As part of the INSIDE/OUT lecture series Derek Beaulieu delivers his talk, Making Nothing from Nothing.
14th March, Leeds Beckett University, 1.30-3
More details HERE
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From the vaults – Derek Beaulieu
July 2010
New reviews by Billy Mills
A number of new, short reviews are up at Billy Mills’ blog: the journals Reliquiæ from Corbel Stone Press and Uniformagazine from Uniform Books, as well as of derek beaulieu’s collection of essays and interviews, The Unbearable Contact with Poets, from if p then q press and poetry pamphlets by John McVey, Sarah Barnsley and James King.
derek beaulieu – Erasing Warhol
derek beaulieu: The Unbearable Contact with Poets
if p then q is very pleased to announce a new publication of reviews, essays and interviews by poet derek beaulieu. The edition is available at a snip of £5 or as a free pdf edition.
The Unbearable Contact with Poets, derek beaulieu’s second selection of essays and reviews, is essential reading. A keen and shrewd essayist, he marks himself out as one of the key commentators on contemporary concrete and conceptual poetry. The selection includes a substantial review of concrete poetry by women, an exploration into concrete and conceptual poetic representations of the holocaust, alongside interviews with Tony Trehy, Natalie Simpson and Gregory Betts, as well as lots more. The edition is available as a free pdf and as a perfect bound copy.
derek beaulieu is author of eight books of poetry (including a volume of his selected poetry entitled Please, No More Poetry), four volumes of conceptual fiction (most recently the short fiction collection Local Colour: ghosts, variations), 2 collections of critical writing and over 175 chapbooks, derek beaulieu’s work is consistently praised as some of the most radical and challenging in contemporary Canadian writing.
LINK to book’s page
Total Recall exhibition at Bury Art Gallery
TOTAL RECALL 1 August — 3 October, 2015
BURY ART MUSEUM
Moss St, Bury, Lancashire BL9 0DR, United Kingdom
How do you remember the people who are important to you? How do you conjure your shared past? Is it in an image, a sound, a smell, a touch? Or do you use words?
We invited world-leading poets and text-artists to make a language-memory for Tony Trehy, who has directed the internationally renowned Text Festival at Bury Art Museum since 2005. This exhibition celebrates a 10-year anniversary of the Festival and a 20-year anniversary of Tony’s time at Bury. Writing on a wall, an Internet search, a diary entry, a flurry of thoughts … what is remembering and who is it for?
Tony Trehy has been the ring-leader of decade-long conversations, new opportunities, challenges and heated debates. Each of his four Text Festivals has added to a continuing dialogue between language and art. Every Text Festival has asked the audience a simple-but-complex question: How do I read?
Into the historic space of Bury Art Museum, Trehy has injected text that is a new ‘language art’ for the 21st Century. Bury was once the centre of paper-making in Britain, now it is a pioneer of language-making, with its Text Archive welcoming readers from all over the world.
TOTAL RECALL is a guerrilla makeover, an A4 invasion of reading into the larger narrative of looking. Unlike the street signs outside, these are not corporate instructions or sales pitches; they are antidotes. Walls, vitrine, archival box—nary a “book” to be found, but a heap of language left in memory.
TOTAL RECALL includes work by local, national and international text-based artists and poets: angela rawlings, Alan Halsey, Barrie Tullett, Carolyn Thompson, Cecilie Bjørgås Jordheim, Darren Marsh, derek beaulieu, Emma Cocker, Eric Zboya, Erica Baum, Jaap Blonk, James Davies, Jayne Dyer, Jesse Glass, Karri Kokko, Kristen Mueller, Lawrence Weiner, Leanne Bridgewater, Liz Collini, Lucy Harvest Clarke, Marco Giovenale, Márton Koppány, Matt Dalby, Mike Chavez-Dawson, Paula Claire, Penny Anderson, Peter Jaeger, Philip Davenport, Rachel Defay-Liautard, Robert Grenier, Ron Silliman, Satu Kaikkonen, Sarah Sanders, Seekers of Lice, Stephen Emmerson, Steve Giasson, Steve Miller, Tom Jenks, and Tony Lopez.
