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    Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets: Selected Poems 1962-1996

    Al Purdy

    Presents a selection of poems by the man described by the Globe & Mail as the greatest of our poets . In these poems, the poet ponders the remains of…

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    To Paris Never Again

    Al Purdy

    Here is Al Purdy's final volume of original poems, containing some of the best work of his half-century of writing. This is the work of a major poet in the…

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    To Paris Never Again

    Al Purdy

    Al Purdy’s final volume of poems includes some of the best work of his half-century of writing.

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    Beyond Remembering: The Collected Poems of Al Purdy

    Al Purdy

    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…

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    A Splinter in the Heart

    Al Purdy

    Al Purdy’s only novel, A Splinter in the Heart, is an unforgettable coming-of-age story that unfolds against the real-life tragedy of what came to be known as the Trenton Disaster…

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    The Al Purdy A Frame Anthology

    Al Purdy

    Presents a celebration of the great Canadian poet Al Purdy by eminent writers who were his contemporaries. This title is also a celebration of the place that was the centre…

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    Reaching for the Beaufort Sea: An Autobiography

    Al Purdy

    The autobiography of one of Canada’s best loved poets bristles with splenetic vitality -Stephen Smith, Quill & Quire

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    Yours, Al: The Collected Letters of Al Purdy

    Al Purdy

    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…

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    The Ivory Thought: Essays on Al Purdy

    If one poet can be said to be the Canadian poet, that poet is Al Purdy (1918-2000). This title explores: Purdy’s significance to contemporary writers; the life he dedicated to…

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    The Last Canadian Poet: An Essay on Al Purdy

    Sam Solecki

    The first book-length study of the entire body of Al Purdy’s work and offers a reading of Purdy’s poetry as part of a larger argument about Canadian identity and nationhood.

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    A Study Guide for Al Purdy’s Lament for the Dorsets

    Cengage Learning Gale

    A Study Guide for Al Purdy’s Lament for the Dorsets, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…

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    A Study Guide for Al Purdy’s Wilderness Gothic

    Cengage Learning Gale

    A Study Guide for Al Purdy’s Wilderness Gothic, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…

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    An Echo in the Mountains: Al Purdy after a Century

    A candid new look at the career and legacy of one of Canada’s most beloved poets.

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    An Echo in the Mountains: Al Purdy after a Century

    A candid new look at the career and legacy of one of Canada’s most beloved poets.

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    Starting from Ameliasburgh: The Collected Prose of Al Purdy

    Al Purdy,Sam Solecki

    A hundred years from now, one of the few Canadian poets whose work will still be read is Al Purdy -Maclean’s

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    The Purdy Woodcock Letters: Selected Correspondence, 1964-1984

    Al Purdy

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    Beyond Forgetting: Celebrating 100 Years of Al Purdy

    An anthology of poems old and new written in tribute to Al Purdy, marking the centenary of the famed Canadian poet’s birth.

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    The More Easily Kept Illusions: The Poetry of Al Purdy

    Al Purdy

    Much-loved, cantankerous, and brilliant, Al Purdy galloped across the Canadian literary landscape for decades, grandly embodying the self-taught and hard-living image of the 1960s and ‘70s poet. The More Easily…

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    Poems for All the Annettes

    Al Purdy

    Originally published by Contact Press in 1962, then later by House of Anansi in 1967, and again in a revised, expanded edition in 1972, Poems for All the Annettes stands…

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    Turvey

    Earle Birney

    Shifted from regimental pillar to post, Private Thomas Leadbeater Turvey tries and fails at every job in the army, with a remarkable genius for mishap. A casualty before he has…

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    The Man Who Outlived Himself: An appreciation of John Donne: A dozen of his best poems

    Doug Beardsley,Al Purdy

    Beardsley and Purdy examine one of English Literature’s true legends.

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    We Go Far Back in Time: The Letters of Earle Birney and Al Purdy, 1947-1984

    An intimate look into the lives of two great poets who found common ground in their writing and in the changing fortunes of their literary careers.

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    Laurier Poetry Pack #4

    Al Purdy, Dionne Brand, Paul Dutton, Fred Wah, Rachel Zolf

    Consists of 5 volumes from the Laurier Poetry series. Volumes contained in Laurier Poetry Pack #4: The More Easily Kept Illusions; Fierce Departures; Sonosyntactics; The False Laws of Narrative; and…

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    Management of the Menopause, 5th edition

    Margaret Rees (John Radcliffe Hospital Women's Center, Oxford, UK),David W. Purdie,et al.

    This book provides a practical, unbiased and non-promotional international guide on menopausal and postmenopausal health. It is essential reading for all health professionals dealing with women’s health around the world…

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