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K F B A U G U S T

NEW SUMMER SHOP HOURS COMMENCE TODAY WEDS-SAT 1-5:30PM (THROUGH AUGUST) KFB CUSTOMER APPRECIATION SALE! THIS THURS-FRI-SAT up to 50%OFF select items KFB AUGUST MEMBERSHIP DRIVE only $10/yearly GET IN HERE! knife | fork | book at The Dark Side Studio | 244 Augusta Avenue | 2nd Floor | Kensington Market | Toronto  

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“take my hand”

“how gentle is your friend and kind.” Vespers. Devotional. Breathtakingly sparse. Elegant. Wondrous. Moving. Rare.          – Kirby AMANDA JERNIGAN YEARS, MONTHS, AND DAYS (Biblioasis) Now in store.  knife | fork | book

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Hare does Kirby

Toronto artist PHILIP HARE lovingly created this exquisite rendition of KIRBY’S “You’re Welcome” from their chapbook She’s Having a Doris Day, KFB’s newest “broadside,” a pink bandana!,  available for preorder online ShopKFB. SOLD OUT

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The next wave

New. Daily.  knife | fork | book

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STINTZI READS STINTZI

JOHN STINTZI “TO BE BESIDE ONESELF” from THE MACHETE TOURIST (knife | fork | book, 2018) Shop KFB

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April calendar

BENNETT UNSEEN GARDEN TURNER WE’RE NOT GOING TO DO BETTER NEXT TIME STINTZI THE MACHETE TOURIST Making it easy. Get yours.  knife | fork | book STINTZI photo: Melanie Pierce      

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¡STINTZI!

It was truly wonderful to finally meet JOHN STINTZI and their partner MELANIE PIERCE  as they bounded up the steps just before closing last night. Hear John TONIGHT read from their very first chapbook, THE MACHETE TOURIST, alongside LAUREN TURNER WE’RE NOT GOING TO DO BETTER NEXT TIME and ROXANNA BENNETT UNSEEN GARDEN w/ NEW DALE […]

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Grand. Open.

  Sontag. Ed White. Saint Genet. KFB. Now available in Parkdale. Congrats to Permanent Sleep Press drivers MATT FINNER & KORRIE (killing the merch table), CHRIS COLOHAN’s heart-wrenching road trip story, the DON PYLE’s playlist, the kind [visionary] proprietors of CAPITAL ESPRESSO, KIRBY and the o so pretty booklovers in attendence. Loverly. PERMANENT SLEEP PRESS […]

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“we make our lives by what we love”

  GARY BARWIN Anechoic   walking through woods imagining sex between John Cage and Merce Cunningham a constellation that resembles a toad a river you can see a piano in the northern sky nothing more than nothing can be said we make our lives by what we love our ears are now in excellent condition […]

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The courtship continues

  NEW. CARL PHILLIPS WILD IS THE WIND (Farrar, 2018).  In store now.  knife | fork | book