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Kate [hearts] poetry

] …with a particular penchant for chapbooks. She loves poetry, and her Instagram (@rhinocerospoems) is a treasure trove of covers and finds. In fact, we’ve rarely seen Kate without ‘book-in-hand.’ Her debut collection How to Draw a Rhinoceros (BookThug 2016), combines “Robert Kroetschian documentary poetics with the meticulous research and environmental passion of Elizabeth Kolbert, to […]

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OPEN

Our welcome sign. Tonight until 9PM  knife | fork | book Photo: MAUREEN HYNES

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Rx

Prescriptions filled here. Daily.  knife | fork | book including some beautiful new chapbooks from Baseline , Anstruther, Desert Pets, Sunny Outside, metatron, words (on) pages, Invisible, Puddles of Sky, Pearl Pirie, Apt. 9, Nomados, and more! Photo: KIRBY

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Get Skanky

BLAST FROM THE PASTRare DALE SMITH& (rarer still)SKANKY POSSUM PRESSramble into the shop. #FindItHere #poetry #toronto #bookshop #rare pic.twitter.com/Ane2pSg2GJ — knifeforkbook (@knifeforkbook) November 22, 2016

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Simply the best

We’re salivating. See you there.  knife | fork | book And drop by our place after, we’re open until 9PM tonight @Rick’s Cafe 281 Augusta Avenue Kensington Market.

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“presences”

“What is left out of these images is the idea of contact, and contact, of the most intimate sort, is what poetry can accomplish. Poems do not endure as objects but as presences. When you read anything worth remembering, you liberate a human voice; you release into the world again a companion spirit. I read […]

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“tremendous”

LAUREN LEVIN + ERIC SNEATHEN  knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY Excerpts from ERIC SNEATHEN Snail Poems (p 35) and LAUREN LEVIN The Braid (p 110) Krupskaya Books, 2016. Signed copies available at the shop.

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Where poets & readers meet

  “There will be days and days like these.”  knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY

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“Where poets meet”

knife | fork | book  is thrilled to host California poets LAUREN LEVIN and ERIC SNEATHEN  reading from their debut collections, (The Braid and Snail Poems, respectively) fresh off the press from Krupskaya Books. On The Braid: “is a fever dream of pregnancy and early parenting in the era of the police state. Meditative and urgent, […]

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“Anew and over again.”

“I prefer to not memorize my texts. Instead, I like my poems to be improvisatory like how I often cut every line and stanza of my poems and rearrange them in a different order. It still remains a wonderful poem to me.” STANFORD CHEUNG’s reading copy of Any Seam or Needlework (The Operating System, 2016) […]