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So pretty

  And this is just the front cart.   knife | fork | book

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Winter break

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Surrealist extravaganza

SHANNON MAGUIRE DAVID BATEMAN ROBERT PRIEST BEATRIZ HAUSNER SHERI-D WILSON hold court to a full house of hardy poets, “the coldest January 5th on record.” Where were the poets? Keeping the hearth.  knife | fork | book KFB UPCOMING: JAN 9 KFB | KIRBY ‘DORIS’ IN OTTAWA |TREE READING SERIES | MARGO LAPIERRE JAN 12  SLO-PO w/ DAVID BRADFORD (reading […]

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NEW KFB imprint announced

I’m thrilled to announce a new chapbook imprint at knife | fork |book: wQr, What Queer Reading, with myself acting as editor and Kirby as publisher. We’re devoted to publishing queer poets of colour, and we’re looking for work in which queerness is expressed alongside but also beyond identity: in the shifting of selfhood into cosmic matter; […]

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Almost everything

To be queer (like being a poet) is to reinvent almost everything — Alex Dimitrov (@alexdimitrov) December 22, 2017 ALEX DIMITROV TOGETHER AND BY OURSELVES (Copper Canyon Press, 2017) KFB ‘Gems’ of 2017

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Happy Solstice

  TONIGHT  FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS | KENSINGTON MARKET | ORBITAL ARTS GALLERY | 275 AUGUSTA AVE | DUSK FRIDAY NIGHT | ‘SHE’S FEELING FESTIVE’ | KFB CUSTOMER APPRECIATION NIGHT | 6-9 PM Merry, Kirby

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Finner

MATT FINNER, publisher of Permanent Sleep Press, with two of their new poetry titles, ALEXIS MARSHALL A Sea Above the Pains of Our Youth | DUSTY NEAL Rain Songs in store (and a fine piece of swag).  knife | fork | book

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The mirthful g

True story. These beauties from GASPEREAU PRESS arrive yesterday (including new titles from SUE GOYETTE and GEORGE ELLIOT CLARKE) and poet ANNICK MACASKILL drops in from Hailfax who’s Book of Hours comes out this Spring from the mirthful g. Welcome, both. knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY

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On dating

  RUTH ROACH PIERSON   My Late Night Date with an MRI Machine    I’m lying on my back in a space like the interior of a grounded submarine or the stomach of a giant metallic nematode, my ears, though plugged and muffed, unable to escape the steady blasts of sound like the gravelly throbbing […]

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Gems

First of all, every publisher believes there’s is the best stuff out there this (or any) year. We’re no exception. Our first five, (one cleverly disguised as a ‘bon-bon’), all exceptional, stand alone. Good poetry in [very] pretty packaging with nods to our brilliant book designer, Norman Nehmetallah, and printer John De Jesus at Coach […]