Steven Heighton
Author
Publisher
Biblioasis
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2023 • One of CBC Books Best Books of 2023 • One of the Globe 100's Best Books of 2023
"To say Heighton is an immensely talented writer is true enough but insufficient ... As good a writer as Canada has ever produced."
—National Post
The unforgettable last collection by the bestselling author of The Shadow Boxer
A man
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Publisher
Biblioasis
Language
English
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"A poet's firsthand account of a month volunteering on the frontlines of the Syrian refugee crisis. In the fall of 2015, Steven Heighton made an overnight decision to travel to the frontlines of the Syrian refugee crisis in Greece and enlist as a volunteer. He arrived on the isle of Lesvos with a duffel bag and a dubious grasp of Greek, his mother's native tongue, and worked on the landing beaches and in OXY---a jerrybuilt, ad hoc transit camp providing...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
In 1871, nineteen men, women, and children, voyaging on the Arctic explorer USS Polaris found themselves cast adrift on an ice floe as their ship began to founder. Based on one of the most remarkable events in polar history, Afterlands tells the haunting story of this small society of castaways -- a white and a black American, five Germans, a Dane, a Swede, an Englishman, and two Inuit families -- and the harrowing six months they spend marooned in...
Author
Publisher
Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"On the island of Cyprus, in the overgrown ruins of Varosha--a resort town abandoned since the Turkish invasion of 1974--a secret village thrives. Here, a community of resourceful exiles and refugees lives under the radar of the Turkish authorities, thanks to the good-natured, cheerfully corrupt Colonel Kaya. Each villager has his or her own cryptic reasons for hiding among the lemon and olive trees, for trying to keep the outside world at bay. Into...