PRESS

of Red Bird
 
Surprise is on the menu in Ian Roy's collection, whether the subject is a cat burial, a heron waiting for its supper, or a mess of sardines on a cannery floor. Strong visual details predominate with an attention given to the backdrops in which the author's hapless subjects appear.
            —Arc Poetry Magazine

of The Longest Winter
 
...it is the kind of quiet, plainly written stuff that can make you ache unexpectedly in places you didn't think were still alive.
            —The Coast (Halifax)
 
of People Leaving
 
Ottawa writer Ian Roy, in the stories that make up People Leaving, has produced work that one hopes will represent just the beginning of a prolific career.
            —The Antigonish Review
 
Ian Roy offers a debut in which place is almost irrelevant, receding before a boundless geography of love and loss.
            —The Globe and Mail
 
Roy is a conscientious craftsman, one who breathes life into his fictional people the same way any competent writer does, with telling dialogue, crisp language and a firm sense of narrative structure.
            —The Toronto Star