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Coach House Books is an independent Canadian publisher of poetry, fiction, drama & nonfiction. Good on paper since 1965. linktr.ee/chbooks

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 11h
"bent over it in sunlight trying to add something with layers of shadow. I called it not drawing with no light" #TodaysPoem #poetry Homeoteleuton by Ken Babstock from Swivelmount (2020 @coachhousebooks.bsky.social) chbooks.com/Books/S/Swiv...
Poetry collection Swivelmount by Ken Babstock (Coach House Books) perches on a fence amidst green vines and leavesHandwritten transcription of the poem Homeoteleuton by Ken Babstock from the poetry collection SwivelmountCloseup of handwritten transcription of the poem Homeoteleuton by Ken Babstock from the poetry collection Swivelmount
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Giller Prize @gillerprize.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
RIVERWORK by Lisa Robertson is longlisted for the 2026 #GillerPrize. youtu.be/HbRoE3HZAz4 @coachhousebooks.bsky.social #CravingCanLit #canlit #canadianliterature
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Reading: Riverwork by Lisa Robertson
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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Leigh Kotsilidis' Eastern Canada Tour for SOME OF US MAY LIVE (officially out Oct. 20) begins today, in Moncton, NB! Celebrate this new collection with Kotsilidis at an event near you, and be rewarded with excellent poetry and exclusive launch ephemera. chbooks.com/Books/S/Some...
Eastern Canada Tour info for Leigh Kotsilidis' SOME OF US MAY LIVE. Oct 1: Attic Owl Reading Series in Moncton, NB. Oct 3-4: Poetry Weekend at UNB in Fredericton, NB. Oct 5: Struts Gallery in Sackville, NB. Oct 6: Trident Booksellers & Cafe in Halifax, NS. Oct 7: UPEI Faculty Lounge in Charlottetown, PE. Oct 10: LaHave River Books in LaHave, NS.
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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On this National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (September 30), we recognize the grievous and ongoing harm of colonization and residential schools, and strive to work toward a future of justice and reconciliation.
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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BP bpNichol was born on Sep. 30, 1944. A founding member of The Four Horsemen, bp was recognized as a majoravant-garde writer of his time. Besides his small press and editorial activities, he often collaborated in writing, sound poetry performance, and linguistic research.
bpNichol's smiling wooden cut-out inside the Coach House.An illustration of bp from within the Martyrology.
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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Loops on bold fonts now form lots of words for books. Books form cocoons of comfort – tombs to hold book- worms." #TodaysPoem #poetry from Chapter O (for Yoko Ono) by Christian Bök Eunoia (2009 @coachhousebooks.bsky.social) chbooks.com/Books/E/Euno... & poemsandpoetics.blogspot.com/2009/07/chri...
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Eunoia
Winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize (2002)The word ‘eunoia,’ which literally means ‘beautiful thinking,’ is the shortest word in English that contains all five vowels. Directly inspired by the Oulipo (...
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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Please join us in congratulating Lisa Robertson, a finalist for the 2026 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for RIVERWORK!
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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We hope to see you at Word On The Street this weekend, on Saturday, Sep. 26 and Sunday, Sep. 27! Coach House Books will be at Booth 3 in David Pecaut Square, Toronto, from 11 AM to 6 PM on Saturday, and 10 AM to 5 PM on Sunday. 📚❤️
A photo of many people visiting the CHB booth last year at WOTS! A coach house employee is behind the booth table very enthusiastically explaining... something about a book.Map of WOTS and where Booth 3 can be found. It is beside the Vibrant Voices Stage, and is the most north-western book booth at WOTS.
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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Occasionally she takes her one good foot and applies it to surfaces otherwise flat and safe, the expressway progressing itself through her, expressly." #SundaySentence Acceptable Dissociations Sina Queyras from Expressway (2009 @coachhousebooks.bsky.social) www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53528/...
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Acceptable Dissociations
1 Meanwhile the expressway’s hum, it roars into Her, the expressway cargo and tree-lined, stretched Radio towers, mowers its horns and hogs, its beef And…
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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Tomorrow from 10 to 5! We'll be at the Fisher Small & Fine Press Fair at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (120 St. George St., Toronto) among many other excellent presses. See you there!
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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Lisa Robertson’s RIVERWORK in The New York Review’s October 8th issue! ‘The pleasures awaiting the reader are heady, immense, and radical.’ – Ange Mlinko www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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Flow Chart of Paris | Ange Mlinko
Books are no substitute for experience, and yet for most of us certain places are either out of reach or too expensive to inhabit for more than a
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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Maggie Helwig's (@maggiehelwig.bsky.social) ENCAMPMENT is a 2026 Toronto Heritage Book Award Nominee! Learn more about the full list of nominees and the award here: www.heritagetoronto.org/programs/her...
