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Sean Arthur Joyce better known in the Kootenays as Art Joyce, has
published two books of regional history and in 2014 published
Laying the Children's Ghosts to Rest: Canada's Home Children in the
West (Hagios Press).
Joyce's poems and essays on poetics have appeared in Canadian,
American, and British literary journals. In 2016 his poetics
treatise, "A New Romanticism for the 21st Century," appeared in the
peer-reviewed journal Canadian Poetry from the University of
Western Ontario. His poetry has appeared in several anthologies,
both Canadian and international, most recently in the Corbel Stone
Press Contemporary Poetry series (UK 2017), Nanaimo Public Library
anthology and Fire & Sky, a fundraiser for victims of the Ft.
McMurray, Alberta firestorm of 2016.
New Orphic Publishers of Nelson, BC, Canada has published three
collections of his poetry: The Charlatans of Paradise, Star Seeds,
and The Price of Transcendence.
In 2016 he produced his second poetry video, Dead Crow: Prologue,
with music soundtrack composed by Noel Fudge and video production
by Isaac Carter of ICandyFilms. A live version of the performance
toured the Kootenays in Fall 2016.
Mountain Blues is his first novel.
Praise for Mountain Blues:
"Readers who identify with this altruistic quest will be
rewarded."
~ Angie Abdou, Canadian Literature
"Sean Arthur Joyce uses a light, deft touch for topics that could
be heavily righteous slogging. His characters are 3-D West Kootenay
classics and his dialogue is a delight to 'hear' as it is so
realistic in its rhythms that it sets each distinct character apart
from the next: no easy feat. The humour, gentle and tolerant,
reminds us that when we live in a small community, the most sound
advice would be: Let your words be gentle in case they come back to
bite you."
~ Caroline Woodward, The Ormsby Review
"Mountain Blues is rich with characters and setting. Joyce's fresh
voice gently reels you in, hooking you with delicious humour,
eccentric characters and insights into what it means to live in the
Kootenays."
~ Garry Ryan, author of the Detective Lane mysteries
"Joyce has written the kind of novel that makes you want to locate
his ideal community and move there immediately. And the kind that
keeps you reading to see what happens when local solidarity pits
itself against government penury and intractability. Poet, author
and journalist, Joyce brings a unique toolbox of writing skills to
bear in Mountain Blues that makes for crisp, lyrical prose, an
engaging narrative, memorable characters, including an emotionally
articulate cat, and a lightness of touch that is as surprising as
it is delightful in a début novel."
~ Gary Geddes, author of Medicine Unbundled and The Resumption of
Play
"Sean Arthur Joyce captures perfectly the contrast between the
stunning landscapes of BC's West Kootenay region and the struggle
to construct and protect a community."
~ Tom Wayman, author of Helpless Angels and The Shadows We Mistake
for Love
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