I’m excited to announce that my out-of-print collection KERN, originally published by Les Figues in 2014, will be newly re-issued by Punctum Books … watch this space for more information coming soon!

My “A Poem should mean”, a meditation on visuality and poetics (& excerpted from Surface Tension, as published by Coach House Books), is featured on RIGHTCLICKSAVE in discussion of the OBJKT SBJKT exhibition in Paris…

No Press is excited to announce the publication of

CREMATE LIMITATIONS by Gary Barwin.

Published in a hand-sewn limited edition of 50 copies, CREMATE LIMITATIONS is Gary Barwin’s exploration of AI technology to generate and expand derek beaulieu’s visual poetry into banners of asemic texts. Each page unfolds and expands letter forms into dream-like pools of gestures and marks, a squirming mass of almost-letters, each suggesting another language just out of reach.

Accompanying the poetry suite is an essay, also generated using AI, which posits a critical point of view on the edges of sense around “deficit stumps and surrender quarterlies.”

Each copy of CREMATE LIMITATIONS is $8, email derek@housepress.ca to order your copy today!

Paper View Books has just published this beautiful riso-printed A3-sized limited edition print of my visual poetry — order your copy today (12€) by emailing info@paperviewbooks.pt ; they’ll go quick!

I’m honoured to have contributed a contextualizing essay to the catalogue for the POEME OBJKT SBJKT exhibition at Paris’ l’Avant Galerie Vossen and Librairie Metamorphoses . The exhibition features text art – both digital and physical – by international practitioners, and the catalogue is lushly produced. I’m sure they’ll go quickly…

Thrilled to have work in THIS IS A POEM, an exhibition of concrete and visual poetry curated by Kevin Stebner at Calgary’s Central Public Library. My work, alongside Kyle Flemmer, Samantha Jones, Katie O’Brien, and Kevin Stebner will be on exhibit for the entire month of April — check it out!

I’m proud to announce the publication of the latest issue of THE MINUTE REVIEW!

Issue #7 – the longest issue to date at a walloping 24 pages! – features an interview with rob mclennan by Asmaa Magdy, visual poetry by petra schulze-wollgast, Danni Storm, Kevin Stebner, Joe Devlin and Sal Nunchakov, prose by Gregory Betts, and reviews by Greg Thomas, Johanna Drucker, and myself.

Truly an international whoop-up, this issue is available for $5 (CDN if in Canada, US funds if outside) via paypal to derek@housepress.ca

OR! As a special offer, you can order all 7 issues of THE MINUTE REVIEW to date for the bargain price of $30 total (once agian, CDN if you’re in Canada, US funds if outside).

In celebration of 25 years of smallpress publishing under the housepress an No Press imprints, I am proud the announce the publication of

PAPER & THREAD: 25 YEARS OF HOUSEPRESS AND NO PRESS

Featuring essays, creative contributions, and reflections by Kyle Schlesinger, Charles Bernstein, Sacha Archer, Nasser Hussain, Richard Harrison, Kit Dobson, Gregory Betts, Gary Barwin, George Bowering, Al Filreis, Peter Jaeger, Joakim Norling, Cameron Anstee, Johanna Drucker, Kyle Flemmer, petra schulze-wollgast, Christian Bok, Nick Montfort, Eric Schmaltz, Dani Spinosa, Helen Hajnoczky, bill bissett, Aaron Tucker, rob mclennan, Edric Mesmer, and the editor.

76 pages text and B&W images, perfect bound.

Now available for order for $14.07 CDN + postage through blurb.