NO PRESS is proud to announce the publication of “surprising poetry” by Judith Copithorne, one of the pioneer Canadian Concrete poets. Published in an edition of 100 copies, this leaflet will be available at readings (and via the post) through-out the spring; keep an eye out!
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rob mclennan’s above/ground press has just published
The publication of bill bissett’s Rush: what fuckan theory; a study of language in 1972 firmly ushered Canadian poetics into the postmodern era. Out of print for 40 years – and reissued here complete with an interview with bissett about the book’s creation and a critical afterword by derek beaulieu and Gregory Betts – Rush embodies a collagist, multi-conscious approach to art that recognizes no division between the work and the world, the author and his sexuality, his breath, his influences; the theory and the practice. Arguing that “a new line has startid,” Rush captures the urgency of a new model of production that resists the closure and mastery of any one mind. It is an elegant rejection of aesthetic ego and all presumptions of authority. Rush: what fuckan theory; a study of language is a vital, vocal protest against business as usual and the exploitation of the individual from one of Canada’s most important avant-garde poets.
bill bissett opened Canadian poetry to postmodernism and from there proceeded in every direction all at once. Since his invention of the blewointment press in 1963, bissett has worked diligently to explode all boundaries of author, text, and context, radically disrupting static and disciplinary modes of art making. Read, taught, studied, and imitated all around the world, he now lives in Toronto, painting and writing somewhere between painting and poetry.
derek beaulieu is the author of nine books of poetry and conceptual fiction, editor of the acclaimed small presses housepress and No Press. He is an instructor at Mount Royal University and the Alberta College of Art + Design.
Gregory Betts is the Director of Canadian Studies and the Graduate Program Director of Canadian and American Studies at Brock University. He is the author of five books of poetry, and the editor of four books of experimental Canadian writing.
112 pages | 7×10 inches | paperback
ISBN 9781927040416
EPUB ISBN 9781927040454
Austrian visual artist and concrete poet Anatol Knotek has just completed this portrait of yours truly entirely with pencil letter forms and dry-transfer lettering. More about Knotek’s can be found here, and his work is also online through UBUWeb’s visual poetry section.
No Press is proud to announce the publication of
THE NOBLE GASES
By Eric Zboya
The Noble Gases is excerpted from a larger manuscript entitled “The Periodic Table” in which Zboya represents every element in a braille-influenced representation of each element’s name and atomic layout. A minimal, elegrant suite of visual poems.
Published in a limited edition of 50 copies (25 of which are for sale) each copy is printed on linen paper and handbound.
Copies are available for $3.00 each (including postage).
To order, please contact derek beaulieu
Gregory Betts has just chosen Prose of the Trans Canada as his recommendation of the year for the 2011 Advent Book Blog.
Chris Turnbull, the editor of Rout/e magazine has just included a visual poem of mine as part of a poetic route. Turnbull wrote that my poem was planted “along the Dwyer Hill entrance point to Marlborough Forest.”
My poem “edges the first water section of the trail. It is often near flooded, the left and right sides of the swamp (track bisecting) quite dramatically different. It’s one of the first places the geese return to, and [Turnbull has] sighted blandings turtles (endangered), water snakes, marsh wrens, and muskrat in abundance. And, of course, frogs among other things.”
Better co-ordinates soon, but “if you go to Google Earth, to Dwyer Hill, locate roughly half way between Flood Road and Heaphy Road and head for the chunk of obvious water. The trail is unobservable…”
The selection at UBUWEB: VISUAL POETRY has just grown with the addition of new and historical work by Shaunt Basmajian, Bob Cobbing, Michael Jacobson, Cecilie Jordheim, Louis Luthi, Robert Majzels, Heidi Neilson, Barbara O’Connelly, ottar ormstad, Carl Fredrik Reutersward, Luigi Serafini and Nico Vassilakis. Also included is a brief selection of work by bpNichol, an overview of Martin Vaughn-James’ visual narratives and a 1966 anthology which juxtaposes Marshall McLuhan’s work next to avant-garde practitioners.
As part of my on-going “Abstract Language” column at Abstract Comics: The Blog, in October I discussed Mark Laliberte’s 2010 collection brickbrickbrick. For November, I’ve posted a brief discussion of bpNichol’s Konfessions of an Elizabethan Fan Dancer.
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