This broadside is printed using a variety of both lead and wooden type on BFK Rives fine paper, in a limited number of 40 editions, each consisting of 3 separate sheets contained in a folio. Numerous typefaces have been used, including Bernhard Medium, Bodoni, Caslon Old Style, Century, Franklin Gothic, Futura, and Piranesi Italic.
Printed by Trisia Eddy at Edmonton’s Red Nettle Press, this edition is now available for order in a strictly limited edition of 40 copies.
No Press is proud to announce the publication of
from SIGINT by Ken Babstock
Published in a hand-bound edition of 80 copies (only 40 of which are for sale), from SIGINT is available for $3 including domestic postage (+ $2 non-Canadian postage). To order please email derek beaulieu.
These sonnets “occur” inside the abandoned NSA Surveillance station on the summit of Teufelsberg (Devil’s Mountain) in Berlin, Germany. A manmade mountain, Teufelsberg is the result of the Allies’ decision to pile massive quantities of the postwar rubble of Berlin on top of an SS Engineers’ College, designed by Albert Speer, and left unfinished after the war. The poem makes use of diction adapted from Walter Benjamin’s records of his son’s language acquisition between the ages of 2 and 6. The italicized “incident reports” that appear in lieu of a traditional sonnet’s closing couplet point to collisions between light aircraft and common swifts in what would have been Soviet air space.
Ken Babstock’s first collection in 1999, Mean, won him the Milton Acorn Award and the 2000 Atlantic Poetry Prize. Babstock worked as Poetry Faculty at the Banff Centre for the Arts and currently lives in Toronto. Babstock’s collection, Airstream Land Yacht, won the Trillium Book Award, was shortlisted for the 2007 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize, and was nominated for the 2006 Governor General’s Award for poetry. Babstock’s most recent collection, Methodist Hatchet, won the 2012 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize.
On April 13th the CBC’s “The World This Weekend”did a short feature on my Alberta College of Art + Design ENGL214 (creative writing) class for national broadcast. You can listen to the 3:45 long piece here or click over to the CBC page for the entire program…
Photographs from “CORPUS 38”, the final exhibition of ENGL310: Visual Narrative at ACAD, Winter 2014 — artwork and performances by students featuring their creative interaction with visual narrative. Over the last few months we have studied avant-garde graphic novels, indecipherable encyclopedias, radical film, imaginary, unfolding narratives and more. A privilege to work with these creative and challenging gang! 
Photographs from “My Favourite Ones are the Mad Ones”, the final exhibition of ENGL214: Creative Writing at ACAD, Winter 2014 — artwork and performances by students featuring their creative interaction with typewriters. Amazing students, an incredible honour to work with them all semester.
(More photos on Facebook)
My Favourite Ones are the Mad Ones is an exhibition put on by Derek Beaulleu’s Alberta College of Art + Design ENGL214 Creative Writing class. This class has challenged the student’s methods of writings by introducing a typewriter to their assemble of writing and art making tools. The final products of this class will be displayed in ACAD room 395, as a visual arts show on April 10th, 2014 from 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM.
you are invited to the Calgary launch of Ground Rules: above/ground press: the best of the second decade, 2003-2013
with readings by three Calgary contributors:
derek beaulieu
Natalie Simpson
+ Julia Williams
Edited by rob mclennan, with an introduction by Gil McElroy, Ground Rules features writing from the second decade of one of the most active micro publishers in Canada, selected from a series of hundreds of publications lovingly edited, produced and distributed by editor/publisher rob mclennan. A follow-up to Groundswell: best of above/ground press, 1993-2003 (Broken Jaw Press, 2003), Ground Rules includes a wide range of work by Artie Gold, Mark Cochrane, Suzanne Zelazo, derek beaulieu, Stephanie Bolster, Amanda Earl, Nathanaël, Lisa Samuels, Rachel Zolf, Sharon Harris, D. G. Jones, Julia Williams, Eric Folsom, Gregory Betts, Natalie Simpson, Aaron Tucker, Monty Reid, William Hawkins, Emily Carr, Cameron Anstee, Helen Hajnoczky, Marilyn Irwin, Stephen Brockwell, Robert Kroetsch and rob mclennan.
lovingly hosted by Chaudiere Books editor/publisher rob mclennan
7:30pm, Thursday, May 8, 2014
Shelf Life Books
1302 4 St SW, Calgary, AB
This necessary volume offers a comprehensive selection of Riddell’s diverse array of meta-media writing strategies. Emerson and beaulieu’s selection spans from his better-known lipogrammatic comic “Pope Leo: El Elope” (illustrated by bpNichol) that recounts the tragic murder of Pope Leo using only four letters (P, O, E, L) to the dirty, concretistic “a deux,” a work composed of typewritten text that is disrupted by smears, hand drawn lines, and inkblots. Much of the work presented here explores Riddell’s interest in the relationship between machines and language–he creatively intervenes with the functions of the typewriter, photocopier, and paper shredder, among other technologies. Riddell’s work poses a special challenge to editors because much of it is unreproducible–much of it relies on aleatoric operations and at other times precise and irreproducible gestures. Considering both editors’ outstanding backgrounds exploring radical, media-related literature, there may be no one better to trust with this work.
Speechless magazine – the journal of concrete poetry i edited and published from 2009 (and is now readily available on UBUweb as downloadable PDFs) was recently re-issued in a pirated edition by Kristen Mueller as poet-in-residence at the LUMA foundation in Zurich. I’m thrilled to hear that my work is being pirated and bootlegged, what could be cooler than that?
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