Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
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)