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Short film on Patrick Cummins's Toronto photography to premiere at Hot Docs

March 19, 2013 — The 2013 Hot Docs Film Festival lineup was announced earlier today, and we're pretty sure you won't want to miss Impermanence of the Ordinary, which profiles the work of photographer Patrick Cummins. Cummins's images, documenting over 30 years of Toronto's messy urbanism, are collected in Full Frontal T.O., released last year by Coach House.

The Politics of Knives shortlisted for a Manitoba Book Award

Rejoice! Jonathan Ball's The Politics of Knives has been shortlisted for the Manitoba Book Awards' Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry/Prix Lansdowne de poésie.

Edward Keenan talks to Yonge Street Media about Toronto's diversity and messiness

March 13, 2013 — Yonge Street Media did a Q&A with author (and former Yonge Street Media innovation and jobs editor) Edward Keenan about his book Some Great Idea.

Ms. Magazine interviews Nicole Brossard on her 'transgressive, abstract and sensual' poetry

March 13, 2013 — 'You cannot negotiate or argue with a poem, it takes you or not. If you like it then it will bring you as far as your imagining dreaming being can go or will allow itself to go.' This eloquent sentiment comes from the doyenne of innovative poetry herself, Nicole Brossard (White Piano), in a new interview for the Ms. Magazine blog.

Nicolas Billon takes the Proust questionnaire for Open Book Toronto

March 11, 2013 — Find out more about Fault Lines playwright Nicolas Billon through his answers to Open Book Toronto's Proust Questionnaire feature, including his favourite food (French baguette and cheese), favourite writers (Conrad, McEwan, Salinger, Homer and Dante) and his idea of happiness ('A home, love and the time to write').

Two Mat(t)hews talk poetry at The Puritan

Looking for a poetry longread? Mathew Henderson (The Lease) and Matthew Tierney (Probably Inevitable) sat down for an interview with The Puritan's E Martin Nolan, and the transcript appears in the Winter 2013 issue.

The two poets talk about reading their work, their influences and what's up next for them:

Nolan: So are you in the womb of another book then?

Nicolas Billon talks about his obsession with Iceland

March 5, 2013 — Nicolas Billon spoke with fellow playwright Amy Lee Lavoie in the Charlebois Post about his play Iceland, which runs this month at the Factory Theatre. Iceland, which focuses on a confrontation between a real estate agent and a tenant, will be published this spring in Fault Lines collected along with Billon's plays Greenland and Faroe Islands.

Nicole Brossard discusses the collaborative art of translation with the Montreal Gazette

February 27, 2013 — In advance of the Found in Translation events happening in Montreal (February 27) and Toronto (February 28) to mark the launch of White Piano, the English translation of her poetry collection Piano blanc, Nicole Brossard spoke with the Montreal Gazette about the collaborative work of translation. Brossard likens her relationship to her translators Erín Moure and Robert Majzels to a 'dance ... that gets better with time.'

The New York Times raves about Mathew Henderson's The Lease

February 27, 2013 — In a review for The New York Times (!), Dwight Garner says ‘The Lease cuts into its primary subjects — grease, technology, physical labor, alienated sex, mud, fear, profound loneliness — like a welder’s oxyacetylene flame. [...] I've read more adept books of poetry than The Lease in the past six months, with more self-conscious chaos and precision wordplay. But I've read none that I was more eager to run through again in my mind.’

Maidenhead shortlisted for The Believer Book Award!

February 26, 2013 — Coach House is excited to share that Tamara Faith Berger's Maidenhead has been shortlisted by the editors of The Believer magazine for their 2012 Book Award.