I'm honoured to have published 4 books with @coachhousebooks.bsky.social : 2 of my own poetry: WITH WAX (2003), SURFACE TENSION (2022) & 2 edited volumes of the work of bpNichol: NIGHTS ON PROSE MOUNTAIN (2018) & SOME LINES OF POETRY (2024). Order your copies today!: chbooks.com/Authors/B/Be...

My review of THE MULAI by Munir Hachemi, tr from the Spanish by Julia Sanches, from @coachhousebooks.bsky.social: www.sfintranslation.com?p=17053 An excellent, polyphonic novel about language, translation, history, religion, and more

Lisa Robertson interview, about her novel Riverwork. She talks about Djuna Barnes's Nightwood (a book I share her enthusiasm for - though tempered by what Darryl Pinckney wrote about Barnes in High Cotton) and also, of all things, Thomas Carlyle! minorliteratures.com/2026/05/14/p...

Now announcing the Coach House Books Fall 2026 slate of releases! 🌟 Browse our forthcoming titles (and pre-order them!) here: chbooks.com/Books/FORTHC...

'The Coffin of Honey is a book of Nabokovian complexity that invites re-reading immediately upon completion.' Read Dawn MacDonald's full review of Geoffrey D. Morrison's 'strange and philosophical' Coffin of Honey, for Strange Horizons, here: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Reading THE MULAI (tr from the Spanish) and it's making me think about 2 recent works of Korean SFT: "Spectrum" in Kim Choyeop's IF WE CANNOT GO AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT and Djuna's Linker Universe in EVERYTHING GOOD DIES HERE chbooks.com/Books/T/The-... @coachhousebooks.bsky.social

@maggiehelwig.bsky.social reads from Instructions for the End of the World, as they record the audiobook live from St. Stephen-in-the-Fields Church! Out June 9, Instructions for the End of the World (and its audiobook) are available for pre-order now: chbooks.com/Books/I/Inst...

'Riverwork is about a river, but it’s also about history, mortality, gender, culture, labour, sexuality, dust, decadence, documents, and Chantal Akerman’s film Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles...' Seaboard Review of Books on RIVERWORK: www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/riverwork-...

'If Borges wrote hard science-fiction, it might well look like this; it also bears comparing to some of the lesser-known Le Guin works like Always Coming Home.' THE MULAI is a must-read summer novel:

The Recognizable Inside the Unrecognizable: @inkstainedwreck.ca reviews Geoffrey D. Morrison’s THE COFFIN OF HONEY (@coachhousebooks.bsky.social)

TONIGHT IN TORONTO! We launch all of our Spring/Summer titles and hear readings from five wonderful authors. More info here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/coach-hous...

TONIGHT 7PM #societyclubhouse #toronto I can not picture a more legendary line-up for this storied press. @coachhousebooks.bsky.social & "On Occasion" a resplendent wonder (the cover reminds me of Sina in flares). #attend chbooks.com/Events

To celebrate the release of NEBULAS, I’m making a playlist of the book’s many many musical influences! Today’s thread: “I Want to Break Free”! Here’s Freddie Mercury in maybe my favourite music video and definitely my favourite karaoke standard… youtu.be/f4Mc-NYPHaQ?...

Occasional poem postcards! To read and enjoy and, most importantly, to send to others so they can read and enjoy them too. We'll have these on hand with us at tomorrow's Spring Group Launch in Toronto! RSVP: www.eventbrite.ca/e/coach-hous...

It's publication day for NEBULAS! This is my brand new poetry collection! Time to gorge yourself on all the most gorgeous stuff in the universe: stellar nurseries, dying gas giants, sea cucumbers, alien foxes, and giant pumpkins. 🥂✨💫

Happy pub day to Nebulas from @meghankempgee.bsky.social! 🌠 Poems that look at our little world from space: chbooks.com/Books/N/Nebu...

Tonight in Toronto, Lisa Robertson launches her new book, RIVERWORK! Robertson will be in conversation with Derek McCormack at Standard Time (165 Geary Ave.) from 7 PM. More info & RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/riverwork-...

NEBULAS from Meghan Kemp-Gee is out on Tuesday! Learn more and pre-order your copy: chbooks.com/Books/N/Nebu...

'Call it hybrid, genre-bending, unclassifiable – those totemic labels of the contemporary literary zeitgeist fall short. There is no story, Lucy Frost protests repeatedly – part lament, part apology, part political statement – in case we should expect otherwise.' RIVERWORK reviewed in The Baffler:

Misha Solomon on his poem, 'Reading “Having a Coke with You” at My Best Friend’s Wedding,' included in On Occasion: Poems for the People. Read his full interview: occasionalpoems.ca/interviews/m...

"The Coffin of Honey has an internationalist point of view, and this playlist inevitably reflects that." Geoffrey D. Morrison shared a playlist for is novel The Coffin of Honey at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2026/05/13/g...

A fantastic interview with Lisa Robertson on her new novel, Riverwork, out this week:

It's the week before my new book NEBULAS comes out and I wanted to share some of the (many) musical inspirations for this cosmic collection. First up, a poem inspired by Dolly Parton, the Butterfly Nebula, and summer love. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jktM...

DAD ERA by Jordan Abel is officially out in the world! An irreverent, laugh-out-loud pastiche of free verse, hallmark card, bad truism, picture book, advice website, and meditative reflection on fatherhood. chbooks.com/Books/D/Dad-...

