A few of our favourite titles/poets from Tightrope Books, including their signature, THE BEST CANADIAN POETRY 2016 (in English) series*, EMILY POHL-WEARY‘s Ghost Sick (recently shortlisted for the Fred Cogswell Award), and ROXANNA BENNETT’s The Uncertainty Principle, reading here, NOVEMBER 3RD (with KILBY SMITH-MCGREGOR). *Launching at IFOA HARBOURFRONT, November 30th.
Category: poetry
Evening. Kensington. knife | fork | book
Writing is sometimes useful that way, with news of the world out there. But out there is only meaningful in its correspondence to in here. Like his poetry, the simple pleasure of sitting with this man, this river, this mountain. FRED WAH at Hoa Nguyen’s Poetry Workshop 16 October 2016 Photos: KIRBY HOA NGUYEN’S VIOLET […]
From press to store. A splendid visit with Taylor, Jess, and Norman at Coach House Books. Photos: KIRBY
Late Afternoon. Reading Patrick Phillips. Elegy for a Broken Machine (Knopf, 2015.) Photos: KIRBY
Reading Barthes, via Ondaatje, via Maggie Nelson. OPEN FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS UNTIL 9PM knife | fork | book @ Rick’s Cafe | 281 Augusta Avenue | Kensington Market HOA NGUYEN’S VIOLET ENERGY INGOTS LAUNCHES OCTOBER 27TH @kfb
Plenty. knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY
“I let a man touch me until I bled/ Until my blood met his hunger/ And so was changed.” JERICHO BROWN The New Testament (Copper Canyon Press)
Late afternoon poetry break with e.e. cummings
But a portion of the beauty of this day. knife | fork | book @ Rick’s Cafe | 281 Augusta Avenue | Kensington Market Photos: KIRBY
Knife Fork Book 