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  Coach House Books - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1991, Coach House was split into two separate companies: the printing house Coach House Printing, headed by Bevington, and the book publisher Coach House Press, headed by Margaret McClintock.
Coach House is one of the only Canadian publishing companies that prints its own titles; the printing operations also print books for several other small Canadian publishers and literary magazines.
In 2004, controversy arose when the property owners, a housing cooperative for students at the University of Toronto, announced a redevelopment plan that would have involved demolishing the coach house building.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coach_House_Press   (263 words)

  
 Two Canadian e-Publisher Re-invent the Book   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Coach House Books (http://www.chbooks.com) re-invented itself as an electronic publisher four years ago as a just-in-time and on-line publisher with idea of putting as much in digital form as they did in print.
Coach House Books sees the substance and presentation of the book to be equal to the content.
Coach House Books used to produce an annual anthology of its works for institutions on CD ROM but as the collection grew it and more books were published each year, it became no longer viable because of the ceiling price that can be asked for CD
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/e-books/55839   (437 words)

  
 NOW On / Entertainment / Feature
The entity called Coach House Press went under in 1996, it's true, but the stink over the venerable publisher's failure had scarcely subsided before Coach House Books arose, not from the late house's ashes, but from its roots.
Coach House Books now has a list of 15 titles -- poetry, art and fiction -- to its name and this week is proudly issuing a CD-ROM anthology of its work to date.
Coach House has had some grant help, but has also invented the idea of tipping authors.
www.nowtoronto.com /issues/17/26/Ent/misc.html   (700 words)

  
 Books
All books can be ordered on-line and some can be read on-line in their entirety.
Currently only a catalog of printed books is available on the site, but books on-line will be added in the future.
This publisher offers not only excerpts from the books it publishes, but also excerpts from worthy manuscripts it received but didn't have the resources to publish.
directory.wordcircuits.com /literature/presses.htm   (432 words)

  
 Four different approaches to e-publishing | csmonitor.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Books are downloaded as Acrobat PDF files, chosen as the best format for maintaining the 'look' of the print editions - which is an especially relevant consideration for Visibooks, since titles emphasize screen-shots, illustrations and diagrams --rather than text-- to educate the reader.
The best analogy for Canada's Coach House books (http://www.chbooks.com/) would be 'shareware' - that grassroots version of the commercial software industry in which users are invited to try an application with the understanding that they agree --strictly on the honor system-- to pay for said software if it is deemed useful.
Books are read in the Web browser, and since some authors choose to enhance the online editions of their titles by adding features not possible in print, (such as RealAudio clips) online and print versions of the same title could be considered fraternal, though not identical twins.
www.csmonitor.com /2001/1120/p25s1-stin.htm   (741 words)

  
 village voice > books > Crystallography and Eunoia, by Christian Bök by Ed Park
One must have a mind of winter to write a book such as Crystallography, with its "Hagiography of Snow," acetate of minuscule upside-down Ys, "graph charting the meteorological conditions necessary for the crystallization of poetic forms," and poker-faced Borgesian arcana.
The crystallographer in question is Christian Bök, né Book, a 37-year-old poet and teacher at Toronto's York University, who tweaked the spelling of his surname, he quips, to avoid unseemly confusion with the Bible.
Spelunk: The caverns become a body, fossils are "all the broken letters of the alphabet," a bat resembles "a book with its binding unstitched," and "spiked vocables in these caves/make a phalanx for the pharynx." It's all perfectly limpid.
www.villagevoice.com /issues/0351/park.php   (589 words)

  
 CBC Arts: Coach House Press battles to keep its namesake home
TORONTO - Coach House Press, the Toronto company that published the first books by celebrated Canadian writers like Michael Ondaatje, Ann-Marie McDonald and Anne Michaels, is battling to keep the home that inspired its name.
Ondaatje and other Coach House supporters have asked city council to step in to declare the site a cultural landmark and keep the historic building from being bulldozed.
According to Coach House, it is also one of only three Canadian publishers that continue to print its books in-house.
www.cbc.ca /story/arts/national/2004/07/21/Arts/coachhouse040721.html   (358 words)

