About Richard Harrison
Born 1957. Richard Harrison is a Canadian poet.
Richard Harrison is a Canadian poet and essayist. and the Alberta Writers Guild Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry, and was shortlisted for the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize.
His fourth book of poetry, Big Breath of a Wish (1998), was nominated for a Governor General's Award and won the City of Calgary Book Prize.
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Richard Harrison was born in 1957.
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