Worthy of His Fall

• Worthy of His Fall (Liam Ford, PoetryReviews.ca, 7/15/2006).
  "Harrison reveals beauty in death and we understand there are some things that can only be captured in words, and in times of war it is in the sanctuary of these words — love, faith, heaven — that we find whatever solace we can."
  
• The kind of Luck that finds your husband dead beside you (Christopher Wiebe, Vue Weekly, 2/23/2006).
  "The voice in Harrison’s poems demonstrate a ruthless, transparency of thought we hide from even those we love. In this nakedness and vulnerability, Harrison finds a terrible, necessary beauty."

Richard Harrison’s eight books include the Governor General’s Award–finalist Big Breath of a Wish, and Hero of the Play, the first book of poetry launched at the Hockey Hall of Fame. He teaches English and Creative Writing at Calgary’s Mount Royal University, a position he took up after being the Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the University of Calgary in 1995. His work has been published, broadcast and displayed around the world, and his poems have been translated into French, Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic. In On Not Losing My Father’s Ashes in the Flood, Richard reflects on his father’s death, the Alberta Flood and what poetry offers a life lived around it.