Arianne Jones has just won GOLD at the Nations Cup in Calgary wearing the helmet I designed for Helmets for Heroes – congrats Arianne!
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Coldfront magazine has published my reflections on bill bissett’s “Quebec Bombers” [scroll down]…
“a: a novel #1” (for Kenneth Goldsmith)
The newest issue of Stockholm, Sweden’s Slot magazine is exclusively dedicated to my concrete poetry. For those of you who live in Scandanavia, you can order from audiatur, everyone else can order via email to: chateaux@hotmail.se
Calgary’s METRO has covered my ACAD ENGL217 “choose your own adventure” class and the efforts of my students…
It was a real pleasure to be the guest editor of the 3rd issue of ACAD’s Catalyst Magazine …
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I’m proud to announce that Manchester’s IF P THEN Q press has just published
The Unbearable Contact with Poets
(120 pp, free PDF or perfect bound copy for £5.00, ISBN: 978-0-9571827-8-3)
The Unbearable Contact with Poets, derek beaulieu’s second selection of essays and reviews, is essential reading. A keen and shrewd essayist, he marks himself out as one of the key commentators on contemporary concrete and conceptual poetry. The selection includes a substantial review of concrete poetry by women, an exploration into concrete and conceptual poetic representations of the holocaust, alongside interviews with Tony Trehy, Natalie Simpson and Gregory Betts, as well as lots more. The edition is available as a free PDF and as a perfect bound copy.
Click here for more Information or to download / order a copy
I am super proud to announce that my Alberta College of Art + Design ENGL315 students have just publishedGERM WARFARE: a suite of responses to Christian Bök’s The Xenotext (Book 1)
In “Germ Warfare” Alberta College of Art + Design ENGL315 students reply to the poetic implications of Christian Bok’s The Xenotext (Book 1) (Coach House Books, 2015).
Germ Warfare includes visual responses by ANGELA FERMOR, TANNER BUSHELL, MATTHEW CARBERRY, ZACHARY WILD, TAYLOR SOLBER, MEITAL NETZER-ISRAEL, CARLY HYNES, TIANYI WU, MIRANDA KLEIN, EMILY FERGUSON, JOSHUA BRIEN, HAILEY KOIVOLA, CODY COX, SHIGEMICHI ISHITANI, GARTH PHILPOTT, DEREK CURRIE, CHRISTY WADE, KARA MURPHY, SIMON CORMIER, ELLEN CRANCH, JULIE L. TURNER, MANALI MORE, LISA RAY-ANNE SUDEIKAT, LUSINE MANUKYAN, SARAH HARRILL, FELICIA VANDENBOOGAARD, KAYLEE NOVAKOVSKI, CAITLIN MCCANN, TOBY REID, KRISTEN ROBILLIARD, REENY HUA, JESSICA HUCK.
Edited and compiled by Derek Beaulieu.
76 pages, 7.5″x7.5″, full-colour, perfect-bound
GERM WARFARE is now available for order direct through LULU for $24.33+ postage …
i was honoured to be invited by the Institute for Canadian Citizenship to speak at Calgary’s canadian citizenship ceremony on oct 16 at Arts Commons. I spoke alongside Nobel prize nominee Doreen Spence, Arts Commons President and CEO Johan Zietsman and many other luminaries as we welcomed 59 new Canadians to the country…
Donna Stewart, Citizenship Officer /Clerk of ceremony; unknown; Cree Elder Doreen Spence; me; Judge Joseph Woodard, Presiding Official; Johann Zietsman, President and CEO ARTS Commons; unknown; unknown; Umashanie Reddy: RBC Immigrant of Distinction Award winner; Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sergeant Conal Archer
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