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	The Shadow Boxer - A novel by Steven Heighton
		Heighton’s work possesses an epic intensity; his story is as concrete and wonderful as the language in which it is told.
		The main character of Steven Heighton's The Shadow Boxer, Sevigne Torrins, is in the tradition of Wilhelm Meister, Stephen Dedalus and Eugene Gant---a young man fighting to reconcile his appetite for life with his ambition to be a writer, wanting both perfection of the life and perfection of the work.
		Heighton is artful both in conveying atmosphere---he has a sharp eye for the texture of life---and narrating a series of engrossing adventures.
	www.stevenheighton.com /TheShadowBoxer.html (1097 words)

	Flight Paths of the Emperor - Short stories by Steven Heighton
		Steven Heighton's stories aspire to an Ovidian kind of grandeur, singing of bodies, cultures and landscapes both physical and spiritual in states of transformation...
		Heighton is like a young Ondaatje, a superb cratsman at ease in foreign places and distant times, a sympathetic and watchful traveller able to sift through scattered experiences until they acquire meaning.
		Steven Heighton is to be noted as a marvellous storyteller with whole hemispheres to teach.
	www.stevenheighton.com /FlightPathsOfTheEmperor.html (455 words)

	Anne McDermid & Associates-Literary Agency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Heighton, who is also a poet, makes you feel the press and urgency of this adventure by words not deeds.
		Steven Heighton is a poet and fiction writer.
		Heighton is terrific on the group's isolation and Tyson's often laconic responses to it.
	www.mcdermidagency.com /heighton.htm (856 words)

	Eye - Working the body - 05.25.00
		Heighton may be a prolific writer, but he admits the process of writing a novel was far different from writing poems or short stories: "I was such an innocent when I started writing this novel.
		Heighton says he researches his fiction thoroughly, but only after the story is written: "I try to imagine everything first; then I go back and do research and edit it into the book as necessary," he says.
		Heighton says he managed to get in a few good shots himself, but says the experience made it clear he'd be better off sticking with writing.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_05.25.00/arts/heighton.html (914 words)

	The Crown Online
		Heighton's National Best Seller, "Shadow Boxer," depicts the life of an aspiring young writer who decides to box in order to prove himself as a man before becoming a writer.
		Heighton's prose is not overly poetic and retains strong imagery and use of metaphor.
		Heighton has won several awards for his seven books, including the Petra Kenney Award for poetry in 2002, and the National Magazine Awards Gold Medal for fiction in 1992, and he was a finalist for the Governor General's Award in 1995 for The Ecstasy of Skeptics.
	www.thecrown.ca /issues/21-08/poetry.html (391 words)

	Heighton, Steven
		Heighton, Steven, poet, short story writer (b at Toronto, Ont, 14 Aug 1961).
		In On Earth As It Is (1995), his second collection of short fiction, Heighton finds spiritual revelation in the accidental world of human love and mortality.
		His most recent book of poems, The Ecstasy of Skeptics (1994), also investigates the strange overlap of Eros and death, as it includes elegies for friend and poet Tom MARSHALL alongside earthy, passionate love-lyrics.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0010890 (241 words)

	FFWD Weekly - June 29th, 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Heighton is the author of three books of poetry, two collections of stories, 1997’s collection of essays, The Admen Move On Llasa, and now a big debut novel, The Shadow Boxer.
		Heighton writes: "No pockets in a shroud – he was always imparting that wisdom to his son." This image resounds throughout the book, especially in the novel’s final solitary section.
		Heighton was in Calgary just days after a feature in The Globe and Mail attacked his handling of a photo shoot as well as his reticence to comment on other writers.
	www.ffwdweekly.com /Issues/2000/0629/book1.htm (491 words)

	Powell's Books - Afterlands by Steven Heighton
		Steven Heighton's first novel, The Shadow Boxer, was chosen as a 2002 Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly and has been published in five countries.
		Poet and novelist Heighton (The Shadow Boxer) brilliantly riffs off (and presents snippets of) the diary and memoir of real-life Lt. George Tyson, who was among the ice floe denizens; they survived seven more months before being rescued.
		Steven Heighton provocatively fills in the blanks of the documented history of this event by focusing on the suspicions, hungerinduced delusions, and unrequited longings among Lieutenant George Tyson, the American ranking officer, Roland Kruger, an educated German seaman, and Hannah, the party's Inuit interpreter.
	www.powells.com /biblio?show=HARDCOVER:NEW:0618139346:25.00;show_locs=yes (1206 words)

	Steven Heighton
		Steven Heighton is the author of nine books, including the bestselling novel, The Shadow Boxer (published in five countries); essays: The Admen Move on Lhasa; and poetry: 1995 Governor General's Award finalist The Ecstasy of Skeptic and Stalin's Carnival.
		The shifting landscape of the narrative is perfectly paralleled by the shifting Arctic landscape and the wildly changing fate of the hapless souls trapped on the ice floe.
		The Shadow Boxer: "Heighton is a heavyweight[and] proves himself a master of realist narrative.
	www.randomhouse.ca /newface/heighton.php (452 words)

