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Tucked away on Toronto’s historic bpNichol Lane, Coach House Books has been publishing and printing high-quality innovative fiction and poetry since 1965. Coach House is Canada’s most venerable literary press and has, during the past forty years, published books by Michael Ondaatje, George Bowering, bpNichol, Nicole Brossard, Christian Bök, Guy Maddin, Steve McCaffery, Gail Scott, Jonathan Goldstein, Anne Michaels, Michael Redhill and hundreds of others. A refuge for the refined, an asylum for the aesthete, a sanctuary for the scribe.

Spring Forward with Coach House

Get your pruning shears and gardening gloves ready. Coach House Books' spring titles will soon bloom forth in events and bookstores across the country. This April and May, witness the debut of Maggie Helwig's Girls Fall Down, Claudia Dey's Stunt, RM Vaughan's Troubled, Jordan Scott's Blert, Jen Currin's Hagiography. and Practical Dreamers: Conversations with Movie Artists by Mike Hoolboom.

Don't just commit, overcommit!

Utopia Commitment

Get all three books in the uTOpia series – uTOpia: Towards a New Toronto, The State of the Arts: Living with Culture in Toronto and GreenTOpia: Towards a Sustainable Toronto – for $60 including GST and shipping (in Canada), a savings of more than 25%

Price: A meagre $60.00

Fall 2007 Commitment

Clear out your bookshelves to make way for the Coach House Fall Commitment. Get all 10 of our titles – Pulpy and Midge, Twenty Miles, The Alphabet Game, Sitcom, The Work of Days, Isolated: Two Plays, Age of Arousal, GreenTOpia: Towards a Sustainable Toronto, Concrete Toronto: A Guide to Concrete Architecture from the Fifties to the Seventies, Reel Asian: Asian Canada on Screen – for a bargain-basement $175, including GST and shipping (in Canada). That's more than 25% off!

Price: An economical $175.00

Toronto Commitment

Essential reading for Torontonians new and old: uTOpia: Towards a New Toronto, The State of the Arts: Living with Culture in Toronto and GreenTOpia: Towards a Sustainable Toronto, Concrete Toronto: A Guide to Concrete Architecture from the Fifties to the Seventies and East/West: Where People Live in Toronto. Get all five books on your doorstep all for just a hundred smackers. Whatta bargain!

Price: A reasonable $100.00

Recent items in the Coffee Room...

Publishers Weekly reviews The Alphabet Game

Excerpt:

'Unfailingly intelligent and engaging, with an emphasis on Nichol's ingenious visual play with words and images, making this the single best introduction to an essential writer.'

Reviewer: Publishers Weekly

Publication: Publishers Weekly

May 20 | Al Purdy Statue Unveiled

Start: May 20 2008 - 4:30pm

End: May 20 2008 - 6:30pm

This one isn't a Coach House event, but probably will be of interest to CanLit fans all over:

On Tuesday, May 20, Toronto's Poet Laureate Pier Giorgio Di Cicco and the City of Toronto unveil the Al Purdy memorial statue in the east side of Toronto's Queen's Park.

Purdy was often considered one of Canada's best and best-loved poets. The winner of two Governor General's Award, the late, great Al Purdy's statue will be unveiled on Tuesday afternoon.

Al Purdy Memorial Statue Unveiling
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Queen's Park North (east side of Queen's Park Circle)
Toronto, ON

The Globe and Mail is dazzled by Stunt

Excerpt:

'Finely wrought, her prose a wondrous compression of poetry, her carnival of characters drawn in gripping detail, and the riot of fantastical yet gritty imagery all shot through with a keen and relentless sadness. The sheer density of the imagery and vivid characterizations makes you slow right down to enjoy every sentence. You want to read this novel carefully; you want to read it again.'

Reviewer: Nikki Barrett

Publication: Globe and Mail

Concrete Toronto on Open Book Toronto

How much does Alexander Herman dislike concrete architecture? You can read for yourself how much in his article on Open Book Toronto. He likes, the book, though ...

http://www.openbooktoronto.com/kickstart/blog/city_concrete

The City of Concrete

What does Toronto stand for? Well, it's a good question and one that I imagine has bugged more than a few contributors to this site. Ever since my earliest memories of moving to the city at the age of four, Toronto has been searching for an identity. At least in my mind. Maybe it's because I've never belonged to one of those lucky groups who rarely seem to lose sleep over questions of Toronto's civic identity: the hockey players, the bankers, the immigrants. In fact, those groups are likely the best representatives of the city and the uniqueness it has to offer.