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Cobbing mentions that nearly a thousand items were included in this exhibition that took place over one month's period which thirty thousand people attended un London's Royal Festival Hall.. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This issue includes a Glyn Pursglove's essay, "An Introduction to Concrete Poetry." He states "The phrase 'Concrete Poetry' is bandied about a great deal in a way which seems to suggest that all those to whom it is applied are part of a conscious, united movement, and that they are artists whose work is dictated by a set of common and explicit principles. As anyone with any understanding of artistic 'movements' will readily imagine, this is a superficial and misleading idea. Certainly there have been plenty of explicit statements by some of the poets involved but these have, naturally, attracted as many opponents as supporters. One of the most important of such statements was 'POSITION 1 of International (Movement) for Spatial Poetries" organised by, among others, Pierre Gamier. This was not quite a manifesto, in the sense of a document proclaiming plans for the future, but rather a formalisation of a situation. Gamier was fully conscious of the difficulties, and his closing words...

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Designated pamphlet seven. Although the title page of this publication announces a debate, the pages consist of photocopied reproductions of concrete poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Designated Studies in Concrete Poetry No.4 and is a reprinting of the lecture delivered by Cobbing at the Text as Figure exhibition in Wolfenbuttel 1987 with the following topics: 1) typewriter dirty clean, 2) typewriter, 3) calligraphy hand writing drawn letters, 4) press-on lettering, 5) press-on letters & other means, 6) mimeo misuse, 7) found materials, 8) more found materials, 9) photo-copying, 10) photo-copier, 11) computer, and 12) back to the beginning. The 69 examples in this book include mostly Cobbing's poems but a few examples of other poets as well. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Designated Studies in Concrete Poetry No.4 and is a reprinting of the lecture delivered by Cobbing at the Text als Figur exhibition in Wolfenbuttel 1987 with the following topics: 1) typewriter dirty clean, 2) typewriter, 3) calligraphy hand writing drawn letters, 4) press-on lettering, 5) press-on letters & other means, 6) mimeo misuse, 7) found materials, 8) more found materials, 9) photo-copying, 10) photo-copier, 11) computer, and 12) back to the beginning. The 69 examples in this book include mostly Cobbing's poems but a few examples of other poets as well. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Designated Studies in Concrete Poetry No.3. Includes sections on definitions, historical statements & manifestos, as well as chronologies of concrete and sound poetry. The book was first compiled in 1971 to coincide with the Stedelijk Museum's exhibition "?Concrete Poetry" but funding could not be obtained for publication. Additions to the book were continued until its publication in 1978. This is the first edition. The chronolgy was written by Dom Sylvester Houedard, Jeremy Adler and Dick Higgins. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The introduction by Dom Sylvester Houedard critiques the sound poems by Cobbing reproduced in this issue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Designated folder no.1. Dom Sylvester Houedard contributed introductory notes to the poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Designated folder no.1. Dom Sylvester Houedard contributed introductory notes to the poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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GLOUP (GLOUcestershire grouP) signifies name given by Jonathan Williams to group of concrete poets living in the west of England, mainly in Gloustershire, including Dom Sylvester Houedard, John Furnival and Kenhelm Cox. WOUP (Westminster grOUP) is name given by Bob Cobbing and Peter Mayer to group of concrete poets living in London, mainly in the city of Westminster, including Cobbing, Mayer and Tom Edmonds. This anthology presents five works by each the poets. One copy has a yellow papercard cover, the other an orange one with a tear. Tom Edmonds who died at age 27 years was a member of the group; the Sackner Archive holds three of his typewriter drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue features a cover by John Furnival, a description of "better books,' a bookshop managed by Bob Cobbing, and an article on Fascism. it is stored in the box holding Furnival material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Cobbing discusses the early concrete poems of Ian Hamilton Finlay, John Furnival, Kenelm Cox, Dom Sylvester Houedard, and Tom Edmonds in depth. This essay is unbpubished. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.