Coach House Books

  • Social Acupuncture

    Theatre doesn’t have much relevance anymore. Or so acclaimed playwright Darren O’Donnell tells us. The dynamics of unplanned social interaction, he says, are far more compelling than any play he…

    $13.95
  • Spiral Agitator

    Steve Venright, the true heir to the literary legacy of Henri Michau, Christopher Dewdney and Jorge Luis Borges, is the only surrealist ever to come from Sarnia, Ontario. Spiral Agitator,…

    $19.95
  • Tell it Slant

    Tell It Slant is a bold, luscious first novel by Beth Follett, publisher of one of Canada’s most exciting and respected small presses, Pedlar Press.The novel tells – slantedly, of…

    $17.95
  • The Dying Poem

    On the afternoon that two tonnes of explosives are set to dismember Toronto’s Metropolitan Library, poet Henry Black hides himself away in his favourite wing; when his mangled body is…

    $18.95
  • The Ghosts of Jay MillAr

    Jay used to have an ego, but had it surgically removed. Get bur’d by Alex Cayce; Perfectly Ordinary Dreams by James Llar; Short Ghosts by John Elliott; heartrants by H….

    $22.95
  • The Great Canadian Sonnet

    ‘Just because I’m writing this long story doesn’t mean to say I think I’m a great writer, or even mildly talented. No, I am merely trying to put things down…

    $16.95
  • The Lillian Lectures

    Hide under your bed! Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret meets South Park in The Lillian Lectures, a collection of short poems and cheerfully nasty illustrations that will turn…

    $19.95
  • The Mood Embosser

    The Mood Embosser, Louis Cabri’s first book of poetry, presents a series of impressions of 1990s social history as it is manifested in the lingering traces of everyday life. In…

    $16.95
  • The Nightingales

    Desire and deceit, love and loathing – The Nightingales is a novel about best friends.It’s summer 1989, and as an insufferable heat stalks the city of Toronto, Julie and Alex…

    $18.95
  • The Pochsy Plays

    Beckett meets Betty Boop in this trilogy of monologues by Canadian cult heroine Pochsy, a nasty, vapid, utterly charming vixen. In Pochsy’s Lips, she’s in the hospital, convinced she’s sick…

    $14.95
  • The Sink House

    Home is where the heart is, or, in the case of The Sink House, home is what the heart is. Sequestered on a sleepy street in a dry Calgary suburb,…

    $10.95
  • The State of the Arts

    City Hall proclaimed 2006 the Year of Creativity. ‘Live With Culture’ banners flap over the city. And across the city, donors are ponying up millions for the ROM and the…

    $18.95