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D S H (Dom Sylvester Houédard), 1924-1992

 Person

Found in 174 Collections and/or Records:

plus like creation (010964), 1964

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-08742-8916

PM, 1968

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-57018-10000380
Scope and Contents

The initials refer to Pat Morrissey, the Director of the Bear Lane Art Gallery in Oxford England. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

POEM - TAKISTRUCT (or BIRHOPAL TAKISTRUCT (281164) & POEM - THE A & H DE CAMPOS BROS (061264), 1964

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-55822-59680
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1964

poeme offert a alain neame (230864), 1964

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-56369-59675
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1964

POEME PAR LA MOTHE - FENELON & HOUEDARD (220964), 1964

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-56371-59678
Scope and Contents

The poem is typed in blue ink. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

poems of dsh, 1964

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-57846-10001098
Scope and Contents

Charles Cameron writes about this collection of 36 pages and one cover page, "A collection of non--concrete poems on mainly religious topics, some on the beat & raunchy side, typed by me (cc) on dsh's typewriter and inscribed by him on title page "& copied in my presence dsh" - erotic, quixotic, off beat, beat, wild stuff." The poems iknclude adescription os dsh's typewriter, Jack Kerouac, and a poetry definition as 'misplaced sex.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

[por ne], 1963

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-57869-10001121
Scope and Contents

These are dsh's notes on "paid sex literature" according to Charles Cameron or commercialized sex. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Position I of International for Spatial Poetries, 1963

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-10189-10390
Scope and Contents

This manuscript was typed by Dom Sylvester Houedard, the translator of Garier's manifesto and is stored in Garniker's box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Proof Copy: Bob Cobbing and Writers Forum , 1974

 Item — Box 635: [Barcode: 31858072464757]
Identifier: CC-17679-18047
Scope and Contents

This manuscript documents the exhibition of Bob Cobbing & Writers Forum at Sunderland Arts Centre, published as Ceolfrith No.3. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Right / Left, 1969

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-57140-10000476
Scope and Contents

This page contains R-L on the left side and the letters eft and ight on the right side so that the words Left, Reft, Light and Right can be created. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

ROETHKE (300863), 1963

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-08744-8918
Scope and Contents

This poem is a homage to the death of Theodore Roethke (May25, 1908 - August 1, 1963) and was written by dsh one week after his death. Wikipedia: Roethke was an American poet who published several volumes of influential and critically acclaimed verse. He is widely regarded as among the most accomplished and influential poets of his generation. Roethke's work is characterized by its introspection, rhythm and natural imagery. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1954 for his book, The Waking, and he won the annual National Book Award for Poetry twice, in 1959 for Words for the Wind[2] and posthumously in 1965 for The Far Field.In the November 1968 edition of the Atlantic Monthly, former U.S. Poet Laurete and author James Dickey wrote Roethke was: "...in my opinion the greatest poet this country has yet produced." In keeping with Houedard's poem, Roethke's poems often related to nature. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

[Saint Benedict], 1953

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-55325-9999074
Scope and Contents

According to a personal communication from Charles Verey to the Sackners, Houedard was alternating his time in Prinknash Abbey and Rome, Italy from October 1951 to July 1954. He believed that most of the visual art was done in Rome. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1953

[Saint Benedict 2], 1953

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-55322-9999071

[Saint Benedict 3], 1953

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-55324-9999073

[Saint Sebastian Shot With Arrows], 1954

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-55321-9999070
Scope and Contents

According to a personal communication from Charles Verey to the Sackners, Houedard was alternating his time in Prinknash Abbey and Rome, Italy from October 1951 to July 1954. He believed that most of the visual art was done in Rome. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1954

Sand Rock Tide, 1964

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-56695-58852

Sand Rock Tide [smudged typography] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Verity, S.., 1964

 Item — Folder 35: [Barcode: 31858072459948]
Identifier: CC-53329-59902
Scope and Contents

This work was printed by Simon Verity. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964