Al (Alfred W) Purdy

January 29, 2015


Works by Al (Alfred W) Purdy

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Articles by Al (Alfred W) Purdy

Leonard Cohen: A Personal Look
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Published in Modern Canadian Poets. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 23 (Winter 1965): 7-16.
A. W. Purdy: An Interview. Conducted by Gary Geddes
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Published in Tenth Anniversary Issue. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 41 (Summer 1969): 66-72.
Novel
Leonard Cohen: Black Romantic
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy and Sandra Djwa
Published in Views of Leonard Cohen. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 34 (Autumn 1967): 32-42.
Poetry

Book Reviews by Al (Alfred W) Purdy

One-Man Show
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Published in The Long Poem / Remembering bp Nichol. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 122-123 (Autumn/Winter 1989): 153-154.
  • Champlain by Joe C. W. Armstrong
Jewish-Canadian Life Writing Poetry
Purdy's Scott
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Published in What the Archives Reveal. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 121 (Summer 1989): 126-131.
  • The Politics of the Imagination, a Life of F. R. Scott by Sandra Djwa
Biography Colonialism
Clouds of Wonder
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Published in Italian-Canadian Connections. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 106 (Autumn 1985): 132-134.
  • Sea of Slaughter by Farley Mowat
Life Writing Poetry
Drawing On
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Published in Fiction in the Seventies. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 92 (Spring 1982): 132-134.
  • 100 Years of Canadian Drawings by Jerrold Morris
Work Car No. 10557
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Published in The Nineteenth Century. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 81 (Summer 1979): 132-134.
  • A Border of Beauty: Arthur Lismer's Pen and Pencil by Marjorie Lismer Bridges
A Flooding Past
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Published in Sources. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 76 (Spring 1978): 126-127.
  • The Alders and Others by Peter Trower (Author)
  • Jericho Road by Joy Kogawa (Author)
  • Images on Water by Ken Cathers
Biography
Tribute to Everson
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Published in The Psychology of Literature. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 72 (Spring 1977): 80-82.
  • Indian Summer by R. G. Everson
Biography
Enduring Essentials
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Published in Manners of Criticism. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 67 (Winter 1976): 104-106.
  • The Faroe Islanders Saga by George Johnston
Poetry Travel Writing
The Woman of Barrie
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Published in Poetic Occasions. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 54 (Autumn 1972): 86-90.
  • Touch: Selected Poems 1960-1970 by George Bowering
  • Nobody Owns the Earth by bill bissett
  • Our Man in Utopia by Doug Fetherling
  • The Red Fox by Bill Howell (Author)
Rock Gothic
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Published in Anna, Susanna, and Catharine. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 51 (Winter 1972): 92-94.
  • Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea by John Franklin
Poetry
Calm Surfaces Destroyed
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Published in Aspects of Layton. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 48 (Spring 1971): 91-92.
  • The Cave by John Newlove
First Nations Travel Writing
Atwood's Moodie
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Published in Dorothy Livesay – Poetry of Politics and Love. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 47 (Winter 1971): 80-84.
  • The Journals of Susanna Moodie by Margaret Atwood
Poetry
Amazonian Travels
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Published in Confrontations, Correspondences, Comparisons. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 45 (Summer 1970): 93-93.
  • Henry Walter Bates: Naturalist of the Amazons by George Woodcock
Journals
Betrayed by the Evening Star
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Published in Lowry’s Reading. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 44 (Spring 1970): 84-86.
  • Why Should I Have All the Grief? by Phyllis Gotlieb
  • The Street by Mordecai Richler
Travel Writing
Poet Besieged
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Published in The Relevance of Humour. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 39 (Winter 1969): 94-96.
  • The Animals in That Country by Margaret Atwood
Achievement and Monument
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Published in Federation of Letters. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 37 (Summer 1968): 72-74.
  • Poets Between the Wars by Milton Wilson
Poetry
Other Vancouverites
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Published in Wyndham Lewis in Canada. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 35 (Winter 1968): 83-85.
  • Fires in the Temple by bill bissett
  • From the Portals of the Mouseholes by Seymour Mayne
  • Letters from the Savage Mind by Patrick Lane
  • The Circus of the Boy's Eye by Jim Brown
Poetry
Landfall in Vinland
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Published in Publishing in Canada. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 33 (Summer 1967): 63-67.
  • Westviking by Farley Mowat
  • Land Under the Pole Star by Helge Ingstad
Poetry
Prose Birney
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Published in A Salute to F. R. Scott. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 31 (Winter 1967): 61-64.
  • The Creative Writer by Earle Birney
Levels of Excitement
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Published in Apprenticeships in Discovery. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 29 (Summer 1966): 70-72.
  • Bridge Force by Frank Davey
  • For the Mean Time by Eugene McNamara
Poetry
Blue Titmouse
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Published in Poets Past and Present. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 28 (Spring 1966): 70-71.
  • A Dream of Lilies by Joan Finnigan
Alienation and Aloneness
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Published in A Symposium on A. M. Klein. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 25 (Summer 1965): 70-71.
  • Moving in Alone by John Newlove
Poetry
Message from Olympus
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Published in Plays and Folk Songs. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 16 (Spring 1963): 81-82.
  • Balls for a One-Armed Juggler by Irving Layton
Jewish-Canadian Life Writing Poetry