  
 DigitalJournal.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
His book Nicholodeon was scheduled to be the last book published by Coach House Press before it went bankrupt in 1996.
The entire front-list of Coach House Books titles is offered in an online format at their website and it is possible to either order a print version of these works - playfully referred to as fetish items - or to provide a tip to the author for reading books on the site.
In his mind, there are two advantages, for Coach House Books, to start digitizing their books now rather than waiting for someone else to do it.
www.digitaljournal.com /print.htm?id=2072   (991 words)

  
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Born in 1964 of the prevailing collective spirit of the era, Coach House was a true writers' press.
When Coach House closed its doors in 1996--the combined result of a change in administration, growing pains after trying to break into the American market and declining government subsidies--everyone thought it was for good.
He resurrected the press in 1997 with a new name, Coach House Books, and a new mandate, to publish high quality, limited edition books that were also available free online prior to publication in book form.
beehive.temporalimage.com /content_apps02/queen_bees/pages/chbooks.html   (594 words)

  
 Hour.ca - Books - Coach House Takes Montreal
It isn't only Coach House books that are fetish objects in the purest sense of the term.
There is mysticism in the old coach houses of 401 Huron Street, Toronto, which have been operational as a printing press since 1968, with stained glass windows by Robert Fones and walls painted by David Bolduc.
UofT student housing can be erected anywhere else in the central downtown district of toronto and its a shame that we, as torontonians are not fighting harder to preserve our heritage.
www.hour.ca /redirect.aspx?iIDReaction=9590   (960 words)

  
 Gwendolyn MacEwen Park Memorial - Readers
She is the author of more than thirty-five books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays.
Her other books include the 2000 Booker Prize winner, The Blind Assassin, Alias Grace, (which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy), The Robber Bride, Cat’s Eye, and The Handmaid’s Tale.
Christian Bök is the author of Eunoia (Coach House Books, 2001), which won the Griffin Prize for Poetic Excellence the same year.
www.gwenpark.org /readers.htm   (1198 words)

  
 babble: Coach House Books In Peril!
But, as Coach House prepares to celebrate its fortieth year of publishing, its home is under threat.
Don't punish Coach House, because of the snippit I chose to highlight.
Coach House Press has been involved in every phase of the design process from choosing an architect to brainstorming about what was needed in a new building.
www.rabble.ca /babble/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=4&t=001196&p=   (1661 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Nicholodeon: A book of lowerglyphs: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
But most significantly, Nicholodeon is, as its title suggests, imbued with the artistic spirit of bpNichol, whose books and personality were central to the Coach House publishing operations in all their stages and manifestations.
In fact, Stan Dragland, in the Spring '97 Open Letter, affirms that Nichol "was Coach House." Aside from all that, Nicholodeon is, most of all, a collection of beautifully conceived, meticulously executed poems employing a variety of visual modes and unorthodox verbal tacks, fashioned with exacting discipline of eye, ear, and intellect.
Wershler-Henry's first publication from Coach House Books is available in two editions, one a deluxe version with a colour poster, some computer poems (Nichol made a foray into this genre in the eighties) and other choice collectibles-a kind of Journeying & Returns for the nineties.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1552450236   (1235 words)

  
 Straight Goods - Canadians informing Canadians
Coach House Press in Toronto is one of those.
I was surprised to come across their website the other day while doing research on the publishing industry; surprised because the company's death was widely rumoured to be imminent a few years ago when government grants to their publishing arm were cut off.
Coach House is not only alive and well, but has become a cyber-pioneer.
www.straightgoods.com /item192.shtml   (475 words)

