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Please help spread the word about this exciting and dare I say, historic special event. Jamie Reid will deliver a short talk on Bowen Island’s literary significance. “So we built a house, my wife and I, our house at a backwater puddle of a lake near Ameliasburg, Ont.—Al Purdy “In Search of Owen Roblin” AL PURDY A-FRAME TRUST Fundraiser Sunday, April 26, 2009 3:00pm - 10:00pm Heather & Josef’s place Bowen Island, BC For More Information please phone: (604) 947-9386 or email: hshaley@emspace.com This is one of several cross-Canada events during National Poetry Month designed to raise funds for the preservation of beloved Canadian poet Al Purdy’s home and the Al-Purdy A-Frame Trust. Join us on Bowen Island! Vancouverites can find ferry information at http://www.bcferries.com. You will catch the Horseshoe Bay to Snug Cove ferry or if traveling on foot there is a boat from Granville Island that gets you here in 25 minutes! http://www.giwt.ca/Bowen_Island_Express.html George Bowering Peter Trower Jamie Reid Warren Dean Fulton Paul Nelson visiting from Seattle AURAL Heather OPEN MIKE for those inspired, please bring along a Purdy poem or one in homage And that A-frame house, made out of second-hand lumber and original poetry, became the most famous writer’s house in the country. Hundreds of writers and their housemates found their way to Roblin Lake to visit the Purdys and talk about poetry and history while downing beer or wild grape wine. Coleridge and his friends had their lake country, and now the Canadian poets would have theirs. A lot of poetry and prose came out of that hard-to-find place.To prevent its second-hand wood from ending up on someone’s scrap heap, and with the blessing and support of Eurithe Purdy, The Purdy A-frame project is raising funds to purchase and preserve the property, create an endowment and establish a poet-in-residence program. Al Purdy A-Frame Trust, 4403 West 11th Ave, Vancouver, BC V6R 2M2