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“a dreamy oasis”

Recent place settings. knife | fork | book

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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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Slow Friday

THIS FRIDAY 7:30PM SLO-POw/ @BartleButts https://t.co/B2668NQFbxreading @peacehearty VIOLET ENERGY INGOTS@WavePoetry @RicksKensington pic.twitter.com/ebhumzbRRI — knifeforkbook (@knifeforkbook) November 28, 2016

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Poet

MAUREEN HYNES at knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY

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Love letter

  I don’t know how or when I met poet Maureen Hynes. I believe she actually met me. Because that’s what Maureen Hynes does. She meets others, greets them, with a geniune decided interest, a curiosity and warmth that includes you, brings you into the fold. I may not remember how or when, but I […]

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Simply the best

We’re salivating. See you there.  knife | fork | book And drop by our place after, we’re open until 9PM tonight @Rick’s Cafe 281 Augusta Avenue Kensington Market.

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“presences”

“What is left out of these images is the idea of contact, and contact, of the most intimate sort, is what poetry can accomplish. Poems do not endure as objects but as presences. When you read anything worth remembering, you liberate a human voice; you release into the world again a companion spirit. I read […]

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“tremendous”

LAUREN LEVIN + ERIC SNEATHEN  knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY Excerpts from ERIC SNEATHEN Snail Poems (p 35) and LAUREN LEVIN The Braid (p 110) Krupskaya Books, 2016. Signed copies available at the shop.

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The grand good company of readers

  A capacity crowd for JAN CONN, HOA NGUYEN, MADELEINE THIEN, and ZOE WHITTALL at Pivot Readings last night (The Steady, Toronto) with it’s splendid host JACOB McARTHUR MOONEY. This night deserves the title, “event” (and, thanks for the great shout-out Jake). TONIGHT at knife | fork | book Krupskaya Books poets LAUREN LEVIN and […]