Ian Williams, author of Word Problems (Coach House Books, 2020) and a member of our Poetry Board, on Coach House’s sixtieth anniversary: 'Behind the scenes, I’ve found people who love poetry, who get their emotions tangled up with manuscripts, who drool a little when they read a good line.’

Tonight at 7!

The #SMUReadingSeries presents "An evening with Kate Cayley" on November 27. Winner of the Trillium Award, O. Henry Prize and Mitchell Prize for Poetry, Cayley will read from her new novel Property, published by @coachhousebooks.bsky.social. 7 pm in SB 255: loom.ly/bnvuCYY @smuenglish.bsky.social

In Verdun tonight, David Berry will be joining Raymond Biesinger for his book launch at Pulp Books! And tomorrow, in Toronto: Berry's own book launch for How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists at TYPE Books (Queen St. W.). See you there.

AND SO BEGAN ONE OF THE MOST UNUSUAL EXPERIMENTS IN CANADIAN LITERATURE: André Forget at @thewalrus.ca delves into André Alexis’s Quincunx Cycle, as we celebrate the tenth anniversary of the publication of Fifteen Dogs this year. Read the full piece on André Alexis: thewalrus.ca/gods-dogs-an...

This weekend in @theglobeandmail.com, @joshokane.bsky.social spoke with @pleasuremotors.bsky.social about How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists! Read the interview here: www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...

Spoke with @pleasuremotors.bsky.social about his new book, the endlessly quotable How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists (@coachhousebooks.bsky.social), lopsided markets for creativity, the scourge of "innovation," and Yakety Yak: www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...

The Sleeping Car Porter, Encampment, What I Know About You, Messy Cities, and Fifteen Dogs among the indie books most borrowed by Canadians. 📖❤️

TONIGHT (Monday, Nov. 3) at Flying Books at Neverland (Toronto): Kate Cayley will be discussing her novel, Property, with our Editorial Director Alana Wilcox! Full event details here: flyingbooks.ca/events/38264...

Did you miss our event last night? Readings and a Q and A with @terivlass.bsky.social @heatherbirrell.bsky.social and @sokhan.bsky.social @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social @coachhousebooks.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social youtu.be/ORpXvX9zG04

BOO! The Coach House squirrels are insisting that spooky season isn’t over. We’ve rounded up our most chilling reads, featuring monsters, the dead, and climate horror, for a Halloween weekend sale! Shop select titles for 20% OFF (until midnight Nov. 2) here: chbooks.com/Collections/...

from @coachhousebooks.bsky.social

Heather Birrell will be reading as part of Junction Reads this Sunday, in-person in Toronto and available to stream virtually. Ahead of time, read a review of BORN below!

What I Know About You by Éric Chacour (trans. Pablo Strauss) and Horsefly by Mireille Gagné (trans. Pablo Strauss) have been nominated for the 2026 Forest of Reading Evergreen Award! Learn more about the ten nominees and the Evergreen Award here: forestofreading.com/evergreen-20...

For your spooky reading needs: All Lit Up recommends The Laws of the Skies and Horsefly 🪰🩸

Join David Berry for book launches across Canada, starting with his Edmonton book launch tomorrow night in Edmonton! Then he'll be in Calgary, Montreal, and Toronto in November. 💸📗

In our continued celebration of 60 years of Coach House, our featured title this week is Gail Scott’s Spare Parts (and Spare Parts Plus Two)! Read about all of our featured titles from the archive on our blog here: chbooks.com/Blog/Celebra...

Excerpt of a walk with Shawn Micallef along Bloor Street in Toronto. @shawnmicallef.bsky.social is the author of “Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto” and a regular contributor to Spacing magazine and the Toronto Star. @coachhousebooks.bsky.social @spacing.bsky.social @thestar.com

St. Stephen's would be grateful for the donation of wound care supplies (gauze, surgical tape, antibiotic cream etc), and are also looking for volunteers for their food programs. Please see saintstephens.ca/weekend-brea... for further info, or visit their site to donate directly.

Tonight! We hope to see you at Society Clubhouse in Toronto for our Fall Poetry Launch. Free and all welcome, more info here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/coach-hous...

Sunday November 2 6:30pm ET In person at TYPE Books Junction 2887 Dundas Street W. Toronto Livestreamed. @heatherbirrell.bsky.social @terivlass.bsky.social and Saad Omar Khan @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social @coachhousebooks.bsky.social @dundurnpress.bsky.social www.eventbrite.ca/e/1595532593...

This Thursday, in Toronto, we have our Fall Poetry Launch for four great Canadian poets. Join us from 7 PM to hear from Eric Schmaltz, Jennifer Bowering Delisle, Rosanna Deerchild, and Jumoke Verissimo. Free event & all welcome: www.eventbrite.ca/e/coach-hous...

Happy pub day to When Water Became Blue by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, translated from the French by Rhonda Mullins! Annie Ernaux meets Annie Dillard in this sultry story of a woman’s obsession with a painter — and a river. LEARN MORE: chbooks.com/Books/W/When...

Published in 2024, today’s feature from the Coach House archive is Éric Chacour’s celebrated debut novel What I Know About You, translated into English by Pablo Strauss! Learn more about What I Know About You here: chbooks.com/Books/W/What...

