Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets
Program, P.1625
- Identifier
- P.1625
- Category
- Open Voice
- Date
- November 20, 1998
- Description
- Al Purdy with Paul Wilcocks and the Mansell Girls In Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets, Al Purdy has brought together his favourite poems from the past three decades (1962-1996). Winner of two Governor General's Awards and the Order of Canada, author of over thirty books of poetry and prose, Al Purdy is arguably one of Canada's most esteemed living poets. As the biographical note from one Canadian journal recently said, "Al Purdy is Al Purdy". Al Purdy always packs the house, a wonderful way to end the Open Voice Reading Series for 1998.