阿尔·珀迪

阿尔·珀迪（Al Purdy，1918—2000），生于安大略省沃勒尔。第二次世界大战期间曾在加拿大皇家空军服役。从事过无数职业，后来在很多院校任教和做驻校诗人，得过很多奖，包括1966年的总督奖和1978年的加拿大勋章。

Alfred Wellington Purdy was a 20th-century Canadian free verse poet. Purdy's writing career spanned fifty-six years. His works include thirty-nine books of poetry; a novel; two volumes of memoirs and four books of correspondence, in addition to his posthumous works. He has been called the nation's "unofficial poet laureate" and "a national poet in a way that you only find occasionally in the life of a culture."