Purdy Collection

: Tape 24 - North of Summer [Article from the Beaver magazine] and The Undertaker; Al Purdy reads his article and a short story; TOC: "North of Summer" 0:00; The Undertaker 1:04; Total Duration 26:40.

: Tape 25 - Canadian Poetry Since 1867 an essay on Canadian Poetry; Al Purdy Reads an essay about Canadian Poetry

: Tape 26 - Canadian Poetry Since 1867 and "Eskimo Sculphure," a review; Al Purdy Reads an essay and a review.

: Tape 27 - No Other Country; Tuesday Night CBC broadcast. No Other Country: The Rural Poems of Alfred Purdy, with narration by the author; poems read by actors.

: Tape 28 - A Gathering of Days; Author's first play on CBC: twice 1955-1959. Dramatic Radio play read by actors. One one channel worked properly, so the digital file is in mono and is very quiet. Total Duration: 57:47.

: Tape 3 - Cariboo Horses; Al Purdy Reads his poetry;TOC: Engraved on a Tomb 0:00; "Malachi Stilt-Jack Am I" 1:04; Winter at Roblin Lake 3:31; Hockey Players 3:54; Peonies Beside the Lake 7:08; Home-Made Beer 8:09; Dylan 10:03; One Rural Winter 11:13; Old Settler's Song# 14:02; Roblin's Mills 15:34; Fidel Castro in Revolutionary Square 17:46; The Country North of Belville 20:16; "A Very Light Sort of Blue from Washing" 23:14; Bums and Brakkies 25:16. Total Duration 27:14

: Tape 4 - Cariboo Horses; Al Purdy reads his poetry. TOC:To an Attempted Suicide 0:00; Death of John F. Kennedy 2:14; Potter 7:03; Country Snowplow 9:20; Observer 10:49; Double Talk 11:39; Homo Canadensis 13:23; Wine-Maker's Song 16:44; I Think It Was Wednesday 19:12; Late Rising At Roblin Lake 22:53; Cronos at the Quinte Hotel 24:06; John 26:00; My Grandfather Talking - 30 Years Ago 27:19; Transient [incomplete] 28:30; Total Duration: 31:37.

: Tape 5 - Cariboo Horses and Pressed on Sand; Al Purdy reads his poetry; TOC: [Cariboo Horses] Transient 0:00; The Old Girl Friend 3:26; Helping My Wife Get Supper 4:41; Method for Calling Up Ghosts 5:44; [Pressed on Sand] 8:05; I See No Hand 8:28; Freighter 9:55; House Guest 13:11; Soliloquy 14:25; Old Man Ostrum 15:11; Far Traveller 16:25; Seasonal Malady 17:35; Barriers 18:48; Onomatopoeic People 20:47; Lovers in the Park 22:02; Meander 22:53; For The Record 24:11; As A Young Man? 24:54; Mary the Allan 26:04; Chiarscuro 28:25. Total Duration 29:24.

: Tape 6 - Poems for all the Annettes; Al Purdy Reads his poetry;TOC: Poem for One of the Annettes 0:03; Collecting the Square Root of Minus One 2:23; Uncle Fred on Cote des Neiges 8:25; TV Program on Sunday 11:32; Archaeology of Snow 12:14; Negroes on St. Antoine 16:12; For Norma in Lieu of an Orgasm 18:13; Mind Progress Re A Faucet 19:20; Elegy 21:33; Scarcities 22:24; Umbrella Love 22:53; Spring Song 23:48; Postcript 25:26; One of His Mistresses Found Missing 26:20; Jade Stag 27:11; Poem With Vase With Mountain Landscape 28:11; Total Duration 28:43.

: Tape 7 - Poems for all the Annettes; Al Purdy Reads his poetry;TOC: Evergreen Cemetery 0:00; Likes and Opposites 2:49; Party of the First Part 4:14; Love Poem 5:40; Cantos 8:30; Eli Mandel's Sunday Morning Castle 10:05; Courtier's Soliloquy 11:56; Miss Adventure 13:30; On Canadian Identity 15:22; The Listeners 18:08; O Recruiting Sergeants! 20:38; Hokusai at Roblin Lake 22:07; Sons and Lovers 23:18; The Widower 26:06; Total Duration: 27:27.

: Tape 8 - Poems for All the Annettes and Emu, Remember!; Al Purdy reads his poetry;TOC: [From Poems for All the Annettes] Remains of an Indian Village 0:00; The Quarrel 1:56; Hymie's Hymn 3:08; Indian Summer 4:43; Polytheism 5:49; Epitaph 6:20; Rural Henhouse 6:59; [From Emu, Remember! 10:37]; Emu, Remember! 10:51; Elegy for a Grandfather 11:46; Poem 13:25; Cantos 14:15; Proust 15:48; In Mid-Atlantic 17:20; Invocation 18:28; Who Does Not Understand 20:02; News Item: 'Ice-boats Nearly Extinct in eastern Canada.' 21:06; Contraband 21:59; Thee Cave Painters 24:05; Post Script 26:19; Flies in Amber 27:58; Total Duration 29:45.

: Tape 9 - North of Summer; Al Purdy reads his poetry; TOC: Postscript: 0:11; Prelude Room 8:21; The Turning Point 8:51; The North West Passage 10:43; Arctic River 13:32; Girl 15:42; Eskimo Graveyard 17:14; Trees at the Arctic Circle 19:52; Postscript to 'Trees at the Arctic Circle' 21:57 ; Innuit 22:55; Canso 24:31; Arctic Rhododendrons 26:00; Metrics 26:54; Total Duration 30:29.

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