Books written by Steven Heighton

The Shadow Boxer

Anson McWilliams played a demo of three of the tracks to some key people at the new label and he said they were “more excited than ever.” You have to take whatever Anson says with a grain of salt, but they're good songs after all.
The Rogue Idea

The Rogue Idea
Afterlands: A Novel

Steven Heighton, author of The Shadow Boxer, has taken this piece of history and fashioned a novel that follows the stories of three of the participants over the six month ordeal and the shadows it casts over the rest of their lives: Roland ...
Flight Paths of the Emperor

In a century, if my sons and their descendants persevere, it may be small enough to fit inside my skull.' [From THE HISTORY OF BONSAI] ... Seen from behind, her ebony hair tied back in a bun reminded me of my mother. As did her accent, ...
The Nightingale Won't Let You Sleep

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 ruins Elias Trifannis is desperate to belong ...
Afterlands

Afterlands is a novel rich with unrequited love, divided loyalty and unsettled scores. This novel is a triumph of storytelling from one of Canada’s most acclaimed writers.
Musings: An Anthology of Greek-Canadian Literature

Here is a vibrant community with many voices--experimental fiction, traditional storytelling, crisp poetry--anthologized for the first time.
The Stray and the Strangers

Based on a true story, a stray dog befriends an orphan boy in a refugee camp on a Greek island.
Afterlands: A Novel

Based on an incredible true story, Afterlands envisions in vivid detail both the life-and-death challenges of the harsh landscape and the violent human threats of nationalism, ethnicity, rivalries, suspicion, hunger, and love.
The Address Book: Poems

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...
Shadow Boxer

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 ...
Every Lost Country

Lawson is further enraged when Amaris, a Chinese-Canadian filmmaker recording the expedition, joins Book with her camcorder in hand.
Afterlands

In "Afterlands," Heighton provocatively fills in the blanks of the documented history of this event.
Every Lost Country

Lawson is further enraged when Amaris, a Chinese-Canadian filmmaker recording the expedition, joins Book with her camcorder in hand.
The Virtues of Disillusionment

In this essay based on his inaugural writer-in-residence lecture at Athabasca University, internationally acclaimed writer Steven Heighton mathematically evaluates the paradox of disillusionment and the negative aspects of hope.
The Shadow Boxer: A Novel

Poet-boxer Sevigne Torrins struggle to find his place in the world as he experiences a series of professional and sexual misadventures that take him from his youth on the shores of Lake Superior, to trendy Toronto, to Egypt.