Prose and Other Books
- No Other Country (prose, 1977)
- The Bukowski/Purdy Letters 1964 - 1974: A Decade of Dialogue (with Charles Bukowski, 1983)
- Morning and It's Summer: A Memoir (1983)
- The George Woodcock/Al Purdy Letters (edited by George Galt, 1987)
- A Splinter in the Heart (novel, 1990)
- Congar Hunter (essay on Roderick Haig-Brown, 1993)
- Margret Laurence — Al Purdy: A Friendship in Letters (1993)
- Reaching for the Beaufort Sea: An Autobiography (1993)
- Starting from Ameliasburgh: The Collected Prose of Al Purdy (1995)
- No One Else is Lawrence! (with Doug Beardsley, 1998)
- Yours, Al : the collected letters of Al Purdy, edited by Sam Solecki. Madeira Park, B.C. : Harbour Pub. (2004)
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