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Forces collide

Every once in awhile, forces collide, like minds surge/ignite, sparks fly. Such was our experience meeting Brooklyn-based artist, poet, publisher, The Operating System‘s LYNNE DE-SILVA JOHNSON, who I simply refer to as “the Force.” To have but a vial of her energies, (but, you get that upon meeting). She’s a firebrand. She cares deeply about […]

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Typical Tuesdays

Tuesdays (and every day) are for poets.  knife | fork | book Pictured: Socks. Poets, Torben Robertson, Richard Keith , and Susan Alexander  (on Torben’s 25th). Poet Khashayar Mohammadi. The shop late afternoon. Bookselling at poet, Anne Michaels, reading from her latest, All We Saw (McClelland & Stewart) at the Heliconian Club Salon Series. Kirby and […]

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In the stars

“Aren’t we a pair?” Iconic LYNN CROSBIE and a mesmerising CANISIA LUBRIN. Pure poetry. Pure magic. This place.  knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY

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New

  and really pretty.   knife | fork | book thx Kate.

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Don’t miss this

I miss you he says, and I say it back, but this time we are both miserable because what we are saying is that who we were and what we were is gone. LYNN CROSBIE, The Corpses of the Future (Anansi, 2017). HEAR HER HERE W/ CANISIA LUBRIN VOODOO HYPOTHESIS (Wolsak & Wynn, 2017) KFB […]

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Non-violator

I, @itsakirby, have never & will never use any social media platform to set-up, attack, judge, guilt, shame, wrong, put down, abuse, expect answers from, nor mistake as dialog/conversation. Here, I will only champion/celebrate #poets & #poetry. Yours, I remain. Kirby#kisses pic.twitter.com/u5PZ5pFpwX — knifeforkbook (@knifeforkbook) November 8, 2017

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‘such fire’

I’ll let you go, he says before hanging up, although he never has. LYNN CROSBIE The Corpses of the Future But why / should I unravel over all this remembering? / Great thing about landing / is that I’ve arrived CANISIA LUBRIN Voodoo Hypothesis k | f | b  FRIDAYS | THIS FRIDAY LYNN CROSBIE […]

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Bear hug

To all who supported our IndieGOGO funder, near and far, thank you.  Dearly.  knife | fork | book Pictured: Poet ELIANNA LEV Sex Made Me KFB 2017.  Photo: KIRBY

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“this sweet special place!!!!”

everything about this makes me love living in toronto https://t.co/cLhAklSabj — Damian Rogers (@damianrogers) October 25, 2017 infinitely grateful for the existence of this sweet special place!!!! https://t.co/nPEOtOQotM — emma healey (@emmafromtoronto) October 25, 2017 Me and THE DOGS @marydimichele @GillisSusan @knifeforkbook pic.twitter.com/3ccm1ow3m9 — David Bradford (@BartleBeeps) October 29, 2017 POET @DBernierCormier (“Englishing” @froghollowpress) on […]

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a.k.a. Small, Medium, and Large (S, M, L)

k | f | b  FRIDAYS | THIS FRIDAY LILLIAN NECAKOV NICHOLAS POWER JIM SMITH FRIDAY NOVEMBER 3RD knife | fork | book at The Dark Side Studio, 244 Augusta Avenue, Second Floor (walk-up above Bunner’s Bakery) Doors 6:30 Poetry 7-ish LILLIAN NECAKOV is the author of Sickbed of Dogs, Wolsak and Wynn, 1989, Polaroids, Coach […]