BOOKS BY AL PURDY ============================================== List provided by Canadian Books & Authors http://www.canadianauthors.net/ CR -> Canada Reads GG -> Governor General's Literary Award Last updated 3 June 2006 ============================================== 1944 - The Enchanted Echo 1955 - Pressed on Sand 1956 - Emu, Remember! 1959 - The Crafte So Long to Lerne 1962 - The Blur in Between: Poems 1960-61 1962 - Poems for All the Annettes 1965 - The Cariboo Houses (GG winner) 1967 - North of Summer: Poems from Baffin Island 1968 - Wild Grape Wine 1970 - Love in a Burning Building 1971 - The Quest for Ouzo 1972 - Hiroshima Poems 1972 - Selected Poems 1973 - On the Bearpaw Sea 1973 - Sex and Death 1974 - In Search of Owen Roblin 1976 - The Poems of Al Purdy: A New Canadian Library Selection 1976 - Sundance at Dusk 1977 - A Handful of Earth 1977 - At Marsport Drugstore 1977 - Moths in the Iron Curtain 1977 - No Other Country 1977 - No Second Spring 1978 - Being Alive: Poems 1958-1978 1981 - The Stone Bird 1982 - Birdwatching at the Equator: The Galapagos Islands 1982 - Bursting in Song: An Al Purdy Omnibus 1983 - Morning and It's Summer: A Memoir 1983 - The Bukowski/Purdy Letters 1964-1974: A Decade of Dialogue (edited by Seamus Cooney) 1984 - Piling Blood 1986 - The Collected Poems of Al Purdy, 1956-1986 (GG winner) 1987 - The George Woodcock/Al Purdy Letters (edited by George Galt) 1990 - A Splinter in the Heart 1990 - The Woman on the Shore 1992 - Cougar Hunter: A Memoir of Roderick Haig-Brown 1993 - Reaching for the Beaufort Sea: An Autobiography 1993 - Margaret Laurence - Al Purdy: A Friendship in Letters (edited by John Lennox) 1994 - Naked With Summer in Your Mouth 1995 - Starting from Ameliasburgh: The Collected Prose of Al Purdy 1996 - Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets, Selected Poems, 1962-1996 (CR shortlist) 1996 - In Mexico 1997 - To Paris Never Again 2000 - Beyond Remembering: The Collected Poems of Al Purdy 2004 - Yours, Al: The Collected Letters of Al Purdy (edited by Sam Solecki)