Coach House Books

Coach House Books Tucked away on Toronto's bpNichol Lane, Coach House has been printing & publishing innovative poetry, fiction, drama & nonfiction since 1965. It’s true.

https://linktr.ee/chbooks There’s a laneway in downtown Toronto named after a poet: bpNichol Lane. Tucked away on that back alley is a crumbling old garage—a coach house—and inside it are two Heidelberg printing presses, an Autominabinda binder, and a big guillotine-like cutter. Passing through those machines is a gorgeous, antique-colored laid paper called Zephyr. And on that paper sits some of t

he most intriguing lines and sentences you’ll ever encounter.

“To say that Coach House ‘publishes’ books would be to diminish the magic of what really happens within the old brick walls on bpNichol Lane,” says The Globe and Mail of our publishing program. Our books are handsome, but they’ve got personality and wit too—they are, like our building, a little off the beaten path: innovative poetry, brazen fiction, provocative nonfiction. Every one of our books is a little portable piece of bpNichol Lane’s magic. For a taste, try out Christian Bök’s bestselling, Griffin Prize–winning EUNOIA, or a New York Times’ Top 100 selection, LISA ROBERTSON'S MAGENTA SOUL WHIP. Or the internationally acclaimed ALL MY FRIENDS ARE SUPERHEROES by Andrew Kaufman. Or MY WINNIPEG, by visionary filmmaker Guy Maddin. We’ve got a swath of award nominations to our name—Griffins, Trilliums, Commonwealths, Lambdas, and more—and a stockpile of laudatory press, like NewPages’ claim that our books offer “a reason to read. A reason to write. A reason to believe in poetry.” Heck, Bookforum called us “the most esteemed literary house in Canada.” But we don’t let it go to our heads; we, and our Heidelbergs, just keep on beavering away in our little coach house to bring you the most unexpected, delicious, carnival-ride-like books we can find. Visit us at www.chbooks.com.

Explore Living Disability: Building Accessible Futures for Everybody (edited by Emily Macrae) with two upcoming events i...
11/25/2025

Explore Living Disability: Building Accessible Futures for Everybody (edited by Emily Macrae) with two upcoming events in Toronto!

On Thursday, Nov. 27, join speakers and Living Disability contributors Angelo Muredda, Rabia Khedr, Emily Macrae, and Igor Samardzic in a celebration of disabled expertise, on the eve of International Day of Disabled Persons / People with Disabilities, and a reminder of the work still needed to create accessible spaces and services, 20 years since the passing of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act. At the East Common Room of Hart House (7 Hart House Cir.), Toronto.

On Tuesday, Dec. 2, join Emily Macrae, Sean Lee, and Igor Samardzic in a conversation inviting reflection on progress toward accessibility and inclusion. At the Upper Library of Massey College (4 Devonshire Place), Toronto.

For further details (including accessibility information) and to register, head to the link in our bio or chbooks.com/Events.

What I Know About You, by Éric Chacour and translated from the French by Pablo Strauss, has been nominated for the 2026 ...
11/20/2025

What I Know About You, by Éric Chacour and translated from the French by Pablo Strauss, has been nominated for the 2026 Dublin Literary Award!

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Via the : “The 69 nominated novels for the 2026 Award have been announced, selected by 80 libraries across 36 countries and showcasing an exceptional range of contemporary fiction, including five Irish authors and thirty translated titles in seventeen languages.

This year introduces a new development: a judges’ longlist of up to twenty titles will be announced on 17 February, followed by a shortlist of six on 7 April. The 31st winner will be revealed on 21 May during International Literature Festival Dublin (ILFD).”

What I Know About You was nominated both by the Toronto Public Library and Bibliothèque de Québec!

At long last, the Coach House Books’ 60th Anniversary Party podcast is available to listen to!2025 marks the 60th annive...
11/18/2025

At long last, the Coach House Books’ 60th Anniversary Party podcast is available to listen to!