Today in Lit Hub, Geoffrey D. Morrison (The Coffin of Honey, out today!) on Learning and Teaching Languages As a Fiction Writer:

Tonight in Montreal, Sina Queyras launches ON OCCASION: POEMS FOR THE PEOPLE! Join Queyras and a lineup of fantastic poets at Destiil Books. 💥

For Lisa Robertson fans, events coming up across Canada: In Vancouver on Fri., May 15, 7 PM, Lisa will be at the People’s Co-Op Bookstore in conversation with Lorna Brown and Clint Burnham & Sat., May 16, 3 PM, Lisa and Kathy Slade (artist and cover designer of Riverwork) in conversation at VABF

Today’s spotlighted contributor interview is with Shelagh Rowan-Legg, who reflects upon her two poems included in On Occasion: Poems for the People. On Occasion, edited by Sina Queyras, is (officially) out everywhere you buy books tomorrow: chbooks.com/Books/O/On-O...

On Thursday May 14 at 7pm, @debbiepatterson.bsky.social launches Rebellious Bodies and Radical Acts: Deaf and Disabled Artists Raise the Curtain on Cripping the Stage, featuring contributors Vivi Dabee and Christopher Bryan De Guzman. - mailchi.mp/grant/debbie... @coachhousebooks.bsky.social

“the occasion was the spark,” writes @robmclennan.bsky.social, on the shape of his contributed poems to On Occasion: Poems for the People. Read his full interview at occasionalpoems.ca/interviews/r..., and his three contributed poems in On Occasion, available everywhere on May 12!

'[A] collection of labyrinthine acrobatic lexical maneuvers delivered with the unadulterated confidence of the unhinged…This is an extremely specific strain of fun, but we are definitely having it.' Lisa Robertson's RIVERWORK in The New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/b...

From the Spring 2026 issue, an Editor’s Choice of Lisa Robertson’s “Riverwork” (@coachhousebooks.bsky.social, 2026) by @nicodemus.bsky.social, where a researcher follows the currents that once captivated her great-aunt: the cultural history of a river that once flowed through Paris.

April library reads from Coach House Books! Featuring What I Know About You, Encampment, Fifteen Dogs, The Sleeping Car Porter, and Property. 📚❤️

This upcoming Tuesday, May 12! On Occasion: Poems for the People's book launch in Montreal, with a not-to-be-missed lineup of fantastic poets.

Learn more about Kate Cayley and Property below, and listen to Cayley's interview with The Walrus here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=o86E...

Congratulations to Kate Cayley, whose debut novel Property is a finalist for the 2026 Amazon Canada First Novel Award! Learn more about Property here: chbooks.com/Books/P/Prop...

Happy pub day to Riverwork by Lisa Robertson! Riverwork is available everywhere you buy books now: chbooks.com/Books/R/Rive...

The Toronto in Print @janeswalk.bsky.social was fascinating. Learned about Margaret Atwood’s start in typography, Rosemary Kibourn’s stained glass work, labour movement history (started with Hamilton print makers), the founding of @coachhousebooks.bsky.social , & met some fellow font nerds!

Coming May 12: Dad Era from Jordan Abel! chbooks.com/Books/D/Dad-...

Read the beginning of Jumoke Verissimo’s ‘The Archival Burden,’ included in On Occasion: Poems for the People, a collection of occasional poetry edited by Sina Queyras. 🧡 Pre-order On Occasion here: chbooks.com/Books/O/On-O...

My love of the occasional poem led to my editing an anthology of poetry launching May 12! You'll find interviews with many of the contributors up on the books' companion site: occasionalpoems.ca and one below!

An excerpt from Gary Barwin, ahead of the publication of On Occasion: Poems for the People! Read his full interview here: occasionalpoems.ca/interviews/g... On Occasion: Poems for the People, edited by Sina Queyras, is out May 12 everywhere you buy books. ✨

'There is a tendency among politicians these days to speak as if you were helpless. But you do have power, and you do have choices about how you use it.' @maggiehelwig.bsky.social's interview with The Canadian Press this morning: www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/entertainmen...

Please join us in congratulating @maggiehelwig.bsky.social, who has just won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for her book, Encampment: Resistance, Grace, and an Unhoused Community!

Dispatch from New York: Riverwork by Lisa Robertson hits the New & Notable Fiction table at McNally Jackson SoHo, and a wonderful Small Press feature of Coach House titles! 💌

From Charlene Kwiatkowski, whose poem ‘I Owned Kingdoms’ you’ll be able to read shortly in On Occasion: Poems for the People (edited by Sina Queyras and out May 12)! Read more about the writing of Kwiatkowski’s poem and the occasion in which it took shape: occasionalpoems.ca/interviews/c...

Join Jordan Abel as he launches Dad Era at Magpie Books in Edmonton! Saturday, May 30, from 5 to 6 PM. Jordan Abel will be in conversation with Jason Purcell. Full event details: chbooks.com/Events

Words from Derek Beaulieu, on the occasion of On Occasion: Poems for the People! Read his full interview about occasional poetry and his three included poems, ‘readymade dictionary,’ ‘for Eugen Gomringer (1925–2025),’ and ‘for Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt (1932-2024)': occasionalpoems.ca/interviews/d...

On Tuesday, May 19, Lisa Robertson launches RIVERWORK, in conversation with Derek McCormack! Join us at Standard Time (165 Geary Ave., Toronto) at 7 PM to celebrate its publication. RSVP: www.eventbrite.ca/e/riverwork-...

‘READ ALOUD, SEATED IN A CAR HELD TOGETHER WITH CHICKEN WIRE IN FULL VIEW OF A SILO ON FIRE’: Diane Seuss tells us how best to enjoy her poem, ‘An occasional is a rare occasion,’ reflects upon the writing of this particular poem, and more: occasionalpoems.ca/interviews/d...