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2nd pull

This would be my second: ANDREW RIDKER ed. Privacy Policy (used anthology $20) KEVIN OPSTEDAL Pacific Standard Time (UDP $24) JAN ZWICKY Songs for Relinquishing the Earth (Brick $15) JOY HARJO Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings (Norton $22) FRED WAH Is a Door (Talonbooks $18)  RUTH ROACH PIERSON Aide–mémoire (Buschek $15) JOHN ASHBERY Notes from the […]

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First pull

This would be my first pull: REBECCA WOLFF Warden (UDP $16) MATTHEW HENDERSON The Lease (Coach House $18) SARA PETERS 1996 (Anansi, Limited Numbered Hardcover $35) MARK STRAND New Selected Poems (used $12) JAMES SCHUYLER Collected Poems ($35) CARL PHILLIPS Silvercrest (Used Hardcover $20) THE VOLTA BOOK OF POETS ($30) TONYA M. FOSTER A Swarm […]

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‘Can you tell me about KFB?’

I remember stopping in one Friday this past March feeling rundown and fed up with this city and Kirby was all smiles, and then Ralph Kolewe, a great poet, dropped in, and then Kate Sutherland, another great poet, dropped in, and we all sat in the sun together, looking at poetry, talking. And I instantly […]

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In the pink

  You know she’s having one* when the shop is looking this snappy! Come. Partake. Enjoy. We so appreciate your business.  knife | fork | book *Photos: KIRBY She’s Having a Doris Day

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Broadsides & other beauties

  Poetry broadsides from Anansi, Baseline, Bookthug, Coach House, Cuneiform, SunnyOutside, along with these beautiful pitchers, teapots, vases, and mugs are all for sale at the back of our shop.*  knife | fork | book *A few exceptions, our ‘Good Sign’ has become a bit of a symbol round here. Inquire.

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Summer love

On route to the shop. See you soon. knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY

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Best in TO

  In case you missed it. Delightful company. Thank you. knife | fork | book

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Joy found

A shared intimacy with PEDLAR PRESS poets JESSICA HIEMSTRA and DAVID WHITE last night.  knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY

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Poet is in

POET PICKS : ROXANNA BENNETT ROXANNA BENNETT is the author of The Uncertainty Principle  (Tightrope Books, 2014). Her work has appeared in Bitch Magazine, Slice Magazine, The Dalhousie Review, Existere, Arc, Vallum, CV2, Cosmonauts Avenue, Qwerty, carte blanche, and many other publications. Her KFB chapbook, Unseen Garden, comes out Fall 2017. She lives in Ontario, Canada.

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Holy Lark

THIS THURSDAY | THURSDAY NIGHT POETS JESSICA HIEMSTRA   DAVID WHITE  JUNE 15TH knife | fork | book at Rick’s Cafe | 281 Augusta Avenue | Kensington Market | Toronto Doors 6:30  Poetry 7-ish Access: Ramp entrance into shop. DAVID WHITE is one of the contributing poets of Renga: A Collaborative Poem (Brick Books). In 1994 he competed his […]