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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

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The poets

@knifeforkbook @bookthug @LawandLit @RicksKensington @itsakirby – I’ll certainly be back soon. Thank you so much for giving poetry a home. — Jimmy McInnes (@JimmyMcInnes) November 18, 2016 Yes, there’s plenty of things to say goodbye to 2016. But, we have dozens, (if not hundreds), of reasons to be thankful. The real story? Since we’ve opened in […]

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Get some

“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 […]

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Riveting

  A breathtaking reading by KATE SUTHERLAND last night. knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY

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“a dreamy oasis”

Recent place settings. knife | fork | book

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A prestigious affair

Our friends at Tightrope Books launch their signature series with a select line-up of poets at Harbourfront this evening.

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Kate [hearts] poetry

] …with a particular penchant for chapbooks. She loves poetry, and her Instagram (@rhinocerospoems) is a treasure trove of covers and finds. In fact, we’ve rarely seen Kate without ‘book-in-hand.’ Her debut collection How to Draw a Rhinoceros (BookThug 2016), combines “Robert Kroetschian documentary poetics with the meticulous research and environmental passion of Elizabeth Kolbert, to […]

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Slow Friday

THIS FRIDAY 7:30PM SLO-POw/ @BartleButts https://t.co/B2668NQFbxreading @peacehearty VIOLET ENERGY INGOTS@WavePoetry @RicksKensington pic.twitter.com/ebhumzbRRI — knifeforkbook (@knifeforkbook) November 28, 2016

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Poet

MAUREEN HYNES at knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY

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Love letter

  I don’t know how or when I met poet Maureen Hynes. I believe she actually met me. Because that’s what Maureen Hynes does. She meets others, greets them, with a geniune decided interest, a curiosity and warmth that includes you, brings you into the fold. I may not remember how or when, but I […]