Books
- The Enchanted Echo (1944)
- Pressed on Sand (1955)
- Emu, Remember! (1956)
- The Crafte So Long to Lerne (1959)
- The Blur in Between: Poems 1960s - 61 (1962)
- Poems for All the Annettes (1962)
- The Cariboo Houses (1965)
- North of Summer: Poems from Baffin Island (1967)
- Wild Grape Wine (1968)
- Love in a Burning Building (1970)
- The Quest for Ouzo (1971)
- Hiroshima Poems (1972)
- Selected Poems On the Bearpaw Sea (1973)
- Sex and Death (1973)
- In Search of Owen Roblin (1974)
- The Poems of Al Purdy: A New Canadian Library Selection (1976)
- Sundance at Dusk (1976)
- A Handful of Earth (1977)
- At Marsport Drugstore (1977)
- Moths in the Iron Curtain (1977)
- No Second Spring (1977)
- Being Alive: Poems 1958 -78 (1978)
- The Stone Bird (1981)
- Birdwatching at the Equator: The Galapagos Islands (1982)
- Bursting in Song: An Al Purdy Omnibus (1982)
- Piling Blood (1984)
- The Collected Poems of Al Purdy (1986)
- The Woman on the Shore (1990)
- Naked With Summer in Your Mouth (1994)
- Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets (1996)
- To Paris Never Again (1997)
- The Man Who Outlived Himself (with Doug Beardsley, 1999)
- Beyond Remembering - The Collected Pomes of Al Purdy (2000)
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