Richard Harrison
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Richard Harrison is the winner of the 2017 Governor General’s Award for Poetry for On Not Losing My Father’s Ashes in the Flood. Richard’s writings have been published across Canada as well as in the United States, England and Italy. His individual poems, and two books, have been translated into six languages including Spanish, Farsi, French and Arabic. This year he was honoured with the Writers’ Guild of Alberta’s Golden Pen for Lifetime Achievement. Professor Emeritus of English at Mount Royal University, currently Richard is a full-time poet, essayist, editor and writing mentor in Calgary, where he lives with his wife, Lisa.
Titles by Richard Harrison
My Mother Joins the Resistance (2026)
25: Hockey Poems New & Revised (2019)
On Not Losing My Father's Ashes in the Flood (2016)
Secret Identity Reader: Essays on Sex, Death and the Superhero (2010)
Now is the Winter: Thinking about Hockey (2009)
Worthy of His Fall (2005)
Hero of the Play: 10th Anniversary Edition (2004)
Big Breath of a Wish (1998)
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