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For over forty years, Toronto’s Coach House Books has consistently offered stellar choices in all things literature. With a catalogue that includes writers such as Anne Michaels, Di Brandt, Steve McCaffery, Michael Ondaatje and bpNichol, one can't go wrong by supporting this local press.

Nicole Brossard is one of Canada’s most prolific and avant-garde writers, with more than thirty books to date and a dizzying list of awards to match. Her work is often sharply self-referential: saturated with the impossibility of a seamless translation and the problem of writing in a language already loaded with meaning, Brossard’s work is a meditation on how to write outside of a coded imaginary. While Brossard’s oeuvre has been associated with a postmodern aesthetic (in Mauve Desert, for example, references to the Beats work alongside a critique of the foundations of Western philosophy), her writing doesn’t render itself slick to the point of ineffectual.

Coach House books had a huge fall season with books like uTOpia and the City Man. The spring season is a more poetic affair including a Thorstein Veblen inspired book by John Paul Fiorentino. There are also novels and new work by writers such as Darren O'Donnell and a translated work from two-time GG winner Nicole Brossard.

Master of all arts (comix, poetry, bloggery, medical illustration) Sherwin Tjia brings his non-poetry/poetry shtick to the Revival tomorrow night to launch his latest book, The World Is a Heartbreaker, which contains thousands of quirky non-haikus. The book is published by Coach House, and the night will feature readings by Shannon Bramer, Nicole Brossard, Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood and a handful of others as well. Toss in snacks, music by DJ Echo and the fact that the whole thing is free, and you have a no-brainer. 7:30PM.