Bann discusses Furnival organizing transportation of "Clyne" constructions, vowel screens, three columns, Ed Wright's "Four Sails" glass, "Ajar" wooden construction, "Ark/Arc" in plastic...[and] column with "Wave/Wave" to Nottingham, and the possibility of using Mayer's "Ampersands" for a wall or outdoor display. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Bann thanks Furnival for typographical material and requests use of two designs in the Alan Ross anthology. Bann asks that Furnival consider an outdoor rather than an indoor site for his installation at the Brighton Festival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Letter concerns setting up, transporting and caring for Furnival's work at the first Brighton Festival as well as asking for an indication of the arrangement of Furnival's panels and whether Houedard could associate with the project. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Includes essays by Stephen Bann, Robert Kenedy, Stuart Mills and Simon Cutts on the relationship of Tarasque press to concrete and visual poetry in England during the seventies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This catalogue lists 341 items in a collection of mostly ordinary edition books and periodicals priced at approximately $8,000. There was heavy respresentation of Cobbing, Cutts, and Finlay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This catalogue marks the first, sudden rise in prices for Ian Hamilton Finlay's cards, books, and prints. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Reprinted from Stereo Headphones No.5, 1972. The authors debunk the assertion of Stuart Mills who in Akros No.18, 1972 stated that the poem-poster was introduced by Ian-Hamilton Finlay. They go on to further describe the pioneers of Concrete Poetry in their opinion. Rebuttals to their conclusions by Stephan Bann and Henri Chopin are also published. Mentions that Ernest Fenellosa, who died in 1908, used the term 'concrete poetry' in an essay, 'The Chinese Character as a Medium for Poetry' in 1901. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

*WEB 1998. [Email]seamus.cooney@wmich.edu. My copy says it's published by Tarasque Press. Sackner: no identification of publisher on my copy of card but similar Bann cards were also published by Tarasque Press so that correction is accepted. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Calendar design was done by Herbert M. Rosenthal. Consists of one poem print per month with a critical analysis by Stephen Bann on an accompanying page. The poems include ho/horizon, ajar, net/net, cork/net, acrobats, wave/rock, green waters, you/me, broken/heartbroken, wind/wind, ring of waves, and le circus. In the 1990 Finlay bibliography, a set of 12 framed poems from this calendar was offered for $3200 (calendar is out of print). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The catalogue was designed by Ron Costley. It includes a long critical introduction by Stephen Bann focusing on Finlay's contributions to concrete poetry and his swing toward neo- classicism in the picture poems carried out by inscriptions on stone plaques in the garden. The catalogue also has a reprinting of Finlay's "A Wartime Garden." The illustrations depict several unique stone, neon, and glass sculptures. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.