Composed on an IBM Selectric typewriter.This is a tribute to two fabled cities of the orient, as rimbaudelaire is to two French poets. I've been playing with the two names since the 60s, but the version seen here is my first actual typestract based on them, original 2013. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Composed on an IBM Selectric typewriter. Cameron comments that this work is both (obviously, as is) a visual poem and, (less obviously) the score for a choral prose reading aloud, in which an alchemical transformation between vegetative and metallic elements is accomplished as we transition from trees (higher voices) to metals (lower) -- and perhaps back up again. It has always struck me that a poet would be as interested in adjacent names (in this case, silver birch and copper beech) as in adjacent trees. If I was reporting a country walk, birch and oak might be the two trees that caught my eye -- but as a poet, birch and beech, with their corresponding metallic adjectives, would be far more resonant. This copy printed 2013 from a computerized version in HTML, late 1990s, after a typed original -- almost impossible to reproduce at this point -- back in the early '80s. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Composed on an IBM Selectric typewriter. In a personal communication to the Sacknsrs, Cameron comments 'a companion piece perhaps to Apollinaire's "Il Pleut des voix de femmes" -- and perhaps strikes me particularly because as a Brit born and raised, the idea that fall (US) is a season (ie autumn, UK) is new and fresh to me -- so from spring to fall offers both a seasonal and a watery connection. Original ca 1780-1982, this copy 2013. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Composed on an IBM Selectric typewriter that was originally typed 1966 and now retyped 2013. Cameron comments that this poem was originally typed as a gift for Elizabeth Taylor, when she turned out in support of campaign for Edmund Blunden as Professor of Poetry at Oxford in 1966. I was a young Oxford poet favored by the young don Francis Warner at the time, he was, if I recall, the one leading the campaign for Blunden, and introduced me to Elizabeth Taylor at a pub. Pleasant, if hazy, memories. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The letter on the verso of this photograph indicates that two of Chopin's items can be discounted. Also, Furnival mentions that Mike Weaver was upset with Edwin Morgan for not giving him more credit for his "image" article in a talk that he gave. The photograph depicts a constructivist drawing by Furnival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The centered typing has two vertical lines of M's and m's emerging from a cloud of densely typed B's surrounded by four YA's. Charles is Charles Cameron. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.