CONCRETE & CONSTRAINT, a new display at London’s bookartbookshop (31 May – 13 June) featuring new editions from no press, Blasted Tree, libros del pez espiral, Spacecraft Press, Penteract Press, Jean Boîte Editions, above/ground and edition taberna kritika
, Coach House Books and information as material 
… thank you to Tanya Peixoto for curating this exhibit!
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No Press is proud to announce the publication of its 300th edition:
AMBERIANUM [Philosophical Fragments of Caudio Amberian]
by Charles Bernstein.
Published in an edition of 66 hand-bound copies (plus 13 hors commerce lettered A through M) — of which only 44 are for sale.
$7.00ea + postage
To order a copy, please email derek@housepress.ca
These translations of Caudio Amberian, a 1st century CE Jewish poet and sophist, are remarkably prescient and provide “pataphysical commentary on a contemporary poetic. Rarely translated, or even acknowledged, Amberian was previously translated in Charles Bernstein’s Girly Man. With AMBERIANUM [Philosophical Fragments of Caudio Amberian] Charles Bernstein has returned these fragments and aphorisms to a contemporary moment, just when they were needed the most.
Charles Bernstein is the author or editor of over 50 books, ranging from full-length collections of poetry and essays to pamphlets, libretti, and collaborations, most recently Pitch of Poetry (2016), Recalculating (2013) and Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays and Inventions (2011), from the University of Chicago Press and All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems (2010) from Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Press, 2011). Bernstein is Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania.
NO PRESS is proud to announce the 1st two publications in the new Swedish Series.
This series of small press editions will solely feature contemporary, experimental, Swedish poets.
The first two publications are:
One Word Poems by Adam Westman. Produced in a limited edition of 50 copies, 25 of which are available for sale ($2.00ea + postage).
Everyday Circles by Martin Högström. Produced in a limited edition of 50 copies, 25 of which are available for sale ($4.00ea + postage).
new releases soon from Jörgen Gassilewski, Anna Halberg, Peter Thörneby and more…
(this new series also features a new logo, as found in a copy of Supplement till den år 1864 utgifna Stämpelbok för Svenska Jernverken (1867), a gift from Stockholm-based rare bookseller Harald Hultqvist)
No Press is proud to announce the publication of
The Old Man’s Illustrated Library: Issues #36 and #5: Typee & Moby Dick by Johnny Damm
Published in a limited edition of 40 copies (only 20 of which are for sale from the press), The Old Man’s Illustrated Library: Issues #36 and #5: Typee & Moby Dick is available for $5.00 including domestic postage (+ $2 non-Canadian postage). To order please email derek beaulieu.
Featuring 5 beautiful full-colour images, Damm’s chapbook creates a melancholy biography of Herman Melville in miniature through collaged Classic Comics…
No Press is proud to announce the publication of
20 LINES by Matt Madden
Published in a limited edition of 40 copies (only 20 of which are for sale from the press), 20 LINES is available for $8.00 including domestic postage (+ $2 non-Canadian postage). To order please email derek beaulieu.
Madden has this to say about 20 LINES:
I recently finished a one-year drawing project called “20 Lines”
The initial inspiration was a prose book by the American Oulipo author Harry Mathews called 20 Lines a Day, which is a partial document of a period where he wrote 20 lines of prose every morning he was at his desk as a warm-up exercise. He was inspired by a quote by Stendhal to the effect of “20 lines a day, genius or not”. He took that notion literally in a somewhat wry way and I did the same kind of thing: well, 20 drawn lines, how is that so different from 20 lines of writing? (It’s faster for one thing, most of the time.)I took it on once we moved to France because one of my goals here is to work on my drawing, which lags behind my writing and my structural/linguistic thinking about comics. My goal was to concentrate on the most basic elements of drawing–lines on a ground–to reflect on how lines fill space, how they fit together. Maybe not so much “reflect” as simply to put my drawing hand, my brain, and my eyes to work to see what would come out of it. How all that will translate back into my comics I don’t really know, but I see it as part of a process of taking more conscious control of my drawing both at a physical as well as conceptual level.
