poetry

Looking for a good start to celebrate Poetry Month? How about a Pair of Poetry Package from two of Canada's most prolific poetry presses?

This September, we're featuring our brand-new Fall 2012 poetry titles in our Poetic Justice Sale! This month will see Jonathan Ball's The Politics of Knives, Mathew Henderson's The Lease, Sarah Pinder's Cutting Room and Matthew Tierney's Probably Inevitable hitting bookshelves. If you'd like them shipped direct to your door, we can make that happen.

Beginning (star date) July 3, participate in our our enterprising 'Buy One, Get One Free Sale!' When you order any fiction book from the Coach House website, you will receive a poetry book of your choice (of equal or lesser value) completely free! Simply order the fiction and poetry title from the Coach House website and you'll only be charged for the more costly of the two! And if you'd like more books, we can help you out with that. Order as many fiction-poetry pairs as you'd like; you'll only pay for half of them!

April is National Poetry Month! You're in luck, as Coach House recently published two outstanding poetry collections: Walid Bitar's Divide and Rule and Susan Steudel's New Theatre. What's more: we're having an incredible poetry sale this April!

Globe and Mail Books columnist Judith Fitzgerald listed her top ten poetry collections of 2011, and among the books was Jenny Sampirisi's debut poetry book, Croak, a frog-and-girl opera of Beckettian proportions. It shared the honour with such titles as Ken Babstock's Methodist Hatchet, Sue Goyette's Outskirts and Phil Hall's Killdeer.

On December 31, the National Post's poetry reviewer Michael Lista made his selection for the best poetry books of 2011. Coach House was thrilled to have published two among his shortlist of seven titles: Gabe Foreman's A Complete Encyclopedia of Different Types of People and David McGimpsey's Li'l Bastard.