NEW CANISIA LUBRIN (Gap Riot) JIM JOHNSTONE (Vehicule) KAREN SOLIE SONNET L’ABBE (Junction) ANDREW MCEWAN (Book*hug) JACQUELYN ROSS (Blank Cheque) MARCUS MCCANN E MARTIN NOLAN (Invisible) DIVYA VICTOR (Book*hug/Fence). CONGRATS to SONNET L’ABBE, CARLETON WILSON and Junction Books, 2017 bpNICHOL Chapbook Award Winners.
Author: Kirby
Poet. Book Fairy. Publisher knife | fork | book
Every once in awhile, forces collide, like minds surge/ignite, sparks fly. Such was our experience meeting Brooklyn-based artist, poet, publisher, The Operating System‘s LYNNE DE-SILVA JOHNSON, who I simply refer to as “the Force.” To have but a vial of her energies, (but, you get that upon meeting). She’s a firebrand. She cares deeply about […]
Tuesdays (and every day) are for poets. knife | fork | book Pictured: Socks. Poets, Torben Robertson, Richard Keith , and Susan Alexander (on Torben’s 25th). Poet Khashayar Mohammadi. The shop late afternoon. Bookselling at poet, Anne Michaels, reading from her latest, All We Saw (McClelland & Stewart) at the Heliconian Club Salon Series. Kirby and […]
KFB Closed This Week (Nov 15-18th)
A REMINDER KFB will be CLOSED TODAY (WEDS) through SAT NOV 15-18TH for an event at the studio. Sorry for any inconvenience. SEE US & FRIENDS AT @MeetThePresses SATURDAY NOON – 5PM Thanks loves! @itsakirby #poetrydarlings #bookshop #chapbooks #toronto pic.twitter.com/yPvw7pNdFv — knifeforkbook (@knifeforkbook) November 15, 2017 k | f | ‘b-eautiful’ CHAPBOOK BUNDLE DAVID BRADFORD […]
“Aren’t we a pair?” Iconic LYNN CROSBIE and a mesmerising CANISIA LUBRIN. Pure poetry. Pure magic. This place. knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY
and really pretty. knife | fork | book thx Kate.
I miss you he says, and I say it back, but this time we are both miserable because what we are saying is that who we were and what we were is gone. LYNN CROSBIE, The Corpses of the Future (Anansi, 2017). HEAR HER HERE W/ CANISIA LUBRIN VOODOO HYPOTHESIS (Wolsak & Wynn, 2017) KFB […]
Non-violator
I, @itsakirby, have never & will never use any social media platform to set-up, attack, judge, guilt, shame, wrong, put down, abuse, expect answers from, nor mistake as dialog/conversation. Here, I will only champion/celebrate #poets & #poetry. Yours, I remain. Kirby#kisses pic.twitter.com/u5PZ5pFpwX — knifeforkbook (@knifeforkbook) November 8, 2017
I’ll let you go, he says before hanging up, although he never has. LYNN CROSBIE The Corpses of the Future But why / should I unravel over all this remembering? / Great thing about landing / is that I’ve arrived CANISIA LUBRIN Voodoo Hypothesis k | f | b FRIDAYS | THIS FRIDAY LYNN CROSBIE […]
To all who supported our IndieGOGO funder, near and far, thank you. Dearly. knife | fork | book Pictured: Poet ELIANNA LEV Sex Made Me KFB 2017. Photo: KIRBY
