Английская Википедия:Al Purdy

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Alfred Wellington Purdy Шаблон:Post-nominals (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 English Canada's "unofficial poet laureate" and "a national poet in a way that you only find occasionally in the life of a culture."[1]

Biography

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Alfred Purdy Memorial “Voice of the Land” by Veronica and Edwin Dam de Nogales

Born in Wooler, Ontario, Purdy went to Albert College in Belleville, Ontario, and Trenton Collegiate Institute in Trenton, Ontario. He dropped out of school at 17 and rode the rails west to Vancouver. He served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. Following the war, he worked in various jobs until the 1960s, when he was finally able to support himself as a writer, editor and poet.[2]

In 1957, Purdy and his wife Eurithe moved to Roblin Lake in Ameliasburgh, Ontario (southeast of Trenton, in Prince Edward County), where they built an A-frame cottage, and this became his preferred location for writing.[3] In his later years, he divided his time between North Saanich, British Columbia, and his cottage at Roblin Lake.

In addition to his poems and novel, Purdy's work includes two volumes of memoirs, the most recent of which was Reaching for the Beaufort Sea. He also wrote four books of correspondence, including Margaret Laurence - Al Purdy: A Friendship in Letters and radio and television plays for the CBC. He was writer-in-residence at several Canadian universities; contributed to Acta Victoriana, literary journal of Victoria College;[4] and edited a number of anthologies of poetry.[2]

He wrote the introduction to the last book of poetry by his friend Milton Acorn, The Whiskey Jack. Purdy was also a long-time friend of American author Charles Bukowski. Bukowski once said: "I don't know of any good living poets. But there's this tough son of a bitch up in Canada that walks the line."Шаблон:Citation needed

However, acclaim is not universal. Noted Canadian formalist poet James Pollock, when asked to "Name one poet, living or dead, it seems everyone loves but you," answered: "In Canada, Al Purdy. The emperor has no clothes."[5]

Al Purdy died in North Saanich. His final collection of poetry, Beyond Remembering: The Collected Poems of Al Purdy, was released posthumously in the fall of 2000.[2]

Memorial

A grass-roots movement to preserve Purdy's A-frame cottage in Ameliasburgh has been organized by Jean Baird (wife of poet George Bowering) and Purdy's publisher Howard White of Harbour Publishing, who together founded the A-Frame Trust with the intent of raising $1 million to preserve the house as a memorial to Purdy and a writing retreat for other writers.[6] The campaign is profiled in Brian D. Johnson's 2015 documentary film Al Purdy Was Here.[7]

In 2016 it was revealed in Toronto Life that John Hofsess contributed to the assisted suicide of Purdy when the poet was dying of cancer.[8]

Awards and recognition

Honours and awards Purdy received include the Order of Canada (O.C.) in 1982, the Order of Ontario in 1987, and the Governor General's Award, in 1965 for his collection The Cariboo Horses, and again in 1986 for The Collected Poems of Al Purdy. The League of Canadian Poets gave Purdy the Voice of the Land Award, a special award created by the League to honour his unique contribution to Canada.

Purdy's collection of poems, Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets: Selected Poems, 1962–1996, was chosen for inclusion in Canada Reads 2006, where it was championed by poet Susan Musgrave.[2] On May 20, 2008, a large bronze statue of Purdy was unveiled in Queen's Park in downtown Toronto.

