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Cordelia Strube talks to Open Book Ontario: 'Every reader is actually the reader of her or himself'

Over on Open Book Ontario, novelist Cordelia Smith (Milosz ) is one of seven authors who responded to Shaun Smith's Fiction Craft October question, 'When you are writing fiction, is there an audience you are thinking of?'

Jonathan Ball gets cinematic with Uptown Magazine

Sept 27, 2012

Prior to his appearance at the 2012 Thin Air Winnipeg International Writers Festival, horror-poet Jonathan Ball spoke with Jared Story of Uptown Magazine about how the cinematic surrealism of auteurs such as Hitchcock, Lynch and Tarkovsky influenced his meditations on violence in his latest collection The Politics of Knives:

Suzette Mayr's Monoceros on the ReLit Awards shortlist

Huzzah! Suzette Mayr's Monoceros has been named to the 2012 ReLit Awards shortlist for Best Novel.

Monoceros, which considers the ripple effects of a teenage boy's suicide on those around him, is in good company alongside the other shortlisted novels:

  • Prick, Ashley Little (Tightrope);
  • Easy to Like, Edward Riche (Anansi)
  • Dirty Feet, Edem Awumey (Anansi)
Salty Ink has high praise for The Lease and Probably Inevitable

On September 25, tremendous Atlantic-Canada-based books blog Salty Ink previewed the Two Mat(t)hews Poetry Tour with a mini-review and excerpt from the two new collections being launched: Mathew Henderson's The Lease and Matthew Tierney's Probably Inevitable.

Open Book Toronto's 'Poets in Profile' talks to Matthew Tierney

On September 25, Open Book Toronto spoke with poet Matthew Tierney about his new collection Probably Inevitable. During their interview, they discussed his path to becoming a poet, some of his favourite recent poetry collections and how he finds inspiration:

Open Book: Can you describe an experience that you believe contributed to your becoming a poet?

Jonathan Ball talks violence with The Winnipeg Review

The Winnipeg Review caught wind of Winnipeg writer Jonathan Ball's new poetry collection The Politics of Knives and thought they should ask him a few questions. Author and interviewer Maurice Mierau asked Ball a few questions about the specific sequences in The Politics of Knives, his interest and violence and more. An excerpt appears below:

Mathew Henderson interviewed by The Coast

In advance of his appearance at Halifax's Lilah Kemp Reading Series on September 26 (part of the Two Mat(t)hews East Coast Poetry Tour), Mathew Henderson (The Lease) spoke with The Coast about his debut collection:

Matthew Tierney
Matthew Tierney is this week's guest editor for the National Post's Afterword

Poet Matthew Tierney, whose latest collection Probably Inevitable uses the nomenclature of science to explore the nature of time and existence, is the guest editor for the National Post's Afterword blog for the week of September 16-22.

Véhicule Press shines a spotlight on Matthew Tierney's Probably Inevitable

September 16, 2012

Our friends at Montreal's Véhicule Press recently featured an excerpt from 'That Stratospheric Street My Green Filament,' a poem in Matthew Tierney's latest poetry collection Probably Inevitable on their blog.

That’s my hand, my finger next to hers
tracing circles on the armrest’s soft pile.
Where is she now?
We touch, we touched, like loops of a lemniscate.

Read the excerpt at

Join us at Coach House Fall 2012 Launch on October 4

On Thursday, October 4, Torontonians (and anyone else who can make it to the city that night) are invited to attend the shocking exposé of our fall titles at The Garrison (1197 Dundas St. West), near the corner of Dundas and Ossington. The fall edition of the Coach House launch will be hotter than Quill & Quire's annual 'Best and Worst Beach Bodies' issue.Be there to see our Fall 2012 authors get the red carpet treatment!