomplete picture of the man and his work.
		Buddeâs attempt to balance Purdyâs reflexive, quasi-academic pieces with some of his comical narratives is certainly limited, with the former group of poems firmly outnumbering the latter, causing the more humorous pieces to seem a bit out of place in the collection.
	poetryreviews.ca /2006/08/09/the-more-easily-kept-illusions-the-poetry-of-al-purdy-edited-by-robert-budde (1011 words)

	PURDYTION
		Still, Purdy certainly had no difficulty conveying exactly that; plus, he also made this amazingly beautiful thing about their experiences, somehow perfectly expressing, through the words and the lines and the breaks, both the raw and the consummately finished.
		A decade or so later, I visit Eurithe and Al Purdy at their home in Ameliasburgh (in order to interview the poet in situ on the occasion of the publication of his Collected, a gathering of his greatest he tells me he "never thinks about unless it's to tell you I never think about it").
		Purdy also gravel-slur-grumbles his wily way through the first dozen or so questions before he vividly describes everything he believes a poem isn't:
	www.judithfitzgerald.ca /alpurdy.html (939 words)

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