Al Purdy

A. K. A.: Alfred Wellington Purdy
Born: 30 DEC 1918 -- Wooler ON
Died: 21 APR 2000 -- Sidney BC
Achievements:
  1. Governor-General's Award for poetry for The Cariboo Horses in 1965
  2. Governor-General's Award for poetry for The Collected Poems of Al Purdy in 1986
  3. Order of Canada, for career as a writer in 1982
  4. Peoples' Poet Award in memory of Milton Acorn for Collected Poems in 1987
  5. Order of Ontario for career as a writer in 1987
Works:
  1. The Enchanted Echo (1944)
  2. Emu, Remember (1956)
  3. The Crafte So Longe to Lerne (1959)
  4. Poems for All the Annettes (1962)
  5. The Cariboo Horses (1965)
  6. North of Summer: Poems from Baffin Island (1967)
  7. Wild Grape Wine (1968)
  8. Love in a Burning Building (1970)
  9. Hiroshima Poems (1972)
  10. Sex and Death (1973)
  11. In Search of Owen Roblin (1974)
  12. Sundance at Dusk (1976)
  13. No Other Country (1977)
  14. A Handful of Earth (1977)
  15. Being Alive (1978)
  16. The Stone Bird (1981)
  17. Morning and It's Summer (1983)
  18. Piling Blood (1984)
  19. Collected Poems (1986)
  20. A Splinter in the Heart (1990)
  21. Reaching the Beaufort Sea (1993)
  22. Naked with Summer in Your Mouth (1994)
  23. Starting from Ameliasburgh (1995)
  24. Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets (1996)
  25. To Paris Again (1997)