Poetry by Al (Alfred W) Purdy

Vancouver
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Published in B.C. Writers / Reviews Issue. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 102 (Autumn 1984): 54-55.
Bestiary
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Published in 25th Anniversary Issue. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 100 (Spring 1984): 250-251.
In The Andes
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Published in Caribbean Connections. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 95 (Winter 1982): 38.
Adobe
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Published in The Art of Autobiography. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 90 (Autumn 1981): 59-60.
Art
Ave Imperator
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Published in Exiles and Expatriates. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 73 (Summer 1977): 86-86.
Poetry
Stopping Here
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Published in Ultramarine – Hail and Farewell. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 64 (Spring 1975): 74-74.
Novel
Kerameikos Cemetery
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Published in Wilderness and Utopia. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 63 (Winter 1975): 51-51.
The Time of Your Life
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Published in Tenth Anniversary Issue. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 41 (Summer 1969): 62-65.
Interviews Poetry

Opinions by Al (Alfred W) Purdy

The Death of a Friend
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Published in The Psychology of Literature. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 72 (Spring 1977): 94-95.

Book Reviews of Al (Alfred W) Purdy's Works

Hiroshima Poems
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Reviewed in Drifting to Oblivion by Germaine Warkentin
The Cariboo Horses
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Reviewed in On Top of the Pyramid by John Robert Colombo
Poetry
Piling Blood
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Reviewed in Vintage by George Woodcock
Literary Criticism
Poems for all the Annettes
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Reviewed in Magnetic Field by Phyllis Webb
Poetry
Poems for all the Annettes
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Reviewed in One Touch of Nature by Fred Cogswell
Poetry
To Paris Never Again: New Poems
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Reviewed in Three Backwards Glances by Paul Milton
Poetry
The More Easily Kept Illusions: The Poetry of Al Purdy
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy and Robert Budde
Reviewed in Wanted: New Readers by Paul Milton
Journalism Poetry
Beyond Remembering: The Collected Poems of Al Purdy
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy and Sam Solecki
Reviewed in Leaves of Presence by Neil Querengesser
Poetry
Morning and It's Summer
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Reviewed in Poets’ Lives by C. McLay
Poetry
Bursting Into Song
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Reviewed in Heraclitean Knowledge by George Woodcock
Poetry
The Stone Bird
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Reviewed in Nutgalls & Sunbursts by Peter Mitcham
Poetry
No Other Country
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Reviewed in Sea to Sea to Sea by Alexander Globe
Storm Warning 2
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Reviewed in Out of Purdy-Land by Lloyd Abbey
Essays
On the Bearpaw Sea
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Reviewed in Purdy’s Prelude and Other Poems by George Woodcock
Anthologies Poetry
In Search of Owen Roblin
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Reviewed in Purdy’s Prelude and Other Poems by George Woodcock
Poetry
Sex and Death
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Reviewed in Suitcase Poets by George Bowering
Poetry
Selected Poems
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Reviewed in The Beowulf Poet is Alive and Well by Peter Stevens
Ecocriticism Poetry
The Crafte so Longe to Lerne
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Reviewed in Craftsmen and Others by David Bromige
Poetry
Love in a burning building
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Reviewed in Love is Ambiguous . . . Sex is a Bully by Margaret Atwood
Wild Grape Wine
By Al (Alfred W) Purdy
Reviewed in No Brew Like Home-Brew by Gary Geddes
Poetry