So, what rocked my world? The remarkable power of ‘naming.’ MOEZ SURANI‘s book-length poem ةيلمع Operación Opération Operation 行 动 Oперация (BookThug, 2016), lists the code names for UN miltary interventions from 1945 to present that could easily be mistaken for the titles of children’s picture books. At once absurdly funny and utterly grotesque, the […]
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“How’s things going, Kirby?” “I’m pretty blissed-out most days.” Poets STUART ROSS and MAUREEN SCOTT HARRIS visit knife | fork | book on the same day. (“What blizzard?”) Photos: KIRBY
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Thanks for the shout out Amy at blogTO and congrats to Monkey’s Paw, House of Anansi, Penguin, and Glad Day, great company, all. And to our devout poets and readers. The best. See you at the shop. knife | fork | book
“In Jim Nason‘s fifth collection of poetry, Touch Anywhere to Begin (Signature Editions, 2016), poems are set in a physical world where full-throttle desire commingles with love, loss and grief. Although death is ever present — death of a father, death of a friend — there is a life-affirming/mystical quality at the core of the […]
JULIE CAMERON GRAY LADY CRAWFORD gets ‘cheeky’ @ knife | fork | book on our new Palimpsest Press shelf. Photos: KIRBY
A breathtaking reading by KATE SUTHERLAND last night. knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY
The extraordinary new issue of MATRIX MAGAZINE, edited by poet ROXANNA BENNETT now in store alongside The Antigonish Review, Arc Poetry Magazine, BRICK, Broken Pencil, CV2, The Fiddlehead, The Four Poets, Grain, The Malahat Review, Prairie Fire, Room, Vallum, and more. knife | fork | book
Kirby’s current top shelf picks knife | fork | book (from L to R):Various Artists Language Lessons Vol 1 (Third Man Records/Books) | Stéphane Mallarmé A Roll of the Dice Translated by Jeff Clark and Robert Bononno (Wave Books) | Yoko’s Dogs Rhinoceros (Gaspereau Press) | Ariana Reines Mercury (Fence Books) | Charles Reznikoff Testimony (Black Sparrow […]
All the way from Japan. knife | fork | book
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