touching is not actually touching (fans push the hot air around us) touching is the act of atoms resisting each other touching is resistance TANIS FRANCO, from QUARRY (University of Calgary Press, 2018) wQr [What Queer Reading], KFB new imprint Reading Series debuts last night with a special focus on QUEER SPACE/S featuring ZOE SHARP, BRIAN […]
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In poems that are both freewheeling and socially incisive (often at once), the chicken’s burden to be caged within a world we think we own achieves, along with Alexander’s poetic gift, artistic liftoff. After the Hatching Oven is a vital paean to freedom. It soars. – Jeff Latosik DAVID ALEXANDER After the Hatching Oven (Nightwood […]
Beauty is the evening slowness… KHASHAYAR MOHAMMADI MOE’S SKIN (Zed Press, 2018) Beauty is this Saturday Night. knife | fork | book KHASHAYAR MOHAMMADI is an Iranian-born writer/translator based in Toronto, currently an editor at Inspiritus Press.
Here’s the real ‘deal.’ We’re a poetry-only bookshop with one of the most vibrant reading schedules on the face of the earth. In Toronto. You can’t get that online. We’re worth the actual retail cost of a book. And a little more. …now known as an angelic upstart from coast to coast in Canada…knife | […]
k | f | b THIS FRIDAY + SATURDAY wQr WHAT QUEER READING POETRY EXTRAVAGANZA w/ BRIAN DEDORA | TANIS FRANCO | ZOE SHARP | MAGDALENA SUKSI | HOSTED BY FAN WU FRIDAY APRIL 20TH 7PM (SHARP) Doors 6:30 Poetry 7-ish Wear socks to be seen (we’re shoeless). DAVID ALEXANDER AFTER THE HATCHING OVEN LAUNCH (Nightwood Editions) w/surprise guest poets + cupcakes SATURDAY APRIL 21ST 3PM […]
Grateful for voices in/against the dark last night @knifeforkbook, for their “social forces, like a woman using a staircase.” The energies of that space and those poets are food for the weekend… — brandy ryan (@bonthebrink) April 14, 2018 “I’m on my way to see Daphne Marlatt read at @knifeforkbook,” This opening line will remain […]
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k | f | b THIS FRIDAY + SATURDAY “Intertidal is the breathtaking shoreline of forty years of poetic practice. Daphne Marlatt has, more than any other Canadian poet, sustained an osmosis with poetic language that is profound in its attention to the literal and the littoral. Her perception of the adjacency of words and syllables […]
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KFB 2018 SPRING LAUNCH w/ new chapbooks by LAUREN TURNER WE’RE NOT GOING TO DO BETTER NEXT TIME, JOHN STINTZI THE MACHETE TOURIST, ROXANNA BENNETT UNSEEN GARDEN, and our first broadside from DALE SMITH SONS. A glorious occasion. knife | fork | book IN STORES & ONLINE NOW Photos: TORBEN ROBERTSON
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