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“In Jim Nason‘s fifth collection of poetry, Touch Anywhere to Begin (Signature Editions, 2016), poems are set in a physical world where full-throttle desire commingles with love, loss and grief. Although death is ever present — death of a father, death of a friend — there is a life-affirming/mystical quality at the core of the […]

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“And it was pure light.”

PASOLINI Roman Poems Number 41 of City Lights Pocket Poets Series. Translated from Italian by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Francesca Valente.

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The lady of the house

JULIE CAMERON GRAY LADY CRAWFORD gets ‘cheeky’ @ knife | fork | book on our new Palimpsest Press shelf. Photos: KIRBY

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Yes

“I am so tired of waiting, Aren’t you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind?” ~ Langston Hughes pic.twitter.com/CVU5DaNbjN — Paul Holdengraber (@holdengraber) December 9, 2016 Our new mission statement, “to become good / And beautiful and kind.” knife | fork | book

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Riveting

  A breathtaking reading by KATE SUTHERLAND last night. knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY

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Mad about mags

The extraordinary new issue of MATRIX MAGAZINE, edited by poet ROXANNA BENNETT now in store alongside The Antigonish Review, Arc Poetry Magazine, BRICK, Broken Pencil, CV2, The Fiddlehead, The Four Poets, Grain, The Malahat Review, Prairie Fire, Room, Vallum, and more. knife | fork | book

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“Poets never die”

Parc du Portugal, Montreal  [click on image to enlarge] see also: “Then we were quiet” by Jonathan Garfinkel Photo: KIRBY

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Kirby’s picks [week of Dec 5th]

Kirby’s current top shelf picks   knife | fork | book (from L to R):Various Artists  Language Lessons Vol 1  (Third Man Records/Books) | Stéphane Mallarmé  A Roll of the Dice Translated by Jeff Clark and Robert Bononno (Wave Books) | Yoko’s Dogs Rhinoceros (Gaspereau Press) | Ariana Reines Mercury (Fence Books) | Charles Reznikoff Testimony (Black Sparrow […]

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New residents

All the way from Japan.  knife | fork | book

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Cozy & warm

Shop at night. Fridays & Saturdays ’til 9PM   knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY