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Such good company

CANADIAN LAUNCH | PREMIERE A staged reading of MADELEINE BRAUN and PARKER MENZIMER‘s collaborative work TrueBlock at the storefront of knife | fork | book last night. A limited edition of TrueBlock now on sale at k|f|b Photos: KIRBY  

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NEW! Poet’s Picks

  POET’S PICKS | LAURA K McRAE SUE CHENETTE* Slender Human Weight (Guernica Editions) ROO BORSON Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida (McClelland & Stewart) ROBIN ROBERTSON Swithering (Anansi) HOA NGUYEN Violet Energy Ingots (Wave Books) Poet LAURA KATHRYN McRAE (Distributaries, Frog Hollow Press) visited the shop yesterday to drop off some beautiful books (including a fine edition […]

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“Like no one el-se”

Stating The Obvious#Valentine #poetry #books#giftcertificates #FindItHere@RicksKensington Pictured: also obvious #bemine @itsakirby pic.twitter.com/doJ5mHUiF8 — knifeforkbook (@knifeforkbook) February 11, 2017 To Valentine crushes. Always.  knife | fork | book

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Our new menu

DE-LISH! Thursday Night Poets. Book Launches. Showcases. Workshops. More “Daily Specials” to be announced. #wherepoetsmeet knife | fork | book and this just in… MAR 20TH  LISA ROBERTSON  DOWNLOAD   

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“olly olly oxen free”

THIS WEEK | THURSDAY NIGHT POETS AARON KREUTER  +  JIM NASON knife | fork | book at Rick’s Cafe | 281 Augusta Avenue | Kensington Market | Toronto Doors 6:30  Poetry 7-ish

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“This one’s from the heart”

@itsakirby @cpmcaldwell @purlpoet @michaelprior06 "o, baby, this one's from the heart…"https://t.co/j6TCHmY9uG#tonight #ThursNightPoets — knifeforkbook (@knifeforkbook) January 19, 2017

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“between a protest and prayer”

The precise role of the artist, then, is to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through that vast forest, so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose, which is, after all, to make the world a more human dwelling place.” JAMES BALDWIN The Creative Process On Friday night, while the […]

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Everyday is like

  Sunday. In January. And it feels like it, beneath her mother’s quilt. Does she even want to? (no, it’s Sunday… and she does) 506 High Park to Augusta and the shop greeted by C.J., Aaron, and Takatsu and their glorious new arrival, APPARATUS, an anthology of emerging writers on their own imprint, Inspiritus Press. And it’s a […]

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A circle of intimates

“Come one come all to the Egyptian Hall.” “Here, boys. Come, brothers.”    A circle of initmates at Thursday Night Poets last evening, celebrating the launch of CHAD CAMPBELL Euphonia and DANI COUTURE Black Sea Nettle from JIM JOHNSTONE Anstruther Press. UPCOMING: TONIGHT SLO-PO with DAVID BRADFORD. THURS JAN 19TH CLAIRE CALDWELL LAURA K McRAE MICHAEL PRIOR. FRIDAY […]

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New & refreshed

A few pretties in store. knife | fork | book