25: Hockey Poems New and Revised

Richard Harrison's *The Hero of the Play* has been in print continuously for twenty-five years, with a tenth anniversary edition released in 2004. *25* is a celebration of this fact, as well as a meditation on twenty-five years of hockey poetry. This collection is a cataloguing of the way the game has woven itself into the life of the Governor General's Award-winning poet, from childhood to fatherhood to death. It is a reflection on how the game has become such a large part of Canadian identity, shifting and changing with the times. In *25*, Harrison captures the grace of the player in fluid lines, sketches the arc of the play and delivers the myth of the frozen pond to our human reality.