You have your axes What, precisely, is your procedure? from [The challenge: to start] by Anna Moschovakis They and We Will Get into Trouble for This opens with the line, “I don’t know a thing about paradise,” an opening gesture that tempers faux curiosity as much as it disavows the setting of paradise. It is also […]
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Last night. This much fun, poetry… and love. knife | fork | book The Toronto Launch for HOA NGUYEN’s VIOLET ENERGY INGOTS (Wave Books). Photos: KIRBY SATURDAY NIGHT Oct 29TH— ANNA MOSCHOVAKIS—Doors 6:30 Reading 7ish @Rick’s Cafe 281 Augusta Ave —Kensington Market
Doors open at 6:30. Reading 7-ish.
.@knifeforkbook makes me so happy. Thanks @itsakirby for being an activist/advocate curator—celebrating poetry might just be revolutionary. https://t.co/G0HybuEAAw — Kilby Smith-McGregor (@KilbySM) October 25, 2016 FIND KILBY SMITH-MCGREGOR‘s KIDS IN TRIAGE HERE & SEE/HEAR HER WITH ROXANNA BENNETT NOV 3RD
The thing that made me especially giddy was the number of chapbooks not just present but beautifully displayed. Poet, KATE SUTHERLAND, whose new collection, How to Draw A Rhinoceros (BookThug) launches at Toronto’s temple of books, Ben McNally’s, November 4th, graced our shop this week past and wrote a lovely piece about her visit as […]
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.
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
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