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    Please, No More Poetry: The Poetry of derek beaulieu
    Please, No More Poetry: The Poetry of derek beaulieu
    Please, No More Poetry: The Poetry of derek beaulieu
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    Please, No More Poetry: The Poetry of derek beaulieu

    By Derek Beaulieu and Kit Dobson

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    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilfrid Laurier University Press
    Release dateFeb 1, 2013
    ISBN9781554588572
    Please, No More Poetry: The Poetry of derek beaulieu
    Author

    Derek Beaulieu

    Derek Beaulieu is the author/editor of over twenty-five collections of poetry, prose, and criticism. His most recent volume of fiction, a, A Novel, was published by France’s Jean Boîte Editions, his most recent volume of poetry, Surface Tension, is his third from Coach House Books. Beaulieu has exhibited his visual work across Canada, the United States, and Europe and has won multiple local and national awards for his teaching and dedication to students. Derek Beaulieu is the Director of Literary Arts at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and Banff’s 2022-2024 Poet Laureate.

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      Please, No More Poetry - Derek Beaulieu

      Please, No More Poetry

      The Poetry of derek beaulieu

      Please, No More Poetry

      The Poetry of derek beaulieu

      Selected by

      Kit Dobson

      with an introduction by

      Kit Dobson

      and an afterword by

      Lori Emerson

      Wilfrid Laurier University Press acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for its publishing program. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund for our publishing activities.

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      Beaulieu, D. A. (Derek Alexander), 1973-

      [Selections]

      Please, no more poetry : the poetry of Derek Beaulieu / selected with an introduction by

      Kit Dobson

      (Laurier poetry series)

      Includes bibliographical references.

      Issued also in electronic formats.

      ISBN 978-1-55458-829-9

      I. Dobson, Kit, 1979-     II. Title.     III. Series: Laurier poetry series

      PS8553.E223A6 2013          C811’.54          C2013-900050-X

      Electronic monograph.

      Issued also in print format.

      ISBN 978-1-55458-856-5 (PDF).—ISBN 978-1-55458-857-2 (EPUB)

      I. Dobson, Kit, 1979-     II. Title.     III. Series: Laurier poetry series (Online)

      PS8553.E223A6 2013          C811’.54          C2013-900051-8

      © 2013 Wilfrid Laurier University Press

      Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5, Canada

      www.wlupress.wlu.ca

      Cover photograph by derek beaulieu. Cover design and text design by P.J. Woodland.

      This book is printed on FSC recycled paper and is certified Ecologo. It is made from 100% post-

      consumer fibre, processed chlorine free, and manufactured using biogas energy.

      Printed in Canada

      Every reasonable effort has been made to acquire permission for copyright material used in this text, and to acknowledge all such indebtedness accurately. Any errors and omissions called to the publisher’s attention will be corrected in future printings.

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior written consent of the publisher or a licence from The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Access Copyright). For an Access Copyright licence, visit www.accesscopyright.ca or call toll free to 1-800-893-5777.

      Table of Contents

      Foreword, Neil Besner

      Biographical Note

      Introduction: Where Meanings Are Not Expected, Kit Dobson

      Please, No More Poetry

      from with wax

      rotunda

      calcite gours 4

      chamber of the felines

      engraved deer

      from fractal economies

      problems in composition

      untitled for christian (in apology)

      portrait

      framing the narrative

      new directions in canadian poetry

      from Flatland

      from Local Colour

      from chains

      from Silence

      from How to Write

      Nothing Odd Can Last

      Wild Rose Country

      Uncollected Works

      That’s not writing

      block 14

      chapter O

      june 26 2010

      jan 27 2012

      something else

      from Extispicium

      Afterword: An Interview with derek beaulieu, Lori Emerson

      Acknowledgements

      Foreword

      Early in the twenty-first century, poetry in Canada—writing and publishing it, reading and thinking about it—finds itself in a strangely conflicted place. We have many strong poets continuing to produce exciting new work, and there is still a small audience for poetry; but increasingly, poetry is becoming a vulnerable art, for reasons that don’t need to be rehearsed.

      But there are things to be done: we need more real engagement with our poets. There needs to be more access to their work in more venues—in classrooms, in the public arena, in the media—and there need to be more, and more different kinds, of publications that make the wide range of our contemporary poetry more widely

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