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New & refreshed

A few pretties in store. knife | fork | book

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Threesome

Our first threesome.@cpmcaldwell @purlpoet @michaelprior06 JAN 19TH#ThursNightPoets@RicksKensington #poetry #bookshop #toronto pic.twitter.com/8ftPoeqNk8 — knifeforkbook (@knifeforkbook) January 8, 2017

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EUPHONIA

#ThursNightPoets returns January 12th with the LAUNCH of CHAD CAMPBELL EUPHONIA and a second third printing of DANI COUTURE BLACK SEA NETTLE from ANSTRUTHER PRESS THURSDAY JANUARY 12TH knife | fork | book @ Rick’s Cafe | 281 Augusta Avenue | Kensington Market Doors open 6:30PM | Poetry 7-ish CHAD CAMPBELL‘s first collection, Laws & Locks, was published by […]

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2017 January 20

“Sixty-one years of military operation names read by sixty-one writers, artists, activists, students and veterans around the world. The night will be a communal protest against imperialism, occupation and bellicose nationalism.” MOEZ SURANI “After reading (and re-reading) MOEZ SURANI’s Operations, I simply knew I wanted to have it read aloud, in its entirety, January 20th at […]

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“Buckle-up darlings…”

…there may be some turbulence ahead. And remember, place your own oxygen mask on first before attending to others.” 01/12 DANI COUTURE + CHAD CAMPBELL 01/13 SLO-PO with DAVID BRADFORD 01/19 CLAIRE CALDWELL  +  LAURA K McRAE + MICHAEL PRIOR 01/20 MOEZ SURANI ةيلمع Operación Opération Operation 行 动 Oперация 01/26 CONCETTA PRINCIPE + RONNA BLOOM 02/02 AARON KREUTER  +  JIM NASON 02/03 wQr Reading Series with JEFF KIRBY 02/16 KATE SCHAPIRA +  AARON […]

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“We are for fervour.”

“The heart allows us because we bring the words to its door… The heart is wise.” from SHANE NEILSON THE MANIFESTO OF FERVOURISM.  A Ryga Chapbook, 2015. Okanagan College.

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Mallemaroking

If you pressed me to say why I loved him, I feel that it cannot be expressed, except by replying, because it was him and because it was me.  Michel de Montaigne   Mallemaroking with my oldest and dearest, Joseph. Babushkas. Hello 2017.  knife | fork | book

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What keeps me here

  Anansi. Anthuser. Apt.9. Arsenal Pulp. Baseline. BookThug. Brick. Canadian Magazines. Coach House. Coffee House. Copper Canyon. Desert Pets Press. Dumagrad. Fellow independent booksellers. Frog Hollow. Gaspereau. Gesture. Goose Lane. Guernica Editions. Invisible. Krupskaya. Mansfield. Metatron. The Operating System. Palimpsest. Pedlar. Porcupine’s Quill. Puddles of Sky. Self-publishers. Signature Editions. The Song Cave. Sunny Outside. Thee […]

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O YEAH!!!

My favorite self-descriptor is still “reader.” And don’t you find “curator” is so overused these days that it almost demands air quotation marks. I see myself more as the old KoolAid pitcher who busts through the walls championing poets and poetry. (“O YEAH!!!”). knife fork book‘s JEFF KIRBY interviewed by LYNNE DESILVA-JOHNSON of The Operating […]

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“Rock with you

What rocked our world this year? @knifeforkbook did! Thank you to @itsakirby for being a true champion of #poetry! https://t.co/JjXDTsX1tm — BookThug (@bookthug) December 20, 2016   girl, all night”  knife | fork | book