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"At a time when figurative painting has long been out of fashion in British art schools and among the curators of the nation's galleries of modern art, its acknowledgement limited to Freud, Hockney and a handful of other grandees, Richard Harrison has been one of the very few younger contemporary artists to hold to this ancestral tradition. His early work was essentially abstract, and abstract values have formed the armature of all of his later work, but in subject he has moved from a convincing interest in the texture and manipulable qualities of the simple materials of a painting to biblical and mythical narratives that were common among European painters from the High Renaissance to the High Olympus of Victorian art. In becoming a history painter, however, he has abandoned nothing of his interest in canvas, the importance of its warp and weft, or in the qualities of the best hand-ground oil paints, their rich colour, translucence, and reflective and refractive characteristics." "This affectionate but dispassionate and critical book - part analysis of Harrison's unconventional work, part account of a tumultuous and often alarming life - is the most comprehensive record of his intellectual and aesthetic development to date. Generously illustrated with numerous reproductions of his work, the book also represents the most comprehensive collection of his work in any one place." --Book Jacket.

Governor General Award-nominated poet Richard Harrison's latest collection is a meditation on fathers, fatherhood, God and war. Powerful images of aging and death are cut with bright slivers of childhood, all set against the backdrop of the war in Iraq, and the questions war and death raise. Harrison's transparent verse and beautiful ability to capture the voices around him draw the reader into what may be his best collection yet.

Winner: 2017 Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry In his final years, Richard Harrison's father suffered from a form of dementia, but he died without ever forgetting the poems he had memorized as a student and had taught to Richard as a child. In 2013, the poet feared his father's ashes had been lost in the flood water that ravaged Alberta--a crisis that would become the inciting event and central theme of this collection. Combining elements of memoir, elegy, lyrical essay and personal correspondence with appreciations of literary works ranging from haiku to comic books, Richard Harrison has written a book of great intellectual depth that is as generous as it is enchanting.

Better Writing Better Writing is designed as a supplement to main course books at the low-intermediate to intermediate level. It will benefit those studying at secondary and tertiary institutions and adults undertaking training as part of their work or business experience. The author takes a step-by-step approach to the teaching of writing skills. Each unit begins with activities designed to increase awareness of what writing in English involves, and includes practice in mechanical skills (spelling, capitalization and punctuation), the construction and linking of sentences using conjunctions and subordination, and grammatical aspects. Through controlled and guided practice, students are gradually led towards writing accurate, cohesive, appropriate and more interesting paragraphs involving a variety of topics and functions. These include: explaining the functioning of a machine or instrument; describing a process; describing an object; making comparisons; describing tables and graphs; explaining cause and effect; writing formal and informal letters; describing change over time; and reporting speech and events. Key Features Each unit is divided into two sections. The first section includes: looking at different texts picking out language points exercises for practising what you have learnt. The second section covers: sentence building ways of joining short sentences together (conjunctions and punctuation) putting sentences together to make paragraphs punctuation, spelling, capitalization checking what you have written vocabulary building.

Comprises the catalogue of the exhibition of the same name held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the fall of 1998. Presents 84 mostly color photographs of costumes from about 1700 to the present, with commentary by The Costume Institute's curator Richard Martin. 9x12". Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Upgrade: Activity Book (with answers) Upgrade is a lower intermediate course designed for young adults, especially those who need to use English-language resources as part of a higher education course. This Activity Book consists of 15 units that correspond closely to the Course Book in terms of level, topic and content. There is extensive practice of grammar and vocabulary, as well as more skills work and extra study tips and advice on independent learning techniques. The Activity Book can be used in class, for homework tasks or as a self-study aid. It contains original material that can form the basis of new lessons, focusing particularly on the skill of reading. Key Features 15 topic-based units plus three review units Teacher's Book, including tests, transcripts and answers Extensive skills practice with tasks such as: reading an article and completing a bar chart; writing an e-mail; listening to directions; giving a presentation Study tips throughout the course to help develop essential study skills and independent learning Ten-page word list of essential vocabulary covered in each unit Activity Book containing imaginative extended practice of the language and topics in the Course Book, for use in the class or self-study

Ten 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 re-issued with a new selection of poems, "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 new issue of Hero of the Play with all kinds of new writing to fascinate and intrigue and, most importantly, inspire those of us who profoundly believe it is impossible to know this country without knowing its game." ? Excerpt from Foreword