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2026 Book Award Nominees - Heritage Toronto
Discover the 2026 Heritage Toronto Book Award nominees, which cover a range of heritage topics, from music history to multiculturalism.
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ecw press @ecwpress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The 2026 Giller Prize longlist includes six books published by Canadian-owned independent presses! Supporting Canadian stories, culture, writers, artists, and publishers is more important than ever.
6 Canadian Independent Publishers on the 2026 Giller Prize Longlist: Celebrating Canadian-owned independent publishing. 6 book covers are featured: Daphnis and Chloe by Colin McAdam, Riverwork by Lisa Robertson, The Unraveling of Ou by Holly Ghadery, At Sea in a Sieve by Cordelia Strube, Your Breath in Charcoal by Nicholas Herring, and Dodge City by Patrick deWitt. Published independently in Canada by: Biblioasis, ECW Press, House of Anansi, Coach House Books, Palimpsest Press, and Goose Lane Editions
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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A packed launch last night for WOMEN, WALKING, edited by Zahra Ebrahim and Jane Farrow! Thanks to everyone for coming out to support this anthology and making it such a fun night, to Zahra and Jane, and to all of the contributors (both in attendance and sending their support from afar). 🚶‍♀️📚❤️
Jane Farrow and Zahra Ebrahim standing in front of a crowd, with microphones, at the Women, Walking book launch.Big big crowd at the Women, Walking launch.Zahra's whippet, Zada, at the launch! Receiving pets from the book table employees.
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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Out Sep. 22 -- explore Dominique Béchard's SHADOW OF THE LIVING BRIGHTNESS via All Lit Up below 🤍
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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
See you tonight for the Women, Walking launch in Toronto! Remarks from the editors, Zahra Ebrahim and Jane Farrow, will begin at 7:30 PM.
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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Tomorrow night! Celebrate Women, Walking: Notes on Lives in Motion with editors Zahra Ebrahim and Jane Farrow at Henderson Brewing Co, Toronto. Full event details here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/book-launc... (RSVPs are helpful, but NOT necessary to attend! Please join us, even if we're sold out!)
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Book Launch for Women, Walking: Notes on Lives in Motion
Come hang out and dive into stories of women on the move, exploring life one step at a time.
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John Lorinc @johnlorinc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#topoli Today on @spacing.bsky.social , a welcome break from the news cycle: Leora Bromberg on the rich intersection of Toronto’s laneways and the print shops that made their homes there. spacing.ca/toronto/2026... cc: @coachhousebooks.bsky.social
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Intersections of print culture in Toronto's laneways - Spacing Toronto
The handprinted broadside below was one of my first and most memorable encounters with the works of Glenn Goluska (1947-2011), celebrated today as one of Canada’s most influential fine press printers....
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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
rob mclennan reviews Leigh Kotsilidis' Some of Us May Live, out Oct. 20:
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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
THANK YOU FOR AN EXCELLENT #WAYZGOOSE26! We had a great time last week at our annual Wayzgoose on bpNichol Lane. Thanks again to everyone who came out for a hot dog, take a tour of the Coach House presses, and support us by buying a book or two. 📚🪿
Photo from the Wayzgoose: our publicist, James, behind the book tablePhoto from the Wayzgoose: a crowd of people around the book table, in front of the coach house.Photo from the Wayzgoose: poet Stuart Ross behind the book table!Photo from the Wayzgoose: many people enjoying hot dogs outside
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Ontario Book Publishers Organization @obpoofficial.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Congratulations to five of our amazing OBPO members @biblioasis.bsky.social , @coachhousebooks.bsky.social, @ecwpress.bsky.social, @houseofanansi.bsky.social, and @palimpsestpress.bsky.social for having their titles longlisted for the #GillerPrize!
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The @coachhousebooks.bsky.social Wayzgoose party has been most excellent literary Toronto / Canada as ever tonight. September is a time (summer) for burning away the accumulated cynicism of the past months.
A party
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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
For Lisa Robertson fans: we have only THREE signed & stamped copies of Riverwork left: chbooks.com/Books/R/Rive... (Purchase a paperback as normal and we'll fulfill your order with one of our last copies; we'll update this post when we're totally out.)
Photo of several copies of RIVERWORK with one stacked in the middle.An example of a signed and stamped page!Video of Lisa Robertson explaining where this special stamp came from.
