Hero of the Play: 10th Anniversary Edition
January 1, 2004 | ISBN 978-0-919897-95-3 | 96 Pages
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Sixteen years ago, Richard Harrison thrilled poetry and hockey lovers with a collection of poetry devoted to the great Canadian game. This beloved collection has been reissued with a new selection of poems titled “The Hero in Overtime,” an essay by the author on ten years of living with hockey poetry, and a foreword by Roy MacGregor.“I was mesmerized by Harrison’s writing – his observation that Mark Messier’s stare 'weighs 200 pounds'; his descriptions of Don Cherry; his astonishing, yet accurate, comparison of hockey to Sumo wrestling – and I am delighted that, 10 years on, he is back with a… Read more