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Matthew Tierney’s Probably Inevitable wins the Trillium Book Award for Poetry

Coach House author Matthew Tierney is among the winners of the 2013 Trillium Book Awards, Ontario’s prestigious literature awards. Tierney received the Trillium Book Award for Poetry in the English Language category, which carries a $10,000 prize for his third poetry collection, Probably Inevitable.

Coach House congratulates Griffin winner David McFadden

Coach House Books was delighted to learn that poet David McFadden was named the Canadian winner of the Griffin International Poetry Prize for his book, What's the Score? (Mansfield Press).

Celebrate Pride with our Marriage Equality Sale!

June is LGBTQ Pride Month, and you know Coach House (unlike some mayors) is keen to celebrate that fact. Coach House has published some of Canada's finest queer writers for decades, but our June Marriage Equality Sale is a little bit different. Instead of focusing on our gay and lesbian writers, we're celebrating marriage equality.

Coach House Printing operations featured in the Globe and Mail

June 8, 2013 — Coach House Printing was the first subject of a 'Toronto, Brought to Light,' a new feature in the Toronto section of the weekend Globe and Mail . Photographer Fred Lum documented our presses with some impressive equipment of his own, including a Hasselblad 6x6 camera (take that, Instagram!).

Andrew Faulkner is Open Book Toronto's Writer-in-Residence for June

June 3, 2013 — Need Machine poet Andrew Faulkner is this month's Writer-in-Residence for Open Book Toronto.

Coach House Offers Free Digital Downloads with Print Purchase!

Coach House now offers free digital downloads with the purchase of any print edition (provided, of course, the book currently exists in e-format). You buy one of our print books, the electronic book is yours for the taking.

Coach House Books? There's an app for that!

Download the free Coach House Coffee Room app, designed to make it easier to keep up with our press and our authors, wherever you might find yourself.

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Check out footage from our Spring Launch in Toronto

Missed our Spring Launch event in Toronto last month? We're sure you have a valid excuse, but if you're curious about what went on, check out these clips of readers Andrew Faulkner, Tamara Faith Berger, Nicolas Billon, David Seymour, Andrew Kaufman and John Goldbach taking the stage at The Garrison.

Watch a second trailer for David Seymour's For Display Purposes Only

David Seymour has again collaborated with filmmaker Jeremy Munce to make another stunning book trailer based on Seymour's poem 'Super Slo-Mo.' 'Super Slo-Mo' is just one of the featured poems in the acclaimed collection For Display Purposes Only. As with their previous short film, 'Eyewitness Testimony,' it stars a number of Canadian poets and novelists.

Events

June 19 | The Fish Quill Poetry Boat Tour stops in Cambridge

This year's Fish Quill Poetry Tour, which includes poets/canoers Leigh Kotsilidis and David Seymour, stops in Cambridge, with special guests rare Charitable Research Reserve and Cambridge Public Library Poetry Contest winner Rebecca Sibley.

June 21 | Christian Bök and Caroline Bergvall read at The Power Plant in Toronto

Experimental authors Christian Bök (Eunoia, and his forthcoming work The Xenotext) and Caroline Bergvall, both participating artists in Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art, will perform live renditions of their work at the Power Plant's Summer 2013 Opening Party.

June 22 | Coach House authors go on A Literary Picnic - Toronto

If you go down to the park on June 4, you're in for a big surprise: a bevy of Coach House authors will be in Trinity Bellwoods Park for A Literary Picnic, a celebration of storytelling and Toronto's vibrant writing community.

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Little Cat

Tamara Faith Berger

224 pp, Paperback

$19.95 CAD