Coach House Books authors Mike Blouin and Carla Gunn

Please join us for a reading by Mike Blouin and Carla Gunn, two great authors from one of our favourite publishing houses, Coach House Books, at Octopus Books (116 Third Ave.).

Mike Blouin's novel Chase and Haven is a haunting story – inventively told and deeply felt – of suffering and love, made of thousands of small impressionist facets that refract the quiet spectrum of the beauty and the detritus of two entwined lives.

Blouin has been the recipient of the Diana Brebner Prize for Poetry from Arc, Canada’s National Poetry Magazine, as well as the Lillian I. Found Prize for Poetry from Carleton University, and his work has been shortlisted for a National Magazine Award. He is the author of the collection of poetry I’m not going to lie to you (Pedlar, 2007). He resides in Oxford Mills, a rural community near Ottawa.

Carla Gunn's first novel, Amphibian, is a polished and engaging book and its nine-year-old narrator, Phin, is a symbol of our times.

Gunn’s work has been published in the Globe and Mail, the National Post and heard on CBC radio. Along with writing, she teaches psychology.