Also designated Writers Forum Poets number fourteen. This is the first edition. Contains reproductions of several typewriter poems of which the originals are held by the Sackner Archive, e.g., Sun Cloud Rain Land Fish (240663). The typewriter poem whose image accompanies this record is highly atypical of Houedard's oeuvre. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Also designated Writers Forum Poets number fourteen. Contains reproductions of several typewriter poems of which the originals are held by the Sackner Archive, e.g., Sun Cloud Rain Land Fish (240663). This is a first edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Frank Fricker provides an historical introduction of concrete poetry, optical, kinetic and phonic poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

John Furnival and dom Silvester Houedard, the editors define this venture as follows. "typography - openings are constituted by poet/ typographer/ artist - openings are active poetry - openings make everybody make poetry - poetry means making poesis - a typographer thinks that the poem is the first of of the first things first." graphics - we aim to produce a series which is not a complete integration of graphics and text, i.e. not an illustrated poem or a captioned drawing but a picture/poem - in fact, we always start out with, and work from, the poem - the difficulty lies in maintaining the balance between text and drawing." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The proof copy verso lacks information on poetry, graphics, typography, and printing contacts as on the distributed copy. On the verso of this pamphlet, Furnival writes, "Rough proof of propectus for OPENINGS PRESS, founded in 1964 by John Furnival + dom Silvester Houedard." They define this venture as follows. "typography - openings are constituted by poet/ typographer/ artist - openings are active poetry - openings make everybody make poetry - poetry means making poesis - a typographer thinks that the poem is the first of of the first things first." graphics - we aim to produce a series which is not a complete integration of graphics and text, i.e. not an illustrated poem or a captioned drawing but a picture/poem - in fact, we always start out with, and work from, the poem - the difficulty lies in maintaining the balance between text and drawing." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This card deals with the contemporaneous political situation in Greece, e.g., a military dictatorship. The first 'l' in the ancient word for Greece,"Hellas," is removed and a displaced in at an angle over the 'e' leaving an empty 'l' space in the word. It signifies the "club" held over Greece by the dictatorship. On one of the cards, the verso is rubberstamped, "poem - summer 1967, first printed edition, abson press, for d/h read dsh, happy xyzmas/newxyear." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem was first published in London Magazine October 1970. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Cobbing discusses the early concrete poems of Ian Hamilton Finlay, John Furnival, Kenelm Cox, Dom Sylvester Houedard, and Tom Edmonds in depth. This essay is unbpubished. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In this poem, all the squares are typed, not collaged. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This essay was published in "The Times Literary Supplement" No.3,258 August 6 1964 in a slightly modified form from this manuscript. The Sackner Archive holds this issue of TLS. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This work was reproduced in the Dom Sylvester houedard book edited by Nicola Simpson, "Notes from the Cosmic Typewriter: The Life and Work of Dom Sylvester Houedard" and is stored in the binder labeled DSH London 2012. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The meaning of this poem is obscure. It may mean the act of urination, e.g., you pee down with the open parentheses depicting the urinating stream. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

First published in 'Revue Ou' in 1964. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Houedard has typed two poems a week apart on the same page. He utilized a complex mathematical procedure to arrive at this performance poetry presentation, much like the workings of Oulipo. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is typed in somewhat the style of e.e.cummings. Alain Neame was the co-liiterary editor with houedard of the Jerusalem Bible. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.