“PTBR PRIDE… TAKE COVER!”

“Can you smell that… in the air? What is it?” “Pride, baby. Pride.”

KIRBY RETURNS for PETERBOROUGH PRIDE w/Special Guest STEVIE MANNING

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 26TH 7PM TAKE COVER BOOKS

KIRBY’s work includes she (KFB, 2024), Last Licks (Anstruther Press, 2024), Behold (2023), a stage adaption of Poetry is Queer (Palimpsest Press, 2021) What Do You Want to Be Called? (Anstruther Press, 2020) & This Is Where I Get Off (Permanent Sleep Press, 2019). Their column, “The First Time” is a regular feature at Send My Love To Anyone. They are the publisher at knife | fork | book.

Stevie Manning lives in Toronto, where they write poetry and work as a barber. Their debut chapbook, Joan Would Say, is out now from KFB.

KIRBY Behold

“How is it you and I are both still alive?”

Before the pandemic, I was rendering a stage adaption of THIS IS WHERE I GET OFF, slated to workshop that summer. Now expanded to include new writing, I’m giving a series of intimate staged readings this winter to benefit KFB.

Like most everything I’ve written, it’s a romance. – KIRBY

KIRBY Behold

Four intimate workshop performances to benefit knife | fork | book

An audience of ten per performance in a downtown Toronto living room setting. Address/es instructions will be shared with ticket holders on the morning of the performance; Approximate running time 1 hour 30 minutes.

TICKETS NOW ON SALE SOLD OUT

20-23 January 2023 7PM SOLD OUT [Thank you!]

Limited Edition BEHOLD Poster & Pamphlet also available.