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Heaven is here

“To shine like a wine bottle in the trash / This is my concern for the day” -Bernadette Mayer — Hybrid Heaven (@hybridheavenco) January 26, 2018 Thrilling. Can’t wait to see/read what ascends. knife | fork | book

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001

k|f|b BROADSIDE 001 Poet DALE SMITH SONS Artist ANTHONY DIFAZIO Design NORMAN NEHMETALLAH Printing KYLE SCHLESINGER at CUNEIFORM PRESS LIMITED EDITION of 50  19 x 12. Numbered. Signed. MARCH 2018 AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER  PREORDER PRICE $35 CDN (+ $10 if shipping is required. US ORDERS in USD FUNDS Note: SMITH BROADSIDE on order)

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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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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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Pressed

One of several delightful encounters this year, ANDREW MCEWAN’S If Pressed (BookThug, 2017) More Kirby’s Picks for 2017 out next week. knife | fork | book Pictured: An excerpt from the poem, ‘Review’ in ANDREW MCEWAN’s If Pressed (BookThug, 2017)

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Super fresh

  NEW STEVE CAREY. ANSELM BERRIGAN. JOSHUA ESCOBAR aka DJ ASHTRAE. LAURA NEUMAN. knife | fork |book

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New and refreshed

NEW CANISIA LUBRIN (Gap Riot) JIM JOHNSTONE (Vehicule) KAREN SOLIE SONNET L’ABBE (Junction) ANDREW MCEWAN (Book*hug) JACQUELYN ROSS (Blank Cheque) MARCUS MCCANN E MARTIN NOLAN (Invisible) DIVYA VICTOR (Book*hug/Fence). CONGRATS to SONNET L’ABBE, CARLETON WILSON and Junction Books, 2017 bpNICHOL Chapbook Award Winners.

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New

  and really pretty.   knife | fork | book thx Kate.