Subdivided

How do we build cities where we aren't just living within the same urban space, but living together?

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Poems that borrow from the lexicon of filmmaking to let us find some solace in our facades.

Autobiography of childhood

Acclaimed poet's debut novel explores loss and the legacy of childhood grief, as five siblings prepare for one sister's death.

Incarnations

Incarnations showcases twenty years of Janieta Eyre’s uniquely performative portraits deconstructing what it means to be a thinker, woman, and subject.

The devil and the detective

Dashiell Hammett, Samuel Beckett, and Charlie Chaplin intersect in this contemplative and funny detective novel.

New theatre

A poetic debut that ventures into historical and imagined space both, with musings on Lenin, power and identity.

The farm show

Fidget

The follow-up to the critically acclaimed No. 111, Fidget ruthlessly documents every movement made by Goldsmith's body on Bloomsday (June 16) 1997 from 10 am to 11 pm. Literary critic Marjorie Perloff compares Fidget to 'a Beckett prose text,' and says many witty and intelligent things about it i...

Age of arousal

It’s a time of passion and confusion. Virtue is barely holding down its petticoats. People are bursting their corsets with unbridled desire. It’s 1885, and the typewriter and the suffrage movement are sending things topsy-turvy. In the midst of it all, five ambitious New Women and one Newish Man...

The milk chicken bomb

The kid sells lemonade. Not a lot of people buy lemonade, especially now that it’s winter, but the kid makes good lemonade, even if his friend Mullen thinks it ought to be sweeter. They don’t talk much with the other ten-year-olds – most of the others are Dead Kids anyway. Except for Jenny Tiern...

Mauve desert

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 writers alike. This is both a single novel and three separate novels in one. In the first, Mauve Deser...

Lisa robertson's magenta soul whip

Erudite and startling, the poems in Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip turn vestige into architecture, chagrin into resplendence.

Human resources

Write for buyers. Write for bosses. Think hyper. Think branding. Tell your visitor where to go. Poetry and ‘plain language’ collide in the writing machine that is Human Resources. Here at the intersection of creation and repackaging, we experience the visceral and psychic cost of selling things ...

Cosmo

Albert Camus meets Chamillionaire in these incendiary pop-culture-infused stories.

Milosz

A darkly funny novel about family: the blood kind, the accidental kind, and the kind you rediscover on reality TV.

Janey's arcadia

An unflinchingly subversive, aversive, conversive poetic look at the underbelly of Canadian settler-colonial experience.

Neighbour procedure

A virtuoso polyvocal correspondence with the daily news, ancient scripture and contemporary theory.

The edible city

These essays form a saucy picture of how Toronto sustains itself, from growing basil on balconies to four-star restaurants.

The poetic edda

A lively contemporary translation of these action-packed medieval Icelandic poems.

On malice

On Malice is watching you—new poems about and by surveillance, from Griffin-winning Ken Babstock.

A god in need of help

Four men carry a painting over a mountain: a play about faith and mystery during The Enlightenment.

Pastoral

A master novelist turns his hand to questions of faith — and talking sheep.

Mad hope

Journey Prize–winning author returns with a kaleidoscope of off-kilter short stories about parenting in its many forms.

Five good ideas

More than ever, non-profits need to be smart, efficient businesses. This book will help them get there.

Monoceros

Unicorns, Ethiopian food, a Wonder Woman drag queen: Monoceros offers a funny, heartbreaking look at the tragedy of teen suicide.

A complete encyclopedia of different types of people

Turns a series of sociological case studies into a functional encyclopedia that doubles as an achingly funny poetry collection.

Exploring contemporary craft

The craft of craft, the art of craft – here in Canada we're just starting to really talk about these things. In March 1999, Jean Johnson, who runs Toronto's Craft Studio at Harbourfront Centre, organized a wildly successful symposium on the state of craft in Canada. Curators, writers, critics, a...

The trouble with brunch

What do your Eggs Benedict say about your notions of class?

Guyana

A mysterious suicide in Montreal leads the grieving Ana and her son back to 1978 Jonestown in this haunting translation.

Broom broom

From haikus on Alzheimer's to an epic history of bathtubs, Broom Broom will sweep you somewhere surprising.

Eye lake

Three disappearances, an underwater castle and the end of the world haunt this lively story of a northern town.

Li'l bastard

Pop culture sonnets as a midlife-crisis confessional. Li'l Bastard covers the three poetic Bs: baseball, beer, and Barnaby Jones.

Hypotheticals

Poetry and science: twin arts separated at birth? Leigh Kotsilidis's debut puts the scientific method's feet to the fire.

Fences in breathing

A disquieting, dexterous and defiant missive, another triumph by one of North America's foremost practitioners of innovative writing.

Crabwise to the hounds

With cameos by jackalopes, Glenn Gould, homemade spaceships, and Carl Linnaeus, these poems are remarkable for their technical agility and their restless inventiveness. There’s an elegance here that matches Dodds’ impulse to challenge the reader with fresh metaphor and astonishing phrasing; the f...

Concrete toronto

Toronto is a concrete city. From international landmarks to civic buildings to cultural institutions to metropolitan infrastructure and the single-family home, reminders of the era of 'brutalist' architecture surround Torontonians. But for how long? As architectural fashion has shifted to the gl...

Clockfire

Talented newcomer Jonathan Ball’s Clockfire is a suite of poetic blueprints for imaginary plays that would be impossible to produce.

Girls fall down

Selected as the 2012 Title for One Book Toronto A girl faints in the Toronto subway. Her friends are taken to the hospital with unexplained rashes; they complain about a funny smell in the subway. Swarms of police arrive, and then the hazmat team. Panic ripples through the city, and words like p...

Blert

The bright, taut, explosive poems in Jordan Scott’s Blert represent a spelunk into the mouth of the stutterer. Through the unique symptoms of the stutter (Scott, like fifty million others, has always stuttered), language becomes a rolling gait of words hidden within words, leading to different r...

Throaty wipes

With its words planted firmly in cheek, Throaty Wipes does surprising things — like write a poem on a calculator!

School

The surreal meets the political in Currin's new collection, global in scope and intimate in purpose.

Mxt

Poetry succeeds where science fails to measure grief. A brilliant new collection by the esteemed Sina Queyras.

The stonehenge letters

The archives of a secret competition, sponsored by Alfred Nobel, to "solve" Stonehenge — as compelling as the monument itself.

The cage

The triumphant return of the 1975 cult classic and seminal graphic novel — it's a nightmare you can't awake from.

Cutting room

Poems about the anxiety of the present – the dread that comes with being human at his particular moment.

Maidenhead

An uncensored take on an omnivorous, shame-ridden teenage sexual brain.

A book of variations

a book of variations returns to print three seminal texts by one of the twentieth century's most inventive poets.

Decomp

Origin of the Species left in five ecosystems for a year: a gorgeous photographic and poetic document of Nature's force.

Crystallography

Published in 1994, Crystallography was a gem of a book, an instant hit that was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award. It has been unavailable for an ice age, and Coach House Books is proud to bring it back. 'Crystallography' means the study of crystals, but also, taken literally, 'lucid writin...

The city still breathing

A northern gothic noir, The City Still Breathing is an acid-washed love letter to the 1980s.