
ICYMI: download a PDF and link to all of the critical responses to my out-of-print 2007 book flatland: a romance of many dimensions (York, UK: information as material).
“As the Greenbergian modernists proclaimed the flatness of the canvas, so derek beaulieu reduces the page to a flat plane. The result is a new kind of flatness-call it non-illusionistic literature — a depthless fiction, one where image and narrative is reduced to line and shadow. In the great tradition of Picabia, beaulieu creates a perfect work of mechanical writing with one foot in the concrete poetic past and another in the flat screen future.”— Kenneth Goldsmith
- Gregory Betts’ review of Flatland (Lemonhound)
- Jesse Ferguson’s review of Flatland (Matrix)
- Chris Ewart’s review of Flatland and Local Colour (PDF) (Poetic Front)
- Sina Queyras discusses Flatland (Lemonhound)
- Christian Bok’s review of Flatland (Poetry Foundation Harriet Blog)
- Jakob Lien discusses Flatland (Sensorium) [in Swedish]
- Flatland (18 MB PDF) as available on UBU