Shaped poetry

Scope and Contents Mentions meeting Alan Broughton, a painterpoet who had been visiting with Charles Verey and John Furnival. Also, Houedard provides information in a Sung manuscript that he believes Abrams might be interested in seeing.The name STEVE is typed in red in the sahpe of a six pointed star. Internet: Stephen Abrams was Head of the Soma Research Association and Joint-Managing irector of Avalon Botanicals from 1967 to 1970. He was the author of the Soma advertisement in The Times and a witness before the Wootton Sub-Committee. Up to the mid 1960s, the majority of cannabis offenders in Britain were imprisoned. The law did not distinguish between cannabis and heroin or between use and supply. The schedule of penalties encouraged imprisonment of first offenders. In July 1967, the Times published a full paged advertisement in support of cannabis law reform. The advertisement described the existing law as "immoral" and "unworkable" but stopped short of proposing legalisation or...

Dates: 1967

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

My God ... Aint't She Long! / Lise Melhorn., 1984

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Identifier: CC-59265-10002372

Dates: 1984

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Poem and Book Objects

My God ... Aint't She Long! / Lise Melhorn., 1984

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Identifier: CC-59265-10002372

Dates: 1984

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Poem and Book Objects

N 31 / Repeshko, Andrei., 1997

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Identifier: CC-32245-33803

Scope and Contents

Although classified as a print, it might be a drawing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

[National Poetry Day 6th October 1994] / Cobbing, Bob ; Morgan E., 1994

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Identifier: CC-20546-20943

Scope and Contents

This book consists of a reprinting of several previously published poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Neville Chamberlain's Chimera , 1979

Item — Box Axelrod-Baker: [Barcode: 31858072490786]

Identifier: CC-26229-26692

Scope and Contents

Contains one poem to the page printed in red and blue inks. the author provides the sources for the poems at the end of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS

new rhyming abc for petermayer 731031 / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1973

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Identifier: CC-55915-9999382

Scope and Contents

The shaped poem in the upper right side is typed with capital letters and is repeated in lower case letters in the bottom center. The latter arrangement is more elegant. Houedard writes on the page bottom "nb - if printed care is necessary in centering the letters & spaces." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

[New Year's Greetings] / Bartl, Peter ; Merks, Jane., 2001

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Identifier: CC-37875-39755

Dates: 2001

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets

News from the South / Clark, Thomas A. ; Verey, Charles., 1973

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Identifier: CC-20145-20540

Dates: 1973

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

NineLines / Cook, Geoffrey., 1980

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Identifier: CC-20096-20490

Dates: 1980

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

No.35 / Schreiber, E.K. ; Theocritus., 1998

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Identifier: CC-30368-31783

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Includes reproduction of pages in Wolfgang Fugger's Ein nutzlich und wolgegrundt Formular Manncherly schoner Schiefften, Nurnberg, 1553 and Theocritus' Idyllia Trigentasex .... Venice, 1539. The former depicts shaped calligraphic German text, the latter a poem outlined by an axe shape. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs

No.96: Modern Poetry / Anacapa Books ; Hollander J ; Bigus R ; Dudek L ; Johnson R ; McClure M ; Hodell A ; Meltzer D ; Finch P ; Birney E ; Blaser R ; Aragon L ; Ferlinghetti L ; Grenier R ; Clark T ; Turnbull G ; Waldrop R ; Michaux H ; Souster R., 1993

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Identifier: CC-26600-27069

Dates: 1993

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs

No.217: One Hundred Rare Books / Ursus Rare Books ; Baudelaire C ; Beckett S ; Delaunay S ; Maurus H ; Stein G ; Cendrars B., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34462-36159

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The works listed in this catalogue and held by the Sackner Archive include the following: "Prose du Transsiberien" by Sonya Delaunay and Blais Cendrars,and "De laudeibus sanctae crucis opus" by Hrabanus Maurus. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs