The Weal has recently taken an interest in my commissioned window visual poem.
“1115 / 2:47: Pages” the short film Emma Rouleau made of the creation of my visual poem at Pages Books is now online!
The Calgary Herald‘s SWERVE Magazine has taken an interest in my visual poem on the glass of Pages Books. Avenue Magazine is also intrigued!
The ninth installment of my “Pulled off my shelves” series (citrusly hosted by lemonhound) is “Have you studied the soft toes of geckoes?“
1115 / 2:47: Pages
Visual Poet: derek beaulieu
Stop-motion Documentation / Video Editing: Emma Rouleau
The untitled work featured in 1115 / 2:47: Pages was commissioned by Pages Books on Kensington for permanent exhibition on their second-story window. This dynamic stop-motion film documents beaulieu’s visual improvisation in art and writing.
Copies are available directly through Pages Books.
The eighth installment of my “Pulled off my shelves” series (citrusly hosted by lemonhound) is “All Work and No Play Makes Jck a Dull Boy.”
In November of 2008, I approached a number of poets and conceptual writers, asking them to fulfill a series of simple instructions: “On a single sheet of paper in letters approximately one half inch tall write the alphabet from A to Z”.
26 Alphabets (for Sol LeWitt) documents the results of that request, and includes work from Gareth Jenkins, Lorenzo Menoud, Oana Avasilichioaei, Helen Hajnoczky, Robert Fitterman, Donato Mancini, Gregory Betts, Jonathan Ball, Nico Vassilakis, Mark Laliberte, Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl, Christian Bök, Harold Abramowitz, Johanna Drucker, Giles Goodland, Ross Priddle, Gitte Broeng, John Bennett, Crag Hill, Peter Ganick, Jeff Hilson, Peter Jaeger, Nick Thurston, Stephen McLaughlin, Kjetil Røed and kevin mcpherson eckhoff.
26 Alphabets (for Sol LeWitt) is available for order here ($20+shipping for print copies, downloads are free).
The seventh installment of my “Pulled off my shelves” series (houndishly hosted by lemonhound) is “Hence latent of satisfaction, relating singing of of bunch the effect.”
NO PRESS is pleased to host an evening of readings and performances in celebration of four new chapbooks.
November 13, 2010 7:30pm | Pages Books on Kensington | Calgary
These small, affordable, books are published in strictly limited editions and feature new and collaborative poetry by established and emerging poetic voices. The event will feature short readings by:
Oana Avasilichioaei is the 2010-2011 Markin-Flanagan writer in residence, and author of Abandon and feria: a poempark. Avasilichioaei will launch her new chapbook, SPELLES.
Natalie Simpson, is past editor of filling Station and author of Accrete or Crumble. Simpson will launch her new chapbook, SMASH SWIZZLE FIZZ.
Paul William Zits just completed his masters thesis at the University of Calgary in creative writing. His new chapbook is a poetic exploration of the language used around the Frog Lake Massacre. Zits will launch his new chapbook, MASSACRE STREET.
For more information contact Pages books or no press publisher derek beaulieu at derek@housepress.ca.
The sixth installment of my “Pulled off my shelves” series (houndishly hosted by lemonhound) is “O, that I love what others do abhor.”
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