This Sunday, join Shawn Micallef for some strolling and Stroll-talk at Koffler Gallery, in Toronto. (Register at his link below)

HALIFAX! Tonight, come out to the book launch of Eric Schmaltz’s I CONFESS. Featuring readings by Eric Schmaltz, Erin Wunker, Cooper Lee Bombardier, and Daryl Bruce. From 4-6 PM at The Back Room at Stillwell Freehouse, 2534 Agricola Street, Halifax. Free and all welcome.

This is our churchyard now.

Yesterday, we witnessed the City clear the encampment at St. Stephen's, where @maggiehelwig.bsky.social is the priest. As the Claw began crushing tents and other belongings, we listened to a community member read out a large portion of Encampment’s first chapter.

We have just been informed that the encampment at St Stephen's will be cleared TOMORROW (Thursday). If you can be here in support of the residents, please come. We anticipate that things will start around 9 am and probably go on for some time.

Maggie Helwig's ENCAMPMENT has won the Toronto Book Awards! The city has also just given notice that the encampment beside her church (St. Stephen-in-the-Fields) is to be cleared TOMORROW MORNING (Thurs., Oct. 16). If you're in Toronto, support the encampment and its residents at 103 Bellevue Ave.!

Heather Birrell and Meg Todd talk about writing from the inside out and what the means in their books BORN (@coachhousebooks.bsky.social) & MOST GRIEVOUS FAULT (@nightwoodeditions.bsky.social) in today's #aluwomenaskingwomen: alllitup.ca/women-asking-women-heather-birrell-meg-todd/

Tonight at Another Story Bookshop (Toronto), please join us for the launch of CIRCUMTRAUMA! Jumoke Verissimo will be joined by Hoa Nguyen. 🖤

Happy pub day to David Berry’s How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists, an attempt to reckon with the history of money in the arts — from Titian to Taylor Swift — and how that complicated relationship is changing. Learn more about David Berry's latest here: chbooks.com/Books/H/How-...

This week, our spotlight is on The Long Poem Anthology (1979). We've also found its first appearance in a Coach House catalogue, from 1980! 🦫 Read more about our archive features all together over on our blog: chbooks.com/Blog/Celebra...

Thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate the launch of Property by Kate Cayley this past Tuesday, Oct 7! Thanks as well to Kate Cayley and Steven Beattie for the great conversation, and to Society Clubhouse for having us. PROPERTY is available everywhere now: chbooks.com/Books/P/Prop...

Read Jumoke Verissimo's interview with rob below! Her recent poetry book, Circumtrauma, is out from us now: chbooks.com/Books/C/Circ...

Fifteen Dogs: Tenth Anniversary Edition is now available in paperback and hardcover! André Alexis has signed a limited number of copies. While supplies last, all orders for the Fifteen Dogs: Tenth Anniversary Edition hardcover placed on chbooks.com will receive a copy signed by the author. ✨🐕

Why We Write the Extra Details: Kate Cayley, author of Property (out today), on the Intersection of Politics, Art, and the Private Self: lithub.com/why-we-write...

Tonight!

Happy pub day to Property by Kate Cayley! Join us tonight, October 7, to celebrate the launch of Cayley’s debut novel. Doors open at 7 PM at Society Clubhouse (967 College St., Toronto). We'll hear from Cayley, who will be joined by Steven Beattie. Full details can be found at chbooks.com/events

Join us on Tuesday, October 14 to celebrate the launch of CIRCUMTRAUMA by Jumoke Verissimo! Verissimo will be joined by Hoa Nguyen at Another Story Bookshop (315 Roncesvalles Ave., Toronto), from 7 PM. RSVP here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/circumtrau...

Published in 2022, Matthew James Weigel's Whitemud Walking is an Indigenous resistance historiography, poetry that interrogates the colonial violence of the archive. Matthew uses photos, maps, and treaty documents to create a genre-bending consideration of the colonial history of Canada.

Sleeping Car Porter, What I Know About You, Encampment, Fifteen Dogs, and Messy Cities! We love libraries and library readers of our books. 🧡

A very cute reminder that if you are a dog person, have read and loved Fifteen Dogs, or are interested in seeing what the signatures of two acclaimed writers look like on a beautiful hardcover book, you should sign up for the COACH HOUSE BOOKS NEWSLETTER! 💌 signup.e2ma.net/signup/19102...

PROPERTY, by Kate Cayley, officially releases next week on Tuesday, October 7! Celebrate its launch with us at Society Clubhouse, from 7 to 10 PM. Kate Cayley will be in conversation with Steven Beattie. RSVP: www.eventbrite.ca/e/book-launc...

Heather Birrell and Ben Ladouceur at the Coach House! Join us TONIGHT (Oct. 2), from 5 to 7 PM, at 80 bpNichol Lane to hear brief readings from these two authors. For all CH events, head to: chbooks.com/events !

👀 Are you signed up for our newsletter? This weekend, we'll be hosting a very special, very secret giveaway in celebration of the official publication of André Alexis's Fifteen Dogs: 10th Anniversary Edition, available only to newsletter subscribers! 👀 DON'T MISS IT: signup.e2ma.net/signup/19102...

The Booksellers’ List is Canada’s newest way to discover must-read books, chosen by the people who know them best—independent booksellers. The independent presses featured on the List this season are excited to team up and present you with ✨your favourite indie’s favourite indies✨