LAST NIGHT. EARTHY ANECDOTES welcomed spring and kicked off KFB’s #KISSMYPOETRY NATIONAL POETRY MONTH on a grand scale with readings by CATHERINE GRAHAM KIRBY KATHRYN MOCKLER AYESHA CHATTERJEE and GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE Thanks to the poets, League of Canadian Poets, Toronto Arts Council, and all who came.
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Greek Journalist: “For what would you exchange the Nobel Prize you have just been awarded?” Seamus Heaney: “For one more poem… Or for Cavafy’s soul!” – Interview with Seamus Heaney, 7 Oct. 1995. #poetry pic.twitter.com/NAq3KpEUiX — C.P. Cavafy (@CCavafy) April 6, 2019
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Wonderful afternoon talking poetry with poet R. KOLEWE in store today. His recommendations included SONIA DI PLACIDO Flesh (Guernica) CONCETTA PRINCIPE This Real (Pedlar) STEPHEN COLLIS Once in Blockadia (Talon) DOMINIQUE RUSSELL Instruction for Dreamers CHRISTINE STEWART Treaty 6 Deixis (Talon) MARK TRUSCOTT Branches (Book*hug). We recommend R. KOLEWE silence, then (knife | fork | […]
“There is only one, will only ever be one, whose loss can destroy you. When you search your soul, you know this is so.” – ANNE MICHAELS from “QUEEN STREET EAST” in UNITED MARBLE, a work-in-progress with photographs by GEOFFREY JAMES Last night held a touch of the divine. To be privy to a work-in-progress […]
“Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced.” – Hugo von Hofmannsthal “When I laugh from my belly, it’s a good day.” – Kirby People often ask how I got into this poetry gig, or my own inquiry, “What keeps me here?” The simple answer. It delights me. […]
It felt like home. JULIE MORRISSY, KIM FAHNER, SAMUEL GUEST, fellow poets, family, friends gather to launch, read, hear, share, celebrate. Last night. knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY
CAVAFY, It Must Have Been the Spirits (February 1919) Translated by DANIEL MENDELSOHN
Saturdays. Poets KLARA DU PLESSIS (EKKE Palimpsest Press) + JIM JOHNSTONE (ed. THE NEXT WAVE: An Anthology of 21st Century Canadian Poetry Anstruther Press) spend some time pouring over the goods. knife | fork | book
Knife Fork Book 