Anthony Purdy
Writing:
Anthony Purdy writes poems and short stories. He lives on Nova Scotia’s South Shore. His work has appeared in The Antigonish Review, Contemporary Verse 2, The Dalhousie Review, The Fiddlehead, FreeFall, Fresh Voices, The Goose, Grain, Poem in Your Pocket, Poetry Pause, Prairie Fire, and Queen’s Quarterly.
Recent Writing:
No Sound is Dissonant: Poems of Hearing and Seeing (Lunenburg, NS: Spot of Poetry, Little Books Collective, 2024). Chapbook. 28p. https://spotofpoetry.com/little-books-collective/ , https://spotofpoetry.com/project/no-sound-is-dissonant-poems-of-hearing-and-seeing/
“Ebb Tide at Little Hirtles.” Queen’s Quarterly, Vol. 130, No. 2 (Summer 2023): 214-15.
“Red Things.” Contemporary Verse 2, Vol. 46, No. 1 (Summer 2023): 33.
“so much depends/upon/a rag rug.” Contemporary Verse 2, Vol. 46, No. 1 (Summer 2023): 31-32.
“Old Dog.” The Dalhousie Review, Vol. 103, No. 3 (Autumn 2023): 391-92.
“Stubborn Flake of Coloured Frock.” Queen’s Quarterly, Vol. 130, No. 4 (Winter 2023): 634-35.
“Tricks of Air Over Water.” Fresh Voices 30 (December 2023). https://poets.ca/fresh-voices-30/
“Rosie’s Rock.” Queen’s Quarterly, Vol. 131, No. 1 (Spring 2024): 66-67.
“Life Lessons.” Grain, Vol. 51, No. 4 (Summer 2024): 64-65.
“Six Degrees of Separation.” Queen’s Quarterly, Vol. 132, No. 1 (Spring 2025). Forthcoming.
Academic Career:
Professor Emeritus at Western University (formerly The University of Western Ontario) since 2017, where he taught in the undergraduate and graduate programs in French Studies as well as in the graduate programs in Comparative Literature, Visual Arts, Theory & Criticism, and Film Studies. His research, like his teaching, was consistently interdisciplinary and intermedial, embracing the fields of modern French literature; comparative and general literature; film and visual culture; and the intersections of literature with both art and science. A collection of essays in his honour, edited by Karin Schwerdtner and Geneviève de Viveiros, was published as a special issue of the journal NSRC, no 13, "Objets de l'écrivain: images, usages, représentations depuis le XIXe siècle à nos jours" (2020). He has published over 100 scholarly articles, book chapters, and review articles and is the author/editor of ten books.
Anthony Purdy writes poems and short stories. He lives on Nova Scotia’s South Shore. His work has appeared in The Antigonish Review, Contemporary Verse 2, The Dalhousie Review, The Fiddlehead, FreeFall, Fresh Voices, The Goose, Grain, Poem in Your Pocket, Poetry Pause, Prairie Fire, and Queen’s Quarterly.
Recent Writing:
No Sound is Dissonant: Poems of Hearing and Seeing (Lunenburg, NS: Spot of Poetry, Little Books Collective, 2024). Chapbook. 28p. https://spotofpoetry.com/little-books-collective/ , https://spotofpoetry.com/project/no-sound-is-dissonant-poems-of-hearing-and-seeing/
“Ebb Tide at Little Hirtles.” Queen’s Quarterly, Vol. 130, No. 2 (Summer 2023): 214-15.
“Red Things.” Contemporary Verse 2, Vol. 46, No. 1 (Summer 2023): 33.
“so much depends/upon/a rag rug.” Contemporary Verse 2, Vol. 46, No. 1 (Summer 2023): 31-32.
“Old Dog.” The Dalhousie Review, Vol. 103, No. 3 (Autumn 2023): 391-92.
“Stubborn Flake of Coloured Frock.” Queen’s Quarterly, Vol. 130, No. 4 (Winter 2023): 634-35.
“Tricks of Air Over Water.” Fresh Voices 30 (December 2023). https://poets.ca/fresh-voices-30/
“Rosie’s Rock.” Queen’s Quarterly, Vol. 131, No. 1 (Spring 2024): 66-67.
“Life Lessons.” Grain, Vol. 51, No. 4 (Summer 2024): 64-65.
“Six Degrees of Separation.” Queen’s Quarterly, Vol. 132, No. 1 (Spring 2025). Forthcoming.
Academic Career:
Professor Emeritus at Western University (formerly The University of Western Ontario) since 2017, where he taught in the undergraduate and graduate programs in French Studies as well as in the graduate programs in Comparative Literature, Visual Arts, Theory & Criticism, and Film Studies. His research, like his teaching, was consistently interdisciplinary and intermedial, embracing the fields of modern French literature; comparative and general literature; film and visual culture; and the intersections of literature with both art and science. A collection of essays in his honour, edited by Karin Schwerdtner and Geneviève de Viveiros, was published as a special issue of the journal NSRC, no 13, "Objets de l'écrivain: images, usages, représentations depuis le XIXe siècle à nos jours" (2020). He has published over 100 scholarly articles, book chapters, and review articles and is the author/editor of ten books.
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