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BC, Coach House Books, Paperback, POE011000, Trade Paper
The Theory of the Loser Class
In the early nineties, Beck sang ‘I’m a loser, baby, so why don’t you kill me?’ and changed everything. Suddenly, it wasn’t so bad to be a nerd or an…
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BC, Coach House Books, Paperback, POE011000, Trade Paper
The Ubiquitous Big
You’ve heard of The Big Sleep, right? Well, it’s sixty years later and time for The Ubiquitous Big. This book, the second from Calgary poet Ian Samuels, explores the language…
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BC, Coach House Books, fic019000, FIC045000, LCO006000, Paperback, Trade Paper
The Winter Gardeners
In the town of Lake Wachannabee, Ontario, lies the Winter Garden, home to matron Giggy Andrewes and her brood: her strung-out nephew Jem Waferly, his friend Cora, Chappy the whippet,…
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BC, Coach House Books, Paperback, POE011000, Trade Paper
The World is a Heartbreaker
The World Is a Heartbreaker inaugurates a new subgenre: imposter poetry. This collection is a set of 1600 pseudohaikus, bite-sized chunks of poetic goodness shotgunned at the distracted masses.What’s a…
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BC, Coach House Books, Paperback, POE011000, POE024000, Trade Paper
This is Me Since Yesterday
Alexandra Leggat, the author of Moondogging and numerous book and music reviews, puts on the page the remarkable texts that she is renowned for performing at spoken word events all…
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ARC005080, ARC006010, ARC011000, ARC014000, BC, Coach House Books, Paperback, Trade Paper
Toronto Modern
Toronto, like the Senate of Canada, seems ever fated to be the place for sober second thought. Blessed with undeniable urban vitality, it is yet weighted down by a serious…
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BC, Coach House Books, DRA013000, DRA019000, Paperback, Trade Paper
Trout Stanley
Described by Variety as ‘Yukon Gothic,’ Claudia Dey’s acclaimed play Trout Stanley is set in northern British Columbia, on the outskirts of a mining town between Misery Junction and Grizzly…
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BC, Coach House Books, Paperback, POE011000, Trade Paper
Unrehearsed Beauty
The Artist Formerly Known As Death Waits christens his new public persona with the release of ‘a series of theatrical proposals to be repeated, discarded, performed simultaneously and/or recombined in…
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BC, Coach House Books, Paperback, POE011000, POE024000, Trade Paper
Wide Slumber for Lepidopterists
Book, or laboratory? Reader, or specimen?Wide slumber for lepidopterists is a poetic fantasia, a disorienting yet compelling dreamscape of butterflies and caterpillars and killing jars, where the waking mind’s prose…
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BC, Coach House Books, Paperback, POE011000, Trade Paper
with wax
Quill pen, linotype, computer: does how you write affect what you write? In with wax, derek beaulieu spurns the sentence and woos the phrase, the image and the language of…
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BC, Coach House Books, Paperback, POE011000, Trade Paper
Words of Wisdom from a Man Claiming to be Fred Rogers
Words of Wisdom from a Man Claiming to be Fred Rogers is a box of 29 blurry polaroids. Muted, dark, indeterminate – they convey a sense of loss, uncertainty, ambivalence,…
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BC, Coach House Books, fic019000, LCO006000, Paperback, Trade Paper
Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon
Carla Carlson is at the Hotel Clarendon in Quebec City trying to finish a novel. Nearby, a woman, preoccupied with sadness and infatuated with her boss, catalogues antiquities at the…