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The music of thinking. The thinking of music. FRED WAH Music at the Heart of Thinking (Talonbooks) is a lifelong poem project that responds to readings in contemporary writing, art, and ideas from the past forty years. The text works through language as the true practice of thought, and improvisation as the tool that listens […]
KFB FRIDAYS | THIS FRIDAY …so beautiful I wanted to capture you, pin you to me forever Here’s the story. I had just finished (and was blown away by) Linda Frank’s Divided, that very same week poet Ross Belot comes in, introduces himself and I share this with him, he says, “O, I’m a good […]
The remarkable occasion when an evening accomplishes exactly what it set out to do. A seamless forty minutes of poetic interplay between AARON BOOTHBY, CANISIA LUBRIN, and KLARA DU PLESSIS, (a full, appreciative house, spellbound), meticulously crafted and hosted by du Plessis. Beautiful indeed. knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY
THIS #KFBFRIDAYS Doors 6:30 Poetry 7 Poet KLARA DU PLESSIS (“Ekke” @PalimpsestPress ‘One of the year’s best.’ @itsakirby) has curated a special evening at KFB w/ fellow poets @canisialu and @ellipticalnight #ONENIGHTONLY https://t.co/bDHZ0ZKmnT k | f | b#poweredbypoets pic.twitter.com/HAhZlzjqWK — knifeforkbook (@knifeforkbook) August 23, 2018 I’ve been toying with the idea of curating a reading […]
Learn what you need and more importantly, what you don’t. – Ariel Gordon There was much to be gleaned from last night’s illuminating, powerfully intimate, moving conversation between poets TANIS MACDONALD and JACOB MCARTHUR MOONEY at the Toronto launch of OUT OF LINE: Daring To Be An Artist Outside the Big City (Wolsak & Wynn) MacDonald’s […]
KFB FRIDAYS | THIS FRIDAY What if we practised creative community not in some unseeable future with imaginary circumstances, but right here, gloriously out of line? TANIS MACDONALD Out of Line: Daring to Be an Artist Outside the Big City (Wolsak & Wynn) w/ Special Guest JACOB MCARTHUR MOONEY FRIDAY AUGUST 17TH knife | fork | book […]
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) […]
FRIDAY JULY 6TH CATHERINE & KATHLEEN CATHERINE GRAHAM | KATHLEEN MCCRACKEN CATHERINE GRAHAM’s sixth poetry collection The Celery Forest (Wolsak & Wynn, Buckrider Books) is a CBC Books Top 10 Canadian Poetry Collection of 2017 and appears on their Ultimate Canadian Poetry List. KATHLEEN McCRACKEN is a Canadian poet and academic. She is the author of seven collections of poetry […]
MARCELA HUERTA | A. LIGHT ZACHARY | CANISIA LUBRIN | ADÈLE BARCLAY All on a Saturday Night. knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY
“One of the coolest places in the city to read.” – DJB DANI COUTURE DAVID JAMES BROCK ANNICK MACASKILL on a Friday night. knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY
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