Coach House Books

January 29, 2015

Books Reviewed by Canadian Literature

Ink Earl by Susan Holbrook
Whitemud Walking by Matthew James Weigel
Word Problems by Ian Williams
Masses on Radar by David O’Meara
And Miles to Go Before I Sleep by Jocelyne Saucier and Rhonda Mullins
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu
The Far Shore: Indie Games, Superbrothers, and the Making of JETT by Adam Hammond
Ring by André Alexis
Made-Up: A True Story of Beauty Culture under Late Capitalism by Daphné B and Alex Manley
Indigenous Toronto: Stories That Carry This Place by Denise Bolduc, Mnawaate Gordon-Corbiere and Rebeka Tabobondung
Uncle: Race, Nostalgia, and the Politics of Loyalty by Cheryl Thompson
Disintegration in Four Parts by Jean-March Ah-Sen, Emily Anglin, Devon Code and Lee Henderson
Exhibitionist by Molly Cross-Blanchard
Because the Sun by Sarah Burgoyne
Seconds Out: Women and Fighting by Alison Dean
Watch Your Head: Writers and Artists Respond to the Climate Crisis by Kathryn Mockler
Entering Sappho by Sarah Dowling
On Nostalgia by David Berry
The National Gallery by Jonathan Ball
This Is the Emergency Present by Vincent Pagé
Vulgar Mechanics by K.B. Thors
All Day I Dream about Sirens by Domenica Martinello
Mad Long Emotion by Ben Ladouceur
Days by Moonlight by André Alexis
Hard To Do: The Surprising, Feminist History of Breaking-Up by Kelli María Korducki
Nights on Prose Mountain by bp Nichol and Derek Beaulieu
Obits by Tess Liem
The Supreme Orchestra by David Turgeon and Pablo Strauss
Y: Oppenheimer, Horseman of Los Alamos by Aaron Tucker
Lances All Alike by Suzanne Zelazo
SKY WRI TEI NGS by Nasser Hussain
Suzanne by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette and Rhonda Mullins
Midday at the Super-Kamiokande by Matthew Tierney
Night Became Years by Jason Stefanik
Dead White Men by Shane Rhodes
3 Summers by Lisa Robertson
Cheer Up, Jay Ritchie by Jay Ritchie
Shot-Blue by Jesse Ruddock
The Last Word: Reviving the Dying Art of Eulogy by Julia Cooper
If Clara by Martha Baillie
Feel Happier in Nine Seconds by Linda Besner
My Ariel by Sina Queyras
This Poem Is a House by Ken Sparling
Common Place by Sarah Pinder
Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hill by Suzette Mayr
The Hidden Keys by André Alexis
In on the Great Joke by Laura Broadbent
Throaty Wipes by Susan Holbrook
Country Club by Andy McGuire
Pillow by Andrew Battershill
Magyarázni by Helen Hajnoczky
Whelmed by Nicole Markoti?
Ardour by Nicole Brossard
Guano by Louis Carmain and Rhonda Mullins
Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis
Twenty-One Cardinals by Jocelyne Saucier
For Display Purposes Only by David Seymour
Theatre of the Unimpressed: In Search of Vital Drama by Jordan Tannahill
The Stonehenge Letters by Harry Karlinksy
MxT by Sina Queyras
On Malice by Ken Babstock
Cinema of the Present by Lisa Robertson
Janey's Arcadia by Syd Zolf
School by Jen Currin
White Piano by Nicole Brossard, Erín Mouré and Robert Majzels
Drama: Pilot Episode by Karen Hines
The Lease by Matthew Henderson
Needs Improvement by Jon Paul Fiorentino
Too Bad Galahad by Matt Cohen
Leavin America by David Rosenberg
Mad Hope by Heather Birrell
Chestnut/Flower/Eye of Venus by Gerald Lampert
Autobiography of Childhood by Sina Queyras
Monoceros by Suzette Mayr
The Obituary by Gail Scott
Indexical Elegies by Jon Paul Fiorentino
The Porcupinity of the Stars by Gary Barwin
The Heat Yesterday by Ian Iqbal Rashid
Lemon by Cordelia Strube
A Painted Elephant by Jill Hartman
with wax by Derek Beaulieu
All My Friends Are Superheroes by Andrew Kaufman
Notebook of Roses and Civilization by Nicole Brossard, Robert Majzels and Erín Mouré
What Stirs by Margaret Christakos
Stunt by Claudia Day
Twenty Miles by Cara Hedley
The City Man by Howard Akler
Girls Fall Down by Maggie Helwig
The Girls Who Saw Everything by Sean Dixon
Reel Asian: Asian Canada on Screen by Elaine Chang
The Milk Chicken Bomb by Andrew Wedderburn
The Alphabet Game by bp Nichol, Lori Emerson and Darren Wershler-Henry
Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Achitecture by Lisa Robertson
How the Blessed Live by Susannah M. Smith
The State of the Arts: Living with Culture in Toronto by Alana Wilcox, Christina Palassio and Jonny Dovercourt
Nerve Squall by Sylvia Legris
Konfessions of an Elizabethan Fan Dancer by bp Nichol
Hello ... Hello by Karen Hines
Sooner by Margaret Christakos
Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative by Mary Burger, Robert Glü?ck, Camille Roy and Gail Scott
Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon by Nicole Brossard and Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood
The Refrigerator Memory by Shannon Bramer
The Monster Trilogy by RM Vaughan
Now You Care by Di Brandt
The Winter Gardeners by Dennis Denisoff
Parlance by Suzanne Zelazo
Crystallography by Christian Bök
The Blue Books by Nicole Brossard
Baseball: A Poem in the Magic Number 9 by Claude Boisvert
Hell and Other Novels by Beverley Daurio
Lions in the Streets by Judith Thompson
House Humans by Daniel MacIvor
Not Noir by Kate Van Dusen
'sophie by Lola Lemire Tostevin
serpent (w)rite: (a reader's gloss) by Betsy Warland
Fair Liberty's Call by Sharon Pollock
Musical Offering by E.D. Blodgett
Movement in Slow Time by Ann Rosenberg
Shared Anxiety: Selected Plays by George F. Walker
Keep That Candle Burning Bright and Other Poems by Bronwen Wallace
Property by Marc Diamond
Fronteras americanas by Guillermo Verdercchia
Clay Birds by Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen
Aurora by Sharon Thesen
The Hope Slide/Little Sister by Joan MacLeod
Lake Nora Arms by Michael Redhill
Arcaum 17 with Apertures Grafted to the End by André Breton and Zack Rogow
Piccolo Mondo by Michael Matthews, John Orange, Angela Bowering and David Bromige
The Heat Yesterday by Vijay Mishra and Ian Iqbal Rashid
Plush: Selected Poems by Sky Gilbert, Courtnay McFarlane, Jeffrey Conway, R. M. Vaughan, David Trinidad, Lynn Crosbie and Michael Holmes
Milton's Elements by Cordelia Strube
Escape from Happiness by George F. Walker
Glenn by David Young
Odes by Ken Norris
An Aroma of Coffee by Dany Laferrière and David Homel
Ad Sanctos: The Martyrology Book 9 by bp Nichol and Howard Gerhard
Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Disturbances of Progress by Lise Downe
Background Music by Pat Jasper
Solo by Jason Sherman
Villainelle by Lynn Crosbie
In the House of Slaves by Evelyn Lau
Bread out of Stone by Dionne Brand
Dining with the Dictator by Dany Laferrière and David Toby Homel
Why Must a Black Writer Write About Sex by Dany Laferrière and David Toby Homel
Human Resources by Syd Zolf
The Port Dalhousie Stories by Dennis Tourbin
The Holy Forest by Robin Blaser
The Moustache: Memories of Greg Curnoe by George Bowering
Good Bones by Margaret Atwood
The Dragonfly Fling by Jean McKay
The Noam Chomsky Lectures: A Play by Daniel Brooks and Guillermo Verdecchia
Love and Anger by George F. Walker
Bag Babies by Allan Stratton
Expressway by Sina Queyras
Wolf-Ladder by Don Domanski
Aurealities by Paul Dutton
The Brick Reader by Linda Spalding and Michael Ondaatje
Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip by Lisa Robertson
Hanging Fire by Phyllis Webb
Farther West and New World: Two Plays by John Murrell by John Murrell
Words in Play: Three Comedies by Allan Stratton
Joy is so Exhausting by Susan Holbrook
Quiet in the Land by Anne Chislett
Willful Acts: Five Plays by Margaret Hollingsworth
A Trip Around Lake Ontario by David McFadden
The Invisible World Is in Decline by Bruce Whiteman
The Invisible World Is in Decline, Books II - IV by Bruce Whiteman
The Other Side of the Dark by Judith Thompson
The Voice of the Crane by David Gurr
The New Room by Jan Zwicky
Nothing Sacred by George F. Walker
Evoba by Steve McCaffery
Pear Tree Pomes by Roy Kiyooka
Heroine by Gail Scott
Delayed Mercy and Other Poems by George Bowering
Juvenilia by Elizabeth Smart
A.N.A. Historic by Daphne Marlatt
Quebec Voices: Three Plays by Robert Wallace
The Martyrology: Book 6 Books 1978-1985 by bp Nichol
Second Nature by Libby Scheier
One Out of Four by Donald Martin
Back on Tuesday by David Gilmour
The Invisible World Is in Decline by Bruce Whiteman
Economic Sex by Ali-Janna Whyte
The Brave Never Write Poetry by Daniel Jones
Engineer's Witness: A Photographic Panorama of Nineteenth Century Engineering Triumphs by Ralph Greenhill
Noman's Land by Gwendolyn MacEwen
The Power Plays: Gossip, Filthy Rich, The Art of War by George F. Walker
an arbitrary dictionary by John Pass
The Man Who Broke Out of The Letter X by Robert Priest
Monsieur Melville by Victor-Lévy Beaulieu and Ray Chamberlain
The Blue Ontario Hemingway Boat Race by David Donnell
Five Stories by Sheila Watson
Strappado by Karl Jirgens
Nimrod's Tongue by Rafael Barreto-Rivera
The Body Labyrinth by Sharon Berg
Secular Love by Michael Ondaatje
These Our Mothers or: The Disintegrating Chapter by Nicole Brossard and Barbara Thomson Godard
Edward and Patricia by Frank Davey