Al Purdy, among Canada’s most honored poets, was memorialized with a new statue in Queen’s Park in Toronto. According to a press release from the Griffin Poetry Prize, his statue is only the second full-length statue of a poet in all of Toronto (the other is Robert Burns). Pier Giorgio Di Cicco, Canada’s Poet Laureate; Eurithe Purdy, Purdy’s widow; and Dennis Lee, Canada’s first Poet Laureate, were all present at the ceremony. Lee eulogized Purdy, who died in 2000, saying, “Al Purdy is one of the titans; if we have a national poet in English Canada, he’s it.” The prominently placed statue was named Voice of the Land by the sculptor, Dam de Nogales.