Beyond Forgetting (eBook)
Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd. (Verlag)
978-1-55017-847-0 (ISBN)
"e;... without a doubt the greatest poet English Canada has ever produced."e;-Dennis Lee"e;A hundred years from now, one of the few Canadian poets whose work will still be read will be Al Purdy."e;-Maclean'sAl 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-residenceprogram.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 in1965forThe Cariboo Horsesand then in1986forThe 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 Canadianpoetry.This collection, created in honour of the poet's upcoming100th birthday on December30,2018, 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 Forgettingis guaranteed to move each and every Canadian poetry buff who grazes itspages.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 6.10.2018 |
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Vorwort | Steven Heighton |
Verlagsort | Madeira Park |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Anthologien |
Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte | |
ISBN-10 | 1-55017-847-4 / 1550178474 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-55017-847-0 / 9781550178470 |
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