Matt Madden is a cartoonist who has taught at the School of Visual Arts and in workshops around the world. His work includes 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style (Penguin), a collection of his comics adaptation of Raymond Queneau’s Exercises in Style; a translation from the French of Aristophane’s The Zabîme Sisters (First Second); and Drawing Words & Writing Pictures and Mastering Comics, (First Second), a pair of comics textbooks written in collaboration with his wife, Jessica Abel. For six years the couple were also series editors for The Best American Comics from Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt. He is currently on an extended residency at La Maison des Auteurs in Angoulême, France.
No Press is proud to announce the publication of
Silver by Phil Miletic
Published in a limited edition of 40 copies (only 20 of which are for sale), Silver is available for $2.50 including domestic postage (+ $1 non-Canadian postage). To order please email derek beaulieu.
Phil Miletic is a writer and vispo artist from Kitchener, ON. His chapbooks include world 1-1 cowritten with Craig Dodman (forthcoming from 89+ / Poetry will be made by all) and And the Birds Sing (Ribbon Pig), and his work has recently been featured in otoliths, Poetry is Dead, indefinite space, and outlandish.
No Press is proud to announce the publication of
Pages Loading by Eric Schmaltz
Published in a limited edition of 40 copies (only 20 of which are for sale), Pages Loading is available for $2.00 including domestic postage (+ $1 non-Canadian postage). To order please email derek beaulieu.
Pages Loading explores the transient & frequent instances of textual transmutation in digital reading environments. As code & meta-data become vernacular, fugitive obfuscation manifests as blurry, pixelated, and nebulous digital pages. Pages Loading captures these interstitial moments, observing the commonplace linguistic disruption of the e-reader interface.
Eric Schmaltz is an experimental poet living in Toronto.
No Press is proud to announce the publication of Kristen Mueller’s “Partially Removing the Remove of Literature”
Produced in a limited edition of 50 hand-bound copies.
Partially Removing the Remove of Literature is a reading of Nick Thurston’s book Reading the Remove of Literature, which is itself a reading of Maurice Blanchot’s book L’Espace littéraire (The Space of Literature). In Thurston’s appropriation, he has assiduously erased every page of Blanchot’s seminal work, while preserving his own marginalia, through a processual transposition of hand-writing into formal typography. In Mueller’s reading of Thurston, she has partially erased every page of his book, leaving only Thurston’s (extra-textual(?)) markings—the underlinings and arrows, parentheses and exclamation marks—intact. By layering these remains, chapter for chapter, she presents portraits of Thurston’s reading of Blanchot, collapsed and condensed, proffering the gift of theft.
Kristen Mueller is the author of Language to Cover a Page (Motto Books, 2014). A longer version of Partially Removing the Remove of Literature will be published by her small press, & So, in 2014.
“Partially Removing the Remove of Literature” is now available for $5ea.
To order please email derek beaulieu
No Press is proud to announce the publication of Kate Briggs’s “On reading as an alternation of flights and perchings.”
Produced in a limited edition of 50 hand-bound copies.
Kate Briggs teaches the translation workshop component of the Master’s in Cultural Translation at The American University of Paris. She also teaches creative writing at Paris College of Art and in 2013-14 will be guest tutor at Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. She is co-editor of The Nabokov Paper (Information as Material, 2013)
“On reading as an alternation of flights and perchings.” is now available for $3ea.
To order please email derek beaulieu
No PRESS is proud to announce the publication of
False Friends
A poetic engagement with Hungarian folk art, vocabulary and translation, False Friends is a delicate combination of full-colour visual poems and lyrical explorations of the false freinds of translation. Produced in a strictly limited edition of 50 handbound copies (only 23 of which are for sale) at $4 each – to order, email derek@housepress.ca
from False Friends:
(Q)
it may seem adequate,
like a sword piercing a shield
in some chivalric tale,
but dust off any old book
and when you look inside
all you’ll find is questions.
is it a treasure map?
did it ride in from france?
is it a spear that slipped
through the ribs of your language,
thousands of years ago,
or is it a thorn in your heel
that you only just noticed?
trade your old tomes
for other volumes
and hunch over the pages
like a medieval monk,
search for its provenance
like a modern scholar.
or trade your leather bound books
for paperbacks
and stop asking questions.
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