Celebrate the arrival of spring with some poetic innovation from Coach House Books. Join us at McNally Robinson Booksellers on Tuesday, March 16 to celebrate the joint launch of Rachel Zolf's Neighbour Procedure and the anthology Prismatic Publics: Innovative Canadian Women's Poetry and Poetics, edited by Heather Milne and Kate Eichhorn (which contains work from Zolf).
Celebrate B.C. Book and Magazine Week (April 18-23) with the Vancouver launch of Carla Gunn's novel, Amphibian, at Rhizome Cafe (317 East Broadway) on Thursday, April 23 at 7:00 p.m. Gunn will be joined by B.C. authors Chris Ewart (Miss Lamp), Sachiko Murakami (The Invisibility Exhibit) and Mary Tilberg (Oonagh).
Amphibian launch party
with authors Carla Gunn, Chris Ewart, Sachiko Murakami and Mary Tilberg
On Thursday, April 30 Carla Gunn launches Amphibian in Halifax at Frog Hollow Books (5657 Spring Garden Road) with guest reader and CBC host Stephanie Domet (Homing). The launch party begins at 7 p.m.
Read a brand new, starred review from Quill & Quire.
Amphibian Book Launch
with Carla Gunn and Stephanie Domet
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Is it possible to write a novel in poetic verse? Can you write in a language that's not yours? Famed experimental author, poet and feminist Nicole Brossard speaks with Margaret Christakos (What Stirs), a fellow cross-genre writer about the relative merits of writing novels and poetry, and what happens when one bleeds into another.
Lisa Robertson, one of Canada's most admired and inventive writers, launches Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip at READ Books, Emily Carr University. The volume gathers fifteen years of previously unpublished verses, essays, confessions, reports, translations, drafts, treatises, laments and utopias.
Book launch for Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip
Sunday, March 1, 2009
READ Books
Charles H. Scott Gallery
Emily Carr University of Art and Design
1399 Johnston Street
On Saturday, March 7, Lisa Robertson launches Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip, a collection of previously unpublished verses, essays, confessions, reports, translations, drafts, treatises, laments and utopias. The event will be held at historic Moe's Books on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, California. Joining Robertson will be influential West Coast language poet Rae Armantrout, whose latest title is Versed.
Sina Queyras follows on the tail of Lambda and Pat Lowther Award-winning Lemon Hound with the Chicago launch of her new book, Expressway. The expertly engineered volume hits the road on Thursday, February 12, at Links Hall.
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.
