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

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

Sachi Nag interviews me for the online magazine The Artisanal Writer

No Press is proud to announce the publication of

AFTERTHOUGHTS IN THE VOID

by Christian Bok

Produced in an edition of 50 handbound copies, AFTERTHOUGHTS IN THE VOID continues Bok’s exploration of the horrors of interstellar space. AFTERTHOUGHTS IN THE VOID documents the strange poetic realities of black holes and how reality is twisted and torqued around these massive phenomena.

Copies are $10ea (incl postage), please email derek@housepress.ca to order

Christian Bok is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, known primarily for being the author of Eunoia (recipient of the Griffin Poetry Prize) He created artificial languages for two television shows: Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict and Peter Benchley’s Amazon. He is on the verge of finishing The Xenotext (which is part of the digital payload of the InSight lander, currently exploring the Elysium Planitia on the surface of Mars). The first poet to be interviewed by Nature magazine, The Utne Reader has identified Bok as one of ‘The 50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World.’ He lives in Melbourne.

Watch a kaleidoscope of twisting colour as Rhys Farrell transforms an image from LENS FLARE (our collaborative book published by Guillemot Press, 2021):

Watch as a single page from Lens Flare (co-written by Derek Beaulieu and Rhys Farrell; published by Guillemot Press, 2021) comes alive. Animated by Arnold McBay with music by Gary Barwin; this short animated film complements the book and brings the landscape to strange life. Lens Flare is available for purchase, and as a free PDF.

Thank you so very much Arnold and Gary for helping make this project a reality!

Artist and Salt Spring Island denizen Polly Orr recently painted her face in response to the collaborative colour of LENS FLARE By Rhys Farrell and I … thank you Polly for finding the book reflected on your face and in your eyes!

Head over to YouTube and watch as my computer narrates a tale about a, A Novel, superimposed over the New York City skyline — in support of the Pez Espiral edition of an excerpt from the book

Studies in Canadian Modernism #1 (GO Transit, 1967)

“Studies in Canadian Modernism” are poetic photocopy manipulations of modernist Canadian trademarks & logos. These national logos (here the 1967 Gagnon/Valkus design for GO Transit) transform into pools of indeterminate meaning — suggestions of nationalistic familiarity troubled and set adrift on the oily patches of polluted waterways.

No Press is proud to announce the publication of 3 new editions!

“hole being” by Charlotte Jung

minimalist feminist visual poetry, printed in an edition of 50 handbound copies

$5 ea.

“Mono-Space-Poems” by Laura Kerr

visual poetry crafted with the smallest of signs, printed in an edition of 50 handbound copies

$5 ea.

“The Minute Review” Vol. 2 No. 1

a little magazine of poetry, prose, and reviews – Contributors this issue: Dani Spinosa | Philip Terry | Stuart Ross | Charles Bernstein | Vilde Bjerke Torset | Nick Montfort | Gary Barwin | Astra Papachristodoulou | Gregory Betts | Donato Mancini | Peter Jaeger | Marlene Oeffinger & Sarah Burgoyne | Madeleine Beaulieu | Eric Schmaltz | Nasser Hussain | Nancy Perloff. 16 pages, handsewn, printed in an edition of 75 copies.

$5 ea.

to order copies, please email derek@housepress.ca