Designated Jargon 81. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Simon Cutts and Colin Sackett selected 16 publishers for an exhibition at the Plymouth Arts Centre. The publishers in turn selected the work of their press for presentation. The presses included Aggie Weston, Coracle, Moschatel Press, Weproductions, Wild Hawthorne Press and Writers Forum. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Book is designed with orange colored blank pages interspersed with tan colored pages onto which three to four line poems have been rubberstamped with blue ink. For example, one poem reads, "Ode: - The Society - of Design-Bookbinders - hide-bound." One poem in a larger font is stamped in light blue ink across two pages and reads, "We hardly see the moon anymore." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Pages consist of tan paper of heavy stock and yellow pages of light stock. Several pages are rubberstamped in black, blue, green and red inks with brief lines of poetry, fiction or left blank. One page is rubberstamped with images of condoms and another with a rejection stamp of the Tate Gallery, London. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The text reads, "late starlings startled by traffic resettle." Printed twice in lower case the poem suggests the flight of a flock of birds and their resettling on a wire. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Designated Jargon 63. Reprints Cutts' book, Odeon Ocean, a work held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each page consists of a printed single word that was contributed by a poet listed at the beginning of the book, e.g., Thomas A. Clark: blaeberries, Laurie Clark: evening, Bob Cobbing: fin, Jonathan Williams: gardyloo, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Simon Cutts, publisher and poet, writes in an introduction, "It is by now difficult to substantiate any single definition of a book as made by an artist, and indeed this very issue may have been surpassed...These new books attempt to synthasise text, image, material, method of production and context into a unified single work. When this succeeds, the book functions as a primary form." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This booklet is cited in two places because the first author listed is Cutts but it is listed in the Finlay bibliography. Straiks" or "strakes" are stripes of different color from the rest of the surface of which they form a part (OED). The text plays upon variations: streams, streets, streaks, straiks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This booklet is cited in two places because the first author mentioned is Cutts but the booklet is listed in Finlay's bibliography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The book includes an excellent essay on the art-collecting skills of Gabrielle Keiller. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The Sackner Archive also holds an unsigned copu of this work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.