"Alphabetic dismantling, syntactic play, essaying words backwards and 4words (as she might say), Christakos manifests forensic clarity and telegraphic fortitude in this unsettling work."?Rachel Blau D
"McGimpsey displays erudition, clever insights and a knack for the wickedly funny wisecrack." ? The Washington PostMelding the deeply personal and the culturally popular, Li'l Bastard is confessional
Common Place negotiates intimacy while navigating the complexities of memory, addressing shifting, resilient bodies and landscapes challenged by systems of capital and power. From thin threads of text
Cutting Room both describes and pushes against the anxious hum of the technologically saturated present. Sarah Pinder's poems navigate domestic and "natural" spaces as landscapes charged with possible
With cameos by jackalopes, Glenn Gould, homemade spaceships, and Carl Linnaeus, these poems are astonishing for their technical agility and their restless inventiveness. There's an elegance here that
Nights on Prose Mountain gathers all of beloved writer bpNichol's published fiction. Originally appearing between 1968 and 1983, and representing almost the entire arc of Nichol’s writing career, Nigh
"Bock's language crackles with the energy of a Québécois folk song, impassioned and celebratory but also melancholy and cheekily ironic." ?The New Yorker, on AtavismsA young, floundering author meets
After wondering about the actual usefulness of attending conferences, Broadbent and Omidvar, both involved with Maytree, decided to invite a variety of experts to come and make specifically formatted
`There is so much disappointment in conventional politics. But cities and neighbourhoods are spaces where transformation is still within reach; indeed, it happens every day. This original and inspirin
Book, or laboratory? Reader, or specimen?Wide slumber for lepidopterists is a poetic fantasia, a disorienting yet compelling dreamscape of butterflies and caterpillars and killing jars, where the waki
"Charming, funny, and often elegant. This is a formidable collection." Ben FamaWith an alternating sense of wonder and detachment, Jay Ritchie's first full-length collection of poetry grapples w
"Iceland is a beautifully structured and extremely powerful play that haunts the mind. Billon is an original and exciting voice."?Atom EgoyanNicolas Billon's acclaimed trilogy of plays tackles, with w
Winner of the 2011 Hamilton Literary Award for Poetry!In this much-anticipated new collection, poet and musician Gary Barwin both continues and extends the alchemical collision of language, imaginativ
Kleptomaniacs, convicts, roof-walkers and homicidal hippies: populated as they are with lives both ordinary and extraordinary, Heather Birrell's stories pull at the sinews of the strange until the str
Robert Fitterman's poetry, like the man himself, is urban, sophisticated and eclectic. This second volume of poems from Fitterman's award-winning Metropolis project ranges far and wide over the cultur
How did farmer's markets, nose-to-tail, locavorism, organic eating, CSAs, whole foods, and Whole Foods become synonymous with “good food”? And are these practices really producing food that is moral
In the spirit of the reckoning Elaine Scarry, Susan Sontag, Jessica Mitford, and Maggie Nelson have done with death and grief, journalist Julia Cooper contemplates the debased art of eulogy.While eulo
New Theatre represents a lively foray into spaces geographical and utopian that investigate the process of meaning. Coolly cerebral poems about Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's later life muse on power and ide
Susan Holbrook's second collection of poems is a joyful fusion of the experimental and the experiential, the procedural and the lyric. Punch lines become sucker punches, line breaks slip into breakdow
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
Anatomic is a poetry book that has emerged from biomonitoring and microbiome testing on the author's body to look at the wayThe poems of Anatomic have emerged from biomonitoring and microbiome testing
Founded in 1997 by producer Anita Lee and journalist Andrew Sun, the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival is a unique showcase of contemporary Asian cinema and work from the Asian diaspora.
"When I first saw Norah and Amy's breathtaking performance I was speechless. Mouthpiece touches on every part of the female experience from birth to death using dance, music, and wicked humour with ju
Winner of the 2013 CBC Overlookie Bookie Award for Most Underrated Canadian Book"These stories read like collaborations between Stephen King and TMZ with Borges and Nabokov on the edits. Each short st
"A great novel that captures the loneliness and absurdity of the 1990s suburban experience. Dense and imaginative writing that often borders on the uncomfortable, but the edge of your seat is the best
Nerve Squall is a field guide like no other, a surreal handbook to a landscape at the crossroads of meteorology and neurology, where the electrical storms without and the electrical impulses within co
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 be entertained or entertai
Modernist poet-painters Mina Loy and Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven had many friends in common (including Djuna Barnes and Marcel Duchamp), yet there is no record that the two ever met. Their n
Teenage Head was a full-on, balls-to-the-wall, three-chord band that obliterated categories and labels with their sonic assault, and everywhere they played they converted the merely curious to the ins
"Jeet Heer more thoroughly and widely understands comics history and the perplexing binomial life of the cartoonist better than anyone who's not one. As well-versed in literature as he is in comics, h
"No other writer of our time and place was so diverse, attempted so much, and never lost sight of his intent."?Michael Ondaatjea book of variations collects three difficult-to-find bpNichol texts?love
A spaceship hurtles towards the moon, hippies gather at Woodstock, Charles Manson leads a cult into murder and a Kennedy drives off a Chappaquiddick dock: it’s the summer of 1969. And as mankind takes
Middle-aged and short on prospects, Charles Wilson returns to Trempes, the village of his childhood, and discovers the body of his childhood friend, Paul Faber, hanging from a tree in the clearing whe
Where Timon of Athens collides with Shania Twain, that's where you'll find Sitcom. This collection of soliloquies and sonnets begins with a birthday and finds itself in demi-mondes as varies as the of
First published in 1987, Nicole Brossard's classic novel returns to Coach House in a new edition. A seminal text in Canadian and feminist literature, Mauve Desert is a must-read for readers and writer
A welfare cheque floats down the river, a cowboy spreads the Word of the Lord and crotches tick like clocks: the world of Spare Parts is unpredictable, evocative and vividly distorted. Its initial app
Obits is a collection of prose poems in which a speaker attempts and fails to write obituaries for women and others whose memorials are missing, or who are represented only as statistics. To honor by
Night is falling, and so is the snow. As the blizzard buries the ground, it uncovers the resentments, hopes, and aches of a small town in northeastern Arkansas, where, like in any Southern small town,
Drained by a half-dozen major watersheds, cut by a network of deep ravines and fronting on a Great Lake, Toronto is dominated by water. Recently, the trend of fettering Toronto's water and putting it
In the stories of Mad Hope, Heather Birrell finds the heart of her characters and lets them lead us into worlds both unrecognizable and alarming. We think we know these people but discover we don't—th
