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edition:Paperback
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category: Poetry
published: Mar 2015
ISBN:9781550814378
publisher: Breakwater Books Ltd.

Al Pittman: Collected Poems

by Al Pittman

tagged: canadian
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From the publication of his first collection, The Elusive Resurrection, in 1966, to his death in 2001 at the age of sixty-one, Al Pittman stood as one of the most respected and admired poets in Newfoundland. This definitive edition spans nearly four decades of poetic production, reprints each of Pittman’s remarkable collections, and includes previously unpublished poems. The Collected Poems of Al Pittman at last offers readers the chance to appreciate this influential poet’s work in its entirety.

About the Author
Al Pittman’s writing has been featured in many publications and has been the subject of radio, television and film documentaries. He has given public readings of his work in Canada, the United States and Europe. Among his many literary awards is the Arts Council’s Lydia Campbell Award for Creative Writing in 1985, which Pittman was the first to receive, and the Writers’ Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award for Poetry in 2001. Al Pittman was inducted into the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council Hall of Honour in 1999. Al Pittman died in August of 2001 at the age of sixty-one.
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