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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Lisa Robertson's Riverwork has been shortlisted for the 2026 American Library in Paris Book Award! Learn more about the award and the full shortlist here: americanlibraryinparis.org/bookaward/
A photo of the five shortlisted titles, including: 

Baldwin: A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Fractured France: A Journey through a Divided Nation by Andrew Hussey
(Granta Books)

Hotel Exile: Paris in the Shadow of War by Jane Rogoyska
(Allen Lane)

My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein: A Fiction by Deborah Levy
(Hamish Hamilton)

Riverwork by Lisa Robertson
(Coach House Books)
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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
See you tonight at 5 (and later)! Bring your cash for drink tickets! 🍻🪿
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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Just in time for #Wayzgoose26 tomorrow night: a brand new picnic table and cutter for the Coach House! We had been using our old cutter to trim all of our books since 1979! Our old picnic table was also very well-loved and well-used. Huge thank you to John for this beautiful new one.
A photo of the coach house with a very big, new picnic table out front!A photo of a new cutter (for books and other paper materials) getting delivered to the coach house.A photo of two cutters, in the coach house's bindery.
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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Happy pub day to The Point! by Nasser Hussain!!! Missing everything but the point: visual poetry celebrating excitement, with a beautiful cover of silver foil on pink felt stock! Buy your copy here: chbooks.com/Books/T/The-...
A hand holding a copy of The Point! outside the Coach House. The book is bright pink and has many "THE POINT / NASSER HUSSAIN" printed across the front in silver foil. Interior pages from The Point!A photo of several copies of The Point!
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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This Thursday, in Toronto! All are welcome, whether you're a longtime Wayzgoose attendee or if you're newly interested in looking around our press with an impromptu tour. Or even if you just want a free hot dog and cheap beer. Please scrounge up your change and small bills for us! 🍻
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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We're thrilled that Lisa Robertson's RIVERWORK has been longlisted for the 2026 Giller Prize! Read more about the full Longlist below. 📚
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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
THIS THURSDAY! RSVP to the 2026 Wayzgoose below. 🪿📚🌭
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Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Wow, this beautiful book by Dominique Béchard lives up to its name. Out Sept. 22 with @coachhousebooks.bsky.social: chbooks.com/Books/S/Shad... I had the pleasure of writing this for the cover:
I'm holding up the book in my living room. The blue cover is shot through with lines of light.  Other-worldly and this-worldly at the same time.
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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Thank you library readers! What I Know About You, Encampment, Fifteen Dogs, The Sleeping Car Porter, Riverwork, and Instructions for the End of the World among the most borrowed indie books for August. 📚❤️
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49th Shelf @49thshelf.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
When we are bombarded with AI-generated content and when the allure of convenience is ever-present, what compels us to write? These titles from @coachhousebooks.bsky.social @aaknopf.bsky.social @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social remind us why. 49thshelf.com/Blog/2026/07...
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Why We Write · Blog Post · 49th Shelf
It's easy to feel helpless and hopeless in these increasingly complex and uncertain times. But thankfully, I read books. And I find that flipping through ...
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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Join us in congratulating Kate Cayley, whose first novel PROPERTY has been shortlisted for the 2026 Toronto Book Awards! Learn more about the Toronto Book Awards shortlist and opportunities to hear Kate Cayley read here: www.toronto.ca/city-governm...
Graphic featuring a photograph of Kate Cayley, who is a white woman with short hair and glasses, alongside her book, Property. Features the logos for the Toronto Public Library, the city of Toronto, the Toronto Star, and Coach House Books, and the text: "Shortlisted for the 2026 Toronto Book Awards."
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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Women, Walking: Notes on Lives in Motion, edited by @zahraeb.bsky.social and Jane Farrow, is officially out today – and we are thrilled to announce it is featured on the Fall 2026 Canadian Independent Booksellers’ List! Learn more about Women, Walking: chbooks.com/Books/W/Wome...
The cover of Women, Walking, with an official CIBA Booksellers' List Selection sticker, and the quote: Bookseller Alison Dunn, from Beggard Banquet Books in Gananoque, ON: ‘We’re excited to share Women, Walking, which explores the experiences of a wide range of women, many Canadian, as they journey on foot towards themselves. This intriguing collection will be on our gift-giving lists this year and will please walkers and armchair-adventurers alike.’
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I will be bartending for a spell (as usual - favourite job). I will sign your book or give you a wine.
