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ebook cover of The Island of Books, by Dominique Fortier
Coach House Books | 7 November 2016

Au XVᵉ siècle, un peintre en deuil se réfugie au Mont Saint-Michel et découvre, malgré son illettrisme, la magie des manuscrits. Une ode poétique à la création, à la résilience et à l’amour des livres, entre ombre et lumière.

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ebook cover of Broom Broom, by Brecken Hancock
Coach House Books | 30 March 2014

Découvrez Broom Broom, un recueil de poésie audacieux où Brecken Hancock explore les méandres de la famille, les doubles obscurs et les mystères du Kraken.

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ebook cover of The Porcupinity of the Stars, by Gary Barwin
Coach House Books | 14 October 2010

Découvrez The Porcupinity of the Stars, un recueil de poésie où Gary Barwin mêle mélancolie et émerveillement. Une exploration visuelle et sonore de la conscience, entre famille, perte et émerveillement face au monde.

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ebook cover of On Nostalgia, by David Berry
Coach House Books | 6 July 2020

From movies to politics, social media posts to the targeted ads between them, nostalgia is one of the most potent forces of our era. On Nostalgia is a panoramic cultural history of nostalgia, exploring how a force that started as a psychological diagnosis of soldiers fighting far from home has come become a quintessentially modern condition. Drawing on everything from the modern science of memory to the romantic ideals of advertising, and traversing cultural movements from futurism to fascism to Facebook, cultural critic David Berry examines how the relentless search for self and overwhelming presence of mass media stokes the fires of nostalgia, making it as inescapable as it is hard to pin down. Holding fast against the pull of the past while trying to understand what makes the fundamental impossibility of return so appealing, On Nostalgia explores what it means to remember, how the universal yearning is used by us and against us, and it considers a future where the past is more readily available and easier to lose track of than ever before.

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ebook cover of The Obituary, by Gail Scott
Coach House Books | 21 June 2020

Montreal, ses fantômes et ses secrets : The Obituary de Gail Scott plonge le lecteur dans l’univers fragmenté de Rosine, une femme hantée par les voix du passé, les non-dits familiaux et les luttes identitaires.

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ebook cover of POP, by Simina Banu
Coach House Books | 13 April 2020

POP bouscule les codes de la poésie contemporaine en mêlant lyrisme, jeux visuels et humour mordant.

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ebook cover of The Eyelid, by S.D. Chrostowska
Coach House Books | 13 April 2020

Dans un futur proche où le sommeil est interdit, un héros sans nom suit Chevauchet, diplomate d’Onirica, pour sauver le dernier refuge des rêves.

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ebook cover of The Tower, by Paul Legault
Coach House Books | 13 April 2020

Que se passe-t-il quand un poète contemporain dialogue avec le fantôme de W.B. Yeats dans un bar gay ? The Tower réinvente le chef-d’œuvre de Yeats, explorant notre propre mortalité à travers des poèmes drôles, tendres et profondément modernes.

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ebook cover of Any Night of the Week, by Jonny Dovercourt
Coach House Books | 16 March 2020

Toronto, des années 1960 aux années 2000 : découvrez comment une ville discrète s’est transformée en capitale musicale underground.

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ebook cover of Disfigured, by Amanda Leduc
Coach House Books | 10 February 2020

Et si les contes de fées nous enseignaient bien plus sur l’exclusion que sur la magie ? Amanda Leduc, autrice et militante, déconstruit les récits de Grimm à Disney pour révéler comment ils façonnent notre regard sur le handicap.

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ebook cover of Haircuts by Children and Other Evidence for a New Social Contract, by Darren O'Donnell
Coach House Books | 17 January 2018

Et si les enfants détenaient les clés d’une société plus juste ? Haircuts by Children propose une révolution sociale audacieuse : intégrer les jeunes dans tous les domaines pour briser les inégalités et réinventer notre contrat social.

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Coach House Books | 14 May 2017

Toronto, des années 1960 à nos jours : plongez dans l’histoire méconnue et foisonnante des communautés LGBTQ+ qui ont transformé la ville en capitale mondiale de la lutte pour les droits et la visibilité queer.

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ebook cover of The Last Word, by Julia Cooper
Coach House Books | 14 May 2017

Et si le deuil méritait plus qu’un discours convenu ? The Last Word interroge notre rapport aux adieux et propose une réflexion drôle et profonde sur l’art de dire l’absence. Un essai indispensable pour ceux qui refusent les clichés face à la mort.

