Download or read book The Al Purdy A frame Anthology written by Paul Vermeersch and published by Harbour Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book with a mission. On one level it is a celebration of the great Canadian poet Al Purdy by eminent writers who were his contemporaries. It is also part of a campaign to preserve the place that was the centre of Purdy's writing universe--his home, a lakeside A-frame cottage in Ameliasburgh, Ontario, where he and his wife Eurithe lived for 43 years. The cottage was one of the most important crossroads on Canada's literary map, a kind of tribal mustering place for notable Canadian writers from the 1950s to the 1990s including Margaret Laurence, Milton Acorn, Patrick Lane, Tom Marshall, Scott Symons, R. G. Everson, H. R. Percy, Lynn Crosbie, Michael Holmes, Maggie Helwig and a host of others. This book collects anecdotes, reminiscences, and poems by a roll call of Canadian writers about memorable days and nights spent at the A-frame, along with a selection of Purdy's own writing showing the depth of his feeling for the place where he put down his roots. Eurithe Purdy says Al was always his most productive at the A-frame. "Despite the caviar receptions and gold accolades, he always returned to this jury-rigged little A-frame tacked to a low-slung, leaning bungalow. The whole edifice, he observed, 'bent a little in the wind and dreamt of the trees it came from.' Here, he could observe all his poetry's recurring themes: love, death, ego, 'the glories of copulation.'" All profits from The Al Purdy A-Frame Anthology will go towards preserving the Purdy home as a retreat for future generations of Canadian writers.
Download or read book Poems for All the Annettes written by Al Purdy and published by List. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 as one of the essential documents of the great Al Purdy's career. So many beloved poems are here--"At Roblin Lake," "At the Quinte Hotel"--but also so many undiscovered gems and treasures. It is at once the perfect introduction to this remarkable poet's work and a collection rich and deep enough to satisfy even the experienced Purdy fan. This edition reproduces the final, expanded text of the 1972 edition, and features a brilliant new introduction by poet and novelist Steven Heighton, who knew Purdy well.
Download or read book Travels by Night written by George Fetherling and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travels by Night, long a national bestseller, is George Fetherling's account of surmounting every obstacle as a despised minority to become a fixture in Canadian culture. A book with a broad cast of characters ranging from Margaret Atwood to John Lennon to Marshall McLuhan--and dozens more. "Everything a memoir should be--revealing, witty, erudite, beautifully written." Globe and Mail"A work of literature...and a valuable work of history as well." Robert Fulford
Download or read book Beyond Remembering written by Al Purdy and published by Madeira Park, B.C. : Harbour Pub.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Beyond Forgetting written by Howard White and published by Harbour Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-06 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “... without a doubt the greatest poet English Canada has ever produced.” —Dennis Lee “A hundred years from now, one of the few Canadian poets whose work will still be read will be Al Purdy.” —Maclean’s Al Purdy (1918–2000), known as Canada’s unofficial poet laureate, wrote poetry that anyone could read. Having come from working-class roots with little in terms of formal education, he wrote in a colloquial style and with a rowdy yet sensitive poetic persona that has captured the hearts of many. Purdy was exceptional in the attention he paid to the geography and history of Canada; rather than using his Canada Council grant to write from Europe like many of his contemporaries, he took a trip to Canada’s Arctic where he wrote some of his most well-loved poems. His self-built A-frame in the Ontario township of Ameliasburgh also connected him to the land and history of that place, a literary legacy that lives on through the A-frame writer-in-residence program. Purdy wrote over three dozen collections of poems, two memoirs, a novel, a number of collections of his correspondence and anthologies. He was awarded the Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry twice, first in 1965 for The Cariboo Horses and then in 1986 for The Collected Poems of Al Purdy. He was an officer of the Order of Canada and a member of the Order of Ontario. The League of Canadian Poets honoured him with the Voice of the Land Award, created specifically to recognize his tremendous contribution to Canadian poetry. This collection, created in honour of the poet’s upcoming 100th birthday on December 30, 2018, gathers voices old and new in celebration of the life and work of Al Purdy. Featuring poems by F.R. Scott, Earle Birney, Milton Acorn, Russell Thornton, David Zieroth, Lorna Crozier, Tom Wayman, Phil Hall, George Bowering, Peter Trower, Howard White, Cornelia Hoogland, Doug Beardsley, Patrick Lane, Susan Musgrave, Bruce Cockburn, Rodney DeCroo, Steven Heighton, James Arthur, Sadiqa de Meijer, Nicholas Bradley, Doug Paisley, Autumn Richardson and many more, Beyond Forgetting is guaranteed to move each and every Canadian poetry buff who grazes its pages.
Download or read book Mad Long Emotion written by Ben Ladouceur and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2019-04-10 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mad Long Emotion wants to talk flora to fauna like you. It talks by dancing, as bumblebees do. In its dances, loosestrife shoos humans away, green carnations flirt with handsome men beyond the shade, and “dogbanes though dead bloom.” Meanwhile, in better-discerned motion, numerous species both spiny and spineless prove invasive, from Great Lake lampreys to hydraulic triceratopses. But they’re just looking for better homes. The book concludes with a long poem about distance, desire and the difficulty of combining the two. Lend this book your eyes and nose; mouth its contents to your house plants. The poetry of Mad Long Emotion wants to live forever, and you can make that happen with your face.
Download or read book The Cariboo Horses written by Al Purdy and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Out Of Control written by Kevin Kelly and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of Control chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that drive our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be indistinguishable from living things.
