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Designated Writers Forum #18. This is the first edition published in February 1966. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This work contains exp/ ress card 4, two copies of which are held in a separate card set by the Sackner Archive. Edition Hundertrmark: Valoch was born 1946 in Brno, Czechoslovakia and lives in Brno, Czech Republic. From 1965 to 1970, Valoch studied Czech and German literature and aesthetics at the Faculty of Philosophy, Masaryk University in Brno. He has worked as an art critic, theorist and curator since 1966. From 1972 to 2001, he was a theorist and curator of Art, Dum umeni, Brno. Currently, he is curator at the National Gallery Prag. Since 1966, Valoch has participated in numerous individual (in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and Austria) and group exhibitions. He was a member of the Klub konkretistu (Club of Concretists) from 1968 to 1972. Valoch is a poet and author of visual and conceptual poetry, photographic concepts, events, artist books. 1969 he organized the pioneering exhibition Partury-hudebni in Brno, were it was possible to see...

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Image is formed from typed dashes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This might be a unique typed book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Jakub Hanzi (internet): Jiri Valoch (1946-) theorist, art critic, columnist, exhibit curator, and conceptual artist. He is the creator of visual and conceptual poetry, photographic poetry and photographic concepts, text installations and conceptual drawings. Between 1965-1970 he studied German Language and Literature, Czech Language and Literature, and Aesthetics at the College of Philosophy (Philosophical Faculty) of Masaryk University in Brno. In the 1960s and 1970s he addressed the production of visual and conceptual poetry focused on linguistic introspection, text installations, and conceptual drawings, and events touching upon the field of body art, land art and conceptual photography. His poetic texts, bordering between word and image, gradually followed a more radical evolution. They began more to reflect his own language, work with texts becomes subordinate to a strict concept, and he returns to a traditionally-expressed, linear, poetic text: most often tied to the classic...

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This issue was acquired after the photocopied issue by Gibbs was purchased from him. The cover, a letter picture, was designed by Clemente Padin -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This photocopied issue was from Michael Gibbs. The cover, a letter picture, was designed by Clemente Padin -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Jiri Valoch contributed an introductory essay for the exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Each card isdivided in half horizontally. The top half is consistently "Blue" adn the bottom varies to reflect the different colors of the earth - green. yellow, blue etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book consists of examples of Ovcacek's typewriter, letraset, and stencilled letter works done between 1962-1993 along with critical essays in the Czech language. Jiri Valoch contributed an introductory essay. Ovacek's typewriter poetry marks him as one of the foremost contributors to this style of concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Valoch indicates that he is sending books to David UU in exchange for Canadian Avant Garde poetry books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Valoch thanks UU for issues of Gronk and submits poems for the Canadian magazine, "Spanish Fleye." Also, he states that he wishes to publish in Gronk. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Valoch mentions materials that he is sending for his exhibition, 'microproseplus' and method of payment, i.e., prefers books to money. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Valoch requests loan of Furnival's Pisa/Tower, Eiffel Tower, and two quadrats for an exhibition in Brno, Czeckoslovakia. He furnishes two small ink drawings to indicate the quadrats he wants sent to him. He mentions that he has written an article about Furnival's poster-poems in a Czech periodical, svetova literatura. He encloses new poems and two small prints to Furnival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.