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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Less than two weeks until #Wayzgoose26: meet authors, buy books, eat hot dogs, get an impromptu tour of the Coach House! From 5 PM on at 80 bpNichol Lane, Toronto, on Thursday, September 10. RSVP below! 🌭🌭🌭
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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Some of Us May Live by Leigh Kotsilidis! Coming Oct. 20: chbooks.com/Books/S/Some...
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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Tonight! See you at 5.
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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"suddenly silence on the far side of reality who's there? Touch anyway." #SealeyChallenge @sealeychallenge.bsky.social 25/31 #TodaysPoem #poetry from Notebook of Roses and Civilization by Nicole Brossard, translated by Robert Majzels and Erin Moure (2007 @coachhousebooks.bsky.social)
Poetry collection Notebook of Roses and Civilization by Nicole Brossard, translated by Robert Majzels and Erin Moure (Coach House Books), with its vivid red cover, with a yellow post-it note affixed in the middle with a handwritten transcription of a fragment of one of her/their poems/translations
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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Tomorrow at the Coach House! Our rescheduled 5 à 7 reading from the heat wave earlier this summer, featuring Andrew Kaufman and Sydney Hegele, masters of Southwestern Ontario Gothic. Join us from 5 PM at 80 bpNichol Lane, Toronto, to hear from these two greats!
Event poster for a reading featuring Andrew Kaufman and Sydney Hegele. Displays a vintage-looking photograph of two people in formal wear on ice skates, with a looming castle (house?) in the background. On Tues., Aug. 25, 80 bpNichol Lane, from 5 to 7 pm.
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
TtD supplement #305 : seven questions for Laura Farina / @coachhousebooks.bsky.social ; touchthedonkey.blogspot.com/2026/08/ttd-...
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TtD supplement #305 : seven questions for Laura Farina
Laura Farina is the author of two books of poetry, This Woman Alphabetical and Some Talk of Being Human , as well as the picture book This...
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mtlreviewofbooks.bsky.social @mtlreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"Queyras invites us to see the friendlier and more human side of poems; also, that they are not (always) the intimidating, cryptic riddles bent on making you look and feel dumb..." Read the rest of this feature at the link: mtlreviewofbooks.ca/.../on-occas... @coachhousebooks.bsky.social
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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
'[Ondaatje] was involved in collaborative literary publishing in Ontario, as a participant in the work of the avant-garde Coach House Press, and in the editing and production of the literary magazine Brick...' (CC: @brickliterary.bsky.social) ❤️
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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
A fantastic interview with Lisa Robertson and Elisabeth Plumlee-Watson on Riverwork, 'a book of hags', for LARB:
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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
We're so thrilled Susan Holbrook's STEAMY has been shortlisted for the Warland Award, and amongst such great company from other Canadian indie presses. ❤️
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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
"We try to avoid dawn, but radiance rushes at the corners." #SealeyChallenge @sealeychallenge.bsky.social 18/31 #TodaysPoem #poetry I Don't Want the Cat to Be Afraid by David O'Meara from Masses on Radar (2021 @coachhousebooks.bsky.social) chbooks.com/Books/M/Mass...
Excerpt from a David O'Meara poem marked with a torn green post-it notesPoetry collection Masses on Radar by David O'Meara (Coach House Books) with green post-it notes jutting out of it
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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Have you heard? The WAYZGOOSE will return on September 10th in Toronto. RSVP: www.eventbrite.ca/e/coach-hous...
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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
From the author of Pale Shadows, a delicate reimagining of the relationships that created the great American novel. One Part Ocean by Dominique Fortier, translated by Rhonda Mullins, is available now for pre-order and officially out October 6, 2026: chbooks.com/Books/O/One-...
Book cover of One Part Ocean above the text: ‘Astonishing and captivating.’ – Littérature du Québec. The book cover has many blue-green colours and evokes waves and a rural setting. Logo for Coach House Books is in the top right corner.Bright blue-green background featuring the text: ‘Dominique Fortier explores the mysteries of creation, writing, and reading, along with the desire between beings and their imaginations, in a style that never falters between books.’ – La Presse; ‘Two stories that mirror each other, but set in different eras. Two stories that explore the fragility of human beings, the power of desire, and our connections with literature.’ – Radio-Canada; ‘Dominique Fortier [...] has given us a stunning new novel.’ – L'actualité.
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Derek Beaulieu @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Honoured to have edited these two collections by bpNICHOL-- both explore the edges of reading and writing, both are strange and exciting. Pick your copies today from @coachhousebooks.bsky.social : chbooks.com/Authors/N/Ni...
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