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“yellow stars and crocuses”

This April, National Poetry Month, knife | fork | book at The Great Escape Book Store [KFB EAST] has collaborated with poet/artist Jessica Hiemstra to welcome the launch of The Thinking Heart: The Etty Drawings (1983-1984) Claire Wilks, printed and bound by Baseline Press for Exile Editions. This will include an installation of broadsides, panels, […]

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“There is only one”

“There is only one, will only ever be one, whose loss can destroy you. When you search your soul, you know this is so.” – ANNE MICHAELS from “QUEEN STREET EAST” in UNITED MARBLE, a work-in-progress with photographs by GEOFFREY JAMES Last night held a touch of the divine. To be privy to a work-in-progress […]

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TWO LAUREATES: GEOFFREY JAMES + ANNE MICHAELS MARCH 22ND

KFB | MARCH 22ND TO PHOTO LAUREATE GEOFFREY JAMES TO POET LAUREATE ANNE MICHAELS ONE UNFORGETTABLE EVENING FRIDAY MARCH 22ND knife | fork | book at The Dark Side Studio | 244 Augusta Avenue | 2nd Floor | Kensington Market | Toronto Doors 6:30 Start 7 PLEASE NOTE: LIMITED SEATING AVAILABLE. NO ENTRY ONCE PROGRAM […]

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Because we’re here

  because the one who holds the pen, even if it’s too dark to / see the page and even if the ink is his own blood, is free* There’s a story here, an ongoing one (thanks to you). Here’s but an excerpt: Picture this, coldest winter on record, flu bug making the rounds, and we […]

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A day in the life

A delight to sell books in support of Toronto Poet Laureate, ANNE MICHAELS, and her new collection, ALL WE SAW (McClelland & Stewart, 2017) at Arts and Letters Club yesterday. Photos: KIRBY

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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 […]