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

CDN Warren manipulates 8 of my poems in APERTURE to create “VENT: 8 Abominations for Derek Beaulieu“, a series of remixed visual poems, each building on the original in surprising ways (thank you so much!)

Sal Nunchakov transforms a excerpt from my chapbook “Extispicium” into Waving at Derek, a trio of beautifully manipulated visual images in the latest issue of Anamorphoseis – check it out!

So pleased to have a small bundle of buttons/badges depicting one of my visual poems, courtesy Angie Butler at the Centre for Print Research (thank you!); I’ll be giving them away to good homes of course!

Now available from Puddles of Sky Press: One Simple Symmetry & Nine Variations

One Simple Symmetry & Nine Variations is a suite of visual poems. The original is Letraset on paper and the pieces that follow are photocopy manipulations, each creating a fluid, liquid response to the strict symmetry of the original, moving the formality of Letraset into something amorphous and organic. Find out more, and order the chapbook here.

Jonathan Ball at The Winnipeg Free Press has briefly reviewed Lens Flare in the latest issue:

Lens Flare, by Derek Beaulieu and Rhys Farrell (Guillemot, 56 pages, $18), takes the full text of Beaulieu’s 2019 book of visual poems, Aperture, and has Farrell manipulate and obscure them using strange landscape-like shapes exploding with bright colours.

The collaboration builds on what Aperture already did, which is mix the handmade artwork of Letraset with the digital manipulations of computer art. The resulting visual poems move even further away from the already fractured realm of the unsayable, so that each page becomes a strange and beautiful mishmash.

4 prints of my work – each produced in a limited edition of 25 copies – are now available for order thorough Society 6 … get ’em while they’re hot!

Proud to be donating 3,922 comics (dated over 8 decades, 1940s through 2010s) to University of Calgary’s special collections – to enable new scholars in comics & popular media

for excerpts from “Dendrochronology”, a series in progress …

Asmaa Magdy interviews me Periodicities, read “Why No More Poetry? An Interview with Derek Beaulieu”