First Book Trailer for NMLCT!

NMLCT BKTRLR #1 is the first book trailer for the book NMLCT, a new collection of poetry by Paul Vermeersch, now available for preorder from ECW Press.

NMLCT BKTRLR # 1

PREORDER LINK: https://ecwpress.com/products/nmlct Music by wererabbit: https://wererabbit.bandcamp.com/track/kay-sage Fables and fairytales collide with virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and monstrous myths in a world where no one knows what to believe. In his eighth book of poems, Paul Vermeersch responds to the increasing difficulty of knowing what is real and what isn’t, what is our genuine experience and what is constructed for us by The Algorithm. In a “post-truth” society rife with simulations, misinformation, and computer-generated hallucinations, these poems explore the relationship between the synthetic and the authentic as they raise hope for the possibility of escape from MCHNCT (Machine City) to NMLCT (Animal City), where the promise of “real life” still exists. Available September 2, 2025. PRE-ORDER NOW!

NMLCT is now available for preorder!

COVER REVEAL! 

My eighth collection of poetry, NMLCT, will be published September 02, 2025 by ECW Press. I'm thrilled to be able to share the cover with you, and especially thrilled that it features art by renowned Canadian sculptor David Altmejd. 

If you're the type of person who preorders books, NMLCT is now available for preorder (link below). I know it helps my publisher, and I suppose it helps me, too. Book launch plans will be announced later in the summer. You'll all be invited! 

PREORDER NMLCT NOW

The Wrong Paintings: July 13, 2024 - January 18, 2025

 I finished three paintings yesterday. This is the third.

"Wrong Direction" -- 24"x18", 

acrylic, graphite and coloured pencils on paper.

This is the 30th painting I've made since July 13th, 2024 on paper (all 24"x18"). I've been calling these "The Wrong Paintings." This project has been an exploration of a looser, more immediate and gestural way of image making. I had felt that the "Pixel Error" paintings I'd been making from 2022-2024 had become somewhat habitual, and restraining, and it was time to change creative directions.

I think "Wrong Direction" is the last of this series of "The Wrong Paintings" for now, and I'm ready to try applying this refreshed skillset on a series of new works. In a lot of ways, this is the kind of gestural and expressive immediacy I've been striving for, and that I want to continue to explore. I've purchased some new paper, a little larger this time, and later this year I will probably try returning to canvas. Evolution requires mutation. Onward.