1918-2000 CA, Quinte West
Spoken Word, Folk and World
A.k.a. Alfred Wellington Purdy
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."
Title | Artist | Year | Type |
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Al Purdy's Ontario | Al Purdy | 1971 | Album |
Canadian Poets 1 | Earle Birney, George Bowering, Leonard Cohen, Irving Layton, Gwendolyn Macewen, John Newlove, Al Purdy, Phyllis Webb | 1966 | Album |