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Friday

Poets visiting from Vancouver. Totoro. Poet in Store, Mark Truscott. His picks. Jim Johnstone. The Dark Side Studio. Audra’s presence everyday. (Brandy Ryan, not pictured, takes me out for a drink).  A young photographer in the market takes a picture of Joseph, Leo and I. Adrian De Leon. Patria Rivera. Shirley Camia. Brilliant readings at […]

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“There is no half-measure / to praise / or grief”

She’s launched. KIRBY THIS IS WHERE I GET OFF Permanent Sleep Press last Saturday Night, with PAUL-DANIEL TORRES CODY CAETANO JIM JOHNSTONE (Host) DON PYLE (Sound) FAN WU & CODY (Dancers) BUY THE BOOK IN STORE at KFB and PERMENENT SLEEP PRESS BOOKSHOP (Parkdale) and ONLINE at shopKFB KIRBY UP NEXT MAY 16TH BIBLIOASIS (WINDSOR) w/ […]

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Anstruther BLAST-OFF!

This is poetry on a Friday Night. ANSTRUTHER PRESS launch six new chapbooks, coaxing an early Spring Season to a record-setting capacity crowd. HELLO! knife | fork |book

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Jim in store

Drop by. Say "Hi." POET/PUBLISHERJIM JOHNSTONETODAY 2-4PM k | f | b#poweredbypoets pic.twitter.com/nVGreewXPl — knifeforkbook (@knifeforkbook) January 18, 2019 Poet, publisher JIM JOHNSTONE in store TODAY 2-4PM

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A whip

on sin. Or better yet, kneel in front JIM JOHNSTONE"The Outrage Industry"https://t.co/5x5F1y75Cn#donotpassgodonotcollect200 — KIRBY (@itsakirby) January 6, 2019

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Poets Night Out

  There is nothing quite like an Anstruther Press launch to bring everybody out (even on the bleakest of days/nights). Congrats to poets ANDREW BROOKS JM FRANCHETEAU DAVID GROULX EMILY OSBOURNE and to the kickass team at Anstruther, Jim, Erica, Ally, Katie, Shane (and to Amy LeBlanc and John Barton, not pictured). Find their lovely chapbooks here.  knife […]

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Gold

ANSTRUTHER PRESS [RESPLENDENT] SUMMER LAUNCH last night.  knife | fork | book

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J’s

JIM JOHNSTONE. JAMES LINDSAY. JOHN NYMAN. JIMMY MCINNES. New work and love poems. Last night.   knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY

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4 days in June

“This is a powerful, essential, book that should be read by all, to understand the unofficial truth of a war in any country where ‘the Watchtowers lying awake / on the face of the sea / do not rest.’” —Michael Ondaatje KFB [EXTENDED] WEEKEND  JUNE 15TH  4 J’s  JIMMY MCINNES | JAMES LINDSAY | JOHN NYMAN | JIM JOHNSTONE JUNE 16TH  MAWENZI […]

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Phenomenal

  ANSTRUTHER PRESS 2018 SPRING CHAPBOOK LAUNCH with MARK LALIBERTE JAMES LINDSAY DAVID LY JOHN NYMAN JADE WALLACE LILY WANG CONOR MCDONNELL (Frog Hollow Press) JIM JOHNSTONE SHANE NEILSON ALLY FLEMING ERICA SMITH and a cast of thousands. Last night. knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY UPCOMING: TONIGHT MAR 10 KIRBY CHRIS COLOHAN  DON […]