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Conventional poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3963 Collections and/or Records:

No.693 / Pickering and Chatto ; Herbert G., 1992

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Identifier: CC-04276-4355
Scope and Contents

Lists a first edition of George Herbert's "The Temple." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

No.903: Autographen / Erasmushaus ; Jandl E ; Thomas D ; Tulcholsky K., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34865-36574
Scope and Contents

Auction catalogue. A 10 line concrete poem by Ernst Jandl was estimated at $400. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

No.1426: Million Volt Light-Sound Rave / Maggs Brothers ; Cobbing B., 2009

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Identifier: CC-49327-70369
Scope and Contents The annotation to the originals of nine maquettes of posters by Bob Cobbing offered for sale reads as follows. The origins and progress of London's theatrical, film andpoetic avant gardes and a significant tranche of the counterculture are traceable through these unique events posters (and one pure artwork) produced by a small and obscuregroup that emerged from the unlikely setting of suburban Hendon and Finchley. Bob Cobbing was the group's guiding spirit and founder, Britain's "major exponent of concrete, visual and sound poetry" (Guardian Obituary). He almost singlehandedly started, or at least inspired, the small DIY press revolution in Britain, founding the influential Writers' Forum, the long running "And' 'zine (copies of which are available above), and revitalising the experimental poetry scene in London in the process. Cobbing grew up in Enfield in a very strict family of fundamentalist Plymouth Brethren of hardworking signwriters (Guardian Obituary). He inherited...
Dates: 2009

Nordsee: L'Italia Sepolta Sotto La Neve. No.5 / Roberto Roversi., 1984

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Identifier: CC-53861-200018
Scope and Contents

This poem in contrast to other issues of the periodical is a particularly lengthy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984