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“I came to read.”

ALICE NOTLEY 1945-2025 …and read, she did. 14 March 2020. The evening before the “lockdown.” All of her other readings for the launch of For The Ride (Penguin, 2020) had been cancelled. Her appearance here sold out (about twenty, twenty-five came that night). Alice took the stage and. It was fire. This ended up being […]

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Sublime wins

HUGE CONGRATS TO DEAN GARLICK WINNER OF 2023 EXPOZINE AWARDS (MONTREAL) ENGLISH ZINE DOMESTIC SUBLIME (knife | fork | book, 2023).

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Days like these

Fertil3 at The Printed Word Bookshop Dundas ON 25 August 2024

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Layout: Ralph Kolewe

Readable. Clean. Meticulous. Striking. Pretty.* I don’t know exactly just how I lucked into this. By this, I mean a very special kinship shared/shaped by the love of good work. And food, and drink and plenty of laughs between us. I knew from reading Ralph’s work, his meticulous eye, and ear, he knows what belongs […]

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“Wouldn’t that be great?”

To keep going, you need to feel you are making good work—or moving in the direction of making good work, or interesting work, or are interested in the work you are making—and see that as the thing you are aiming to do. Anything good that happens beyond is a bonus…” Cameron Anstee, Some Silences: Notes […]

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POETRY IS THE REASON

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KFB goes to the fair

+ assorted KFB rarities & goodness. w/Anstruther Press, noir-Z, Gap Riot, Coach House +++ This Saturday 11-5 TIFA Harbourfront TO

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ICFIIT LAUNCHES AT TPW

Launching poetry at the place for poetry. MICHAEL FLATT reads from his new KFB collection I CAN FOCUS IF I TRY supported by poet, R/B MERTZ reading from their upcoming CU T (Threadsuns, 2024) to a welcoming house at The Printed Word Bookshop, Dundas ON last night. Thanks James, and all who came out to […]

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FUCK THE CONFORMITY

squares. Fuck conformity, / the fear of being weird and free “I toss every laurel, prize, bouquet, coin, belly laughs and cries at their feet, the flames of these poet’s hearts & tongues, lick, lash, lacerate, love… saturate my pores. Every page, every poem, every phrase/line to be revisited again, again. Not only on the […]

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CACONRAD READS THE BOOK OF FRANK LIVE 30TH ANNIVERSARY

Over the years, KFB has held a long, storied. passionate relationship with CACONRAD and WAVE BOOKS that continues with their return to TORONTO, SATURDAY MAY 6TH 7PM at the SPADINA THEATRE to celebrate by reading The Book of Frank in it’s entirety on the 30th Anniversary of its appearance. Called ‘a contemporary masterpiece’ by Thurston […]