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THE DAINTY MONSTERS



Michael Ondaatje

Coach House Press

Author's first book. Solicited by Coach House founder Wayne Clifford (along with books by Victor Coleman, bpNichol, and George Bowering), Ondaatje's first book was typical of the early hands-on involvement by many subsequent Coach House authors. He supplied the batique that the cover art is based on and worked closely with Coach House designer Stan Bevington on choice of font, etc.



Other Books Published This Year:

Kingdom of Absence by Dennis Lee (House of Anansi)
Journeying & the Returns by bpNichol (Coach House)
Guns of the West by Maxine Gadd (blewointment press)
one/eye/love by Victor Coleman (Coach House)
Nevertheless These Eyes by Roy Kiyooka (Coach House)
Atlantis by Louis Dudek (Delta Canada)
Beaufort's Scale by Nelson Ball (Weed/flower)
The Poem Poem by David McFadden (Weed/flower)
Fireweed by Ken Belford (Very Stone House)
Touch by David UU [W. Harris] (Ganglia Press)
As Is by Raymond Souster (Oxford)
Phrases for Orpheus by D.G. Jones (Oxford University Press)
Pointing by Lionel Kearns (Ryerson Press)
Awake in th Red Desert by bill bissett (Talonbooks)
What They Say by John Newlove (Weed/flower)
Cry Ararat by P.K. Page (M&S)
Mountain by Fred Wah (Audit East/West)
The Tomb of the Kings by Anne Hebert (trans. Peter Miller) (Contact)
Total War by Harry Hawits (Contact)