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Pochsy IV

Lost You for a Second

Karen Hines Kathleen Oliver Bruce McCulloch

$42.95

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English
Coach House Books
13 August 2025
Mercury-addled and fabulously flighty, Pochsy is back with a new monologue!

Sweet, vapid, and venomous, Pochsy is an endearingly charming embodiment of all that's gone bats in the world. She used to work at Mercury Packers. Where she packed mercury. Now her employer has moved offshore and Pochsy must grapple with God's broken promise of a five-star future. This is a night sea journey on an unnaturally sparkling river. Harrowing and high speed,Pochsy IVunboxes precarity, consumer obsessions, the future of humankind ... and whatever else might keep you up at night.

Combining magical realism, satire, and horror, this monologue follows the acclaimed trilogyThe Pochsy Plays, which have travelled internationally and been a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award, among other citations.

Pochsy IV: because what the world needs right now is a little more Pochsy.
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Imprint:   Coach House Books
Country of Publication:   Canada
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 127mm,  Spine: 5mm
Weight:   181g
ISBN:   9781552454954
ISBN 10:   1552454959
Pages:   96
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Karen Hines is the author of Crawlspace, All the Little Animals I Have Eaten, Drama: Pilot Episode, Hello... Hello (A Romantic Satire) and The Pochsy Plays - all published by Coach House Books. Her plays and productions have been presented internationally, and have won many production and literary nominations and awards including twice being finalist for the Governor General's Award for Drama and shortlisted for the 2020 Siminovitch Prize in Theatre. A Second City alumna, and an associate of One Yellow Rabbit Performance Theatre, Karen has also appeared in numerous television and film productions and is the award-winning director of cult horror clowns Mump & Smoot. Raised by scientists in Toronto, she now lives in Calgary.

Reviews for Pochsy IV: Lost You for a Second

'No other satirist captures so fearlessly, and with such original panache, the contemporary drift towards a kind of late-capitalist chaos the way Karen Hines does.' - Liz Nicholls Praise for the author: ""Hines is nothing if not an original."" - The Globe and Mail ""A funny, thought-provoking and devastating look at the lunacy and hypocrisy that we've all learned to live with in late 20th century America."" - Rocky Mountain News ""Ingenious, acidic comedy."" - The Globe and Mail ""[Hines is] one of the most original artists in the city."" - Toronto Life


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