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The significance of place

Poets. What keeps us here. Poetry. What we serve. Well. Please consider becoming a KFB Member. Thank you.   knife | fork | book Photos: Winter 2018/19 at KFB

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“How we are cared for. // How we are loved.”

KFB | REVIEW HOLCOCENE BEN MEYERSON KELSAY BOOKS, 2018. In Holcocene, Ben Meyerson finds an innovative way to step outside of himself, to look through a window at some of the things that define lyric poetry, and define what it is to be human. The ‘you’ and ‘I’ of his book are robots navigating a post-apocalyptic […]

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Today’s sampling menu

  But a sampling of what you’ll find at the shop today, including our FEATURED BOOK for JANUARY: ROXANNA BENNETT’s THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE, half-off with any other in-store purchase. See you at the shop.  OPEN TUES – SAT 1-5:30PM  knife | fork | book

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Poetry. Well-served.

A lovely finish to our season. DOMINIQUE BERNIER-CORMIER  CAROL BARBOUR  SONIA DI PLACIDO Poetry, well-served.  knife | fork | book

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Anstruther, The OS, &&&

KHASHAYAR MOHAMMADI’s 2018 PICKS 1. “Chlorosis” by Michael Flatt and Derrick Mund (The Operating System) As they describe the book themselves, “A break-up letter to the world.” The Echopoetics of “Chlorosis” forces us to face the bitter truths about our environment. through their rhetoric we sit down with 3D Glasses to watch nature crumble all […]

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What a lovely way

O, what a lovely way to spend an afternoon. MICHAEL NARDONE’s THE RITUALITES (Book*hug) LAUNCH with TIZIANA LA MELIA and SHIV KOTECHA  knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY

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Big river

  RITA WONG & FRED WAH BEHOLDEN a poem as long as the river from Talonbooks

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KFB FEATURED POET | DEC 18

KFB FEATURED POET DECEMBER | NORMA COLE Born in Toronto, Canada, poet, painter & translator Norma Cole moved to France in the late 60s. Returning to Toronto in the early 70s, she migrated to San Francisco in 1977, where she has lived ever since. Her most recent books of poetry include Where Shadows Will: Selected Poems 1988—2008 (City Lights), Collective […]

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KFB 2018 PICKS

Contrary to what cannot be found in a country’s major newspaper, it was a great year for poetry, Canadian and elsewhere. What do I read/look for? Did the work accomplish what it set out to do? Does it surprise/delight? Stay with me? As a publisher/programmer the measure is “if this is the one thing we […]

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NARDONE KOTECHA LA MELIA

KFB | THIS SATURDAY 3PM KFB IN STORE SATURDAY SERIES MICHAEL NARDONE SHIV KOTECHA TIZIANA LA MELIA SATURDAY DECEMBER 8TH 3PM knife | fork | book at The Dark Side Studio | 244 Augusta Avenue | 2nd Floor | Kensington Market | Toronto Access: We are a second floor walk-up with two all-gender washrooms. Please […]