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This is the exhibition catalogue of British and Portuguese concrete poetry and related work held from August to September, 1968. Each book including this one contains an original typing by Cavan McCarthy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Exhibition was curated by Marie Irene Ribeiro. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Fernando Segolin contributed a long introductory essay about de Melo e Castro's poems. The first concrete poems in Portugal appeared in 1962 in a book entitled "Ideogramas." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition included representative poems by contemporary Portugese poet/artists. Fernando Aguiar's drawing "Murmurios Acerca de um Soneto," Cesar Figueiredo's collages "Solar" and Alberto Pimenta's collages "Viagem Poetica" are reproduced in the catalogue. All the originals are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This Exhibition included representative poems by contemporary Portugese poet/artists. Fernando Aguiar's drawing "Murmurios Acerca de um Soneto," Cesar Figueiredo's collages "Solar" and Alberto Pimenta's collages "Viagem Poetica" are reproduced in the catalog. The originals are held by the Sackner Archive. The poster is an exhibition announcement. The pages have become detached from the glued binding. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents From the dust jacket: 'Until very recently, Portugal tended to be dismissed as England's oldest ally or simply to be added to the list of tourist paradises as "Europe's best-kept secret". This cosy image was shattered in April 1974 when a group of young army officers overthrew a dictatorship which had survived for forty-eight years in a bloodless coup which came to be called the Revolution of the Flowers, with the red carnation as its symbol.'In the Introduction to this first major anthology of contemporary Portuguese poetry to be published in England, Helder Macedo, Professor of Portuguese at the University of London, relates the poetry of the last forty years to Portugal's political development and describes the variety and challenge of a tradition which has been touched again and again by history. The work of thirty eight poets is featured-poets both from Portugal itself and from some of the African colonies. Much of the verse is overtly or covertly political. But not all. There...

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Given to the Sackners at the Yale University Portuguese Concrete Poetry Symposium (1995) organized by Keith Jackson and Johanna Drucker. De Melo e Castro utilized typewritten punctuations, brackets, and parentheses of different dimensions among the words to cause the reader to interact with his/her own words thereby creating another meaning. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition commemorated ten years of Poem/Processes a group in Brazil who employed semiotic poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Fernando Aguiar contributed an introductory essay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Surprisingly, there is no explcit information about concrete poetry in this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This piece was included in Revue Ou No.28-29, a bookwork also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Each alternate page that was printed on white or gray paper stock is cut in increasing enlarging horizontal strips. Concrete poems printed on each page deal mainly with the act of breathing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.