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Next stop

  I know there’s nothing special about me being here; I see the same things as all the others, exclaim the same compliments. But here in a warm wood-panelled bar, I’ll pound my hand on the table, press my shirt to my chest, and declare, solemnly and without irony, that I too could live here. […]

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Poetry Sunday Poetry

  CHUS PATO and ERIN MOURE fill our Sunday afternoon with poetry (and the love of) at Secession/Insecession Launch yesterday. knife | fork | book Thanks to VERSeFest (Ottawa), Hazel and Jay, BookThug, Dylan, Drew, and Rick (Rick’s Cafe) and all who attended. Photos: KIRBY

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Filling

THURSDAY NIGHT POETS I was down 2 quarts. Now I am full. A thoroughly gratifying evening of poetry/reading with STEVE MEAGHER and STUART ROSS last night at knife | fork | book UP NEXT at KFB: March 26th ERIN MOURE  CHUS PATO Secession / Insecession TORONTO BOOK LAUNCH (NOTE: Sunday 3-5PM). March 30th  JULIE CAMERON GRAY | NYLA MATUK. March 31st METATRON SHOWCASE. […]

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Sunday with Chus and Erin

  Erín: Our lives have crossed in poetry and in translation for over a decade. My wish in translating your work is and was always to invite you into my Canadian poetic culture, so as to perturb it, open new challenges, demonstrate how your work is critical in my own practice of poetry and poetics. […]

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  STEVE MEAGHER   THIS WEEK | THURSDAY NIGHT POETS STUART ROSS + STEVE MEAGHER MARCH 23RD Doors 6:30 Poetry 7-ish Copywright 2017. Steve Meagher

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Small, but mighty

We are so pleased (okay, tickled pink) that our good friends at Coach House Books selected knife | fork | book to host poet LISA ROBERTSON for her March 2017 Tour stop in Toronto. We wish we could accommodate all who plan to attend Monday night, and we do have a capacity. Here’s how it will […]

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Gathering

“What is a man without a mother?” – Henry Israeli God’s Breath Hovering Across The Waters DAVID BRADFORD, TIMOTHY LIU, and HENRY ISRAELI last night at knife | fork | book Special thanks: Hoa Nguyen, Leora, and Isobel. Photos: KIRBY

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Superb

  The indescribable joy at celebrating the new. Congrats to JENNY HAYSOM & NEIL SURKAN at the launch of their new chapbooks from Anstruther Press. knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY

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“Come. What are you waiting for?”

THIS WEEK | THURSDAY NIGHT POETS HENRY ISRAELI | TIMOTHY LIU | DAVID BRADFORD MARCH 16TH Doors 6:30 Poetry 7-ish