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This.

  You don’t know where to begin. I don’t know where to end. kathryn mockler water the puritan   Find copies of her equally brilliant, SOME THEORIES, here. Photo: KIRBY

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Poet’s house

  “One of the coolest places in the city to read.” – DJB DANI COUTURE  DAVID JAMES BROCK  ANNICK MACASKILL on a Friday night.  knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY  

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Unabashedly QUEER

Toronto’s best source for #LGBTQ poetry.  knife | fork | book

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The Listening

Relax. This specific emptiness (the desert’s) is not about you, it’s about nobody, but not about you specifically   JARED STANLEY, EARS (Nightboat Books)   Last night’s rendezvous with poetry, poets BEN MEYERSON HOLCOCENE and JARED STANLEY conjure, mesmerize.  knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY

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New rare

  Marlatt. Robertson. Hall. McFadden. Ball. New. Rare.  knife | fork | book Yes, we welcome preloved poetry books/chapbooks/ephemera donations. We can also assist in weeding your collection and pick-up downtown GTA. Contact us at knifeforkbook@gmail.com  

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June

  JUNE 1  JARED STANLEY  | BEN MEYERSON   JUNE 8   DANI COUTURE | DAVID JAMES BROCK | ANNICK MACASKILL NO MEETING WITHOUT BODY (GASPEREAU PRESS) TORONTO LAUNCH  SAT JUNE 9 ADÈLE BARCLAY  | A. LIGHT ZACHARY  | CANISIA LUBRIN | MARCELA HUERTA  JUNE 15  JIMMY MCINNES | JAMES LINDSAY | JOHN NYMAN | JIM JOHNSTONE  SAT JUNE 16  MAWENZI HOUSE SHOWCASE  ARCHNA SAHNI | GEETHA SUKUMARA  SUN JUNE 17  KIRBY | OAKVILLE LITERARY CAFE | JOSHUA CREEK ART CENTRE GALLERY 4PM  MON JUNE 18  KFB in […]

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All ears

I like to think of JARED STANLEY’s Ears as a friendly rejoinder to Frank O’Hara’s “Personism,” a brilliant collegial corrective that places the poem not between two persons but just simply between, as open to the gritty wind off the Nevada desert as to the spy novels and hot wings of the anthropocene. Indeed, for Stanley, the […]

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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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Tuesdays, or ‘Poets Day’

Days like these. Tuesdays.  knife | fork | book Pictured: Poets, Ben-Adar  Jaclyn Piudik  Walter Barclay  Bänoo Zan  Andrew Winchur  Andrew Whiteman Photos: Kirby

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Essential Eckes

From the new book of poetry General Motors by Ryan Eckes pic.twitter.com/0qqSdA0uRW — anne boyer (@anne_boyer) April 23, 2018 RYAN ECKES GENERAL MOTORS is to the bone essential…adamant green cracking through pavement. – Kirby Available, print on demand, here. Photo: KIRBY