Quote of the day
Never Write an Advertisement Which You Wouldn't Want Your Own Family To Read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by.
Al Purdy

Born: December 30, 1918
Died: April 21, 2000 (aged 81)
Bio: Alfred Wellington Purdy was a 20th-century Canadian free verse poet. Purdy's writing career spanned fifty-six years.
Known for:
- Beyond remembering (2000)
- A splinter in the heart (1990)
- Poems for all the Annettes (1962)
- Reaching for the Beaufort Sea (1993)
- Rooms for rent in the outer planets (1996)






