Tucked away on Toronto’s historic bpNichol Lane, Coach House Books has been publishing and printing high-quality innovative fiction and poetry since 1965. Coach House is Canada’s most venerable literary press and has, during the past forty years, published books by Michael Ondaatje, George Bowering, bpNichol, Nicole Brossard, Christian Bök, Guy Maddin, Steve McCaffery, Gail Scott, Jonathan Goldstein, Anne Michaels, Michael Redhill and hundreds of others. A refuge for the refined, an asylum for the aesthete, a sanctuary for the scribe.
Excerpts go up on the Coach House site!
Excerpts of selected titles in our catalogue are now available for download.
Don't miss your chance to pore over the mysterious verbal alchemy of Christian Bök's Crystallography, read Guy Maddin's personal journal in From the Atelier Tovar or meet the members of The Lacuna Cabal Montreal Young Women's Book Club in the first two chapters of The Girls Who Saw Everything. And that's just a fraction of what we're offering for your reading pleasure.
Links to excerpt files can be found under the 'attachment' heading at the bottom of selected catalogue entries. If you can't find what you're looking for, never fear! This is an ongoing project — make sure to check back regularly as we upload more excerpts.
Recent Posts
'Christakos, in What Stirs, challenges you to meet her halfway. There's nothing passive about these poems...when you look through Christakos's window, you find yourself looking through a second, fragmented window where the familiar is broken up, diffused.' (Vince Corvaia, NewPages)
'[T]he book merits attention because, mostly, it is not nonsense at all: rather, it is a brilliant near nonsense, non-nonsense, bringing (as much as words can) to non-stuttering readers the misfires of one's own short-circuited speech.' (Stephen Burt, The Believer)
Christian Bok will be on CBC Radio's 'Q' (hosted by Jian Ghomeshi) this Monday, January 5, to talk about the success of his bestselling poetry book Eunoia, in the UK. Eunoia was just released this fall in England by Canongate, and it's causing quite a stir across the pond.
Coach House Commitments
Love lemurs? Ligers? Llamas? Lhasa Apsos? Fall to pieces for fuzzy creatures? Then this commitment is for you! Stop watching that puppy cam and listen up! For a measly $60, including all shipping and taxes, get four of our favourite animal titles. Shake a claw with Crabwise to the Hounds. Peck away at the Milk Chicken Bomb. Howl with joy while reading Lemon Hound.
Price: An unbelievably low $60.00
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The poems fall like autumn leaves. And are priced similarly.
Crabwise to the Hounds, by Jeramy Dodds
The Laundromat Essay, by Kyle Buckley
What Stirs, by Margaret Christakos
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Four Griffin Poetry Prize-nominated books (and two winners). $55. What are you waiting for? Spring on this commitment and you'll receive Christian Bök's Eunoia, Now You Care, by Di Brandt, Sylvia Legris's Nerve Squall and Notebook of Roses and Civilization, by Nicole Brossard, translated by Erín Moure and Robert Majzels.
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