House of Anansi Press held its annual poetry launch on April 19 at CoupeSpace, the east-end-Toronto studio of designer Bill Douglas, who frequently does work for Anansi. (Photos by Sharon Harris.)

The scene at CoupeSpace, from the outside. (This photo by Bill Douglas.)

Anansi poetry editor Ken Babstock reads for an absent Er

Also reading were Barbara Nickel …

Simon Armitage …

and Dennis Lee.

Bill Douglas and his wife, chef Sacha Douglas.