Al Purdy Artist
Alfred Wellington Purdy, OC OOnt (December 30, 1918 – April 21, 2000) was a 20th-century Canadian free verse poet. Purdy's writing career spanned fifty-six years. His works include thirty-nine books of poetry; a novel; two volumes of memoirs and four books of correspondence, in addition to his posthumous works. He has been called the nation's "unofficial poet laureate" and "a national poet in a way that you only find occasionally in the life of a culture."
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- http://archives.queensu.ca
- http://db1.archives.queensu.ca/ica-atom/index.php/al-purdy-fonds;rad
- http://library2.usask.ca/purdy
- http://www.bravofact.com/shorts/details.asp?projectID=1884
- http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/arts-entertainment/poetry/al-purdy-an-uncommon-poet/introducing-al-purdy.html
- http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/press_releases.php?t=31
- http://www.judithfitzgerald.ca/alpurdy.html
- http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/purdy/index.htm