	The Shadow Boxer by Steven Heighton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Heighton is both a poet and a fiction writer who is already successful in Canada, and this should be his breakthrough to the U.S. market.
		Steven Heighton's book is like something written in the 1940s, with all the passion, turmoil and poetry of that era.
		Heighton is loaded with talent and the relationship between Sevigne Torrins and his father is magnificently drawn.
	www.smoothreading.com /literature-fiction/Steven-Heighton/-0618139338.htm (702 words)

	Concordia's Thursday Report
		Heighton’s first novel, The Shadow Boxer, was considered a Best Book of 2000 by the Globe and Mail, while his collection of poetry, The Ecstasy of Skeptics, was nominated for the Governor-General’s Award in 1995.
		This is Heighton’s first time as writer in residence at a university, and he plans to give readings, conduct master classes and work with students’ manuscripts.
		“Steven is a tremendously generous and sympathetic person who’s engaged in the everyday struggle to write something good,” she says.
	ctr.concordia.ca /2002-03/Sept_26/03-Heighton (420 words)

	The Antigonish Review 129: Robert Sandiford review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Like his protagonist, Heighton has suffered his own evolution.
		Heighton writes a poet's prose: exuberant, luxuriant, baroque.
		There are snatches of verse and song, illustrations, passages of essay-like concision on literature and wilderness survival, and a novel within the novel.
	www.antigonishreview.com /bi-129/129-review_robert_sandiford.html (784 words)

	Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		In The Address Book, Steven Heighton chooses to be an outright traditionalist: he puts his wide ranging vocabulary, his fine sense of drama, and his keen feeling for image and metaphor to ancient and honoured uses.
		Heighton works with various traditional forms in this volume, sonnets, rhyming quatrains, terza rima, utilizing half and off rhyme in order to maintain easy idiomatic phrasing.
		The results are interesting poems, but they are as much Heighton’s as they are the original writers’: a collaboration, one might say.
	www.canlit.ca /reviews/unassigned/6529_barbour.html (607 words)

	Y-File
		Heighton read a selection of works from his freshly published book of poems, The Address Book (House of Anansi Press, 2004).
		Heighton also read a passage from his best-selling novel The Shadow Boxer (Knopf Canada, 2000), which was voted Best Book of 2000 by The Globe & Mail, and from Flight Paths of the Emperor (Porcupine’s Quill, 1992), a travel meditation, and Stalin’s Carnival (Quarry Press, 1989).
		Joseph Stalin (Russian political leader from 1929 to 1953) was in his younger years a poet; Heighton has written imagined reconstructions/revisions of some of the dictator's works, explained Unrau.
	www.yorku.ca /yfile/archive/index.asp?Article=2536 (435 words)

	The Admen Move on Lhasa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Laying both them and himself bare, Heighton faces up to the fact - self-evident for those who can bear to look - that as we approach the end of the century, the role of artist, and more specifically the writer, is being diminished perhaps to the point of total irrelevance.
		Revising Spengler, Heighton recasts the postmodern age the `Age of Clowns,' a time when `pain without purpose has made the world retreat behind a leering mask and set the word ``love'' in quotation marks...
		What Heighton actually ends up espousing is another version of what thinkers such as Miller and Colin Falck (Myth, Truth And Literature) term `the flesh made word,' the rerouting and return of literature from abstraction back to the realm of bodily experience.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/681/lhasa42.html (625 words)

	RandomHouse.ca \| Author Spotlight: Steven Heighton
		Steven Heighton is the author of the novel Afterlands, which came out in 2005 in Canada and has recently appeared in the USA, where it was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice.
		In 1872, the USS Polaris sailed for the Arctic on a mission to hoist the U.S. flag at the North Pole.
		Steven Heighton is already recognized as one of the best writers to come to the fore in the nineties, a winner of numerous literary awards, whose work is widely translated.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/author.pperl?authorid=12490 (415 words)

	The Globe and Mail: Go with the floe
		The historical incident upon which Heighton riffs and improvises is the 1871-1872 voyage of the USS Polaris to plant the U.S. flag at the North Pole.
		Heighton quotes both Tyson's published words and surviving field notes, often in tandem, to reveal not only exaggerations endemic to 19th-century explorers but also truths that the era found too raw for its proprieties.
		Heighton's prose is spare as he describes her: "Stiff in the aisle seat of a middle row, Tukulito sees that her daughter is struggling.
	www.theglobeandmail.com /servlet/story/RTGAM.20050909.bkafte/BNStory/SpecialEvents (864 words)

