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Derek Alexander Beaulieu (born December 7, 1973 in
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,
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) is a
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poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems ( oral or wr ...
,
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and anthologist. Beaulieu studied contemporary Canadian poetics at the
University of Calgary The University of Calgary (U of C or UCalgary) is a public research university located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The University of Calgary started in 1944 as the Calgary branch of the University of Alberta, founded in 1908, prior to being inst ...
and Creative Writing at Roehampton University. His work has appeared internationally in small press publications, magazines, and in visual art galleries. He has lectured on small press politics, arts funding and literary community in Canada, the
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, the
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and
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. He was the 2014-2016 Poet Laureate of
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,
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, Canada and is the 2022-2024 Poet Laureate of Banff,
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, Canada. He works extensively around issues of community and poetics, and along those lines has edited (or co-edited) the magazines ''filling Station'' (1998–2001, 2004–2008), ''dANDelion'' (2001–2004), ''endNote'' (2000–2001) and ''The Minute Review'' (2010, 2021-). He founded housepress in 1997 from which he published small editions of poetry, prose and critical work until 2004. The housepress fonds are now located at
Simon Fraser University Simon Fraser University (SFU) is a public research university in British Columbia, Canada, with three campuses, all in Greater Vancouver: Burnaby (main campus), Surrey, and Vancouver. The main Burnaby campus on Burnaby Mountain, located ...
. In 2005 he founded the small press no press. In 2005 he co-edited ''Shift & Switch: new Canadian poetry'' with
Angela Rawlings Angela Rawlings (known as a rawlings) is a Canadian poet, editor, and interdisciplinary artist who uses many spectacular languages for her material. Career In 2001, rawlings received the bpNichol Award for Distinction in Writing when she gra ...
and Jason Christie, a controversial anthology of new poetry which has been reviewed internationally. In 2016 he co-edited ''The Calgary Renaissance'' with
Rob McLennan Rob McLennan (born 1970) is a Canadian writer, critic, and publisher. McLennan is the author of two novels, and more than twenty books of poems, stories and essays published in Canada, the United States, England, Ireland, and Japan. He has been c ...
. Beaulieu has shifted his focus in recent years to conceptual fiction, specifically visual translations/rewritings. His book ''Flatland'' consists of visual patterns based on the typography of
Edwin Abbott Abbott Edwin Abbott Abbott (20 December 1838 – 12 October 1926) was an English schoolmaster, theologian, and Anglican priest, best known as the author of the novella ''Flatland'' (1884). Biography Edwin Abbott Abbott was the eldest son of ...
's classic novel ''
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'' and his book ''Local Colour'' is a series of colour blocks based on the original text of
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's novella ''Ghosts''. ''How to Write'', a collection of conceptual prose, was published by Talonbooks in 2010. Beaulieu lives in Banff,
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where he is Director, Literary Arts at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.


