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Concrete poetry

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 485 Collections and/or Records:

Gedicht [overlapping filled typed squares] (170664), 1964

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-56698-10000086
Scope and Contents

In this poem, all the squares are typed, not collaged. The original typing is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Gloup and Woup / Cobbing, Bob, editor; Houedard DS; Furnival J; Cox K; Mayer P; Cobbing B; Edmonds T., 1974

 Item — Box 391: [Barcode: 31858072461555]
Identifier: CC-19807-20194
Scope and Contents

GLOUP (GLOUcestershire grouP) signifies name given by Jonathan Williams to group of concrete poets living in the west of England, mainly in Gloustershire, including Dom Sylvester Houedard, John Furnival and Kenhelm Cox. WOUP (Westminster grOUP) is name given by Bob Cobbing and Peter Mayer to group of concrete poets living in London, mainly in the city of Westminster, including Cobbing, Mayer and Tom Edmonds. This anthology presents five works by each the poets. One copy has a yellow papercard cover, the other an orange one with a tear. Tom Edmonds who died at age 27 years was a member of the group; the Sackner Archive holds three of his typewriter drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Grin / Cobbing, Bob., 1979

 Item — Box 387: [Barcode: 31858072461522]
Identifier: CC-17510-17876
Scope and Contents

Designated minibooks number seventeen. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Ground Rock Salt Grade, 1971

 Item — Box 634: [Barcode: 31858072491313]
Identifier: CC-17784-18154
Scope and Contents

A polyvinyl fragment from a found bag was utilized as the stencil for the print. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Hold On, 1989

 Item — Box 621: [Barcode: 31858072461084]
Identifier: CC-06730-6849
Scope and Contents

Rubber balloon incorporated into cover design. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

homage a leopold sedar senghor (100763), 1963

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-56063-9999510
Scope and Contents

Leopold Sedar Senghor was a Sengalese poet, politician and cultural theorist who served as the first president of Senegal for two decades. He was the first African elected as a member of the Academie francais. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Horizont, 1978

 Item — Box 134: [Barcode: 31858072457850]
Identifier: CC-10648-10857
Scope and Contents

The poem is slanted downward to the right and translates as "My Horizon." Designated as blatt 55.78. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

HUJ, 1974

 Item — Box 635: [Barcode: 31858072464757]
Identifier: CC-17780-18149
Scope and Contents

This print was published as page 37 in Ceolfrith No.28: Bob Cobbing & Writers Forum. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

I Poem From The Five Vowels, 1977

 Item — Box 635: [Barcode: 31858072464757]
Identifier: CC-17756-18125
Scope and Contents

This poem was submitted for publication in Pink Peace. Cobbing notes on the verso of this print that this a new - and somewhat differently aimed version of the original two pages of the poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977