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New Releases by Al Purdy

Al Purdy is the author of The More Easily Kept Illusions (2006), Margaret Laurence - Al Purdy, a Friendship in Letters (1993), The Woman on the Shore (1990), A Splinter in the Heart (1990), The Purdy-Woodcock Letters (1988).

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The More Easily Kept Illusions

release date: Apr 17, 2006
The More Easily Kept Illusions
This is a selection of 35 poems by one of Canada's best loved and most cantankerous poets, with introduction by Budde, and an Afterword by Russell Brown.

Margaret Laurence - Al Purdy, a Friendship in Letters

release date: Jan 01, 1993

The Woman on the Shore

release date: Jan 01, 1990

A Splinter in the Heart

release date: Jan 01, 1990
A Splinter in the Heart
A Splinter in the Heart, Al Purdy's only novel, provides a vivid picture of Purdy's childhood home of Trenton, Ontario, in the final days of the First World War. On Thanksgiving Day in 1918, Trenton was devastated by a fire and explosion at a munitions factory owned by the British Chemical Company, the town's one big employer. All of the action in A Splinter in the Heart anticipates this cataclysm. As disaster looms, Purdy takes Patrick Cameron, his awkward and undistinguished teenage hero, through the usual elements of adolescence: he falls in love; he takes up long-distance running; his mother is courted by Trenton's firebrand preacher; his ancient grandfather, Marshall "Portugee" Cameron, dies.

The Purdy-Woodcock Letters

release date: Jan 01, 1988

The Stone Bird

The Stone Bird
MANY OF PURDY'S FAMILIAR THEMES ARE HERE--HIS EMPATHY FOR FOREIGN PLACES AND DISTANT TIMES, HIS AFFECTION FOR LOSERS AND OUTSIDERS, HIS FASCINATION WITH PRE-HISTORY AND THE FRAGMENTED RECORDS OF DEAD CIVILIZATIONS.

Selected Poems

Selected Poems
Thirteen Bantu tales about the heroic Temba, who was courageous and resourceful as well as kind and who used these qualities to win the daughter of the Rain Lord.
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