NO PRESS is pleased to host an evening of readings and performances in celebration of four new chapbooks.

November 13, 2010 7:30pm | Pages Books on Kensington | Calgary

These small, affordable, books are published in strictly limited editions and feature new and collaborative poetry by established and emerging poetic voices. The event will feature short readings by:

Oana Avasilichioaei is the 2010-2011 Markin-Flanagan writer in residence, and author of Abandon and feria: a poempark. Avasilichioaei will launch her new chapbook, SPELLES.

Natalie Simpson, is past editor of filling Station and author of Accrete or Crumble. Simpson will launch her new chapbook, SMASH SWIZZLE FIZZ.

Paul William Zits just completed his masters thesis at the University of Calgary in creative writing. His new chapbook is a poetic exploration of the language used around the Frog Lake Massacre. Zits will launch his new chapbook, MASSACRE STREET.

For more information contact Pages books or no press publisher derek beaulieu at derek@housepress.ca.

No press is proud to announce the publication of The Afternoon of a Faun by Stephane Mallarme, as translated by Andrei Molotiu in side-by-side translation.

The Afternoon of a Faun is Andrei Molotiu’s translation of Mallarme’s classic text, allowing for swerves in meaning and expansion of possibilities within the form and narrative of the original.

Published in an edition of 50 handbound copies (20 of which are for sale), The Afternoon of a Faun is available for $4 (shipping included). To order, please contact derek beaulieu.

No press is proud to announce the publication of BLASTogenesis by Gregory Betts.

Blastogenesis is one form of viral reproduction wherein growth of select parts accelerate until they break away and become themselves new, independent organisms with identical or more significantly different characteristics from the original. Sometimes an out-growth becomes
antagonistic to its source. The Three Words per Poem project tracks the mutation from harvesting personal data for profit unconsciously to inviting personal participation for poetry consciously. The short story was written in response to the media coverage of events in Toronto leading up to the G8 and G20 summits in July 2010. Parts of the story were printed out and posted to various parts of Toronto during the G20 protests by people associated with the Poetic Interventions Project.

Published in an edition of 50 handbound copies (20 of which are for sale), BLASTogenesis is available for $4 (shipping included). To order, please contact derek beaulieu.

No press is proud to announce the publication of NAMING For Betsey by Lawrence Upton.

NAMING For Betsey is a beautiful visual poetry score for performance in 5 frames

Published in an edition of 40 handbound copies (20 of which are for sale), NAMING For Betsey is available for $4 (shipping included). To order, please contact derek beaulieu.

No press is proud to announce the publication of Massacre Street by Paul William Zits.

Massacre Street is a poetic engagement with the primary documents around the Frog Lake Massacre.

Published in an edition of 70 handbound copies (35 of which are for sale),  Massacre Street is available for $4 (shipping included). To order, please contact derek beaulieu.

No press is proud to announce the publication of A Brief Excerpt From the Community Novel DEATH VALLEY as compiled by Jake Kennedy & kevin mcpherson eckhoff.

Published in an edition of 100 copies, this 1-fold (4-page) leaflet is available for $1 (shipping included). To order, please contact derek beaulieu.

No press is proud to announce the re-release of CROWNS CREEK by Steven Ross Smith and Steve McCaffery.

Originally published in 1978 by anonbeyond press in an edition of 100 signed and numbered copies, this text has been out of print ever since.

The No press edition is limited to 100 copies (of which 40 are for sale) and is designed to mimic the original edition. Each copy is $5 (shipping included). To order, please contact derek beaulieu.

Addendum: Stephen Cain has just reviewed this edition of Crowns Creek.