Derek Beaulieu
L’Echec de Perec,  2018





L’Echec de Perec offers a playful visual translation of Georges Perec’s Alphabets (1976), transforming each oulipian poem into a glyph which resembles chessboards and crossword puzzles. Perec’s compositional structure becomes the framework for a new way of writing, treating language as brickwork.

Derek Beaulieu is the author and editor of twenty collections of poetry, prose, and criticism, including two volumes of his selected work Please No More Poetry: the poetry of derek beaulieu (2013) and Konzeptuelle Arbeiten (2017). His most recent volume of fiction, a, A Novel was published by Jean Boîte Editions, Paris, in 2017, including an essay by Gilda Williams. Beaulieu has exhibited his visual work across Canada, the United States, and Europe. He has won multiple awards for his teaching and dedication to students. Beaulieu was the 2014–2016 Poet Laureate of Calgary, Canada.


Edition of 50, each signed & numbered
28 pages
190 mm x 130 mm
Softback, sewn
ISBN: 978-1-910055-51-9

£5.00




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