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ebook cover of Common Place, by Sarah Pinder
Coach House Books | 23 April 2017

Common Place explores the stories of shifting, resilient bodies and landscapes bound by systems of capital and power. From thin threads of text messages across borders to encounters with strangers in the crush of rush-hour transit, Sarah Pinder names our most private and public moments of seeing and being seen. With considered, quiet urgency, this poem witnesses our ambiguous, aching present and looks towards what comes next. Watch for theplaces where Pinder goes for the imperative: like the book as a whole, these commands are generous, beautiful, and difficult lifelines thrown from a fellow survivor of the present.' Jennifer Nelson, author of Aim at the Centaur Stealing Your Wife Common Place feels like the logbook of a survivor, one that shows how the intimate and the idiosyncratic persist within the post-capitalist technosphere. A tatteredrecord keeping, Common Place is friend of the abject landscape, home of the lesser, lowercase subject.* Grasp its compassionate disposition, and this fragmentary poem reveals the affective centre of its ingeniously dissociative fabric.' Sue Sinclair, author of Heaven's Thieves

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ebook cover of Dead White Men, by Shane Rhodes
Coach House Books | 23 April 2017

Dead White Men déconstruit les récits coloniaux à travers une poésie visuelle et percutante. Shane Rhodes interroge les noms des explorateurs européens gravés dans nos paysages, révélant les violences cachées derrière leurs « découvertes ».

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ebook cover of Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall, by Suzette Mayr
Coach House Books | 23 April 2017

Entre satire académique mordante et fantaisie gothique déjantée, Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall plonge le lecteur dans l’univers cauchemardesque d’une université hantée.

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ebook cover of Feel Happier in 9 Seconds, by Linda Besner
Coach House Books | 23 April 2017

Et si le bonheur se cachait dans l'audace poétique et l'ironie mordante ? Feel Happier in 9 Seconds de Linda Besner bouscule les codes avec des poèmes aussi drôles que profonds, où la quête du bonheur croise la science, l'art et l'absurde.

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ebook cover of Suzanne, by Anais Barbeau-Lavalette
Coach House Books | 23 April 2017

Suzanne retrace le destin fulgurant et tourmenté de Suzanne Meloche, artiste rebelle et figure oubliée des Automatistes, qui a choisi la liberté au prix de l’abandon.

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ebook cover of Shot-Blue, by Jesse Ruddock
Coach House Books | 19 February 2017

Shot-Blue plonge le lecteur dans l’univers sauvage et poignant de Tristan, un adolescent livré à lui-même après la disparition de sa mère, dans les étendues hostiles du Grand Nord canadien.

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ebook cover of The Supine Cobbler, by Jill Connell
Coach House Books | 12 February 2017

The Supine Cobbler bouscule les codes du théâtre contemporain en mêlant l’univers du western à une réflexion audacieuse sur l’avortement, la sororité et la quête d’intégrité.

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ebook cover of Animals, by Karen Hines
Coach House Books | 29 January 2017

Deux monologues comiques et noirs de Karen Hines, où l’absurdité du marché immobilier torontois et une quête existentielle déjantée se croisent.

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ebook cover of In on the Great Joke, by Laura Broadbent
Coach House Books | 7 November 2016

In a blend of essayistic poetics, Broadbent wields alchemy, translation and necromancy to bring readers In on the Great Joke. What do you get when you cross Lao Tzu and an application for a university teaching application? What do you get when you give W. G. Sebald and Clarice Lispector the ability to speak from the afterlife? What happens if a girl is stopped at a red light for an entire year? In on the Great Joke is a palace of hybridity, where film structure informs poetry, poetry alters the essay, and the essay recalibrates the joke. Broadbent has lent her ear to the dead, the living, the voiceless, to give us the punchline of what it means to be intellectually alive. `Then there's Laura Broadbent. She is, as are her poems, full of sultry verve and invective. Watch out. Her lines are dizzying and always on point.' - Michael Nardone, Hobo Magazine Praise for Oh There You Are I Can't See You Is It Raining?: `Oh There You Are... succeeds because it is accessible. Intellectually rigorous and evasive, it also makes itself emotionally available.' - Justin F. Ridgeway, Broken Pencil

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ebook cover of Baloney, by Raymond Bock
Coach House Books | 10 October 2016

