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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6395 Collections and/or Records:

Names / UU, David ; Coleman V ; curry jw ; Ross S ; Nichol bp ; Ball N ; Gilbert G ; lefler P., 2000

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Identifier: CC-36515-38316
Scope and Contents

According to the widow of David UU, Ingrid Harris, these poems were created in late 1990 (North Vancouver, BC) and 1991 (Hamilton, Ontario). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Namewall III / Cutler-Shaw, Joyce., 1980

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Identifier: CC-35027-36748
Scope and Contents

This is an installation photographic reproduction of the work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Namings and Origins / Tilson, Joe., 1984

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Identifier: CC-40796-42772
Scope and Contents

Lynn Silverman, the exhibition assistant, writes, "Although Joe Tilson does not write poetry, the power of the word is evident in his art. His conversation is sprinkled with references to certain poets, especially Yeats and Pound. The ubiquitous relationship between words and images, and their role in structuring our experience of the world, is a thread that runs throughout Tilson's art." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

[National Poetry Day 6th October 1994] / Cobbing, Bob ; Morgan E., 1994

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Identifier: CC-20546-20943
Scope and Contents

This book consists of a reprinting of several previously published poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Negative / Noel, Ann., 1978

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Identifier: CC-29693-31068
Scope and Contents

One of few examples in the Sackner Archive in which the text has been designed with negative/positive typography. The poem reads, "Negative Imagine Which," etc. Ann Stevenson married Emmett Williams and initially used the name Ann Noel Williams but later dropped "Williams" and retained the name "Ann Noel." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Nemesis y la Anemona Roja / Fernandez de Sevilla, F-Javier., 1983

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Identifier: CC-11226-11441
Scope and Contents

Poems are all printed with a red color. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Net/Planet / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1968

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Identifier: CC-11931-12154
Scope and Contents

In this card, different names of fishing nets are printed in black in the form of spokes of a wheel ending with "planet" printed in gray. According to Murray's Finlay bibliography, the card was published in 1969 but the verso of the card shows the date as 1968. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Nets / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1970

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Identifier: CC-11875-12096
Scope and Contents

The word "nets" is shaped in the form of a weather vane, a metaphor for catching wind rather than fish. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Netz / Hoesselbarth, Kai., 1991

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Identifier: CC-09335-9521
Scope and Contents

The word "netz" meaning web forms a grid out of which the words "appel" meaning appeal in the center are trying to escape. Hosselbarth or Hoesselbarth is now known as Kai Selbar. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991