NO PRESS is proud to announce the publication of
PREMIEREMENT / Firstly
by Paul Éluard
in new English translation by Ross Belot and Sara Burand
PUBLISHED IN AN EDITION OF 60 COPIES, only 20 of which are for sale through the publisher.
$10US (including postage)
to order your copy email derek@housepress.ca
From the translators’ afterword:
“Premièrement, firstly, that which comes first, preceding everything else. For Éluard, love. Love coupled with the word, the image, poetry which reaches for words to embody the experience of loving, to draw it down from the cosmos into the body. “My love having shaped my desires/Set your lips like a comet in the sky of your words.” Mon amour, my love, both my beloved and my loving, the other and that which the other calls forth from the speaker: L’Amour, la poésie, the title of the collection in which this poetic sequence first appeared.”
Paul Éluard (1895-1952), born Eugene Émile Paul Grindel, was a French poet instrumental in the Surrealist movement, which he later abandoned for the French Communist Party. The more than seventy books he published included poetry, literary and political works.
Ross Belot and Sara Burant have been translating Paul Éluard’s 1932 French Surrealist collection La Vie immédiate. Their translations have appeared in journals including Denver Quarterly, Delos, Ezra, and World Poetry Review. TOgether they are the editorial team at The Transformation Review.
| L’Atelier Michael Woolworth et Double Change sont heureux de vous inviter le mercredi 24 juin à 19h à une lecture de Derek Beaulieu Isabelle Garron Alan Gilbert Karla Kelsey Atelier Michael Woolworth 2 rue de la Roquette, cour Février 75011 Paris http://www.michaelwoolworth.com/ www.doublechange.org Biographies : Canada’s premier concrete poet, Derek Beaulieu is the author/editor of twenty-seven collections of poetry, prose, and criticism. His most recent book is Do It Wrong: How to be a Poet in the 21st Century and he is also author a, A Novel (Jean Boîte Editions, 2017). Beaulieu received the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal for his dedication to Canadian literature and the Robert Kroetsch Award for excellence in innovative pedagogy and teaching practice. He is the only graduate from the University of Calgary’s Department of English to receive the Faculty of Arts ‘Celebrated Alumni Award’ and the only graduate in creative writing to receive Roehampton University’s Chancellor’s Alumni Award. Beaulieu is the Director of Literary Arts at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, dedicated to the creation of community-based studio space for international authors across genre. Isabelle Garron est poète, critique, traductrice (parfois) de l’anglais et professeure à l’Institut Polytechnique de Paris. Elle publie ses premiers livres de poèmes aux Cahiers de la Seine entre 2000 et 2002, puis une trilogie dans la collection Poésie-Flammarion, Face devant contre (2002), Qu’il faille (2007), Corps fut (2011). Dernièrement elle a publié Bras vif (Flammarion 2018) et Le poème tangent, une geste (Flammarion 2026), qui marque un nouvel engagement dans son écriture poétique traversée par une quête de l’effacement. Isabelle Garron questionne la forme du poème en tant qu’objet et expérience du langage mais aussi dans son rapport aux arts visuels. Tout d’abord avec l’œuvre de Jacques Dupin, puis avec la réédition à l’identique de la Lucarne ovale (1916) de Pierre Reverdy au THTY (2000). Elle a également été critique pour la revue Action Poétique et pour l’émission de Jean Daive Peinture Fraîche. Avec Yves di Manno, elle a co-dirigé le volume anthologique Un nouveau Monde, Poésies en France (1960-2010) (Flammarion 2017). Ses livres ont été traduits : Face Before Against (tr. Sarah Riggs, Litmus Press, 2008) et Body Was (tr. Elena Riveira, Litums Press, 2021). Avec Tracy Grinnell, elle a traduit Way de Leslie Scalapino (Corti 2020). Elle prépare actuellement un essai de poïétique, Le temps de la prose, à paraitre à la fin de cette année aux éditions Hermann, dans la collection recherche-création. Alan Gilbert is the author of four books of poetry, including the ongoing epic poem, The Everyday Life of Design, along with The Treatment of Monuments and Late in the Antenna Fields. He is also the author of a collection of essays, articles, and reviews entitled Another Future: Poetry and Art in a Postmodern Twilight. His poems and writings on poetry and art have appeared in a wide range of journals, magazines, and websites. He is the website editor for BOMB Magazine and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Columbia University MFA Writing Program. Karla Kelsey is the author of five books of poetry, most recently On Certainty; Of Sphere, a book-length essay; and the poet’s novel, Transcendental Factory: For Mina Loy. She is also the editor of Lost Writings: Two Novels by Mina Loy, published by Yale University Press. Recent writing can be found in Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, and Annulet. The recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, Karla has taught in Budapest and is currently on faculty of Susquehanna University. www.doublechange.org |
No Press is proud to announce the publication of Stuart Ross and Jason Camlot’s Shooky Session 7 Han King’s The White Book 18 December 24, Jason’s Basement … the latest volume in Ross & Camlot’s ongoing series of collaborative books.
Published in an edition of 50 handbound copies (only 25 of which are available from the press), Shooky Session 7 is available for $6US including postage … order your copy by emailing derek@housepress.ca!
It was a great night on Thursday as I was joined by Kevin Stebner, Kyle Flemmer, and host Iheoma Uzomba, and a lovely audience in celebration of the launch of DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21ST CENTURY — fabulous conversation, laughter, debate. Big thanks to the staff at Shelf Life Books!
CBC Books has named Do It Wrong: How to be a Poet in the Twenty-first Century as one of the “50+ Canadian nonfiction titles we’re excited about this spring“