2025 marks the 60th anniversary of Coach House Books. To celebrate, we held a party at the Lula Lounge in Toronto, featuring a series of guest speakers connected to the press. Listen to words from Alana Wilcox, Stan Bevington, Michael Ondaatje, Sarah Sheard, André Alexis, Sina Queyras, Shawn Micallef, and Susan Holbrook by following the link in our bio.

We’ll be celebrating our sixty years until the end of the year (and beyond). If you missed our anniversary party, head to chbooks.com to shop our latest titles and favourites from over the years. We also have limited edition anniversary merch, featuring bpNichol’s iconic laneway poetry at chbooks.com/Merchandise!

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From the Coach House archives, Guy Maddin’s From the Atelier Tovar: Selected Writings (2003):In 2003, we collected the w...
11/16/2025

From the Coach House archives, Guy Maddin’s From the Atelier Tovar: Selected Writings (2003):

In 2003, we collected the writings – journalism, diary entries, abandoned film treatments – of the singular Guy Maddin, who, as it turns out, is as genius a writer as he is a filmmaker. The Village Voice (RIP, sadly) called it one of the 25 best books of 2003. In what we called 'resolutely purple prose,' Maddin considers hockey, Italian silent-film divas, and of course the Osmonds. Spend some time in Maddin's visionary mind!

📝 Read about all of the titles from our archive featured so far over on our blog, at chbooks.com/BLOG 📝

Tonight in Windsor! Kate Cayley will be at Biblioasis Bookshop alongside Emily McKibbon and Tamara Jong!
11/14/2025

Tonight in Windsor! Kate Cayley will be at Biblioasis Bookshop alongside Emily McKibbon and Tamara Jong!

Ian Williams, author of Word Problems (Coach House Books, 2020) and a member of our Poetry Board, on Coach House’s sixti...
11/13/2025

Ian Williams, author of Word Problems (Coach House Books, 2020) and a member of our Poetry Board, on Coach House’s sixtieth anniversary:

‘I’ve dreamt of publishing with Coach House since I was a young poet browsing the stacks of my university library. The dream sustained me for years but the reality is even better. 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 in Toronto! Join us at TYPE Books (883 Queen St. W.) for the Toronto launch of How Artists Make Money and How Mo...
11/13/2025

Tonight in Toronto! Join us at TYPE Books (883 Queen St. W.) for the Toronto launch of How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists by David Berry.

This weekend in The Globe and Mail, Josh O'Kane spoke with David Berry about How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes ...
11/10/2025

This weekend in The Globe and Mail, Josh O'Kane spoke with David Berry about How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists!

Head to the link in our bio to read the full interview. Berry’s latest book is available everywhere you buy books now – and is a great gift idea for any artists or nonfiction readers in your life!

You can catch David Berry at two events this week, talking all things art and money. On Weds., Nov. 12, he’ll be at Pulp Books in Verdun, in conversation with Raymond Biesinger (whose art is on the cover of HAMM&HMMA), and on Thurs., Nov. 13, please join us for his Toronto Book Launch at TYPE Books on Queen! Full event details as always @ chbooks.com/EVENTS.

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The Ontario Book Publishers Organization is at Queen's Park today for and a Made in Ontario Book Fair! Special thanks ...
11/04/2025

The Ontario Book Publishers Organization is at Queen's Park today for and a Made in Ontario Book Fair! Special thanks to Jessica Bell (right) for meeting with us this morning to hear about the cultural and economic benefits created by Ontario publishers like Coach House Books. 💌📚

Tonight at Flying Books at Neverland! Join Kate Cayley and Alana Wilcox (our Editorial Director) in conversation on Cayl...
11/03/2025

Tonight at Flying Books at Neverland! Join Kate Cayley and Alana Wilcox (our Editorial Director) in conversation on Cayley's debut novel (and a bookseller's recommendation from Flying Books), Property!

Full details below at Flying Books's page.

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