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Steven Heighton

Steven Heighton's most recent book is Reaching Mithymna: Among the Volunteers and Refugees on Lesvos, which was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Prize, and Selected Poems 1983-2020.
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July/August 2021 / Poetry

Dream Fragment

June 11, 2021July 21, 2022 - by Steven Heighton

Who among us up here / wouldn’t want his love, her love / to carry a trace that clear

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Arts & Culture

Hope Is Good. Disappointment Is Better

November 19, 2020November 20, 2020 - by Steven Heighton

What the best novels teach us about the virtues of disillusionment

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July/August 2018 / Poetry

Why I Wrote a Poem Imagining Donald Trump’s Attempted Assassination

July 30, 2018April 27, 2022 - by Steven Heighton

Listen to Steven Heighton read “Fake News,” in which an American bodyguard imagines taking a bullet for his president

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Arts & Culture

Digital Distraction Is Bad for Creativity

November 30, 2017July 21, 2022 - by Steven Heighton

What a silent evening with an author I admired taught me about solitude and writing well

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Fiction / January/February 2017

An Occurrence on the Beach at Varosha

December 16, 2016April 7, 2020 - by Steven Heighton

The evening’s last light has drained out of the sky behind the procession of dead hotels lining the beach. Up to twenty storeys high, they were built so close together …

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March 2012 / Poetry

Baffled in Ashdod, Blind in Gaza

March 12, 2012July 20, 2017 - by Steven Heighton

E.A.: former Israeli Defence Forces soldier who, in August 2010, posted photos of herself smiling beside bound and blindfolded Palestinian prisoners. She labelled her Facebook album “The army… best time …

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Baffled in Ashdod, Blind in Gaza

January 11, 2012October 6, 2018 - by Steven Heighton
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April 2010 / Fiction

Bystanders

April 12, 2010July 21, 2022 - by Steven Heighton

Air this thin turns anyone into a mystic. Dulling the mind, it dulls distinctions, slurs the border between abstractions—right and wrong—or apparent opposites—dead and alive, past and present, you and …

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Fiction / November 2009

Noughts & Crosses

November 12, 2009October 11, 2019 - by Steven Heighton

– – – – – Original Message – – – – – From: <j.in.corydon@hotmail.com> To: <nella_biagini@sympatico.ca> Sent: April 22, 2007 1:16 AM Subject: RE: Hello? n, yes yes i did …

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March 2009 / Poetry

Some Other Just Ones

March 12, 2009July 21, 2022 - by Steven Heighton

The printer who sets this page with skill, though he may not admire it. singers of solo expertise who defer and find harmonies instead. Anyone whose skeleton is susceptible to …

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