No press is proud to announce the publication of:

THE LUCID CLUSTERS: POETICS OF CLAUDE GAUVREAU
Translated, and with an introduction by, Ray Ellenwood

Noted Quebecois author, playwright, poet and artist, Claude Gauvreau (1925-1971), was one of the Automatistes in Montreal and a signatory of Refus global. THE LUCID CLUSTERS is a selection of Gauvreau’s commentaries on poetics from his correspondence and addresses such fields as dada, Surrealism, Lettrisme and the OuLiPo. THE LUCID CLUSTERS marks the first time has work has been published west of Toronto in a solo edition.

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Ray Ellenwood, Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar at York University in Toronto, is an award-winning translator and author of Egregore: A History of the Montréal Automatist Movement. In 1998, he organized a symposium, exhibition and concert at York University to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Refus global, and he continues to write and publish extensively about the Automatistes.

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Published in a limited edition of 100 copies (only 50 of which are for sale)
40 pgs, hand-bound

Copies are available for $10.00 each

To order copies, please contact derek beaulieu.

Melanie Kloetzel and John Masserini commissioned me to create a suite of visual poems (which eventually became my chapbook Fierce Indulgence) as a projected backdrop for their collaborative dance/clarinet performance “Icarus Refried.” “Icarus Refried: A Pro-Creative Process”, a short film by Kurt Lancaster is now available on vimeo about their performance.

Pages employee Mitzi Stone’s home was recently hit by lightning and she has suffered the loss of her home and all her possessions.  She has been a great supporter of books, reading and the arts in Calgary for years — and is always at Pages for great conversations, recommendations and support. Pages is accepting donations on her behalf to help her rebuild her life and her library. If you’d like more information please call Pages at (403) 283-6655 or contact them here.

Berfrois Magazine online has recently published a poem of mine — check it out here.

Audiatur Print (Norway) has just released a new print of my work, as designed Judith Naerland. More information can be found here (in Norwegian)

German typography magazine Slanted features a piece of mine in their discussion of the typographic grotesque. They commissioned me to create a Helvetica-based response to the Sex Pistol’s “Something Else” which can be found on page 87 of #14 of Slanted, available in print and online here.

Lori Emerson has just interviewed me on her blog about concrete poetry, technology and obsolescence…

The Calgary Herald takes an interest in my work in a piece entitled “alt.poet: Derek Beaulieu thinks outside the linguistic box

No Press is proud to announce the publication of

COPYS
By Craig Dworkin

‘My idea for these poems is that they be like cigarettes. On the one hand, briefly intense and repaying as much focused contemplation as you want to give them — each is in fact composed according to a rigorous and elided formal logic — but then also, at the very same time, merely discardable amusements: quickly read and easily forgotten, thrown away without a second thought as soon as they are finished.’ — Craig Dworkin

Originally published in the UK by Matchbox in May 2007, No press is proud to return this rarely-seen edition to print.

Published in a limited edition of 50 copies (25 of which are for sale) each copy consists of 34 loose cards in a hand-typed envelope.

Copies are available for $8.00 each (including postage).

To order, please contact derek beaulieu

This past spring, a.rawlings spent time in Toronto’s Malvern Collegiate Institute and facilitated over thirty interviews between high-school students and Canadian poets. The Great Canadian Writer’s Craft: High-school students interview Canadian poets is now available online and features interviews with poets from across Canada (including myself).