Skip to main content

D S H (Dom Sylvester Houédard), 1924-1992

 Person

Found in 1306 Collections and/or Records:

[my dear cord [coyty]] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-56756-10000131
Scope and Contents

This is a letter to Cord [Coyty] written on a letterhead from Bon Secors Nursing Home in Wincheste Hantsr. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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(unprocessed)

[my dear ernest [weal]] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-56757-10000132
Scope and Contents

This is a letter written on a letterhead from Bon Secors Nursing Home in Winchester. Houedard has typed on the top "as from prinknash abbey." Houedard writes that he has "been frantica ly busy all year - had 12 exhibitions in last 9 months - & of course thousands of dreadful ladytourists all ariving in their mammywaggons." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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(unprocessed)

my dear john [furnival] (220264) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Finlay IH; Sharkey JJ; Wright E; Morgan E; Hollo A; Stone B; Roth D; Gomringer E; DeCampos A; Chopin H; Garnier P., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-43530-45603
Scope and Contents

The body of this letter deals with making an introduction to John Furnival and dropping names of concrete poets prominent on the international scene. The left margin has several concrete poems by Houedard typed in black ink. Houedard typed his name at the bottom of the letter by forming each letter by overtyping the letter 'e'. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964
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(unprocessed)

[my dear john: jn calder says) (190165) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Sharkey JJ., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-56755-10000130
Scope and Contents

This is a letter to John Sharkey that concerns writing letters to appear in the Guardian newspaper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965
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(unprocessed)

[my dear john & wendy [sharkey] (031165) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Sharkey JJ; Sharkey W ; Furnival J; Rawlinson A; Balestrini N; Matthews H., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-56624-58901
Scope and Contents

Houedard writes that it was a pleasure to see the Sharkeys. He discusses the public's conception of monks and their sexual orientation. He also advises John to get in touch with Andrew Rawlisnon and Robert Tait and mentions that John Furnival has been busy making harmonograph machines. He also lists and describes poetry machines made by John Furnival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965
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(unprocessed)

my dear moonthought [david medalla] (260268) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Medalla D., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-56314-59740
Scope and Contents This letter typed on tissue paper is addressed to "my dear moonthought here is a wee machinepome on luv." The upper section gives instructions for six poems, the middle section is a typed square of luv and the bottom section designates four lines of instructions. This work was to be used for the LeicesterArts Festival. Wikipedia: David Medalla (born 1942) is a Filipino international artist. His work ranges from sculpture and kinetic art to painting, installation and performance art. He lives and works in London, New York and Paris. Medalla was born in Manila, the Philippines, in 1942. At the age of 12 he was admitted at Columbia University in New York upon the recommendation of American poet Mark van Doren and studied ancient Greek drama with Moses Hadas, modern drama with Eric Bentley, modern literature with Lionel Trilling, modern philosophy with John Randall and attended the poetry workshops of Leonie Adams. In the late 1950s he returned to Manila and met Jaime Gil de Biedma...
Dates: 1968
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(unprocessed)

[my dear peter (schmidt)] (051168) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Schmidt P., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-08625-8797
Scope and Contents On the first page Houedard wrote, "thank you for the invitation to your show - wish i cld have manged it all best sounds good" At the bottom of page three Houedard wrote, "typed in haste - unchecked - i fear with a slip or two - sent the with unslipt luvs" -s. Pages 2 & 3 of this letter are based upon an onomastikon that is a book, list, or vocabulary of names, especially of people. Wikipedia: Peter Schmidt (17 May 1931 "“ 22 January 1980) was a Berlin-born British artist, painter, theoretician of color and composition, pioneering multimedia exhibitor and an influential teacher at Watford College of Art. He was part of a generation of art school teachers in the 1960s and 1970s that had great impact on some students who later went on to work in art and music. He worked with Hansjörg Mayer, Brian Eno, Mark Boyle, Dieter Roth and had associations with Russell Mills, David Toop and Tom Phillips. the Sackner Archive holds one work by Schmidt, The Thoughts Behind the Thoughts", an...
Dates: 1968
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(unprocessed)

my dear steve [abrams] (201067) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Verey C; Furnival J; Abrams S ., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-09445-9632
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(unprocessed)

my mind / yr yawn / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-55759-334423
Dates: 1968
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(unprocessed)

[my usual rush] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Sharkey JJ; Valoch J; Neame A; McCarthy C; Loncraine R; Cox K; Lijn L., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-56733-10000111
Scope and Contents

This letter is addressed to johnjsharke. Houedard brings him up to date about contacting poets for exhibitions and publications. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965
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(unprocessed)

[n ch L sf n] (161168) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-56598-10000003
Dates: 1968
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(unprocessed)

n defuct / defunct / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-55776-55664
Scope and Contents

The verso depicts dsh's handwriting of the title "defunct" in the u.r. corner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968
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(unprocessed)

[N E S W] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-55430-151515
Dates: 1966
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(unprocessed)

napalm sunday / he puns wied eu / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-55766-9999310
Scope and Contents

'Weid' is a Scottish and Irish varient of 'weed' and eu in French means 'got' in Engish. This poem is an anti-Vietnam war poem that deals with burning the fields of that country into weeds with Napalm 'got' by U.S. military forces. Houedard may also be referring to 'field day,' that originally referred to a set of military exercises, a term utilized in 'A Scheme for Equipping and Maintaining Sixteen Men of War' (1747), e.g., These periodical intervals of eating and drinking...are to the Citizens as it were Field Days, for improving ...their Valour [internet]. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968
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(unprocessed)

[negative one] (270267) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-08666-8839
Scope and Contents

The arrangement of lines in this composition forms a rectangle with one truncated side of clear space. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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(unprocessed)

negro / organ / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-55882-58990
Scope and Contents This poem reverses when turned 180 degrees. Wikipedia: Baron Samedi (Baron Saturday, also Baron Samdi, Bawon Samedi, or Bawon Sanmdi) is one of the Loa of Haitian Voodoo. Samedi is a Loa of the dead, along with Baron's numerous other incarnations Baron Cimetière, Baron La Croix, and Baron Kriminel. He is the head of the Guédé family of Loa, or an aspect of them, or possibly their spiritual father. 'Samedi' means 'Saturday' in French. His wife is the Loa Maman Brigitte. He is usually depicted with a top hat, black tuxedo (dinner jacket), dark glasses, and cotton plugs in the nostrils, as if to resemble a corpse dressed and prepared for burial in the Haitian style. He has a white, frequently skull-like face (or actually has a skull for a face) and speaks in a nasal voice. He is a sexual Loa, frequently represented by phallic symbols and is noted for disruption, obscenity, debauchery, and having a particular fondness for tobacco and rum. Additionally, he is the Loa of sex and...
Dates: 1969
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(unprocessed)

neo left / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-57156-10000485
Dates: 1969
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(unprocessed)

NEURO PATH / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-57139-10000475
Scope and Contents

This page contains 11 concrete, mirror image and reversal poems each enclosed in ink squares.The handwritten name "Nicholas Logsdale," the owner and founder of Lisson Gallery in London is on the l.r.side. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969
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(unprocessed)

never i think sent you last year / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

 Item
Identifier: CC-56059-9999507
Dates: 1963
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(unprocessed)

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

 Item
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(unprocessed)

Staff Interface | Visit ArchivesSpace.org | v3.5.1 | Send Feedback or Report a Problem