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Big river

  RITA WONG & FRED WAH BEHOLDEN a poem as long as the river from Talonbooks

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“It’s Friday night.”

Grateful for voices in/against the dark last night @knifeforkbook, for their “social forces, like a woman using a staircase.” The energies of that space and those poets are food for the weekend… — brandy ryan (@bonthebrink) April 14, 2018 “I’m on my way to see Daphne Marlatt read at @knifeforkbook,” This opening line will remain […]

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MARLATT STRANG ENG NICHOLSON BURDICK

k | f | b  THIS FRIDAY + SATURDAY “Intertidal is the breathtaking shoreline of forty years of poetic practice. Daphne Marlatt has, more than any other Canadian poet, sustained an osmosis with poetic language that is profound in its attention to the literal and the littoral. Her perception of the adjacency of words and syllables […]

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Atremble

your inane orators and their rhetoric / that flows with the blood of others / beyond our frigid roads and rivers / your bedraggled buffoons who speak truth / Beings the colours of butterflies / slurping up the disturbing sweat / and elbow grease of my alchemy / extracting the quintessence of everything / Yes, […]

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GTMF

Light of my life, remember / that warm February morning / that charming carcass / on the cracked ice k | f | b FRIDAYS | THIS FRIDAY GARRY THOMAS MORSE SAFETY SAND (Talonbooks) TORONTO LAUNCH with special guest poet SONIA DI PLACIDO FRIDAY JANUARY 26TH knife | fork | book at The Dark Side Studio, […]

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Table setting

Poet’s feast. DANIELLE LAFRANCE  + ANAHITA JAMALI RAD Last night.  knife | fork | fork Special thanks to our good friends Joseph & Leo at ORBITAL ARTS GALLERY (275 Augusta Ave) for the providing the perfect venue. k | f | b UPCOMING SEPT 30  MARK GOLDSTEIN | PHIL HALL | ERIN MOURE | BEAUTIFUL OUTLAW PRESS LAUNCH at Orbital Arts Gallery […]

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On fire

THURSDAY NIGHT POETS DANIELLE LAFRANCE ANAHITA JAMALI RAD THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 21ST knife | fork | book Off-site at Orbital Arts Gallery | 275 Augusta Ave | Kensington Market | Toronto Doors open 6:30PM | Poetry 7-ish  Access: Wheelchair accessible. No public washrooms. DANIELLE LAFRANCE is a poet, librarian, and militant. Since 1983 she has mostly resided […]

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And then

The unexpected pleasure of a visit with 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize Winner JORDAN ABEL.  knife | fork | book Photo: KIRBY [click on image to enlarge]

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‘all the days of my life’

  SARAH PINDER, TARA-MICHELLE ZINIUK, and R. KOLEWE last night at knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY

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Uncommon

  THIS THURSDAY | THURSDAY NIGHT POETS SARAH PINDER TARA-MICHELLE ZINIUK R. KOLEWE JUNE 8TH SPECIAL GUEST HOST : NORMAN NEHMETALLAH knife | fork | book at Rick’s Cafe | 281 Augusta Avenue | Kensington Market | Toronto Doors 6:30  Poetry 7-ish SARAH PINDER is the author of Cutting Room (Coach House Books, 2012) and Common Place […]