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A collection of music and lyrics that form the last unpublished work of one of Canada's most remarkable poets.

A triumph of storytelling from one of Canada's most acclaimed writers -- a gripping, beautiful novel that explores the themes of human complicity in allegiance and betrayal, and the sacrifices that are demanded in order to survive. In 1871, the US government sent out an expedition to plant the American flag at the North Pole. But the voyage floundered, and half of the survivors -- nineteen in all -- were cast adrift on an ice floe off Ellesmer...

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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 advice on how to save a drowning person, but struggles to come to terms with its application. Locked down with his new partner and her aging cat, a recovering alcoholic must continue learning how to balance control and vulnerability. When his husband dies, a son's request o...

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PREVIOUS COLLECTION WON THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD: Steven Heighton's previous poetry collection, The Waking Comes Late, received the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry, among other acclaim. This return to poetry after five years will get a lot of buzz.ACCLAIMED AUTHOR IN MANY FORMS AND GENRES:Apart from his award-winning and highly acclaimed poetry collections, Steven Heighton is also the author of several works of fictio...

A poet's firsthand account of a month volunteering on the frontlines of the Syrian refugee crisis.

Based on a true story. Steve met the real-life Kanella when he spent a month in 2015 volunteering at a refugee camp on Lesbos.Steve's adult memoir about his time in Lesbos is also being released in Fall 2020, to be published by Biblioasis. Always an in-demand presenter, he will be able to do double-duty at writers' festivals in the fall, as well as participating in the accompanying school-visits programs.This book has been written for an early...

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 is the story of Sevigne Torrins, poet and boxer, who sets off into the world to make it, and whose romantic and professional misadventures take him as far as Egypt before he finds his way back to the Great Lakes. But the classic writ...

The interlocking worlds of the erotic and the religious are explored in the novella and ten stories in this collection. The stories range through time and space, from present-day Toronto to the nineteenth-century high Arctic, from the Greek Islands to Kathmandu, from a tunnel under Vimy Ridge in 1915 where a Canadian sentry hears his enemy singing through the wall, to a tourist town in the Rockies where a painter and her dying husband make lov...

An astoundingly original and tightly curated collection of stories from the award-winning author of Every Lost Country and Afterlands. It is remarkably easy to accept Al Purdy's assertion that Steven Heighton--renowned for his craftsmanship, risk-taking, insight and range--"is one of the best writers of his generation, maybe the best." The Dead Are More Visible highlights his strengths at writing fiction that does not sacrifice humour, depth a...

From internationally acclaimed and Governor General's Award-winning author Steven Heighton comes a passionate novel of buried secrets, the repercussions of war and finding love among the ruinsElias Trifannis is desperate to belong somewhere. To make his dying ex-cop father happy, he joins the military-but in Afghanistan, by the time he realizes his last-minute bid for connection was a terrible mistake, it's too late and a tragedy has occurred....

Since selections first appeared in the New Quarterly and the National Post as part of "The Afterword, " Steven Heighton's memos and dispatches to himself - a writer's pointed, cutting take on his own work and the work of writing - have been tweeted and retweeted, discussed and tacked to bulletin boards everywhere. Coalesced, compl...

A fresh and provocative picture of what it means to create literature, this collection of Steven Heighton's notes to himself as he writes peeks into the mind of an acclaimed author. The short pieces reveal Heighton's pointed, cutting take on his own work and materialize the musings and meditations that come to him as he scribbles. Offering new perspectives and insights into the creative process, this wholly original book shows what lies outsid...

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 central section, matched, facing poems collide in dialogue and argue, or harmonize, as the search goes on through near and distant times and places.

The Address Book" is a collection of beautifully crafted poems of love and loss. They are united by bitter complaint and grief, feelings that are only fought off by music and intelligence. Elegiac, angry, tender, and brazenly heart-felt, the poems achieve their effect through total immersion in the rich palette of human emotions, and a willingness to tap into "This whim / against what drifts to dark." The book's second half includes Heighton's...

Governor General's Literary Award finalist and bestselling author Steven Heighton returns with a collection of laments and celebrations that reflect on our struggle to believe in the future of a world that continues to disappoint us. The poet challenges the boundaries of sleep and even death in these meditations on what lies just beneath the surface of contemporary life. These are poems that trouble over the idea of failure even as they contin...

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 ordeal before finally being rescued the following spring. In "Afterlands, " Heighton provocatively fills in the blanks of the documented history of this event.

Best-selling author Steven Heighton's considerable dramatic lyric powers reach a new sophistication and intensity in the astonishing new collection "Patient Frame." The book ranges from the court of the Medicis to the Mai Lai massacre, from love for a daughter and mother, through nightmare and displacement, to moments of painful acceptance, and from erotic passion to situations of deep moral failure. Heighton's work has long shown a resolve to...

This is the story of Sevigne Torrins, poet and boxer, who sets out to make it in the world but whose sexual and professional misadventures take him from a demanding, muscular boyhood on the shores of Lake Superior to the trendy, bohemian life of Toronto and even to Egypt. In the tradition of such classics as LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL and JUDE THE OBSCURE, THE SHADOW BOXER is that rarest of contemporary performances, an ambitious, unabashedly romant...