Publications

Lifetime

Poetry

  • The Enchanted Echo. Vancouver: Clarke & Stuart, 1944.[9]
  • Pressed on Sand. Toronto: Ryerson, 1955.[9]
  • Emu, Remember!. Fredericton, NB: U of New Brunswick P, 1956.[9]
  • The Crafte So Longe to Lerne. Toronto: Ryerson, 1959.[9]
  • The Blur in Between: Poems 1960-61. Toronto: Emblem, 1962.[9]
  • Poems for All the Annettes. Toronto: Contact P, 1962.[9]
  • The Cariboo Horses. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1965.[9]
  • North of Summer: Poems from Baffin Island. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1967.[9]
  • About Being a Member of Our Armed Forces — 1967
  • Wild Grape Wine. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1968.[9]
  • Love in a Burning Building. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1970.[9]
  • The Quest for Ouzo. Trenton, ON: M. Kerrigan Almey, 1969.[9]
  • Hiroshima Poems. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing P, 1972.[9]
  • Selected Poems. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1972.[9] Шаблон:ISBN
  • On the Bearpaw Sea. Jean Wong illus. Burnaby, BC: Blackfish Press, 1973. Toronto: Red Maple Foundation, 1974.[9] Шаблон:ISBN
  • Sex & Death. McLelland & Stewart.[9] Шаблон:ISBN, Шаблон:ISBN
  • In Search of Owen Roblin. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1974.[9] Шаблон:ISBN
  • The Poems of Al Purdy. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1976.[9] Шаблон:ISBN
  • Sundance at Dusk. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1976.[9]
  • A Handful of Earth. Coatsworth, ON: Black Moss P, 1977.[9] Шаблон:ISBN Шаблон:ISBN Шаблон:ISBN
  • At Marsport Drugstore. Sutton West, ON: Paget P, 1977.[9] Шаблон:ISBN
  • No Other Country. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1977.[9] Шаблон:ISBN
  • Moths in the Iron Curtain. Abridged edition. Cleveland, OH: Black Rabbit Press, 1977.[9]
  • No Second Spring. Coatsworth, ON: Black Moss P, 1978.[9] Шаблон:ISBN
  • Being Alive: Poems 1958–78. Toronto: McClelland & Steward, 1978.[9] Шаблон:ISBN
  • Moths in the Iron Curtain. Illustrated by Eurithe Purdy. Sutton West, ON: Paget P, 1979.[9]Шаблон:ISBN Шаблон:ISBN Шаблон:ISBN Шаблон:ISBN
  • The Stone Bird. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1981.[9]
  • Bursting Into Song: An Al Purdy Omnibus. Windsor, ON: Black Moss, 1982.[9] Шаблон:ISBN
  • Birdwatching at the Equator: The Galapagos Island Poems. Sutton West, ON: Paget P, 1982.[9] Шаблон:ISBN
  • Morning and It's Summer. Quadrant Editions, 1983.[9] Шаблон:ISBN Шаблон:ISBN
  • Piling Blood. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1984.[9] Шаблон:ISBN
  • The Collected Poems of Al Purdy. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1986.[9] Шаблон:ISBN
  • The Woman on the Shore. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1990.[9] Шаблон:ISBN
  • Two Poems - Broadside - Pie Tree Press 1990 - Limited to 100 copies & 26 lettered copies
  • Collected Poems. [Audio cassette.] Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1990.[9] Шаблон:ISBN
  • Naked with Summer in Your Mouth. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1994.[9] Шаблон:ISBN
  • Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets: Selected Poems 1962-1996. Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 1996.[9] Шаблон:ISBN
  • To Paris Never Again. Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 1997.[9] Шаблон:ISBN
  • The Man Who Outlived Himself — 1999 (with Doug Beardsley)
  • Beyond Remembering: The Collected Poems of Al Purdy. Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 2000.[9] Шаблон:ISBN
  • Home Country: Selected Poems. Parry Sound, ON: Church Street P, 2000.[9]

Prose

Edited

  • The New Romans: Candid Canadian Opinions of the U.S.. New York, Edmonton: St. Martin's P, Hurtig, 1968.[9]
  • Fifteen Winds: A Selection of Modern Canadian Poems. Toronto: Ryerson, 1969.[9]
  • Storm Warning: The New Canadian Poets. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1971.[9] Шаблон:ISBN
  • Storm Warning 2: The New Canadian Poets. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1976.[9] Шаблон:ISBN

Posthumous

  • More Easily Kept Illusions. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier P, 2006.[9] Шаблон:ISBN
  • The Al Purdy A-Frame Anthology - 2009
  • Unexplored Country - 2009, Alden Press, Clinton, B.C. 3 Broadside poems. Limited to 60 copies.

In media

A CBC Radio recording of a 1968 reading by Purdy of his poem Quinte Hotel at a gathering conference of Canadian poets in Toronto was adapted as an animated short film At the Quinte Hotel, which received the Canadian Film Institute Award for best Canadian animation at the Ottawa International Animation Festival.[10]

See also

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Notes

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External links

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