Download or read book In Search of Owen Roblin written by Al Purdy and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In the Skin of a Lion written by Michael Ondaatje and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-04-06 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bristling with intelligence and shimmering with romance, this novel tests the boundary between history and myth. Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario. In the course of his adventures, Patrick's life intersects with those of characters who reappear in Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning The English Patient. 256 pp.
Download or read book The Declaration of Interdependence written by Tara Cullis and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2010 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calling all people to become stewards of the earth, this edition of the Declaration is a heartfelt plea for the planet's preservation.
Download or read book A Scrap of Time and Other Stories written by Ida Fink and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a New York Times Notable Book Winner of the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize Winner of the Anne Frank Prize These shattering stories describe the lives of ordinary people as they are compelled to do the unimaginable: a couple who must decide what to do with their five-year-old daughter as the Gestapo come to march them out of town; a wife whose safety depends on her acquiescence in her husband's love affair; a girl who must pay a grim price for an Aryan identity card.
Download or read book ND ANTHOLOGY written by Silver Birch Press and published by Silver Birch Press. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing & Art inspired by Nancy Drew from 97 contributors around the world -- from A to Z: Kathleen Aguero, Kimmy Alan, E. Kristin Anderson, Amanda Arkebauer, Roberta Beary, Sujoy Bhattacharya, Julie E. Bloemeke, Steve Bogdaniec, Anne Born, Tanya Bryan, Kathy Burkett, Bill Capossere, Sylvia Cavanaugh, Tricia Marcella Cimera, Ellen Cohen, Christine Collier, Linda Crosfield, Ashini J. Desai, Kristina England, Paul Fericano, Jennifer Finstrom, Jennifer Fisher, Deirdre Flint, Lea Shangraw Fox, Linda McCauley Freeman, Shivapriya Ganapathy, Erica Gerald Mason, Vijaya Gowrisankar, Geosi Gyasi, Maureen Hadzick-Spisak, Kathleen M. Heideman, Jennifer Hernandez, Kathleen Hogan, Juleigh Howard-Hobson, Mark Hudson, Mathias Jansson, Alice-Catherine Jennings, Jessie Keary, Elizabeth Kerper, Phyllis Klein, Tricia Knoll, Laurie Kolp, Jennifer Lagier, Kathleen Lawrence, Jenna Le, Joan Leotta, Kristie Betts Letter, Lorette C. Luzajic, Marieta Maglas, Ksenya Makarova, Shahe Mankerian, Susan Martinello, Karen Massey, Cathy McArthur, Nancy McCabe, Catfish McDaris, Patricia McGoldrick, Michelle McMillan-Holifield, Carolina Morales, Lylanne Musselman, Kaitlynn Nichol, Sarah Nichols, Faye Pantazopoulos, Lee Parpart, Stephanie R. Pearmain, James Penha, David Perlmutter, Robert Perret, Anna Pesnell, Jessica Purdy, Cynthia Todd Quam, Patrick T. Reardon, Nancy Reddy, Luisa Kay Reyes, Jeannie E. Roberts, Stephen D. Rogers, M.A. Scott, Shloka Shankar, Sheikha A., Sogol Shirazi, Donna JT Smith, Hilary A. Smith, Massimo Soranzio, Elizabeth Stark, Virginia Chase Sutton, Dorothy Swoope, Shrehya Taneja, Marjorie Tesser, Marion Tickner, Melanie Villines, Sarah Broussard Weaver, Mercedes Webb-Pullman, A. Garnett Weiss, Lin Whitehouse, Martin Willitts Jr, Marilyn Zelke-Windau."
Download or read book Reaching for the Beaufort Sea written by Al Purdy and published by Madeira Park, B.C. : Harbour Pub.. This book was released on 1993 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiography of one of Canada's best loved poets bristles with splenetic vitality -Stephen Smith, Quill & Quire
Download or read book An Echo in the Mountains written by Nicholas Bradley and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1960s until his death in 2000, Al Purdy was one of the most prominent writers in Canada, famous for his frank language and his boisterous personality. He travelled the country and wrote about its people and places from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island. A central figure in the CanLit explosion of the sixties and seventies, Purdy has been called the best, the most, and the last Canadian poet. But Purdy's Canada no longer exists. A changing country and shifting attitudes toward Canadian literature demand new perspectives on Purdy's impact and accomplishments. An Echo in the Mountains reassesses Purdy's works, the shape of his career, and his literary legacy, grappling with the question of how to read Purdy today, a century after his birth and in a new era of Canadian literature. Contributors to the volume examine Purdy's critical reception, explore little-known documents and textual problems, and analyze his representations of Canadian history and Indigenous peoples and cultures. They show that much remains to be discovered and understood about the poet and his immense body of work. The first sustained examination of Al Purdy's works in over a decade, An Echo in the Mountains showcases the critical challenges and rewards of rereading an iconic and influential Canadian writer.
Download or read book The Collected Poems of Al Purdy written by Al Purdy and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 1987 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Writing Spaces 1 written by Charles Lowe and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2010-06-18 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volumes in Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing offer multiple perspectives on a wide-range of topics about writing, much like the model made famous by Wendy Bishop’s “The Subject Is . . .” series. In each chapter, authors present their unique views, insights, and strategies for writing by addressing the undergraduate reader directly. Drawing on their own experiences, these teachers-as-writers invite students to join in the larger conversation about developing nearly every aspect of craft of writing. Consequently, each essay functions as a standalone text that can easily complement other selected readings in writing or writing-intensive courses across the disciplines at any level. Topics in Volume 1 of the series include academic writing, how to interpret writing assignments, motives for writing, rhetorical analysis, revision, invention, writing centers, argumentation, narrative, reflective writing, Wikipedia, patchwriting, collaboration, and genres.
