Al Purdy

Al Purdy’s down-to-earth voice populates thirty-three books, including The Cariboo Horses (1965), North of Summer (1967), Sex & Death (1973), and Piling Blood (1984). The two major collections of his work are The Collected Poems of Al Purdy (1986) and Beyond Remembering: The Collected Poems of Al Purdy (2000). Purdy died in Sidney, BC, on April 21, 2000.

Robert Budde teaches creative writing and critical theory at the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George. He has published four books (two poetry—Catch as Catch and traffick, and two novels—Misshapen and, most recently, The Dying Poem). He maintains two online literary journals at and .

Russell Morton Brown is a professor in the department of English at the University of Toronto. An editor for the University of Toronto Quarterly, the editor of The Collected Poems of Al Purdy, and co-editor with Donna Bennett of the New Anthology of Canadian Literature in English, he was also Editorial Director of Poetry at McClelland and Stewart for five years.

Books by Al Purdy

To Paris Never Again

Laurier Poetry Pack #5

Laurier Poetry Pack #4

We Go Far Back in Time

Poems for All the Annettes

The Al Purdy A Frame Anthology

Turvey

The More Easily Kept Illusions

The More Easily Kept Illusions

Yours, Al

Necropsy of Love

Beyond Remembering

A Splinter in the Heart

The Man Who Outlived Himself

No One Else is Lawrence!

Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets

Breathing Fire

Starting from Ameliasburgh

Reaching for the Beaufort Sea