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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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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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Cozy & warm

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

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“a dreamy oasis”

Recent place settings. knife | fork | book

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Kate [hearts] poetry

] …with a particular penchant for chapbooks. She loves poetry, and her Instagram (@rhinocerospoems) is a treasure trove of covers and finds. In fact, we’ve rarely seen Kate without ‘book-in-hand.’ Her debut collection How to Draw a Rhinoceros (BookThug 2016), combines “Robert Kroetschian documentary poetics with the meticulous research and environmental passion of Elizabeth Kolbert, to […]

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Rosily

Rosily I squander myself*  LISA ROBERTSON 3 SUMMERS Our current bestseller from Coach House Books Find it here. knife | fork | book *(Is there any other way?)

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OPEN

Our welcome sign. Tonight until 9PM  knife | fork | book Photo: MAUREEN HYNES

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Rx

Prescriptions filled here. Daily.  knife | fork | book including some beautiful new chapbooks from Baseline , Anstruther, Desert Pets, Sunny Outside, metatron, words (on) pages, Invisible, Puddles of Sky, Pearl Pirie, Apt. 9, Nomados, and more! Photo: KIRBY

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Get Skanky

BLAST FROM THE PASTRare DALE SMITH& (rarer still)SKANKY POSSUM PRESSramble into the shop. #FindItHere #poetry #toronto #bookshop #rare pic.twitter.com/Ane2pSg2GJ — knifeforkbook (@knifeforkbook) November 22, 2016

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Love letter

  I don’t know how or when I met poet Maureen Hynes. I believe she actually met me. Because that’s what Maureen Hynes does. She meets others, greets them, with a geniune decided interest, a curiosity and warmth that includes you, brings you into the fold. I may not remember how or when, but I […]