	Granta: Steven Heighton
		Steven Heighton was born in Toronto in 1961 and grew up there and in Red Lake, Ontario.
		He read English Literature at Queen's University and after doing his MA he left Canada in 1986 to travel around Japan; after six months travelling he decided to stay for a further year, funding his stay by teaching English.
		Written with unique lyricism and humour, this New Grub Street for the nineties confirms Steven Heighton as one of Canada's most talented and entertaining writers.
	www.granta.com /authors/38 (205 words)

	randomhouse.com \| ONLINE CATALOG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		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.
		"Steven Heighton is a writer of high intelligence and wit, an immaculate and sesualist stylist whose prose moves fluidly from the acerbic to the erotic." --Janette Turner Hospital
		Steven Heighton is the author of six previous books, including award-winning stories: Flight Paths of the Emperor and On earth as it is; essays: The Admen Move on Lhasa; and poetry: 1995 Governor General's Award finalist The Ecstasy of Skeptics and Stalin's Carnival.
	www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl/display.pperl?0676973590&view=print (411 words)

	Banff Centre Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Steven Heighton was born in Toronto and raised there and in Red Lake, northern Ontario.
		He has also lived and worked in Alberta, British Columbia, and Japan, and now lives with his family in Kingston, Ontario, where from 1988 to 1994 he edited Quarry Magazine.
		For 2002–2003 Heighton was Writer-in-Residence at Concordia University in Montreal, and in 2004 was Writer-in-Residence at the University of Toronto, Massey College.
	www.banffcentre.ca /press/contributors/ghi/heighton_s (67 words)

	Alibris: Heighton
		"Steven Heighton's vivid, clear prose is charged with strong emotions.
		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.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Heighton (411 words)

	Steven Heighton -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Steven Heighton -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Steven Heighton (born 1961 in (Click link for more info and facts about Toronto, Ontario) Toronto, Ontario) is a (A river rising in northeastern New Mexico and flowing eastward across the Texas panhandle to become a tributary of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma) Canadian novelist and poet.
		He currently lives in (Click link for more info and facts about Kingston, Ontario) Kingston, Ontario.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/S/St/Steven_Heighton.htm (113 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Address Book: Poems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Nowhere is Heighton’s taste for the sonorous smack of words more obvious than in the final section of his The Address Book, called “Fifteen approximations”, which contains a marvellous array of translations from such poets as Arthur Rimbaud, Rainer Maria Rilke, Sappho and Horace.
		Notice how Heighton captures a boat’s lurching sensation in stanzas 4 and 5, using enjambment and caesurae to slop the rhythm back and forth.
		Heighton seem caught between attending to a private and potentially moving experience and reporting unimportant details; caught, to put it another way, between the sudden awe that inspires poems and the distracted self that pens them.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/088784698X (927 words)

	Vehicule Press - Titles - Musings: An Anthology of Greek-Canadian Literature
		In association with Steven Heighton and Helen Tsiriotakis
		Musings is a selection of some of the best Greek-Canadian literature, and includes stories and poems by Pan Bouyoucas, Margaret Christakos, Steven Heighton, Stavros Tsimicalis, and many others.
		Steven Heighton's work has been translated into several languages and has been nominated for the Governor General's Award, the Trillium Award, and Britain's W.H. Smith Award.
	www.vehiculepress.com /titles/382.html (210 words)

	On Earth As It Is by Steven Heighton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		On Earth As It Is by Steven Heighton
		"Steven Heighton is a writer of high intelligence and wit, an immaculate and sensuous stylist whose prose moves fluidly from the acerbic to the erotic." ?Janette Turner Hospital
		"Heighton writes convincingly?switching smoothly between lyricism and the erotic, between grandeur and elegiac mood.
	www.smoothreading.com /literature-fiction/Steven-Heighton/-0889841519.htm (290 words)

	Review \| Afterlands by Steven Heighton
		On April 30th they were rescued by the incredulous captain of a passing steamer.
		Their six months' ordeal is the history authour Steven Heighton uses to build his tale of betrayal, bravery and unrequited love.
		Their survival, though fact, is the stuff of fiction.
	www.januarymagazine.com /fiction/afterlands.html (688 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Afterlands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		At the heart of Afterlands is an ambiguous hero, the disgraced German sailor Roland Kruger whose true-life bravery has inspired Heighton to create a complex, brooding, rebellious and mysteriously gentle central character.
		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.
		But the voyage floundered, and half of the survivors — nineteen in all — were cast adrift on an ice floe off Ellesmere Island.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0676976778 (456 words)

	Klondike Sun
		Steven Heighton had Berton House on his mind for a long time before he managed to get here.
		Aside from that, Heighton is one of those rare writers who actually makes a living from his words instead of working at something for a living and writing when he can squeeze it in.
		Typewriters are for letters, longhand is for first drafts of poems and his laptop comes into play for other forms of writing, or when the first inspiration has cooled and it's time to get to the second draft.
	www.yukonweb.com /community/dawson/klondike_sun/oct26-01.htmld (4131 words)

	Toronto Life Contests (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Meanwhile, the novel’s rich cast of characters contends with startling revelations about their youth and the pressing, perennial problems of love, vocation, and family.
		Steven Heighton’s mystical novel tells the story of an 1871 expedition to plant an American flag at the North Pole.
		The stories of three main characters are intertwined with the experience of being lost on an ice floe and returning home to a changed world.
	www.torontolife.com /contests/detail_contest_start.cfm?contest_id=114 (624 words)

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