The Derek Beaulieu Papers contain chapbooks and other poetry publications dated from 1997-2002. Most of the items in the collection were published through the small press, housepress, for which Derek Beaulieu was editor and publisher. Beaulieu published his own work through housepress as well as the work of other authors. The collection also contains a small number of items from other Canadian small presses or publishers. The collection consists of works of experimental poetry by Beaulieu and other authors, including visual and concrete poetry. There are several items published through housepress that do not have a publication date printed on the items themselves. For these items, the dates provided in the collection inventory were taken either from the printed bibliographies included in the collection or from the list of housepress publications on Derek Beaulieu’s website. The capitalization of names and the capitalization and punctuation of titles listed in the collection inventory were copied from items themselves.