Listen in as Douglas Kearney, Tracie Morris and I chat with Al Filreis about bpNichol’s ‘Dada Lama’ & ‘A Small Song That Is His’ on episode 159 of Poem Talk

No press is proud to announce the publication of three new chapbooks:

NEGATIVE ZONE by Kevin Stebner

(full-colour typewriter concrete poetry, 20 pgs, limited edition of 50 sewn copies)

INSIGNIFICANT CHRYSANTHEMUM by Danni Storm

(B&W typewriter concrete poetry, 16 pgs, limited edition of 50 sewn copies)

FIRST CHAPTERS by Stefanie Posavec

(full-colour diagrammatic concrete poetry, 16 pgs, limited edition of 50 sewn copies)

Each edition is $7 – or all 3 for $20 – including postage. To order, please email derek@housepress.ca

Rhys Farrell imagines excerpts from our collaborative book Lens Flare on the buildings of Japan —two in Tokyo and one in Nara. Picturing the pages of the book as monuments to typeforms and colour.

sal nunkachov leaves me a pixelated poster of stencilled graffiti awaiting a home …

Joe Devlin interviews me for his website Nuts and Bolts:

“limitations and constraints force a writer to solve problems that they wouldn’t have created otherwise, to build new pathways, new furrows in fields of their practice.”

Very excited for the next issue of Quill & Quire and the profile of Lens Flare (by Rhys Farrell and I) as written by Dani Spinosa — thanks so much!

Mark Leahy just posted a dynamic photograph of a excerpt from Lens Flare; i’m honoured. More about Lens Flare here …

an exciting announcement from Portugal’s Paper View Books;

“glad to announce to you the new collection of visual endeavours, the ODD pages collection will publish some treats for you. premiering this collection we have derek beaulieu with catalogue saisoné, an amalgamation of leaves, leaflets, chapbooks and more.”

1 original letraset concrete poem and four photocopy manipulated, chance-based responses (2021)

I’m honoured that Copenhagen’s non-plus-ultra has published my Brevflodslette as a limited edition folded leaflet. Available for ordering today!