The Al Purdy A-frame Residency

RENOWNED POETS AND MUSICIANS TO CELEBRATE AL PURDY The Al Purdy A-frame Association announced today that tickets are now on sale for THE AL PURDY SHOW on February 6, 2013 at 7:30 pm. It promises to be a fun evening of poetry and music to benefit the restoration of Al Purdy’s former residence, the A-frame.…

The A-frame home built by the late Canadian poet Al Purdy has been bought by a non-profit group and will be turned into a writers’ retreat. Purdy and his wife Eurithe built the home in the late ’50s on the shore of Roblin Lake in the Prince Edward County hamlet of Ameliasburgh, Ont., about 16…

“There was wonderful news today in the Canadian literary world, and the centre of gravity of this news was not all that far from Queensborough and the Manse.” So writes journalist Katherine Sedgwick in an excellent entry on the Purdy A-frame published in her blog “Meanwhile, at The Manse.” Read it at http://bit.ly/xpiAnn

By Mark Abley of the Montreal Gazette MONTREAL  – Canada’s battered literary community got an infusion of hope Friday. Having begun with the shocking news that the largest Canadian-owned book publisher, D&M, was seeking bankruptcy protection, the week ended with word that the home of one of the country’s finest poets, Al Purdy, has been…

A NEW LIFE FOR THE AL PURDY A-FRAME Work now turns to RAISING FUNDS TO UPGRADE AND INSTALL a writer-in-residence October 26, 2012 For immediate release   AMELIASBURGH, Ont.  The A-frame home built here in 1957 by the late Al Purdy, one of Canada’s greatest poets, and his wife, Eurithe, has been assured of preservation…

Preparations are going forward all the time as organizers of the campaign to save the legendary Purdy residence on Roblin Lake move inexorably closer to the day when they can take ownership of the property and begin operating it as a public attraction and a writer’s residence. A recent donation of $40,000 from the Glasswaters…

Mark Abley writes about the A-Frame in the Montreal Gazette: MONTREAL – Go to rural New Hampshire, and you can visit the Frost Place outside Franconia, a house where the American poet Robert Frost lived for five rewarding years. It’s now a museum and a non-profit centre for the arts. Go to rural Wales, and you can…

Marni Jackson in the Globe and Mail writes about the Purdy A-Frame: Saving a Purdy A-frame – and other cultural edifices Marni Jackson, Thursday, Apr. 05, 2012 Unless someone writes a cheque, the cabin built by a great Canadian poet on the shores of Roblin Lake will be sold, and perhaps torn down In the wake…

Emily Jackson at Toronto Star on the effort to save the A-frame: Made of salvaged lumber in 1957, the house that beloved Canadian poet Al Purdy built sits on the bank of a rural Ontario lake, its future as insecure as its rickety footings. For more than 40 years Purdy and his wife Eurithe welcomed writers,…

The Al Purdy A-FRAME Anthology is being launched across Canada! On November 18th, 2009, it was launched at Harbourfront Centre in Toronto with Dennis Lee, Michael Ondaatje, Paul Vermeersch, Dave Bidini, Steven Heighton, John Degen, Geoff Heinricks, Russell Brown, John Reeves & others. On November 11th it was launched at the University of Waterloo’s School…