Skip to main content

Concrete poetry

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 485 Collections and/or Records:

Black Hat: at the end of the bar, 2004

 Item — Box 544: [Barcode: 31858072461050]
Identifier: CC-42950-44994
Scope and Contents

The cover was designed by the publisher and printer, Jason Davis. This title was first printed by 400 Rabbit Press, Cleveland 1966 in 120 copies. The layout of the poem on the right side of the page is reminiscent of ee cummings' style. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Black Hat: at the end of the bar, 2004

 Item — Box 544: [Barcode: 31858072461050]
Identifier: CC-59874-10002930
Scope and Contents

The cover was designed by the publisher and printer, Jason Davis. This title was first printed by 400 Rabbit Press, Cleveland 1966 in 120 copies. The layout of the poem on the right sid e of the page is reminiscent of ee cummings' style. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

[blanc white] / [mots mobiles](250663) / [ecart] (120763), 1963

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-57863-10001115
Scope and Contents

This page consists of the three concrete poems in the title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Blue Lemon, 1998

 Item — Box 301: [Barcode: 31858072460912]
Identifier: CC-35431-37166
Scope and Contents

This is a commercial Swiss match box that advertises a night club, 'Hot Lemon.' Finlay has printed in the same typography on the opposite side, 'Blue Lemon.' The poem that substitutes for the address site of "Hot Lemon" reads, Moray Firth Seine Netter - Fruition - Port Letters / Fishing Nos. INS265. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

British Modernism, Fact or Fiction? - A Debate / Cobbing, Bob; Lucie-Smith, Edward; Finlay IH; Houedard DS; Furnival J; Fernbach-Flarscheim C; Cox K., 1971

 Item — Box 392: [Barcode: 31858072461563]
Identifier: CC-17781-18150
Scope and Contents

Designated pamphlet seven. Although the title page of this publication announces a debate, the pages consist of photocopied reproductions of concrete poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Busta Celeste, 1979

 Item — Box 615: [Barcode: 31858073143871]
Identifier: CC-38172-40067
Scope and Contents

The poem deals with the theme of a dark blue sky. This work is also designated situazioni plasticoverbali No.3. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Buzzwords: interviews with Buzz Spector, 2012

 Item
Identifier: CC-55291-9999047
Scope and Contents

The torn pages have one letter printed on a page that when flattened readS "An idea is not yet knowledge." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2012

Ceolfrith Arts Exhibition, 1984

 Item — Box 394: [Barcode: 31858072461589]
Identifier: CC-17679-18047
Scope and Contents

This manuscript documents the exhibition of Bob Cobbing & Writers Forum at Sunderland Arts Centre, published as Ceolfrith No.3. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Changing Forms in Visual Poetry - The Influence of Tools and Machines 2nd Edition / Cobbing, Bob ; Furnival J ; Mayer P ; Nichol bp ; Edmonds T ; Pike J ; Houedard DS ; Fencott PC., 1997

 Item — Box 396: [Barcode: 31858072461605]
Identifier: CC-47981-69004
Scope and Contents

Designated Studies in Concrete Poetry No.4 and is a reprinting of the lecture delivered by Cobbing at the Text as Figure exhibition in Wolfenbuttel 1987 with the following topics: 1) typewriter dirty clean, 2) typewriter, 3) calligraphy hand writing drawn letters, 4) press-on lettering, 5) press-on letters & other means, 6) mimeo misuse, 7) found materials, 8) more found materials, 9) photo-copying, 10) photo-copier, 11) computer, and 12) back to the beginning. The 69 examples in this book include mostly Cobbing's poems but a few examples of other poets as well. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Changing Forms in Visual Poetry - The Influence of Tools and Machines / Cobbing, Bob ; Furnival J ; Mayer P ; Nichol bp ; Edmonds T ; Pike J ; Houedard DS., 31 December 1988

 Item — Box 394: [Barcode: 31858072461589]
Identifier: CC-17571-17937
Scope and Contents

Designated Studies in Concrete Poetry No.4 and is a reprinting of the lecture delivered by Cobbing at the Text als Figur exhibition in Wolfenbuttel 1987 with the following topics: 1) typewriter dirty clean, 2) typewriter, 3) calligraphy hand writing drawn letters, 4) press-on lettering, 5) press-on letters & other means, 6) mimeo misuse, 7) found materials, 8) more found materials, 9) photo-copying, 10) photo-copier, 11) computer, and 12) back to the beginning. The 69 examples in this book include mostly Cobbing's poems but a few examples of other poets as well. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 31 December 1988

charles eve, 1965

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-56017-59683
Scope and Contents

The names charles (verey?) and eve are presented in various permutations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Christmas Greetings & Best Wishes / Cobbing, Bob; Cobbing, Jennifer., 1970

 Item — Box 385: [Barcode: 31858072461506]
Identifier: CC-17763-18132
Scope and Contents

Image was taken from Kris Kringles...; the original is held by the Sackner Archive. The author is also known as Jennifer Pike. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Christmas Greetings / Cobbing, Bob; Pike, Jennifer., 1970

 Item — Box 389: [Barcode: 31858072461530]
Identifier: CC-17466-17832
Scope and Contents

The author is also known as Jennifer Cobbing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Chrom-Neon-Text, 1971

 Item — Box 614: [Barcode: 31858072461001]
Identifier: CC-37524-39381
Scope and Contents

This print depicts a photograph of a colored neon sculpture that Kriwet made for the cafeteria of the university. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971