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This was an exhibition of the personal collection of Jeff Berner. Also designated Stanford Art Book 8. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Ben is a Fluxus artist. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This card elates to Houedard's schedule after visit to Glasgow - "edinbrgh thursd - leeds frid (organized by cavan mccarthy bristol: you must know eachother)." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Jim Burns (1936-) is a British poet known for poetry published on small presses. The Letter-Squares were five rubberstamps each containing 100 vowels of typewriter-style type. They were created by Cavan McCarthy for participants in poetry readings to produce their own visual designs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Houedard writes to Wendy and John Sharkey about receiving "tlatoc from cav this morning most glad to hear him say you very exceedingly ok bloke (his very own words)." Else where the letter contains several critical references to writers and publishers in scatological language.Two lines at the top left of the page read, "i go for yr/windywetmoor." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The da levy poem is also on the back cover of Tlaloc 13, a periodical also held by the Sackner Archive. This letter is stored in a da levy binder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The concrete poems were composed solely by Cavan McCarthy in this catalogue. The 'Poem for Veronica'is one of a series based upon the names of people McCarthy had met. This poem uses the letter groups 'ver' 'on' 'a.' Veronica Forrest-Thomson (1947--1975) was a poet and a critical theorist. She grew up in Glasgow, Scotland. She studied at the Universities of Liverpool and Cambridge, and later taught at the Universities of Leicester and Birmingham. Her critical study Poetic Artifice: A Theory of Twentieth-Century Poetry was published by Manchester University Press in 1978. Her poetry collections included Identi-kit (1967), the award-winning Language-Games (1971) and the posthumous On the Periphery (1976). Subsequent gatherings of her work include Collected Poems and Translations (1990) and Selected Poems (1999). A further Collected Poems, minus the translations, was published in 2008 by Shearsman Books in association with Allardyce Book. Forrest-Thomson died tragically in April 1975...