What rocked our world this year? @knifeforkbook did! Thank you to @itsakirby for being a true champion of #poetry! https://t.co/JjXDTsX1tm — BookThug (@bookthug) December 20, 2016 girl, all night” knife | fork | book
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Why? (because you already know.) 3-Day Boxing Week Sale on all poetry books in stock, (some exceptions on signed/numbered editions). $10 OFF (every $50 purchase) TUES WEDS THURS 1-6PM knife | fork | book
@knifeforkbook @bookthug @LawandLit @RicksKensington @itsakirby – I’ll certainly be back soon. Thank you so much for giving poetry a home. — Jimmy McInnes (@JimmyMcInnes) November 18, 2016 Yes, there’s plenty of things to say goodbye to 2016. But, we have dozens, (if not hundreds), of reasons to be thankful. The real story? Since we’ve opened in […]
TONIGHT! Festival of Lights Solstice Celebration Kensington Market We’re on the parade route (begins at dusk). Come. Celebrate. knife | fork | book @Rick’s Cafe 281 Augusta Avenue OPEN TODAY 1-7 | THURS & FRI 1-9 | CHRISTMAS EVE 12-4 | CLOSED CHRISTMAS Photos: KIRBY Top: Orbital Arts 275 Augusta Ave | Centre: Montreal […]
Don’t be afraid of the dumb idea, but don’t be afraid to be smart. Just don’t be afraid, period. DAVID SALLE HOW TO SEE (Norton, 2016.)
So, what rocked my world? The remarkable power of ‘naming.’ MOEZ SURANI‘s book-length poem ةيلمع Operación Opération Operation 行 动 Oперация (BookThug, 2016), lists the code names for UN miltary interventions from 1945 to present that could easily be mistaken for the titles of children’s picture books. At once absurdly funny and utterly grotesque, the […]
“How’s things going, Kirby?” “I’m pretty blissed-out most days.” Poets STUART ROSS and MAUREEN SCOTT HARRIS visit knife | fork | book on the same day. (“What blizzard?”) Photos: KIRBY
Thanks for the shout out Amy at blogTO and congrats to Monkey’s Paw, House of Anansi, Penguin, and Glad Day, great company, all. And to our devout poets and readers. The best. See you at the shop. knife | fork | book
“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 […]
PASOLINI Roman Poems Number 41 of City Lights Pocket Poets Series. Translated from Italian by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Francesca Valente.
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