Coach House Books

  • New Motor Queen City

    Patricia Seaman’s detourned cartoons are a ‘shocking stitching of American cultural icons, crude language, … drug culture and promiscuous sex with hard-core feminist theory and writerly dilemmas.’ (Beehive Magazine) all…

    $19.95
  • Outside the Hat

    In Outside the Hat lies a landscape of CanaDada and SurRielism, populated by dancing medieval woodcuts, Franglais-speaking dogs, sadistic provincial politicians and melodious bison. Including work culled from a plethora…

    $19.95
  • Parlance

    Pressed leaflet variable between the covers of anything brisk. Infused on the brink of staggering conception. Immaculate handle given by the power to define. In Zambia did kinship kindle. Homogeneous…

    $14.95
  • Patria

    Here was a very special ritual – completely without a sense of striving, and promising no rewards. You wandered about amused and amazed, never sure whether you were there to…

    $22.95
  • Polaroids

    Although firmly rooted in the real, Lillian Necakov’s evocations of ‘movie magic’ prove irresistible in these forty poems and five collages. Ranging across dozens of films – from Wim Wender’s…

    $12.95
  • Polite to Bees

    ‘Diana Hartog writes as if she has been prying open a nest of animal dreams – all the beasts in this bestiary have been caught without their shells on. The…

    $12.95
  • Raising Eyebrows

    The surrealist antics of Gary Barwin will run the predictability of your universe through a particle accelerator. Watch as your right eyebrow turns into you as a child. Watch Jeff…

    $16.95
  • Running Unconscious

    Running Unconscious is the first collection of poetry by Toronto poet and poetry promoter Peter McPhee. ‘Never Trust a Polar Bear in Shades,’ ‘Leaning against a lamppost at the corner…

    $17.95
  • Safety of War

    David spends his days as an underworked copy writer for an ad agency and his nights lost in old war movies, fantasizing about his strange teenage cousin and revisiting his…

    $17.95
  • Self-Titled

    Can a breakup break you apart?In Self-Titled, Geoffrey Brown stares into a mirror and writes what he sees, what he thinks, what he feels. The result? A self-portrait that’s at…

    $13.95
  • sensory deprivation

    At long last, this double-barrelled collection of visual poetry, sensory deprivation and dream poetics, by damian lopes is now in print. Considered visual essays by the author, sensory deprivation explores…

    $16.95
  • Smell It

    The debut collection of visceral short fiction from notorious Toronto writer, editor, indie commentator and small-press overlord Hal Niedzviecki, Smell It lances the boil of urban life and sticks its…

    $16.95