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Stored in Jas H Duke's box. It includes Jas H Duke's infamous 'Shit Poem" by Australian radio's ABC who commisioned it but declined to broadcast it once they heard the tape of his reading. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this book, Pie (TT) O selects a Chinese ideogram and alters it so it becomes a recognizable English word or visual image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book consists of a wide range of Pie O's poems that often are spinkled with an Australian dialect. The pages from his visit to America on a Guggenheim fellowship deals with his political views as an anarchist. He dedicated this book to Thalia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Edited by Carla Bertola. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This work is a typographic tour de force in which the accordion folds are placed such that the text can be unfolded as a horizontal continuum. The type is printed in red, black, blue, and orange highly saturated colors. The poem is based upon a performance piece by Duke that completed in 1973. The poem describes Dada in Zurich in 1916, in the winter in Berlin in 1918-1919 during the hardships of WWI, as Dada slept from 1923-1945, and in Australia in contemporaneous times. The Sackner copy is one of 25 in a portfolio; No.1 was in a designer binding, No.26-29 were unbound, and 5 copies were hors commerce. Except for the title which is in the German language, the text is in English. The book was conceived and designed in a constructivist lay-out by Mike Hudson (who never met Duke according to a personal communication to the Sackners) and set in a wide range of lead and wood sans serif types by Jadwiga Jarvis. The portfolio has papercard inserts for two pamphlets on the inside front...

Scope and Contents Wikipedia: П. O. (or Pi O, born 1951) aka Peter Oustabasides is an Australian, working class, anarchist, poet of Greek origin. Born in Katerini, Greece, П. O. came to Australia with his family around 1954. After time in Bonegilla Migrant Reception and Training Centre, the family moved to the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy. П. O. was inspired to start writing poetry in 1970 when he heard Johnny Cash reciting (religious) poetry while tuning his guitar. П. O. thought he could do as well or better. His work ranges from standup-type rants to 'conceptual' page poetry and concrete poetry, with a heavy emphasis on wordplay and capturing the vitality of everyday speech. Thematically, he commonly portrays the issues of non-Anglo-Celtic working class life.He has had numerous books published since his first, Fitzroy Brothel in 1974, more notably the epic verse novel 24hrs. From 1978 to 1983, he was involved in producing the radical poetry magazine 925. He is a fixture of Melbourne's...

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This is an anthology of Australian concrete and visual poetry from well known and lesser known lights. Most of the poems were previously published in Australian small mags and the collection was well edited. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Pie O wrote the Ockers poem in 1983 that describes the character of a stereotyped Australian man of the seventies. Mike Hudson designed wild, colorful pop art, linocut, graphics to match Pie O's vividly expressive poem. The poem was hand set in letterpress by Jadwiga Jarvis. Julie Copeland contributed an introduction and glossary of Australian slang and neologisms to this poem in the accompanying brochure. An Ocker is defined as an "uncultivated, aggressive, boorish, uncouth Australian man who also displays qualities such as good humor, helpfulness, and resourcefulness...this is a serious poem which challenges slick, nationalistic slogans about Aussies, ockers, mates, winners & battlers, in the most effective way possible, by quoting them, reshaping them in the voice of a poet with a love of the lived life of language." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poems for the most part are written in the Creole dialect of the Fitzroy region of Australia. Pi O's Christian name is Peter Oustabasides. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Michael Vale made the illustrations for this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poems are usually printed two to a page with square dimensions. The poems appear to differ from those published in the book titled "Number Poems" by Collective Effort Press in 2000. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poems are printed two to a page and usually with square dimensions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Tipping's multiple 'Airpoet' that is held by the Sackner Arcive is depicted on page 19. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.