Over on Twitter, I am erasing all the text from John Cage’s SILENCE, leaving only the punctuated breath & atmospheric noise – creating a series of JPG files, one per page spread.

Arnold McBay has just posted a sound interpretation of this project, unleashing a mighty savage noise. As McBay explained, he “downloaded a jpg [from this series], dumped it as raw data into the free audio mixing software Audacity and voila….Noise sauvage!”
Have a listen (crank it up but watch your ears!)

My minimalist piece “The blank white page contains the finest song” has just been published by Scotland’s Essence Press; a press dedicated to thoughtful, minimalist work — order your copy today; they’ll go *very* quick!

Over on twitter follow @silence36887462 as I embark on a daily practice of erasing all the text from John Cage’s SILENCE, leaving only the punctuated breath and atmospheric noise – creating a series of JPG files, one per page spread.

No press is proud to announce the publication of 5 new chapbooks!

“MS Word Variations 1-11” by ajCarruthers

• fragile digitally-constructed visual poems, each arranged letter by letter in MS Word into delicate chandeliers of letterforms.

“Little Songs” by Kyle Flemmer

• minimalist diagrams exploring the metrics, stresses and rhyme schemes of a variety of sonnet forms. Sonnets leveled to austere minimalism.

“Brief Lives” by Nick Montfort

• a short found novel constructed from the forms and schematics which bring bring our life meaning.

“The Spectre of Mallarme” by Remi Forte

• beautiful, spectre-clouds based on the layout and design of Mallarme’s “Un Coup de Des”; each a fog of suggestion, a mist of potential.

“STELLA” by Danni Storm

• digitally-manipulated fields of typed letters form and overlap into captivating patterned stars.

Each book is published in a strictly limited edition of 50 handbound copies.

Order any individual book for $6 (+ $1 postage), or all 5 for $30 (including postage) by emailing derek@derekbeaulieu

Copies will go fast, order today!

Pre-order your copy of THE BOOK OF PENTERACT from Penteract Press: 45 contributors, 200 full-colour pages, hardback with ribbon and bands: a fabulous overview of experimental, constraint-based and visual poetics…

if i sit still for too long Sal Nunchakov (@poisbem) makes another one of these … and he’s making a book of mine REALLY SOON, keep your eyes peeled!

A large number of authors, poets, publishers and institutions offer online depositories of free downloadable PDFs and documents. By envisioning free circulation of contemporary and historical documents, they allow writing to move without financial constraint across geographic borders — enabling writing to remain actively engaged with. I post PDFs of all of my own work online and I’ve regularly posted this image entreating authors to imagine a new form of circulation and community development outside of copyright. These resources do precisely that:

1. Penn Sound
2. electronic poetry center
3. Fred Wah’s Digital Archive
4. bpNichol.ca Digital Archive
5. Ubuweb
6. eclipse archive
7. Jacket2’s inventory of digitized magazines
8. Malmo, Sweden’s Timglaset’s PDF archive of out-of-print editions
9. Gothenburg, Sweden’s Viktlosheten Press’s PDF archive of out-of-print editions
10. Copenhagen, Denmark’s nonplusultra Press’ PDF archive of all of their editions 2019-2022
11. London, Canada’s Spacecraft Press’ PDF archive of out-of-print editions
12. Anthony Etherin
13. Christian Bok
14. Aleator Press
15. Monoskop
16. The Black Panther Newspaper
17. The Digital Comics Museum
18. The Capilano Review‘s 50 years of back issues
19. Belladonna* offers all of their out-of-print chaplets as free PDFs

New from Enneract Editions!

CIRCUIT by derek beaulieu — a leaflet, featuring ten concrete poems made from the same sheet of Letraset. Strictly limited to 41 copies. Order now via the Enneract Editions Site…