Steven C Heighton

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 cl...

From internationally acclaimed 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 ...

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...

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 as one of the essential documents of the great Al Purdy’s career. So many beloved poems are here"At Roblin Lake," "At the Quinte H...

“The longer you stare at the mountain, the more it seems a refuge above human bordersand distinctions and this constant dialogue of violence. Up there, he’d hoped, he and Sophie could step away from trouble for a while.”Lewis Book, a doctor with a history of embroiling himself in conflicts, and his ...

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 ev...

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 thes...