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FUCK THE CONFORMITY

squares. Fuck conformity, / the fear of being weird and free “I toss every laurel, prize, bouquet, coin, belly laughs and cries at their feet, the flames of these poet’s hearts & tongues, lick, lash, lacerate, love… saturate my pores. Every page, every poem, every phrase/line to be revisited again, again. Not only on the […]

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“May you be free of suffering.”

Homecoming. Poet ROXANNA BENNETT returns to KFB with her second full-length collection, UNMEANINGABLE, part of the launch debut of the new Gordon Hill Press. Bennett’s KFB chapbook, Unseen Garden was recently nominated for the bpNichol Chapbook Award, here more grandly realized in what poet Hoa Nguyen describes as “An astonishing collection.” KFB created a numbered […]

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“more fluid, less (f)rigid”

Q: With two full-length collections (including your forthcoming Gordon Hill Press title) as well as a chapbook [UNSEEN GARDEN, knife fork book, 2018] under your belt, how do you feel your work has developed? Where do you see your work headed? BENNETT: I think it’s developed less concern with being ‘correct’: are all the commas […]

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Adam Sol reads/recommends Bennett’s “UNSEEN GARDEN”

ROXANNA BENNETT's "UNSEEN GARDEN" NOW AVAILABLE ON E-BOOK at SHOP KFB https://t.co/cllOsaBMlJ PREORDER BENNETT's NEW @gordonhillpress "UNMEANINGABLE" https://t.co/sLxCXdk0Ts pic.twitter.com/jIrlFSfjdB — knifeforkbook (@knifeforkbook) April 18, 2019

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SHOP KFB eBOOKS NOW AVAILABLE

  BENNETT UNSEEN GARDEN TURNER WE’RE NOT GOING TO DO BETTER NEXT TIME STINTZI THE MACHETE TOURIST GARFINKEL BOCIANY (STORKS) SMITH SONS KIRBY SHE’S HAVING A DORIS DAY NOW AVAILABLE AS eBOOKS at shopKFB ON SALE TODAY $6/each

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PARISIEN “WE, OLD YOUNG ONES” LAUNCH at b current

THIS SAT | KFB OFFSITE KFB celebrates DOMINIK PARISIEN WE, OLD YOUNG ONES (FROG HOLLOW PRESS) LAUNCH W/MUGABI BYENKYA + ROXANNA BENNETT Hosted by TERESE PIERRE SATURDAY FEBRUARY 9TH 3PM B CURRENT (WYCHWOOD BARNS) 601 CHRISTIE STREET b current is located at Wychwood Barns, in the basement. It is wheelchair accessible, with elevator access and accessible gender neutral washrooms. MUGABI BYENKYA is […]

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Today’s sampling menu

  But a sampling of what you’ll find at the shop today, including our FEATURED BOOK for JANUARY: ROXANNA BENNETT’s THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE, half-off with any other in-store purchase. See you at the shop.  OPEN TUES – SAT 1-5:30PM  knife | fork | book

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Seen

As a publisher, each book should feel like, “If we do nothing else, we’ve done this.” ROXANNA BENNETT reads from UNSEEN GARDEN, AbleHamilton Poetry Collective at TYPE Junction, last night. Thank you, Roxanna. Photos: KIRBY

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KFB WHITBY

TONIGHT! ROXANNA BENNETT UNSEEN GARDEN KIRBY SHE’S HAVING A DORIS DAY MONDAY JUNE 18TH WHITBY PUBLIC LIBRARY CENTRAL BRANCH DOORS 7PM FREE ALL ACCESS ROXANNA BENNETT IS A DISABLED POET AND THE AUTHOR OF THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE  (TIGHTROPE BOOKS, 2014) AND UNSEEN GARDEN (KNIFE | FORK | BOOK, 2018). HER WORK HAS APPEARED IN BITCH MAGAZINE, SLICE MAGAZINE, THE DALHOUSIE REVIEW, […]

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4 days in June

“This is a powerful, essential, book that should be read by all, to understand the unofficial truth of a war in any country where ‘the Watchtowers lying awake / on the face of the sea / do not rest.’” —Michael Ondaatje KFB [EXTENDED] WEEKEND  JUNE 15TH  4 J’s  JIMMY MCINNES | JAMES LINDSAY | JOHN NYMAN | JIM JOHNSTONE JUNE 16TH  MAWENZI […]