
Beyond Forgetting
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"... 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.
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Content
- Intro
- Foreword / Steven Heighton
- Introduction
- Encounters
- In Purdy's Ameliasburg / Earle Birney
- Knowing I Live in a Dark Age / Milton Acorn
- Once in 1965 / Robert Currie
- Sensitive Men / Candace Fertile
- Al Purdy: Voice / Bruce Meyer
- Al on the Island / David Helwig
- Purdy's Otters / Russell Thornton
- Interview at Eden Mills / Katherine L. Gordon
- from Real Life-Can You Imagine It? / Brian Brett
- Famous Last Lines / Linda Rogers
- While You Were Out / Doug Paisley
- Ancestor vs. Ancestor / Sadiqa de Meijer
- In Al Purdy's House / James Arthur
- Transient / Grace Vermeer
- Al and Eurithe / Rodney DeCroo
- I Met You Only Once, Al Purdy / David Zieroth
- A Word from Al / Howard White
- A Drive with Al Purdy / Richard M. Grove
- Wildness
- Problem / Milton Acorn
- Poem for Al Purdy / Milton Acorn
- Acorn and Al Build Something / Julie McNeill
- "You Have to Keep Writing!" / Rolf Harvey
- My Editor / Sid Marty
- For Al / Wednesday Hudson
- Purdy's Crocuses / Tom Wayman
- Shoulders Descending / Gregory Betts
- As the Days and Nights Join Hands / K.V. Skene
- How I Think of Al / Susan McMaster
- At the Cecil Hotel / George Bowering
- Inspiration
- This Inn is Free / F.R. Scott
- Say the Names / Kate Braid
- Standing on a Newfoundland Cliff / Magie Dominic
- 3 Al Purdys / Bruce Cockburn
- Spring at Roblin Lake / Kath MacLean
- Challenging the Law of Superimposition / Lynn Tait
- Maps of the Top of the World / Steven Heighton
- Stone Song / Christine Smart
- Lament for a Small Town / Solveig Adair
- The Sharing Economy / Karen Solie
- Long Reach: Thanksgiving, 2000 / John Oughton
- Cactus Cathedral / Glen Sorestad
- Too Tall for Antiquity / Kath MacLean
- The Last Spar-Tree on Elphinstone Mountain / Peter Trower
- When the Deities are Tended, Morning Comes / Autumn Richardson
- Roadtripping / Jeanette Lynes
- Iowa City / Rachel Rose
- Stockpile / Ben Ladouceur
- Ode to Al Purdy-A Litter of Poets / Dymphny Dronyk
- Chrysalids / Autumn Richardson
- Ground Rules / Ian Williams
- Al Develops His Pleasures / Cornelia Hoogland
- Cromwell's Head Under the Antechapel / Ken Babstock
- Legacy
- from Essay on Legend / Phil Hall
- How Students Imagine the Dorsets / Kat Cameron
- The Unveiling / John B. Lee
- English Assignment: Situate Al Purdy's Poems in Their Various Literary Traditions / Jeanette Lynes
- On Realizing Everyone Has Written Some Bad Poems / Rob Taylor
- The Statue of Al Purdy / Sid Marty
- Roblin Lake / Doug Paisley
- The Poet's Wife / Howard White
- On Being Archaic / Nicholas Bradley
- At Queen's Park / David Helwig
- Thirty-Two Uses for Al Purdy's Ashes / Susan Musgrave
- Al Purdy's Place / Laurence Hutchman
- A Cat Named Purdy / Lorna Crozier
- Elegies
- Last Night / Doug Paisley
- Breakout / Doug Beardsley
- Trains, Beer & Bronze / Julie McNeill
- For Al Purdy / Patrick Lane
- The Oracle / Autumn Richardson
- Al Purdy Took a Bus to the Town Where Herodotus Was Born / Susan Musgrave
- Each Life is a Language No One Knows / Susan Musgrave
- In Memory of A.W. Purdy / Tom Wayman
- Variations / John Watson
- from An Oak Hunch: Essay on Purdy / Phil Hall
- Biographies and Statements
- Acknowledgements and Credits
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