Véhicule Press

Véhicule Press Publisher of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, essays and translations. The large space occupied by both the gallery and the press at 61 Ste-Catherine St.

Véhicule Press began in 1973 on the premises of Véhicule Art Inc., one of Canada's first artist-run galleries. West was once the Café Montmarte--the renowned jazz club of the 1930s. (See Swinging in Paradise: The Story of Jazz in Montreal). Guy Lavoie (designer of the Véhicule Press logo), Annie Nayer, Marshalore, and Vivian Jemelka-White began using equipment inherited from Kenny Hertz's defunct

Ingluvin Publications and an idle, ancient ATF Chief 20 printing press originally purchased by artist Tom Dean to print Beaux-Arts magazine. In 1975 the press became Coopérative d'Imprimerie Véhicule--Quebec's only cooperatively-owned printing and publishing company. Véhicule Press was the publishing imprint of the coop. In late spring 1977, Véhicule Press moved to 1000 Clark Street in the heart of Chinatown, and in 1980 moved to an industrial space located on Ontario Street East. In spring 1981, the coop was dissolved and Simon Dardick (who had joined the press during the summer, 1973) and Nancy Marrelli continued Véhicule Press from Roy Street East, not far from The Main (just around the corner from where the poet Emile Nelligan lived) in the Plateau area of Montreal. Since 1973 Véhicule Press has published award-winning poetry, fiction, essays, translations, and social history. Simon Dardick and Nancy Marrelli are the publishers and general editors, Patrick Goddard is Administrative Assistant, Jennifer Varkonyi is Marketing & Promotions Manager. Michael Harris was the founding editor of the Signal Editions poetry series in 1981. Carmine Starnino became Signal Editions editor in January 2001. Since 1981, over a hundred titles have been published in the series; one third of them by first-time authors. In late summer 2003, Andrew Steinmetz became editor of Esplanade Books, Véhicule's new fiction series. Andrew is the author of Histories and Wardlife: The Apprenticeship of a Young Writer as a Hospital Clerk. He was succeeded by Dimitri Nasrallah, author of the novels Niko and The Bleeds, in 2013.

Thrilled to see recognized with a Governor General’s Literary Award nomination for THE INFERNO, her searing retelling ...
10/21/2025

Thrilled to see recognized with a Governor General’s Literary Award nomination for THE INFERNO, her searing retelling of Dante’s first book of The Divine Comedy.

We are proud to be Goodison's Canadian publishers.

Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada

Only three books under "Essays and Ideas" for the The Globe and Mail's Fall list of must-reads—and Jason Guriel's FAN MA...
10/11/2025

Only three books under "Essays and Ideas" for the The Globe and Mail's Fall list of must-reads—and Jason Guriel's FAN MAIL is one of them!

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Daniel Sanger's SAVING THE CITY: THE CHALLENGE OF TRANSFORMING A MODERN METROPOLIS is a must-read before Montreal's fort...
10/09/2025

Daniel Sanger's SAVING THE CITY: THE CHALLENGE OF TRANSFORMING A MODERN METROPOLIS is a must-read before Montreal's forthcoming municipal election. This is what Marianne Ackerman wrote in the Literary Review of Canada:

"SAVING THE CITY should be taught in politics and gender studies courses across the continent, as a case study of how women succeed and don’t succeed in power. By any measure, it is an important look at Montreal and an engaging account of how a small group of visionaries brought about real change in the early twenty-first century."

RESISTING CANADA, edited by Nyla Matuk, gathers together poets for a conversation bigger than poetic trends. It’s organi...
09/30/2025

RESISTING CANADA, edited by Nyla Matuk, gathers together poets for a conversation bigger than poetic trends. It’s organizing principle is Canada—the Canada that established residential schools; the Canada grappling with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission; the Canada that has been visible in its welcome of Syrian refugees, yet the not-always-tolerant place where the children of those refugees will grow up; the Canada eager to re-establish its global leadership on the environment while struggling to acknowledge Indigenous sovereignty on resource-rich land and enabling further colonization of that land. In the face of global conflicts due to climate change, scarcity, mass migrations, and the rise of xenophobic populisms, Canada still works with a surface understanding of its democratic values—both at their noblest and most deceptive. TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION 2025.

