Save the Al Purdy A-Frame Campaign The Canadian League of Poets has declared a national Al Purdy Day! National Al Purdy Day Al Purdy was born December 30, 1918, in Wooler, Ontario and died at Sidney, BC, April 21, 2000. Raised in Trenton, Ontario, he lived throughout Canada as he developed his reputation as one of Canada's greatest writers. His collections included two winners of the Governor General's Award, Cariboo Horses (1965) and Collected Poems (1986) and other classics such as Poems for All the Annettes, In Search of Owen Roblin and Piling Blood. Later in life, he travelled widely with his wife Eurithe and settled in Ameliasburg, Ontario and Sidney, BC. In addition to his thirty-three books of poetry, he published a novel, an autobiography and nine collections of essays and correspondence. He was appointed to the Order of Canada in 1983 and the Order of Ontario in 1987. His ashes are buried in Ameliasburg at the end of Purdy Lane.

The Al Purdy A Frame Anthology:
1550175025 · November 2009 · $26.95
A celebration of the most unlikely, outrageous and important gathering place in modern Canadian writing, with contributions from Dennis Lee, Eurithe Purdy, F.R. Scott, George Galt, Joe Rosenblatt, Margaret Atwood, George Bowering, D.G Jones, Sid Marty, Steven Heighton, Howard White, David McFadden, David Helwig, Janet Lunn, Paul Vermeersch, Michael Ondaatje and others.
Beyond Remembering: The Collected Poems of Al Purdy
1550172255 · September 2000 · $44.95
"If you want to read some decent strong human stuff without fakery I'd say Al Purdy the Canadian. . . one of the few very good poets since 1900." -Charles Bukowski "Purdy is one of the most substantial poets in English of the century." -Dennis Lee
Breathing Fire: Canada's New Poets
1550171259 · 1995 · $21.95
The definitive anthology of Canada's new poets.
The Man Who Outlived Himself: An appreciation of John Donne: A dozen of his best poems
1550172190 · March 2000 · $16.95
Beardsley and Purdy examine one of English Literature's true legends.
No One Else is Lawrence!: A Dozen of D.H Lawrence's Best Poems
1550171941 · 1998 · $16.95
Winner of a BC 2000 Book Prize "Canada needs more books like this." -Wireweed
Reaching for the Beaufort Sea: An Autobiography
1550170880 · 1993 · $28.95
The autobiography of one of Canada's best loved poets "bristles with splenetic vitality" -Stephen Smith, Quill & Quire
Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets: Selected Poems 1962-1996
1550171488 · 1996 · $16.95
The definitive Al Purdy selected. Finalist for CBC Radio's Canada Reads 2006!
Starting from Ameliasburgh: The Collected Prose of Al Purdy
1550171275 · 1995 · $39.95
"A hundred years from now, one of the few Canadian poets whose work will still be read is Al Purdy" -Maclean's
To Paris Never Again:
1550171739 · 1997 · $16.95
Al Purdy's final volume of poems includes some of the best work of his half-century of writing.
Yours, Al: The Collected Letters of Al Purdy
1550173324 · October 2004 · $44.95
“Dear John: I was down in your neck or coccyx of the woods last week and put my arms around an ex-pro boxer’s wife in a drunken euphoria and nearly got my profile altered to 7500 A.D. . . . Dear Louis: I was just talking to Peter Brown and he says you hate me . . . What a waste of time. . . . Dear Buc: I always used to tell Birney if he died before me I was gonna grind him up and marinate him for an aphrodisiac. I like the guy, but never could figure out his apparent attraction to women . . .” —from various letters