Coach House Books
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Coach House Books is an independent Canadian publishing company located in Toronto, Ontario. Coach House publishes innovative and experimental poetry, fiction, drama and non-fiction. The press is particularly interested in writing that pushes at the boundaries of convention.
The company was founded as Coach House Press in 1965 by artist Stan Bevington. It is known for publishing early works by writers such as Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Ann-Marie MacDonald, George Bowering, Nicole Brossard, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Christopher Dewdney, bpNichol and Anne Michaels.
Coach House was at the centre of a number of innovations in the use of digital technology in publishing and printing, from computerized phototypesetting to desktop publishing. Notably, the pioneering SGML/XML company, SoftQuad, was founded by Coach House's Stan Bevington and colleagues Yuri Rubinsky and David Slocombe.
In 1991, Coach House was split into two separate companies: the printing house Coach House Printing, headed by Bevington, and the book publisher Coach House Press, headed by Margaret McClintock. Bevington subsequently tried, unsuccessfully, to reacquire the publishing company. Ultimately, the book publisher declared bankruptcy in 1996, and later the same year Bevington moved the printing company back into book publishing.
Coach House is one of the few Canadian publishing companies that prints its own titles; the printing operations also print books for several other small Canadian publishers and literary magazines - including the Hart House Review .
The company is located in several former coach houses on bpNichol Lane, near Spadina and Bloor.
The reputation of the new Coach House has been growing steadily since its rebirth in 1997, but it skyrocketed with the publication of Christian Bök’s Eunoia. This work of experimental poetry won the Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize in 2002 and has sold over 19,000 copies. Coach House books have been the recipients of dozens of other awards and nominations, including the Governor General's Award, the Toronto Book Award, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Lambda Book Award, the Books in Canada/Amazon.ca First Novel Award and the Trillium Book Award.
Its most recent successes have been a series of books of collected essays by Toronto writers on various aspects of their city. The first, uTOpia (2005), about various writers' notions of a perfectable Toronto, was a surprise hit and was followed by The State of the Arts (2006), GreenTOpia (2007) and HtO (2008) about water in the city.[1] Frequent contributors to the volumes include John Lorinc, Shawn Micallef, Derek McCormack, Dylan Reid, Bert Archer, Stéphanie Verge, Chris Hardwicke, Mark Fram, Liz Forsberg, Dale Duncan and Darren O'Donnell.
Recently, Coach House was awarded the Province of Ontario’s inaugural Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Arts for Arts Organizations.
Recent Coach House titles include:
Fiction All My Friends Are Superheroes, by Andrew Kaufman; Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative, edited by Mary Burger, Robert Glück, Camille Roy and Gail Scott; The City Man, by Howard Akler; Chase and Haven, by Michael Blouin; Down Sterling Road, by Adrian Michael Kelly; Girls Fall Down, by Maggie Helwig; The Girls Who Saw Everything, by Sean Dixon; [1]I know you are but what am I?, by Heather Birrell; King, by Tanya Chapman; Lenny Bruce Is Dead, by Jonathan Goldstein; Mauve Desert, by Nicole Brossard, translated by Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood; The Milk Chicken Bomb, by Andrew Wedderburn; Miss Lamp, by Chris Ewart; Nellcott Is My Darling, by Golda Fried; Pulpy and Midge, by Jessica Westhead; The River of Dead Trees, by Andrée A. Michaud, translated by Nathalie Stephens; Safety of War, by Rob Benvie; Self-Titled, by Geoffrey Brown; Spare Parts Plus Two, by Gail Scott; The Steve Machine, by Mike Hoolboom; Stunt, by Claudia Dey; Twenty Miles, by Cara Hedley; The Winter Gardeners, by Dennis Denisoff; Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon, by Nicole Brossard, translated by Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood; Your Secrets Sleep With Me, by Darren O’Donnell
Poetry American Standard/Canada Dry, by Stephen Cain; The Alphabet Game: A bpNichol Reader, edited by Darrewn Wershler-Henry and Lori Emerson; Blert, by Jordan Scott; Crabwise to Hounds, by Jeramy Dodds; Crystallography, by Christian Bök; Eunoia, by Christian Bök; Fidget, by Kenneth Goldsmith; Hagiography, by Jen Currin; Hello Serotonin, by Jon Paul Fiorentino; Human Resources, by Rachel Zolf; Konfessions of an Elizabethan Fan Dancer, by bpNichol; The Laundromat Essay, by Kyle Buckley; Lemon Hound, by Sina Queyras; The Martyrology (seven volumes), by bpNichol; Mycological Studies, by Jay MillAr; Nerve Squall, by Sylvia Legris; Notebook of Roses and Civilization, by Nicole Brossard, translated by Robert Majzels and Erín Moure; Now You Care, by Di Brandt; Portable Altamont, by Brian Joseph Davis; The Refrigerator Memory, by Shannon Bramer; Said like Reeds or Things, by Mark Truscott; Sitcom, by David McGimpsey; Sooner, by Margaret Chirstakos; The Theory of the Loser Class, by Jon Paul Fiorentino; Touch to Affliction, by Nathalie Stephens; Troubled, by RM Vaughan; What Stirs, by Margaret Christakos; Wide slumber for lepidopterists, by a.rawlings; with wax, by derek beaulieu; The World is a Heartbreaker, by Sherwin Tjia; Zygal, by bpNichol
Drama Age of Arousal, by Linda Griffiths; [boxhead], by Darren O’Donnell; Camera, Woman, by RM Vaughan; Exposure: Two Plays, by Greg MacArthur; The Farm Show, by Ted Johns and Paul Thompson; From the Atelier Tovar: Selected Writing, by Guy Maddin; Goodness, by Michael Redhill; Hello … Hello: A Romantic Satire, by Karen Hines; Hippies and Bolsheviks and Other Plays, by Amiel Gladstone; Inoculations, by Darren O’Donnell; Isolated: Two Plays, by Greg MacArthur; The Monster Trilogy, by RM Vaughan; Patria, by R. Murray Schafer; pppeeeaaaccceee, by Darren O’Donnell; The Pochsy Plays, by Karen Hines; Practical Dreamers: Conversations with Movie Artists, by Mike Hoolboom; Reel Asian: Asian Canada on Screen, edited by Elaine Chang; Scripts: Librettos for Operas and Other Musical Works, by James Reaney, edited by John Beckwith; Social Acupuncture: A Guide to Suicide, Performance and Utopia, by Darren O’Donnell; Trout Stanley, by Claudia Dey
Nonfiction Concrete Toronto: A Guide to Concrete Architecture from the Fifties to the Seventies, edited by Michael McClelland and Graeme Stewart; GreenTOpia: Towards a Sustainable Toronto, edited by Alana Wilcox, Christina Palassio and Jonny Dovercourt; HtO: Toronto’s Water from Lake Iroquois to Lost Rivers and Low-flow Toilets, edited by Wayne Reeves and Christina Palassio; Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture, by Lisa Robertson; The State of the Arts: Living with Culture in Toronto, edited by Alana Wilcox, Christina Palassio and Jonny Dovercourt; uTOpia: Towards a New Toronto, edited by Alana Wilcox and Jason McBride
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