Selected bibliography

*2003:''With Wax''. Toronto: Coach House *2005:''Frogments from the Fragpool: Haiku after Basho'' Toronto: Mercury (with
Gary Barwin Gary Barwin (born 1964 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a Canadian poet, writer, composer, multimedia artist, performer and educator who lives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He writes in a range of genres including poetry, fiction, visual poetr ...
) *2005:''Shift & Switch: New Canadian Poetry''. Toronto: Mercury (edited with
angela rawlings Angela Rawlings (known as a rawlings) is a Canadian poet, editor, and interdisciplinary artist who uses many spectacular languages for her material. Career In 2001, rawlings received the bpNichol Award for Distinction in Writing when she gra ...
and Jason Christie). *2006:''fractal economies''. Vancouver: Talonbooks *2007:''Flatland''. York: information as material *2008:''Local Colour''. Helsinki: ntamo *2008:''chains''. Kingston, PA: paper kite press *2010:''How to Write''. Vancouver: Talonbooks . *2010:''Silence''. Anchill Island: redfoxpress *2011:''seen of the crime: essays on conceptual writing''. Montreal: Snare *2012:''Kern'' Lafarge, WI: Xexoxial Editions *2013:''Writing Surfaces: Selected Fiction of John Riddell'' Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press (edited with Lori Emerson) *2013:''Please, No More Poetry: the Poetry of derek beaulieu'' Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press (edited by Kit Dobson) *2014:''Kern''. Los Angeles, CA: Les Figues *2015: ''The Unbearable contact with poets''. Manchester, UK: if p then q *2016: ''Ascender / Descender''. Anchill Island: redfoxpress *2016:''The Calgary Renaissance''. Ottawa: Chaudiere Books (edited with Rob Mclennan). *2017: ''Konzeptuelle Arbeiten''. Bern, Switzerland: edition taberna kritika *2017: ''a, A Novel''. Paris, France: Jean Boite Editions *2018: ''Counter / Weight''. Anchill Island: redfoxpress *2018: ''Nights on Prose Mountain: the Fiction of bpNichol''. Toronto: Coach House. *2019: ''Aperture''. Shropshire: Penteract. *2021: ''Lens Flare''. Falmouth: Guillemot. (with Rhys Farrell) *2022: ''Surface Tension''. Toronto: Coach House.


English Teacher

In addition to writing, Beaulieu has also taught with the
Calgary Board of Education Calgary School District No. 19 or the Calgary Board of Education (CBE) is the public school board in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. As a public system, the CBE is required to accept any students who meet age and residency requirements, regardless of ...
, the
Alberta University of the Arts The Alberta University of the Arts (AUArts) is a public art university located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The university is a co-educational institution that operates four academic schools. The institution originated from the art departme ...
, the
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, and
Mount Royal University Mount Royal University (MRU) is a public university in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. History Mount Royal University was founded by Alberta provincial charter by the Arthur Sifton government on December 16, 1910 and officially opened on September 8 ...
.


See also

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Canadian literature Canadian literature is the literature of a multicultural country, written in languages including Canadian English, Canadian French, Indigenous languages, and many others such as Canadian Gaelic. Influences on Canadian writers are broad both ...
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Canadian poetry Canadian poetry is poetry of or typical of Canada. The term encompasses poetry written in Canada or by Canadian people in the official languages of English and French, and an increasingly prominent body of work in both other European and Indigeno ...
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Conceptual art Conceptual art, also referred to as conceptualism, is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic, technical, and material concerns. Some works of conceptual art, sometimes called inst ...
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Concrete poetry Concrete poetry is an arrangement of linguistic elements in which the typographical effect is more important in conveying meaning than verbal significance. It is sometimes referred to as visual poetry, a term that has now developed a distinct mea ...
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List of Canadian poets This is a list of Canadian poets. Years link to corresponding " earin poetry" articles. A *Mark Abley (born 1955), poet, journalist, editor, and non-fiction writer. * Milton Acorn (1923–1986), poet, writer, and playwright *José Acqueli ...
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Sound poetry Sound poetry is an artistic form bridging literacy and musical composition, in which the phonetic aspects of human speech are foregrounded instead of more conventional semantic and syntactic values; "verse without words". By definition, sound poe ...


References


Interview at CanadianContent.ca


External links


Records of Derek Beaulieu are held by Simon Fraser University's Special Collections and Rare Books

Beaulieu
at "English-Canadian writers",
Athabasca University Athabasca University (AU) is a Canadian public research university that primarily operates through online distance education. Founded in 1970, it is one of four comprehensive academic and research universities in Alberta, and was the first ...
, with additional links
''Text Without Text: Concrete Poetry and Conceptual Writing''
Beaulieu's doctoral thesis,
University of Roehampton The University of Roehampton, London, formerly Roehampton Institute of Higher Education, is a public university in the United Kingdom, situated on three major sites in Roehampton, in the London Borough of Wandsworth. Roehampton was formerly an ...
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