Spotlight: Coach House Books

I am grateful to Coach House Books for donating to the campaign. I have been a fan of Coach House’s for many years with numerous books of poetry and fiction on my shelves. I’ve even had the pleasure of visiting the old coach house at 80 bpNichol Lane and seeing books roll off the press. I highly recommend you visit if you can.

Coach House Books recently started a podcast! You can check it out here.

Coach House is donating 3 publications to the campaign, Test Piece by Sheryda Warrene, Surface Tension by Derek Beaulieu and Fire Cider Rain by Gatineau-based poet Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin. Poetry that navigates the science of cold waterways to consider the warmth of the poet’s Chinese-Mauritian family ties.

In a review of Fire Cider Rain in Canthius Magazine, Namitha Rathinappillai writes “Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin’s debut poetry collection Fire Cider Rain incorporates themes of family, diaspora, and longing by using descriptive nature imagery as the backdrop for these musings. This book feels like watching an indie movie: the images soft but vivid in the reader’s eyes. By incorporating visuals of the living world, Ng Cheng Hin showcases the similarities of experiencing time and its passing as it relates to both nature and humankind. Ng Cheng Hin’s writing is soft and intentional, with delicate and strong images of womanhood, generational teachings, and the lessons the land can teach us. […]”

In his review, rob mclennan says “Her opening poem, the sequence “COEFFICIENTS OF FRICTION,” immediately sets a scene of descriptive thickness and full-bodied phrases, offering a lyric density very much aware of its own music and rhythms. “what breakable, half remembered bodies,” she writes, “bent with small attritions / stratospheric relics gliding north / in radical heaps              away from purled trees / broken porchlights, the long ache / of the autumn island fire – […]”

Please support our campaign to help pay our contributors. You can choose Fire Cider Rain, Test and Surface Tension along with other publications as a reward for your support.