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Just up the street

  A robust 14th Annual Meeting of The Dead Poets Society @ Supermarket last night, presented by The Art Bar,  The Rowers Pub Reading Series, and Tightrope Books. Hosted by David Clink with Heather Wood. Wonderful to see the rich herstory of Kensington Market continue to thrive as a literary/poetry hub. Pictured: Heather Wood. Ilyana […]

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Okay, this is fun to wake up to

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

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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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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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Day Without Art

Every purchase today #WorldAIDSDay donated to @CLGArchives (@itsakirby): https://t.co/df2Sk4nLxv — knifeforkbook (@knifeforkbook) December 1, 2016

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A prestigious affair

Our friends at Tightrope Books launch their signature series with a select line-up of poets at Harbourfront this evening.

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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?)