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“And then she started to read…”

Poet, ANNA MOSCHOVAKIS, live and in colour, last night @ knife | fork | book Thanks to all who had the good fortune to attend. Photos: KIRBY UPCOMING: 11/02 JONATHAN GARFINKEL  11/03 KILBY SMITH MCGREGOR + ROXANNA BENNETT

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Saturday Night Poetry

You have your axes   What, precisely, is your procedure? from [The challenge: to start] by Anna Moschovakis   They and We Will Get into Trouble for This opens with the line, “I don’t know a thing about paradise,” an opening gesture that tempers faux curiosity as much as it disavows the setting of paradise. It is also […]

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It’s tonight

  Doors open at 6:30. Reading 7-ish.

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“…and what a glorious place it is.”

The thing that made me especially giddy was the number of chapbooks not just present but beautifully displayed. Poet, KATE SUTHERLAND, whose new collection, How to Draw A Rhinoceros (BookThug) launches at Toronto’s temple of books, Ben McNally’s, November 4th, graced our shop this week past and wrote a lovely piece about her visit as […]

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On the highwire

A few of our favourite titles/poets from Tightrope Books, including their signature, THE BEST CANADIAN POETRY 2016 (in English) series*,  EMILY POHL-WEARY‘s Ghost Sick (recently shortlisted for the Fred Cogswell Award), and ROXANNA BENNETT’s The Uncertainty Principle, reading here, NOVEMBER 3RD (with KILBY SMITH-MCGREGOR). *Launching at IFOA HARBOURFRONT, November 30th.

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Aglow

Evening. Kensington.  knife | fork | book

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New love

Late Afternoon. Reading Patrick Phillips. Elegy for a Broken Machine (Knopf, 2015.) Photos: KIRBY

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…and nights

Reading Barthes, via Ondaatje, via Maggie Nelson. OPEN FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS UNTIL 9PM knife | fork | book @ Rick’s Cafe | 281 Augusta Avenue | Kensington Market   HOA NGUYEN’S VIOLET ENERGY INGOTS LAUNCHES OCTOBER 27TH @kfb

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Days like these

  Plenty.  knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY

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Changed

“I let a man touch me until I bled/ Until my blood met his hunger/ And so was changed.” JERICHO BROWN The New Testament (Copper Canyon Press)