News

Good news announced for Guy Maddin and his book, My Winnipeg, one of five titles shortlisted for the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award!

March is a special month. Not only was it the first month in the ancient Roman calendar, it is also host to two — count 'em, two — featured titles on the Coach House website: Rachel Zolf's Neighbour Procedure and Carla Gunn's Amphibian!

Starting Wednesday, March 10, you can hear from the man who started it all at the AGO. In March, Coach House Press founder and master printer Stan Bevington will begin an ongoing series of weekly conversations at Toronto's Art Gallery of Ontario. As part of the AGO's innovative exhibit, 'Canadian Art in the 1960s and 1970s through the lens of Coach House Press,' Bevington will take up residence in the exhibit space every Wednesday night, between 7 and 8 p.m.

In celebration of the publication of kevin mcpherson eckhoff's Rhapsodomancy, Coach House has provided a handy history (in comic strip form) of Unifon, one of the alphabets used to creative effect in Rhapsodomancy's visual poetry.

View the whole illustrated pamphlet in the Coach House gallery, Unifon: The Alphabet of the Future.

On February 19, Coach House launched its free Coach House Coffee Room app, designed to make it easier to keep up with our press and our authors, wherever you might find yourself.

Use it to take a virtual tour of the Coach House, to find out when our new titles are coming out and which of our authors are on tour and what people are saying about our books. You'll also be able browse our photo galleries, book trailers, author interviews and audio content. You can even buy books using the iPhone app!

Open Book: Toronto has teamed up with Coach House Books to present an online and very Toronto cooking series featuring contributors from The Edible City: Toronto's Food from Farm to Fork.

Toronto authors Kathryn Borel Jr., Rea McNamara (with her cousin Kiel Brathwaite) and Kat Gligorijevic are the stars of this hugely charming and informative series, showing us how to make Apple-Cornbread-Sausage Stuffing, Roti and the Toronto Cocktail, respectively.

We've added a book clubs section to our website, to help you and your book club sort through Coach House novels for possible book club selections. When you select a Coach House title, you'll not only be reading compelling, Canadian-authored books, you'll also be able to discuss how the book was made, as Coach House is one of only three Canadian publishers to print its books in house!

Now you can take a tour of the Coach House from the privacy of your own home.

The Magical Mystery Tour, the self-guided tour booklet of Coach House Press, is now available online from the Coach House website. Learn about a Linotype! Look around the Type Room! Sit (virtually) in the Magical Sleeper Chair!

The Coach House Spring 2010 catalogue is now available for download. Click the hyperlink to download a PDF and get a preview of our spring titles!

And if you like the squirrel illustrations that adorn the front and back covers, visit the artist's site at letsshare.typepad.com.

Coach House is offering ebooks of selected titles for all of your digital reading needs!

Coffee Room

Christina Palassio and Evan Munday bring you poetry, beer and more in this season's edition of our podcast.

Editor and filmmaker Sarah Hipworth recently completed a video tour of the Coach House Press. Check it out here.

It's the cheapest date you'll find in the city. Five books, one hundred smackers: well worth skipping out on those three martinis at the Drake.

Sign up for the Toronto Commitment and receive uTOpia, GreenTOpia, Concrete Toronto, HtO and The Edible City.

Phineas Walsh (from Carla Gunn's Amphibian) lists the top five super animal abilities he'd like to have.

Events

Rachel Zolf reads from her brand-new poetry collection, Neighbour Procedure, as part of 'Negotiating the Social Bond of Poetics,' a two-part seminar presented by the Kootenay School of Writing. The first part is a reading by Zolf at W2 Culture + Media House (112 West Hastings, 3rd Floor). A seminar follows on the 20th.

Negotiating the Social Bond of Poetics
a reading by Rachel Zolf
presented by the Kootenay School of Writing
Friday, March 19, 2010

On Sunday, March 21, Lisa Robertson will read at the release party for With + Stand. The magazine will be holding a reading and release party for With + Stand 4: The Lisa Robertson Issue. This free event will be held at Urban Ore.

With + Stand 4: The Lisa Robertson Issue, Reading & Release Party
readings by Lisa Robertson and others

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