PRAISE FOR STEVEN HEIGHTON AND THE WAKING COMES LATE: Winner, Governor General''s Literary Award for Poetry "A highly evolved work from a writer who, ''in the early evening of a life,'' is a master of form and sound . From one of Canada''s finest lyricists, here are beautiful, wise poems glittering with music, echoes, and subtle rhyme." -- Miranda Pearson "Steven Heighton''s The Waking Comes Late is a journey deepening as we read. He locates the complexities of the personal in a wide range of social issues, while playing masterfully with language, form, and tone. His stunning political poems never descend to pedantry or the prosaic. A mature work: smart, moving, inventive, original." -- Jury Citation, Governor General''s Literary Award For Poetry PRAISE FOR STEVEN HEIGHTON AND PATIENT FRAME: Winner, P.K.
Page Founders'' Award for Poetry Winner, National Magazine Award Longlist, ReLit Awards "A supremely cohesive and coherent performance . the poems speak to (or with) readers, a rare anomaly in these times . Heighton works (and plays) with words in wondrous ways few contemporary poets even dream of attempting, let alone conquering." -- Judith Fitzgerald, Globe and Mail "This book has tremendous range, covering subjects both personal and political, and employing forms as diverse as elegy, ballad, haiku, sonnet, and dramatic monologue . a very good collection." -- Quill & Quire "Steven Heighton again demonstrates that he is one of Canada''s most ambitious writers." -- Winnipeg Review "Steven Heighton continues to top his own oeuvre with Patient Frame, a sharp framing and reframing of an ever-widening poetic gaze that captures its subjects, detail after exuberant detail, at thirty images a thought." -- Winnipeg Free Press "Formally elegant and morally resonant .
Full of those frissons of recognition that make reading poetry a way of reintroducing one to one''s own soul." -- Vehicule Blog "Thematic urgency and a prevailing freshness of content and technique make Patient Frame an exciting collection." -- Foreword Reviews PRAISE FOR STEVEN HEIGHTON AND THE ADDRESS BOOK: "Sombre and beautiful . If you love great poetry''s centripetal intensities, you''ll have no problem with [this book] . In the book''s last section, Rimbaud''s ''The Drunken Boat'' and fourteen other heavyweight classics are stunningly translated." -- Globe and Mail "[An] exquisite collection . The Address Book is a portrait of an artist as an older, more experienced man, whose stories teem with enough stirring ferocity to stamp a lasting impression." -- Quill & Quire "A rich and challenging collection .
the craft is anchored securely to genuine emotion." -- Montreal Gazette "Arrestingly beautiful and never banal . authoritative and intoxicating . stylistically and formally various . [Heighton] is a singer in an age-old tradition pursuing his serious craft." -- Journal of Canadian Poetry "His poetry is resonant and adjectival, technically accomplished . [and] his stance is authentic . I defy anyone to read his "2001, an Elegy" and not melt over its closing lines.
" -- Vancouver Sun PRAISE FOR STEVEN HEIGHTON AND THE ECSTASY OF SKEPTICS: Finalist, Governor General''s Literary Award for Poetry "Simply the most exciting book of poetry published this year." -- Globe and Mail "A sensitively conceived collection strong in poetic form, lyricism and emotion . a virtuoso performance." -- Governor General''s Literary Award Jury Citation "Heighton has an unfailing sense of rhythm and sound, and his poems surprise with their intelligence and vividness . [but] it''s the honesty in these poems that sets them apart, their open lustfulness, grief, or joy, and the ease with which Heighton contrasts this with intellectual reserve." -- Malahat Review "A richly energetic collection." -- Stand (U.K.
) "Poems shaped by a spiritual fierceness . vivid and resonant, alive with a kind of palpable energy." -- Montreal Gazette "The beauty of this young poet''s work . stays with you after you put down the book." -- Kingston Whig-Standard "Exciting, complex, and often brilliant." -- The Printed Word PRAISE FOR STEVEN HEIGHTON AND FOREIGN GHOSTS: "Introduces a major new voice . Written in a style that is both elegant and free-flowing . Throughout Foreign Ghosts the resonances keep growing.
" -- Montreal Gazette PRAISE FOR STEVEN HEIGHTON AND STALIN''S CARNIVAL: "Hearing the vibrancy and veering turns and wind-sprint syntax in these poems lit me up long before I''d begun to think through their thematic worries . This collection has ambition, crisis, honesty, music, heart-break, and beauty all placing the human voice under a severe strain, and the voice is up to it." -- Ken Babstock "Stalin''s Carnival is a collection of very powerful poems." -- Irving Layton.