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‘PO-e-try darlings!’

and we’re a bookshop.  knife | fork | book see also: ‘My blessed life.’

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Poodle love

Kirby's chapbook was on my desk. Now it is on the living-room floor and has teeth-marks. Poodle likes it as much as I do @knifeforkbook pic.twitter.com/2ySBccjzYa — Mary Smith (@dduperreault) May 26, 2017

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Spring showers

  Nassau Street. Kensington Market. Toronto.   knife | fork | book And a lovely paperweight from Margarite and the boys at Orbital Arts. Photos: KIRBY

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Marvelous

  I marvel at that stranger, so confident of body, of future. RUTH ROACH PIERSON from REALIGNMENT (Palimpsest Press) THIS WEEK | THURSDAY NIGHT POETS RUTH ROACH PIERSON SUE CHENETTE JACLYN PIUDIK MAY 25TH knife | fork | book at Rick’s Cafe | 281 Augusta Avenue | Kensington Market | Toronto Doors 6:30  Poetry 7-ish SUE CHENETTE, classical […]

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Loaded

Poetry, darlings.  knife | fork | book [click on image to enlarge]

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‘NDN’

  ‘What rhymes with fuck off and die?’ TOMMY PICO NATURE POEM TIN HOUSE, 2017. THIS TUESDAY FOOD 4 THOT: LIVE LAUNCH PARTY 

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‘What a great night of poetry.’

or, as William would say, ‘FUCKING GREAT!’ WORDS (ON) STAGES WORDS (ON) PAGES PARENTHETICAL LAUNCH with EDWARD ANKI JASMINE GUI CATRIONA WRIGHT J.C. BOUCHARD NICOLE BREWER WILLIAM KEMP and Special Guest opener PEARL PIRIE Photos: KIRBY

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Pearl. Poet.

Love me some Pearl. I first heard poet PEARL PIRIE at a showcase of Canadian poets reading in Bryant Park (NYC) a few summers ago. A hellacious thunderstorm just stopped, wetness hanging everywhere, and there was Pearl, reading from her delightful ‘radish.’ I was completely taken with her love of the word, and wanted more. Hear @pesbo […]

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The sweat

The poem that does not eliminate the effort or labour from the writing. The poem that makes difficulty visible. The untidy poem. The apparently struggling poem. The Sick Woman poem. The poem that does not hide its poet because that poet is always there, just behind the curtain. The poems that risk being a try-hard, […]

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Two presses

  * it IS possible. you have value. you have permission * | ** raging against the dying of the light ** LYNNE DESILVA-JOHNSON @OnlyWhatICan BROOKLYN. Home of two remarkable small presses we carry here at the shop, UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE and Lynne Desilva-Johnson’s THE OPERATING SYSTEM. Visits to both proved not only ‘inspired,’ but […]