So Far from Home is a record of Lorne Shirinian's personal attempt to understand his father's journey as an orphan survivor of the Armenian Genocide from his home in Turkey to his new home in Canada. Shirinian uses a multi-genre approach to bring his father's story to light. Through a formal essay, a documentary film (dvd included), and poetry, Shirinian places his father's life in context and lays bare the emotional nature of his father's survival and how it affected him throughout his life. More Information
	Love Hemorrhage George and Lenny Flowers, two disgraced ex-detectives from Toronto travel to Kingston to greet their stepdaughter, Heidi Boa, a lounge singer just returned from engagements in Germany, only to find that she has been murdered and thrown in a dumpster behind an apartment building. A former famous actress is then found murdered in the same building. The police suspect Nolan Scrub, an obsessive-compulsive young man recently fired from his job. More Information
	When Darkness Falls Upon Us Lorne Shirinian’s new collection of stories explores, in part, the lives of deportees and refugees from war zones who find themselves at a physical and metaphorical border. Some hope to cross that precarious zone, which offers escape and the possibility of a better life; however, getting across entails a cost, and what awaits them on the other side is unknown. More Information
	Under Fire: The Canadian Imagination and War On February 12, 2003, the Department of English at the Royal Military College of Canada hosted a conference titled Under Fire: The Canadian Imagination and War. This was the first such conference of its kind and was enthusiastically received by the academic community and the general public. The essays in this collection from the conference offer an insight into this often forgotten aspect of Canadian literature and art. More Information
	The Landscape of Memory: Perspectives on the Armenian Diaspora Blue Heron Press is pleased to announce the publication of new collection of essays on the Armenian diaspora, The Landscape of Memory: Perspectives on the Armenian Diaspora, by Lorne Shirinian. More Information
	This Dark Thing: Two One-Act Plays Blue Heron Press is pleased to announce the publication of an exciting new collection of plays, This Dark Thing: Two One-Act Plays, by Lorne Shirinian. The two plays, This Dark Thing and Red Threads on White Cloth are an exploration of the explosive forces that can lead to genocide and the need for survivors to tell of their experience. More Information
	Exile in the Cradle The characters in Exile in the Cradle are confronted with the looming threat of loss through death, assimilation, and acculturation. More Information
	Memory's Orphans Memory's Orphans is a new collection of short fiction from Lorne Shirinian that explores the themes of memory and forgetting in eleven stories. Below is the table of contents followed by the second of two prefaces to the collection. More Information
	The Armenian Genocide: Resisting the Inertia of Indifference Lorne Shirinian and Alan Whitehorn have collaborated on this project to offer a contemporary understanding of the events of the Armenian Genocide and their relevance to Canadian society today. More Information
	History of Armenia and Other Fiction Lorne Shirinian's third book of stories. This new collection is divided into four sections: "History of Armenia", "Wolfe Island Mystery", "Forced Departures" and "Face Down". More Information
	Rough Landing Lorne Shirinian's fourth book of poetry. In this new book, he writes on a wide variety of themes such as aging, love, the Armenian Genocide and life in the Armenian diaspora. More Information
	The Blue Heron Press Anthology: New Voices from Kingston The Blue Heron Press Anthology gathers new work from four writers who make Kingston, Ontario, their home. More Information
OUT OF PRINT	Survivor Memoirs of the Armenian Genocide An excellent introduction to survivor memoirs of the Armenian Genocide in Armenian diaspora literature. Shirinian's analysis is primarily through a literary perspective and focuses on American-Armenian publications. More Information
	Quest For Closure: The Armenian Genocide and the Search for Justice in Canada Quest for Closure is the first book to treat this subject matter and brings to light new information and analyses to be shared with Canadians and others interested in human rights issues. More Information
	Writing Memory: The Search for Home in Armenian Diaspora Literature as Cultural Practice In Writing Memory contains six essays and an afterword, in which Shirinian speculates as to the future of Armenian diaspora culture. More Information

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