A Tristram Shandy-esque novella about failing memory and failed writing, from one of French Canada's most exciting new voices. A young, floundering author meets Robert `Baloney' Lacerte, an older, marginal poet who seems to own nothing beyond his unwavering certainty. Over the course of several evenings, Lacerte recounts his unrelenting quest for poetry, which has taken him from Quebec's Boreal forests to South America to East Montreal, where he seems poised to disappear without a trace. But as the blocked writer discovers, Lacerte might just be full of it. `[Bock's] deeply original writing always seeks out the mot juste, then sculpts them into sentences that describe the slightest variations of human emotions in spectacular complexity, harnessing the power of form, rhythm, and sound.' -Mario Cloutier, La Presse (translated fromthe French) `Books are dangerous. They call into question the order of things, turn the world upside down to get a better sense of it and shake the dust off the lenses we look through. [...] No one can say where this book by Maxime Raymond Bock will take us. It's an incandescent plea for the latent powers of literature, something like a necessity.' -Jérémy Laniel, Spirale (translated from the French) Praise for Atavisms: `Crackles with the energy of a Queébécois folk song, impassioned and celebratory but also melancholy and cheekily ironic ... As in Bolaño's work, narrative itself is often the subject; stories are folded within other stories and narrators are constantly asserting their presence ... Like Bolaño, Bock alternates between rage, sorrow, protest, and dark comedy, and the two writers share a sense of urgency -of writing against time as much as about it.' -Pasha Malla, The New Yorker

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ebook cover of Night & Ox, by Jordan Scott
Coach House Books | 10 October 2016

bronchia think form a bombsight think periosteum singing particle falconry workpiece two lowcut hills seeking what stone is for body is herd alliterations Night & Ox is a long poem working its interruptions to a degree where it's broken by the will to live. A poem that invokes expansive loneliness, where the poet's emotional response is to endure. A crushed line of astral forms and anatomy in perpetual remove; it is a poem that nurtures vulnerability: some soft-footed embryo sounds against language's viscera. Night & Ox possesses a feral minimalism for those too tired and too frantic with joy to cope with narrative. A fierce, ladderlike cri de cÅ?ur at times a cri de cur Night & Ox pulses with sawblade nocturnes that gnaw through the very rungs on which they're wrung. One part Jabberwocky-talkie, one part fatherhood ode, the poem seeks a threshold, where the mondayescent* gives way to ardour, splendour, even love. Scott is a cosmoglot of the throat's ravine, and this is his manic, pandemonic article of faith.' Andrew Zawacki Praise for Blert: Scott takes us down to the basement of words, where sound and rhythm rule, and poets learn their craft. Blert is a strange and gorgeous work of linguistic materialism.' Dennis Lee

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ebook cover of The Hidden Keys, by André Alexis
Coach House Books | 18 September 2016

Tancred, voleur élégant et érudit, se lance dans une quête périlleuse après avoir croisé la route de Willow, une héritière toxicomane.

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ebook cover of Closer, by Sarah Barmak
Coach House Books | 14 June 2016

Et si la révolution sexuelle n’avait pas tenu toutes ses promesses ? Closer explore sans tabou la quête du plaisir féminin, entre science, culture et témoignages audacieux.

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ebook cover of Of the Subcontract, by Nick Thurston
Coach House Books | 16 May 2016

Et si la poésie naissait de l'exploitation numérique ? Of the Subcontract rassemble 100 poèmes écrits par des travailleurs précaires via Amazon Mechanical Turk, révélant les contradictions du capitalisme algorithmique.

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ebook cover of Magyarazni, by Helen Hajnoczky
Coach House Books | 30 April 2016

Magyarázni vous invite à découvrir l'expérience unique de grandir entre deux cultures, à travers un dialogue poétique et visuel aussi intime que percutant.

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ebook cover of You Only Live Twice, by Chase Joynt, Mike Hoolboom
Coach House Books | 4 April 2016

Et si la vie recommençait après la mort sociale ou biologique ? You Only Live Twice explore les « secondes vies » de deux artistes : la transition de genre de Chase Joynt et la renaissance de Mike Hoolboom après un diagnostic de VIH.

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ebook cover of This Poem Is a House, by Ken Sparling
Coach House Books | 14 March 2016

Une maison comme métaphore de l'amour : voici l'histoire d'une fille et d'un garçon qui écrivent leur vie entre poésie et récit.

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ebook cover of Men of Action, by Howard Akler
Coach House Books | 9 November 2015

Quand un père sombre dans le coma après une opération, son fils interroge la conscience, la mémoire et l’écriture. Men of Action mêle récit intime et méditation sur ce qui nous définit, avec une économie de moyens remarquable.

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ebook cover of Guano, by Louis Carmain
Coach House Books | 18 October 2015

1862, Pérou. Au cœur d’un conflit absurde pour le contrôle du guano, Simon, greffier maladroit et rêveur, croise la route de Montse, une femme aussi mystérieuse qu’inoubliable.

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