Grateful to Alex Boyd for his generous words on Jason Guriel's FAN MAIL:"A big part of writing is making language sit up...
09/28/2025

Grateful to Alex Boyd for his generous words on Jason Guriel's FAN MAIL:

"A big part of writing is making language sit up and dance, and a big part of reviewing a book is having an eye for the perfect quote. Guriel is quite capable of all of the above. In his piece on 'selfie criticism,' he observes those pieces by critics like Pauline Kael and Lester Bang that seem 'fired by irrefutable furnaces: living, breathing personalities.' He notes a character in a film has 'a scarf so threadbare it could be a gnawed-off noose.'"

https://boydwords.wordpress.com/2025/09/27/fan-mail-a-guide-to-what-we-love-loathe-and-mourn-jason-guriel/

In his tenth novel, master storyteller David Homel blurs the line where art and secrecy overlap.Documentary filmmaker Mi...
09/28/2025

In his tenth novel, master storyteller David Homel blurs the line where art and secrecy overlap.

Documentary filmmaker Mikhail's latest project has complicated life in Montreal, garnering attacks from all sides after screening at the Cannes Film Festival. Looking to get away from the noise until things quiet down, he hastily applies to an out-of-the-way artist’s residency in a place where nothing ever happens.

But for a documentary filmmaker, there is always trouble to uncover. Mikhail quickly finds himself caught up amidst the violence of a miners’ strike, as well as in clandestine relationship with Caroline, a married judge with an unstable husband.

Available October 2025. Pre-order now

https://vehiculepress.com/shop/private-number-by-david-homel/

Huge thanks to James Mullinger for his amazing review of Jeremy Thomas Gilmer's THIS RARE EARTH. "If Taylor Sheridan’s L...
09/28/2025

Huge thanks to James Mullinger for his amazing review of Jeremy Thomas Gilmer's THIS RARE EARTH.

"If Taylor Sheridan’s Landman), led by Billy Bob Thornton’s cowboy-hatted reckoner navigating boardrooms and badlands, is the brooding, star-powered dramatization of oil-country grit, Jeremy Gilmer’s This Rare Earth is the real thing."

Read the full review of This Rare Earth by Jeremy Gilmer .jeremy in the brand new volume of :

If Taylor Sheridan’s Landman), led by Billy Bob Thornton’s cowboy-hatted reckoner navigating boardrooms and badlands, is the brooding, star-powered dramatization of oil-country grit, Jeremy Gilmer’s This Rare Earth is the real thing, stripped of Hollywood polish but no less cinematic in its stakes. This is not a memoir designed to glorify global adventuring or celebrate the brash bravado of resource extraction. Rather, it’s a graphic, literary and often moving account of 25 years spent inside the extractive machine, from the fractured hillsides of cartel-controlled Colombia to the ice-crusted belly of an Arctic diamond mine. With prose that is unflinching but elegant, Gilmer brings us along not as voyeurs but as participants in the uncomfortable truth that the comforts of modern life, from smartphones to solar panels, are built on a foundation of high-risk, high-impact engineering in the world’s most volatile corners.

Where Thornton’s Landman plays the oilfield as a Western stage — a world of antiheroes and capitalist mythology — Gilmer offers the antithesis: a grounded, brutally honest exploration of what it means to build dams and pipelines in the shadows of civil war, corruption and ecological fragility. His chapter on northern Angola, emerging from decades of conflict, is not only tense but morally complex. His standoff with armed pork-knockers (freelance prospectors) in South America reads like a Graham Greene short story, yet every scene is rooted in fact.

Happy publication day to FAN MAIL: A GUIDE TO WHAT WE LOVE, LOATHE, and MOURN!“Jason Guriel is one of the country’s most...
09/25/2025

Happy publication day to FAN MAIL: A GUIDE TO WHAT WE LOVE, LOATHE, and MOURN!

“Jason Guriel is one of the country’s most gifted, original, and versatile writers. I would read him on absolutely anything–but it is a particular pleasure to read him on the subjects that move him most. A meditation on life’s many obsessions, this collection is as energizing as it is elegant”—Tara Henley

Toronto friends, Jeremy Thomas Gilmer is launching This Rare Earth tonight at Flying Books! We hope you can join us for ...
09/24/2025

Toronto friends, Jeremy Thomas Gilmer is launching This Rare Earth tonight at Flying Books! We hope you can join us for readings and discussion from 6:30pm-8pm, 784 College Street.

Un gros merci to Librairie Bertrand for hosting a wonderful event last night in Montreal!

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