Purdy’s Prelude and Other Poems

  • Seymour Mayne
    Face. Blackfish Press
  • Dorothy Livesay (Author)
    Disasters of the Sun. Blackfish Press
  • Pat Lowther
    The Age of the Bird. Blackfish Press
  • Al (Alfred W) Purdy (Author)
    On the Bearpaw Sea. Blackfish Press

  • Blackfish. Blackfish Press
  • Miriam Mandel
    Lions at her Face. White Pelican
  • Al (Alfred W) Purdy (Author)
    In Search of Owen Roblin. McClelland & Stewart Ltd.
  • Peter Stevens (Author)
    And the Dying Sky like Blood. Borealis Press
  • Eugene McNamara
    Passages and other Poems. Sono Nis Press
  • Eugene McNamara
    Diving for the Body. Borealis Press
Reviewed by George Woodcock
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This review “Purdy’s Prelude and Other Poems” originally appeared in Ultramarine – Hail and Farewell. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 64 (Spring 1975): 92-98.

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