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THURSDAY NIGHT POETS ANDREW MCEWAN JULIA POLYCK-O’NEILL AARON TUCKER THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 14TH knife | fork | book @ Rick’s Cafe | 281 Augusta Avenue | Kensington Market Doors open 6:30PM | Poetry 7-ish ANDREW MCEWAN is the author of repeater (a finalist for the 2013 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award) and numerous chapbooks, including Conditional and Can’t tell if […]

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ONE WEEK TONIGHT

https://www.instagram.com/p/BYvy8Dtl_7r/ Not to be missed. knife | fork | book

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What keeps us here

Help!! This is the best thing that’s happened to Toronto!! https://t.co/0Lgabv0cf7 — Jake Byrne (@jakebyrnewrites) September 6, 2017 @itsakirby and @knifeforkbook changed the way I think of community, and changed my life. Click thru if you can. https://t.co/uRywoUa6t5 — David Bradford (@BartleBeeps) September 6, 2017 please read and consider supporting this little heaven for poetry […]

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These beauties

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Aaron Tucker (@aaron_tucker___) Going out with a rook.  knife | fork | book  

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Moving on up

It’s official, we’re moving. After a glorious, unforgettable first year of revelry at Rick’s Cafe in Kensington, the cafe itself has been sold, and Toronto’s Poetry-Only bookshop is now seeking a new home. Hundreds of you, both in person and abroad, have shared your unabashed love for KFB. This is our first ‘ask.’ We need […]

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Year One

knife | fork | book has but one aim, to champion poets and poetry. KIRBY PHOTO ALBUM | YEAR ONE | THE POETS This is far from complete (there are hundreds), but enough along to launch in celebration of our first year. More to come. Thank you poets, enjoy.  knife | fork | book

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October’s selection

“Voodoo Hypothesis is an interior in motion: a gorgeous, searching intelligence. It is a womb/tomb of luminous inquiry. A semi-permeable ship where your mind is in concert with Lubrin’s forward propagating lineation, a participatory dreamscape that leads you back to your own culpability. This is a work that reads you, too.” – Liz Howard, author of Infinite Citizen […]

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Match

branch by branch … an emerging narrative of contemporary poetry. MELANIE JANISSE-BARLOW The Poet Series So pleased to have portraits of HELEN GURI and JORDAN ABEL currently on display. knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY

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KFB Bestsellers

Week of 26 August 2017 AISHA SASHA JOHN  I Have to Live  McClelland & Stewart KATHRYN MOCKLER + DAVID POOLMAN Some Theories ST Press SVETLANA LILOVA Metaphysical Dictionary Dumagrad MARCUS MCCANN Shut Up Slow Down Let Go Breathe Invisible LINDA BESNER Feel Happier in Nine Seconds Coach House PHOEBE WANG Admission Requirements McClelland & Stewart TARA-MICHELLE […]

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Crazy good

  The thrill of a great launch.   knife | fork | book Congrats ANSTRUTHER PRESS JIM JOHNSTONE ERICA SMITH ALLY FLEMING S. TAKATSU STEWART COLE INSPIRITUS PRESS MARC DI SAVERIO Photos: KIRBY