  
 Serif & Pixel Press | Chapbooks
A study of the Austrian Army of 1812 and the composition and services of the Corps under FM Schwarzenberg that served with the Grande Armée in the Russian campaign.
Coach House Books — publishing two titles a month in formats that Gutenberg would never believe, and some he would.
It is staffed by volunteers who give their time to prepare book layout and design and assist in providing artwork.
www.booksatoz.com /serifandpixel/chapbook.htm   (569 words)

  
 Canadian Publishing House   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Indigo Books and Music is a Canadian bookseller committed to providing a stress-free approach to satisfying the booklover.
In a move that creates an unprecedented partnership, Avie Bennett, chairman and president of the Canadian publishing house McClelland and Stewart, is donating 75 per cent of the shares of the company to the University of Toronto.
Random House of Canada was established in 1944 as the Canadian distributor of Random House Books.
www.reprintrightseverymonth.com /make-money/canadian-publishing-house.html   (532 words)

  
 Robert Fulford's column about Coach House Press
The fall of Coach House, much more complicated than it seemed from a distance, was the result of clashing cultures and warring ambitions.
Book designs looked eccentric (a book of baseball poems shaped like a diamond, for instance) and sometimes arrived in several pieces, intentionally.
Internet readers can order books to be sent by mail or read them on their computer screens--and pay for the privilege by voluntarily tipping the authors.
www.robertfulford.com /Coach.html   (763 words)

  
 Myopic Memories : Girls Who Wear Glasses
Starting with claustrophobic optometrist examinations, continuing on to that first pair of glasses and ending with many unique vision catastrophes, this book chronicles the joys and burdens of learning to adjust to myopia, bad eyeglasses, uncomfortable contacts, prettier eyeglasses, disposable contacts, and eye surgery.
The book, a memoir of each woman’s myopic experiences, is generously illustrated with personal photographs to enliven its informal, humorous, and poignant look at the way glasses, contact lenses, and vision in general contribute to personal development...as well as popular culture.
The metal cage was a compromise which my coach discovered, bought, and paid for himself.
www.authorhouse.com /BookStore/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=21450   (710 words)

  
 Coach House Books - R A I N T A X I o n l i n e
So when Coach House Press closed in the middle of Summer 1996, Canada lost one of its finest independent publishers, one with an at times feverish devotion to innovative North American writing.
Yet in December 1996, Coach House Books emerged from the ashes, offering new titles in two formats--online editions at www.chbooks.com and limited-edition print volumes--beginning with Darren Wershler-Henry's Nicholodeon: A Book of Lowerglyphs (which had been accepted by the press in the Spring of 1995).
Indeed the book amounts to something of a compendium of current possibilities for visual poetics.
www.raintaxi.com /online/2000winter/coachhousebooks.shtml   (937 words)

  
 Printing - Printing Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Book shopping search engine, plus a meta search of 12 directories of used, rare, and out of print...
Publisher of books and journals for academic and general readers in all fields of inquiry.
Provides book printing and fulfillment, all run lengths and binding such as case, perfect, wire, comb...
printing.researcheasy.com /printingbooks   (700 words)

  
 NewPages: New & Noteworthy -- An Annotated List of New Books
An accomplished first book of poetry, Parlance is an act of becoming, and of coming home.
The book opens with Oregon as a metaphor for the nation.
Khaled Mattawa is the author of a collection of poetry, Ismailia Eclipse, and the translator of two books of contemporary Arabic poetry, Hatif Janabi's Questions and Their Retinue and Fadhil al-Azzawi's In Every Well a Joseph Is Weeping.
www.newpages.com /BookReviews/noteworthy/2004Jan05/newbooks1.htm   (2022 words)

  
 Jacket 28 - October 2005 - Kim Minkus reviews "American Standard/ Canada Dry", by Stephen Cain
In American Standard/ Canada Dry, however, the formal construction of the book and its contents work, partially because it is a flexibly enforced rule and because with his third book Cain seems to be reaching a maturity.
On the cover of the book, the title is presented graphically in the form of an arithmetic equation with ‘Canada’ being the divisor, a red line as a division symbol, and ‘American’ being the dominant word or the dividend.
More than in his previous books too, Cain celebrates the aspects of poetry and word that have inspired him as a writer and artist, such as concrete poetry.
jacketmagazine.com /28/mink-cain.html   (1610 words)

