It's Fiction Night at Calgary's Milk Tiger Lounge (1410 - 4th Street SW
Calgary, AB), and that means it's your chance to hear readings from Coach House's Andrew Wedderburn (The Milk Chicken Bomb), as well as Mark Lavorato (Believing Cedric) and Samantha Warwick (Sage Island). Come out and listen to a reading from the book the Calgary Herald calls 'the best book about being a 10-year-old kid in small-town Alberta ever.'
Suzette Mayr talked to the Calgary Herald and reporter Eric Volmers about the process of creating her new novel, Monoceros, in the Sunday, April 17 edition.
In the feature article, Mayr talks about the events that inspired the novel, disenfranchised grief, Catholic schools and (of course) unicorns. Here's a sample:
Avenue Magazine in Calgary released an early review of Suzette Mayr's Monoceros on March 23, 2011:
University of Calgary professor Suzette Mayr’s fourth novel, Monoceros, is due out this month and the tragicomedy is earning buzz for its tender and witty take on teen suicide.
Suzette Mayr launches her highly anticipated new novel Monoceros to a hometown Calgary crowd at 100 Wines (1109 Olympic Way SE). Also launch a book that night is Rosemary Nixon, author of Kalila (Goose Lane Editions). In a night hosted by Writers' Guild of Alberta program coordinator Samantha Warwick, the two novelists will read from their new novels and sign books.
On Sunday, April 25, 2010, the Calgary Herald asked kevin mcpherson eckhoff (Rhapsodomancy) some questions:
Given that he works in the somewhat unheralded medium of visual poetry and is a relative newcomer to the publicity game, we can probably forgive British Columbia's kevin mcpherson eckhoff for often seeming at a loss for words when discussing his new book Rhapsodomancy (Coach House Books, 87 pages, $16.95).
On November 26, 2009, Calgary's Mount Royal University hosted The Cage Match of Canadian Poetry, a public debate between poets Christian Bök (Eunoia, Crystallography) and Carmine Starnino (This Way Out).
Moderated by Kit Dobson, organized by Kelly Hewson, Micheline Maylor and the Department of English at Mount Royal, the two poets duked it out (verbally, of course) over contemporary Canadian poetry.
On Thursday, February 26, Sina Queyras (Expressway) and Lisa Robertson (Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip) join forces for a reading at TRUCK gallery. Sponsored by dANDelion Magazine, The English Department of the U of Calgary, the Creative Writing Research Group, fillingStation and the TRUCK gallery.
On Thursday, February 26, Sina Queyras (Expressway) and Lisa Robertson (Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip) participate in a round table discussion at the University of Calgary. Subject TBA.
Plus, catch the poets that evening, reading at TRUCK gallery! Click here for details.
Christian Bök (Eunoia, Crystallography) will appear on CityTV's Breakfast Television in Calgary on Tuesday, January 13. Tune in for a rare chance to catch the poet, renowned for his masterful performances, in the audio-visual medium!
Coach House will, as of February 14, offer 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.
Sounds great, but how does it work? One of two ways:
Coach House founder and master printer Stan Bevington is this year’s recipient of the Robert R. Reid lifetime achievement award for excellence in book art. The award is given annually by the Alcuin Society, a non-profit dedicated to preserving and celebrating Canadian contributions to print culture.
Previous Robert R. Reid recipients include former Coach House typesetter and designer Glenn Goluska.
In a two-part interview with Coach House founder and master printer Stan Bevington, Nigel Beale, from the Biblio File podcast, delves into the intriguing combination of factors that inspired Bevington's passion for print culture and took Coach House to the forefront of Canadian book design.
The interview is both a journey through the history of technologies and typefaces, as well as an advice manual for collectors seeking rare pieces of Canadiana.
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