From ‘Tattered Sails (After Mallarme)’


Derek Beaulieu


The piece is entitled “TATTERED SAILS (After Mallarme)” and is a visual translation of his “Un Coup de Des”, folding each page of Marcel Broodthaers 1969 translation of that text, like sails or flags and then producing an image based on the resultant patterns.

Derek Beaulieu is the author/editor of over twenty collections of poetry, prose, and criticism, including two volumes of his selected work, Please, No More Poetry (2013) and Konzeptuelle Arbeiten (2017). His most recent volume of fiction, a, A Novel was published by Paris’s Jean Boîte Editions. 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 holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Roehampton University and is the Director of Literary Arts at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.

He can be found online at www.derekbeaulieu.wordpress.com
Twitter: @derekbeaulieu