  
 Eye - eye Openers - 09.03.98
Using its website as both a publishing forum and a vehicle to browse its inventory, Coach House sells the majority of its books through mail order, with very few titles available in stores.
While it is possible to print out entire books for free, Coach House is quick to remind you: "If you're getting it for free, somebody else is paying for it, and that most often is the artist or the publishing company, who already subsidize the culture like crazy.
The Old Cabbagetown Business Improvement Area is the primary supporter and organizer of this festival, which has grown from a large sidewalk sale and street party to become a five-day celebration (beginning Sept. 9) of the culture of Cabbagetown.
www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_09.03.98/art/eyeops3.html   (431 words)

  
 The Griffin Trust For Excellence In Poetry: Press Releases - The Griffin Poetry Prize Announces Canadian and ...
As well, the book is shortlisted for the League of Canadian Poets’ Gerald Lampert Award, and for the National Magazine Award for poetry.
Citation: Conscious and Verbal, the title of the latest book – the eighth in little over a decade – by Les Murray, is taken from a hospital press release, informing Australians that their great national poet, after three weeks at death’s door with sudden catastrophic liver failure, was on the mend.
After leading a peripatetic life during the late 60s and early 70s, she settled in New York, where, for 16 years, she was an important force in the eclectic second generation of the so-called New York school of poetry.
www.griffinpoetryprize.com /press_releases.php?t=9   (2085 words)

  
 The Poetry Project Calendar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Jill Magi's book, Threads, a hybrid work of poetry, prose, and collage, is forthcoming in spring 2006 from Futurepoem and her chapbook, Cadastral Map, was published in July 2005 by Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs.
Lauture is also the author of three children’s books, a teacher, a Spanish Literature scholar and a former welder.
Greil Marcus conjured a vision of the “Old, Weird America” in his book of the same title, of a landscape where blues and folk musicians of different eras interacted in a beautiful and violent place accessible by something like a turn of phrase from a Bob Dylan song.
www.poetryproject.com /calendar.html   (2208 words)

  
 LPG — Theytus Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In 1980, Theytus Books established itself as the first publisher in Canada to be under Aboriginal ownership and control.
The company was incorporated as a “limited company” by the Province of British Columbia Ministry of Consumer and Corporate Affairs Registrar of Companies on January 21, 1981 in Victoria.
Theytus, based in Penticton, British Columbia, is an active member in good standing with the Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia, the Association of Canadian Publishers and the Literary Press Group.
www.lpg.ca /theytus.html   (108 words)

  
 Who's
A small press advocate, MillAr publishes various things by himself and other under the imprint BookThug, and sells these books as well as other small press and poetically minded literature through Apollinaire’s Bookshoppe, an imaginary bookstore specializing in the books that no one wants to buy.
He is the author The Ghosts of Jay MillAr [Coach House Books, 2000] and of Mycological Studies [Coach House Books, 2002].
In 2003 he became the Assistant Editor at Coach House Books.
www.poets.ca /linktext/direct/millar.htm   (508 words)

  
 Coach House Books
Tucked away on Toronto’s historic bpNichol Lane, Coach House Books has been publishing and printing high-quality innovative fiction and poetry since 1965.
Coach House is Canada’s most venerable literary press and has, during the past forty years, published books by Michael Ondaatje, George Bowering, bpNichol, Nicole Brossard, Christian Bök, Guy Maddin, Steve McCaffery, Gail Scott, Jonathan Goldstein, Anne Michaels, Michael Redhill and hundreds of others.
A refuge for the refined, an asylum for the aesthete, a sanctuary for the scribe.
www.chbooks.com   (225 words)

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