DALE MARTIN SMITH THE SIZE OF PARADISE US/INTL: ASTERISM BOOKS CANADA: knife | fork | book
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Legendary nights are called into being. What reading elicits is, on neurological imaging, difficult to distinguish from experience itself. We read the word lilac or chai and the olfactory cortex flares. The phrase I pulled the cloth strip through the wire fence will spur the reader’s motor cortex as if it were the movement. Or, […]
ALICE NOTLEY 1945-2025 …and read, she did. 14 March 2020. The evening before the “lockdown.” All of her other readings for the launch of For The Ride (Penguin, 2020) had been cancelled. Her appearance here sold out (about twenty, twenty-five came that night). Alice took the stage and. It was fire. This ended up being […]
HUGE CONGRATS TO DEAN GARLICK WINNER OF 2023 EXPOZINE AWARDS (MONTREAL) ENGLISH ZINE DOMESTIC SUBLIME (knife | fork | book, 2023).
“Let’s do it for the poets.” “There is no better way to describe the chapbook, broadside, and zine publishers scattered across Canada than transient. The stop/start nature of the micropress “industry” is a solid reality. Presses come and go partially due to the lack of financial incentive—mostly micropresses are self-funded labours of love—and, more impactfully, […]
Readable. Clean. Meticulous. Striking. Pretty.* I don’t know exactly just how I lucked into this. By this, I mean a very special kinship shared/shaped by the love of good work. And food, and drink and plenty of laughs between us. I knew from reading Ralph’s work, his meticulous eye, and ear, he knows what belongs […]
“There was a story.” There is a story. Norma, Dale & I. Norma hails from Toronto, an artist/poet living in San Francisco making her mark, raising the bar for some time now. She met Dale there (originally from Texas, where Skanky Possum & Slow Poetry in America blossomed) who took a teaching job in Toronto […]
+ assorted KFB rarities & goodness. w/Anstruther Press, noir-Z, Gap Riot, Coach House +++ This Saturday 11-5 TIFA Harbourfront TO
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