Al Purdy
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Al Purdy
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Alfred Wellington Purdy was a 20th-century Canadian free verse poet. Purdy's writing career spanned fifty-six years. His works include thirty-nine books of poetry; a novel; two volumes of memoirs and four books of correspondence, in addition to his posthumous works. He has been called English Canada's "unofficial poet laureate" and "a national poet in a way that you only find occasionally in the life of a culture."
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Canadian free verse poet
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Purdy
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2024-01-16T15:12:46Z
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