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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6475 Collections and/or Records:

Op And Kinkon Poems / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-09390-9576
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1965

Op Kinkon & Eyear / Fricker, Frank, editor ; Herbert G ; Carroll L ; Mallarme S ; Gomringer E ; Houedard DS ; Bevan A ; Sampson J ; DeCampos A ; Garnier P ; Roth D ; Finlay IH ; Cobbing B ; Apollinaire G., 1966

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Identifier: CC-11130-11345
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1966

Open and Closed Book, The: Contemporary Book Arts / Quentin Blake, curator ; Adler J ; Chopin H ; Christie J ; Cobbing B ; Crozier R ; Cutts S ; Finlay IH ; Furnival J ; Gibbs M ; Heidsieck B ; Houedard DS ; King R ; Mayer P ; Mon F ; Phillips T ; Tilson Jo ; Torok K ; Williams E ; Williams J ; Claire P ; Antonucci E ; d'Arbeloff N ; Bal E ; Ballard J ; Bann S ; Beckett S ; Benes BL ; Benveniste A ; Benveniste P ; Boyle M ; Brattinga P ; Burroughs WS ; Cage J ; Campbell K ; Carroll L ; Castro L ; Chopin J ; Clark L ; Clark TA ; Corso G ; Creeley R ; Crozier R ; Degottex J ; Duncalf S ; Elmslie K ; Erro ; Fidler M ; Fisher A ; Fisher R ; Furnival A ; Gardner I ; Gilbert & George ; Gerz J ; Gill E ; Greenham L ; Griffiths B ; Schraenen G ; Haacke H ; Hamilton R ; Mayer HJ ; Harvey M ; Hausmann R ; Hockney D ; Hollo A ; Horovitz M ; Howe N ; Johns J ; Joyce J ; Kindersley D ; Kitaj R ; Laforgue J ; Latham J ; Lax R ; Logue C ; Long R ; Lucie-Smith E ; MacLow J ; Martin K ; Merton T ; Mon F ; Moore AD ; Morgan E ; Morgenstern C ; Novak L ; Perse SJ ; Piech PP ; Phillips J ; Radin B ; Raworth T ; Riddell A ; Rimbaud A ; Roberts K ; Roth D ; Rothenberg J ; Sackett C ; Self C ; Seuphor M ; Smith P ; Spencer H ; Summers R ; Themerson F ; Themerson S ; Tremlett D ; Tyson I ; Ungerer T ; Vonna-Mitchell E ; Waldrop K ; Weaver M ; Weiner L ; White K ; Willats S ; Winkfield T ; Yevtushenko Y ; Zurbrugg N., 1979

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Identifier: CC-05213-5313
Scope and Contents

The exhibition was curated by R C Kenedy. Tom Phillips designed the cover of this catalogue of British book arts. Sections are devoted to private presses, fine binding, typography and concrete poetry. Particular mention is paid to John Furnival "who paints builds whole landscapes from semantic elements" and Ian Hamilton Finlay "who creates poetry through providing words with a rigorously controlled and potently significant environment." Page 230 depicts John Christie's Word Clock III (1978) that is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Open Folios / Cobbing, Bob., 1993

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Identifier: CC-20539-20936
Scope and Contents

Includes several texts from 1965 to 1968 that have been reworked and new texts from 1972 to 1993 that were not previously published. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Opening: An Excerpt from Code. No.5/Sep / Franciszkca Themerson ; Stefan Themerson., 1965

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Identifier: CC-38086-39976
Scope and Contents

The card has two pop-ups, viz., the upper half a caricature of a face an the lower half a poem dealing with doves and magic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Opening: An Excerpt from Code. No.5/Sep / Franciszkca Themerson ; Stefan Themerson., 1965

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Identifier: CC-48087-69110
Scope and Contents

The card has two pop-ups, viz., the upper half a caricature of a face an the lower half a poem dealing with doves and magic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Opening: Finally A Valentine. No.1/Jan / Louis Zukovsky ; Edward Wright ; John Furnival., 1965

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Identifier: CC-38076-39966
Scope and Contents

Zukovsky's poem reads, "There is a heart - has no complaint - better a-part - than faint - so the faintest - part of it - has no complaint - a part." Furnival illustrated it with concrete poems and Edward Wright did the typography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Opening: Openingnisolc [Opening Closing]. No.8 / Hansjorg Mayer., 1966

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Identifier: CC-27961-29108
Scope and Contents

On the recto side of this broadside, the words 'opening' and 'closing' are printed in normal fashion and in mirror image. On the verso side, these words are printed over each other in a packed grid. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Opening: Openingnisolc [Opening Closing]. No.8 / Hansjorg Mayer., 1966

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Identifier: CC-27964-29113
Scope and Contents

On the recto side of this broadside, the words 'opening' and 'closing' are printed in normal fashion and in mirror image. On the verso side, these words are printed over each other in a packed grid. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Opening: Openingnisolc [Opening Closing]. No.8 / Hansjorg Mayer., 1966

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Identifier: CC-27965-29115
Scope and Contents

On the recto side of this broadside, the words 'opening' and 'closing' are printed in normal fashion and in mirror image. On the verso side, these words are printed over each other in a packed grid. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Opening: Openingnisolc [Opening Closing]. No.8 / Hansjorg Mayer., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-28043-29199
Scope and Contents

On the recto side of this broadside, the words 'opening' and 'closing' are printed in normal fashion and in mirror image. On the verso side, these words are printed over each other in a packed grid. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Opening: Openingnisolc [Opening Closing]. No.8 / Hansjorg Mayer., 1966

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Identifier: CC-48053-69076
Scope and Contents

On the recto side of this broadside, the words 'opening' and 'closing' are printed in normal fashion and in mirror image. On the verso side, these words are printed over each other in a packed grid. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Opening: Openingnisolc [Opening Closing]. No.8 / Hansjorg Mayer., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-48086-69109
Scope and Contents

On the recto side of this broadside, the words 'opening' and 'closing' are printed in normal fashion and in mirror image. On the verso side, these words are printed over each other in a packed grid. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Opening: Standing Poem 4: Pole/Night. No.3 / Ian Hamilton Finlay ; John Furnival., 1969

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Identifier: CC-11937-12160
Scope and Contents

The card prints the names of Scottish fishing ships that end in "star." The names are printed in blue and arranged and tilted to be analagous to stars in the sky. The word 'pole" is printed on the two closed borders and the word 'night' is printed on the opened borders. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Opening: Standing Poem 4: Pole/Night. No.3 / Ian Hamilton Finlay ; John Furnival., 1965

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Identifier: CC-37977-39860
Scope and Contents

The card prints the names of Scottish fishing ships that end in "star." The names are printed in blue and arranged and tilted to be analagous to stars in the sky. The word 'pole" is printed on the two closed borders and the word 'night' is printed on the opened borders. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Opening: Standing Poem 4: Pole/Night. No.3 / Ian Hamilton Finlay ; John Furnival., 1965

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Identifier: CC-37978-39861
Scope and Contents

The card prints the names of Scottish fishing ships that end in "star." The names are printed in blue and arranged and tilted to be analagous to stars in the sky. The word 'pole" is printed on the two closed borders and the word 'night' is printed on the opened borders. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965