— derek beaulieu and Phil Davenport, Curators
Tony Lopez on his work for the Bury Text Festival
‘Works on Paper’ was commissioned in 2008. I stayed in Manchester and spent a few days visiting Bury just finding out about the place, people and history, including the library and archive. Of course Bury is a prime site in the Industrial Revolution both in terms of technical innovation and its rapid economic development as a manufacturing centre. I was particularly interested in Bury’s later position in the early twentieth century as a world-leading producer of paper. This makes sense when you realise that industrial paper production came about as a kind of diversification of the cotton industry after much earlier breakthroughs in mechanical weaving, John Kay’s flying shuttle, programmed looms and so on. They had cotton waste and rags, water and then steam power; factories with highly trained mechanics and inventive engineers, and were very well placed to respond to the explosion of print culture.
Discover more HERE at the Text Archive Blog and site which also includes news and articles by derek beaulieu, Helen White, Richard Pinkney & Holly Pester
Xing the Line
Derek Beaulieu, Sarah Crewe, Luna Montenegro & Adrian Fisher (aka Montenegro Fisher). 23 July, 19:30. The Apple Tree, 45 Mount Pleasant, Clerkenwell, London, WC1X 0AE.
new from NO PRESS: ULYSSES by Jacqueline Valencia
No Press is proud to announce the publication of Ulysses by Jacqueline Valencia.
Published in a limited edition of 50 copies (only 25 of which are for sale), Ulysses is available for $3.50 including domestic postage (+ $1 non-Canadian postage).
89+
This via derek beaulieu
89+ – would like to officially invite you to publish a book as part of the exhibition “Poetry Will Be Made By All!” to be held in Zürich (January 30 – March 30, 2014). This invitation also comes on behalf of the LUMA Foundation and the 89plus project, co-curated by Simon Castets and Hans Ulrich Obrist.
The exhibition will feature 1,000 new books of poetry, printed on demand and housed in an exhibition library, all made by poets born on or after 1989. We will be drawing on poets like you from over 50 countries, scattered across six continents, to create an expansive library of the absolute contemporary in poetry and poetics.
The books will be printed and exhibited in Zürich at LUMA/Westbau. An additional copy of the book will be sent to you (the author) at your home address. Digital copies will be available for download or printing (via Lulu) on the exhibition site:poetrywillbemadebyall.ch
Of course, we’re on an accelerated timeline. We hope that you can send a manuscript of any length and style during the exhibition between now and March 30th. The sooner you send, the sooner we can publish and exhibit your book!
Here are the instructions for submitting your manuscript:
Instructions for Submitting a Book to “Poetry Will Be Made By All!”
1. Register with 89plus at: http://89plus.com/submit/
2. Go to the submission page: http://poetrywillbemadebyall.ch/submit/
3. Enter the password: upload2014
4. Fill in all required fields
5. Upload your manuscript in .doc, .docx, .rtf or similar file. No PDFs! All languages welcome!
6. Submit!
We tremendously excited to develop a truly global network of writers—and hope you’ll join us. Please feel free to write with any questions or concerns at any time.
All very best,
Derek Beaulieu
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Kenneth Goldsmith and Danny Snelson
Poetry will be made by all! / 89plus
1000books@poetrywillbemadebyall.ch
The Text Festivals: Language Art and Material Poetry
The Text Festivals: Language Art and Material Poetry edited by Tony Lopez
It is a remarkable phenomenon that the foremost among recent sites of this interrogation of boundaries has been a series of festivals located in Bury, on the outskirts of Greater Manchester. World leading artists and poets have been brought together in a range of exhibitions and performances that demonstrate a new and productive collision of different cultural enterprises and expectations. Among those shown at the Text Festivals are Fiona Banner, derek beaulieu, Caroline Bergvall, Joseph Beuys, Christian Bok, Brass Art, Marcel Broodthaers, Pavel Buchler, Augusto de Campos, Zeynep Cansu, Henri Chopin, Bob Cobbing, Liz Collini, Philip Davenport, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Hamish Fulton, Eugen Gomringer, Robert Grenier, Alan Halsey, Alexander Jorgenson, Satu Kaikonen, Martin Kippenburger, Karri Kokko, Marton Koppany, On Kawara, Helmut Lemke, Richard Long, Tony Lopez, Jackson Mac Low, Hansjorg Mayer, Steve Miller, Kerry Morrison, Maurizio Nannucci, Patrick Fabian Panetta, Holly Pester, Tom Philips, Shaun Pickard, Kate Pickering, Hester Reeve (HRH.the), Spencer Roberts, Ed Ruscha, Ron Silliman, Mary Ellen Solt, Magda Stawarska-Beavan, Harald Stoffers, Carolyn Thompson, Nick Thurston, Aysegul Tozeren, TNWK, Tony Trehy, Nico Vasilakis, Carol Watts, Lawrence Weiner, George Widener, Ming Wong, and Eric Zboya. Artists, poets and curators working in these overlapping fields have written this book. It includes new essays by Tony Trehy (director of the Text Festivals), derek beaulieu, Christian Bok, Liz Collini, James Davies, Philip Davenport, Robert Grenier, Alan Halsey, Tony Lopez, Holly Pester, Hester Reeve (HRH.the), Carolyn Thompson, and Carol Watts.
