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Come here. Come here. Come here. Come here. Kearney’s prosody is miraculous. Explosive double beats launch the lines or hit the break like a hi-hat. Slant rhymes suggest infinite puns, but Kearney sometimes downshifts from complexity and just cruises around the neighborhood. Formalism as syncopation and signification: I can’t think of another writer as gifted as […]
2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER FOR POETRY DON MEE CHOI DMZ COLONY [WAVE BOOKS 083]
This winter, poet HOA NGUYEN returns to FRED WAH with a pair of writing workshops in support of knife | fork | book “Verse, prose, verse-prose: multi-referential yet playful. It is a book of poetics as poem as reality-expanding creative possibility. In a sequence written across books and forty years, MHT is a poetics of […]
KFB RECOMMENDS Something to relish every page. – KIRBY, knife | fork | book ANSELM BERRIGAN SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY WAVE BOOKS, 2018
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ANNE BOYER A HANDBOOK OF DISSAPOINTED FATE (UGLY DUCKLING) on order ANNICK MACASKILL NO MEETING WITHOUT BODY (GASPEREAU) on order KLARA DU PLESSIS EKKE (PALIMPSEST) in store JIM JOHNSTONE ed. THE NEXT WAVE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF 21ST CENTURY CANADIAN POETRY (ANSTRUTHER) in store AMANDA JERNIGAN YEARS, MONTHS, DAYS (BIBLIOASIS) in store ERIC SCHMALTZ SURFACES (INVISIBLE) […]
…a couch of friends’ faces smeared in a gleaming silver crown. CEDAR SIGO Royals (Wave Poetry, 2017) Find it here. knife | fork | book
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TORONTO! @peacehearty reads w/ @kimberlya TOMORROW, WED JUL 26 7PM(ish), @knifeforkbook, come on out! https://t.co/AFp8MOx8B1 pic.twitter.com/GukIMNPLVf — Wave Books (@WavePoetry) July 25, 2017
An informal ‘pre-Griffin’ gathering celebration amongst friends. See you at the prom. knife | fork | book
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