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Steven Heighton
A poet’s firsthand account of a month volunteering on the frontlines of the Syrian refugee crisis.
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To say Heighton is an immensely talented writer is true enough but insufficient … As good a writer as Canada has ever produced. -National Post
A man recalls his father’s…
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Poet Steven Heighton searches for the heart’s true center somewhere between the polarized spheres of order and anarchy, of logic and the erotic, of Apollo and Dionysus. In the book’s…
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Governor General’s Award-finalist Steven Heighton employs his signature blend of emotional fierceness and linguistic beauty to tap into This whim / against what drifts to dark. The Address Book is…
Governor General’s Literary Award finalist and bestselling author Steven Heighton’s considerable dramatic lyric powers reach a new sophistication and intensity in his astonishing collection Patient Frame. From the court of…
A poetry collection of laments and celebrations that reflect on our struggle to believe in the future of a world that continues to disappoint us.
Part poet, part pugilist, Sevigne soon finds himself penning advertising jingles and hundred word plot summaries of classic novels instead of writing his own. Attracted and repelled by the bright…
In 1871 off the coast of Greenland, 19 men, women, and children, cast adrift on an ice floe from their foundering ship, the Arctic explorer Polaris, endured a six-month winter…
Already highly-acclaimed as a poet and short-story writer, The Shadow Boxer announces Steven Heighton’s arrival as a major new novelist on the Canadian literary scene. Intricately patterned and multi-layered, this…
Most people go through life chasing illusions of success, fame, wealth, happiness, and few things are more painful than the reality-revealing loss of an illusion. But if illusions are negative…
The first edition was published by Quarry Press (Kingston, ON) in 1989; the second edition was published by Palimpsest Press (Kingsville, ON) in 2013.
The works of Pan Bouyoucas, Margaret Christakos, and Stavros Tsimicalis, among others, are included in this anthology of vibrant Greek Canadian writing, featuring distinctive voices in experimental fiction, traditional storytelling…
Since selections first appeared in the New Quarterly and the National Post as part of The Afterword, Steven Heighton’s memos and dispatches to himselfa writer’s pointed, cutting take on…
A collection of music and lyrics that form the last unpublished work of one of Canada's most remarkable poets.
Al Purdy
Originally published by Contact Press in 1962, then later by House of Anansi in 1967, and again in a revised, expanded edition in 1972, Poems for All the Annettes stands…
A stray dog befriends an orphan boy in a refugee camp on a Greek island. Based on a true story. –