OUT NOW from Plymouth University Press or via Amazon
26 Alphabets (for Sol LeWitt)
In November of 2008, derek beaulieu 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.
derek beaulieu video from The Other Room, May 2013
derek beaulieu reading at The Other Room, May 2013
Holly Pester: a preview
The next Other Room is a one off event on Saturday 18th May at The Town Hall Tavern, 20 Tib Lane, Manchester, M2 4JA. The readers will be derek beaulieu, Tom Jenks and Holly Pester. For a flavour of Holly’s work, see this performance from the September 2012 if p then q event at The Betsey Trotwood in London, or visit her website.
Tom Jenks: a preview
The Other Room is putting on a one off extra event on Saturday 18th May at The Town Hall Tavern, 20 Tib Lane, Manchester, M2 4JA. For a preview of Tom Jenks, who will be launching his new collection items at this event, try this film from the if p then q event at The Betsey Trotwood in London last September, or visit his website. For a preview of derek beaulieu, click here. A preview of Holly Pester will follow shortly.
derek beaulieu: a preview
The next Other Room is a one off event on Saturday 18th May at The Town Hall Tavern, 20 Tib Lane, Manchester, M2 4JA. The readers will be derek beaulieu, Tom Jenks and Holly Pester. For a flavour of derek’s work, try this film of him discussing theft, ownership and remixing language, the film of his first Other Room reading in 2010, or derek’s own site, which has a lot of links to his work.
The Other Room: an extra event
In a change to our advertised programme, we are putting on an extra, one off event at the Town Hall Tavern in Manchester on Saturday 18th May. This will feature performances from derek beaulieu, Tom Jenks and Holly Pester. Previews to follow on the site in the next few weeks.
Please, no more poetry: the poetry of derek beaulieu
Since the beginning of his poetic career in the 1990s, derek beaulieu has created works that have challenged readers to understand in new ways the possibilities of poetry. With nine books currently to his credit, and many works appearing in chapbooks, broadsides, and magazines, beaulieu continues to push experimental poetry, both in Canada and internationally, in new directions. Please, No More Poetry is the first selected works of derek beaulieu.
As the publisher of first housepress and, more recently, No Press, beaulieu has continually highlighted the possibilities for experimental work in a variety of writing communities. His own work can be classified as visual poetry, as concrete poetry, as conceptual work, and beyond. His work is not to be read in any traditional sense, as it challenges the very idea of reading; rather, it may be understood as a practice that forces readers to reconsider what they think they know. As beaulieu continues to push himself in new directions, readers will appreciate the work that he has created to date, much of which has become unavailable in Canada.
With an introduction by Kit Dobson and an interview with derek beaulieu by Lori Emerson as an afterword, Please, No More Poetry offers readers an opportunity to gain access to a complex experimental poetic practice through thirty-five selected representative works.
New Issue of Sunfish
New issue of Manchester-based Sunfish now out, featuring work by Stan Rogal, mIEKAL aND, bill bissett, Ed Baker, derek beaulieu and Sarah Crewe.
Contact Nigel Wood at sunfishmag@googlemail.com for details
UbuWeb: visual poetry
Edited by derek beaulieu, the UbuWeb visual poetry archive contains an array of interesting stuff, including Ian Hamilton Finlay’s seminal journal Poor. Old. Tired. Horse.
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