Beyond Forgetting: Celebrating 100 Years of Al Purdy - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1550178466 ISBN 13: 9781550178463

Publisher: Harbour Publishing, 2019

Synopsis

Features 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.

About this title

Review

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 Magazine)

About the Author

Howard White was born in 1945 in Abbotsford, British Columbia. He was raised in a series of camps and settlements on the BC coast and never got over it. He is still to be found stuck barnacle-like to the shore at Pender Harbour, BC. He started Raincoast Chronicles and Harbour Publishing in the early 1970s and his own books include A Hard Man to Beat (bio), The Men There Were Then (poems), Spilsbury's Coast (bio), The Accidental Airline (bio), Patrick and the Backhoe (childrens'), Writing in the Rain (anthology) and The Sunshine Coast (travel). He was awarded the Canadian Historical Association's Career Award for Regional History in 1989. In 2000, he completed a ten-year project, The Encyclopedia of British Columbia. He has been awarded the Order of BC, the Canadian Historical Association's Career Award for Regional History, the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, the Jim Douglas Publisher of the Year Award and a Honorary Doctorate of Laws Degree from the University of Victoria. In 2007, White was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. He has twice been runner-up in the Whisky Slough Putty Man Triathlon.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harbour Publishing
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1550178466
• ISBN 13: 9781550178463
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: White Howard, Skagen Emma