Poetry is the opposite of escape but makes this world endurable. —CAConrad @CAConrad88 — KC Trommer (@kctrommer) April 25, 2018
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One of my favourite shops in the city is closing. Good Egg, delightful purveyor of fine books and all things cookery, riveting storefront window displays, for many a must stop destination, directly across the street from us, in Kensington Market. Their lease was up. Word is the landlord/s asking for $35,000 more a year. So […]
THIS FRIDAY + SATURDAY Julie Mannell Heather Kelly Noah Zacharin Canisia Lubrin Devon Gallant Tamar Rubin Brian Henderson Laurie D. Graham Emily Rosello Mercurio Bill Howell Zach Pearl Mike Madill VALLUM CONTEMPORARY POETRY ISSUE 15:1 MEMORY AND LOSS TORONTO LAUNCH FRIDAY APRIL 27TH 7PM Doors 6:30 Poetry 7-ish Wear socks to be seen (we’re shoeless). […]
beautiful @itsakirby of @knifeforkbook handles each and every poetry book with love. taken last night at the touching and endlessly inspiring Poetry in Voice (@PIV_LVP) Recitation Finals last night. I was there with my daughter, Sadie. Her eyes were lit the whole evening. pic.twitter.com/W43dbBcHHf — Shannon Bramer (@brokencloudco) April 20, 2018 Thank you to […]
SATURDAY 3PM DAVID ALEXANDER launches his Nightwood Editions debut, AFTER THE HATCHING OVEN with special guests, LILLIAN NECAKOV + JEFF LATOSIK. 7PM ZED PRESS storm Toronto with two new chapbooks/poets HANAN HAZIME AORTA + KHASHAYAR MOHAMMADI MOE’S SKIN Poetry. Here. knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY
touching is not actually touching (fans push the hot air around us) touching is the act of atoms resisting each other touching is resistance TANIS FRANCO, from QUARRY (University of Calgary Press, 2018) wQr [What Queer Reading], KFB new imprint Reading Series debuts last night with a special focus on QUEER SPACE/S featuring ZOE SHARP, BRIAN […]
In poems that are both freewheeling and socially incisive (often at once), the chicken’s burden to be caged within a world we think we own achieves, along with Alexander’s poetic gift, artistic liftoff. After the Hatching Oven is a vital paean to freedom. It soars. – Jeff Latosik DAVID ALEXANDER After the Hatching Oven (Nightwood […]
Beauty is the evening slowness… KHASHAYAR MOHAMMADI MOE’S SKIN (Zed Press, 2018) Beauty is this Saturday Night. knife | fork | book KHASHAYAR MOHAMMADI is an Iranian-born writer/translator based in Toronto, currently an editor at Inspiritus Press.
Here’s the real ‘deal.’ We’re a poetry-only bookshop with one of the most vibrant reading schedules on the face of the earth. In Toronto. You can’t get that online. We’re worth the actual retail cost of a book. And a little more. …now known as an angelic upstart from coast to coast in Canada…knife | […]
k | f | b THIS FRIDAY + SATURDAY wQr WHAT QUEER READING POETRY EXTRAVAGANZA w/ BRIAN DEDORA | TANIS FRANCO | ZOE SHARP | MAGDALENA SUKSI | HOSTED BY FAN WU FRIDAY APRIL 20TH 7PM (SHARP) Doors 6:30 Poetry 7-ish Wear socks to be seen (we’re shoeless). DAVID ALEXANDER AFTER THE HATCHING OVEN LAUNCH (Nightwood Editions) w/surprise guest poets + cupcakes SATURDAY APRIL 21ST 3PM […]
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