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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

an interim thanks to those in the service / curry, jw; Nichol bp., 2003

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Identifier: CC-45318-47504
Scope and Contents

The cover image, that was done by bp Nichol, was published in rawculture in sep 71. This card, reproducing that image, was sent to individuals who have helped curry with his ongoing book on bp Nichol, "CYCLOPOEDIA BEEPLIOGRAPHIA." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Archive for Defying Linear Deification: Contemporary Toronto Visual Poetry and its Afterward 1 / curry, jw; Birney E; Nichol bp; UU D; Aylward D; Broudy H; Dutton P; McCaffery S; Truhlar R; Dean M; Amann E; Swede G; Shikatani G; Goluska G., 1987

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Identifier: CC-20775-21180
Scope and Contents

curry traces the development of concrete and visual poetry in Toronto for an essay in Cross-Canada Writers' Quarterly Vol.9 No.3-4, 1987, a periodical held by the Sackner Archive. He lists Earle Birney's book entitled pnomes jukollages and other stunzas 1969, as the first concrete poetry by a main stream Canadian poet. He comments that bp Nichol's 1st book, Cycles etc., 7 Flowers Press, were chant structures that relied heavily on visual sonic similarities between words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Cross-Canada Writers' Quarterly. No.3-4 / Ted Plantos, editor ; curry jw ; Copithorne J ; Nichol bp ; Gorman L ; Basmajian S ; UU D ; bissett b ; Evason G ; lefler P ; Wah F ; Riddell J ; Shikatani G ; Power N ; Truhlar R., 1987

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Identifier: CC-20774-21179
Scope and Contents

Includes several essays on the historic beginnings of Canadian concrete, visual, and sound poetry. The Archive for the essay by jw curry, Defying Linear Deification... is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Fall / Toronto Small Press Group, The ; curry jw ; Nichol bp ; Dean M ; lopes d ; Smith J ; Power N ; Swede G ; Laba M ; Truhlar R ; Riddell J ; UU D ; Barwin G ; Dutton P ; Barbour C., 1992

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Identifier: CC-01481-1514
Scope and Contents

The three copies in the Sackner Archive differ in the binding (string spine vs. stapled) and the color of the paper stock used for the cover. The cover was designed by jw curry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

High C: Selected Sound and Visual Poems 1965-1983 / UU, David ; Nichol bp ; curry jw., 1991

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Identifier: CC-00982-1008
Scope and Contents

Mention is made of the loan of three original manuscripts from the Sackner Archive for publication in this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

High C: Selected Sound and Visual Poems 1965-1983 / UU, David ; Nichol bp ; curry jw., 1991

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Identifier: CC-00983-1009
Scope and Contents

Mention is made of the loan of three original manuscripts from the Sackner Archive for publication in this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

List #7: David UU: No Sleight of Hand / Room 3o2 Books ; UU D ; bissett b ; Nichol bp ; Harris DW ; curry jw ; Bradley Df ; Colombo JR ; Garnet E ; Laba M ; lopes d ; Sigmund RJ ; Simpson G ; Gilbert G ; Hood W ; McCaffery S., 1992

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Identifier: CC-20201-20597
Scope and Contents

This catalogue lists separate and contributed works by David UU aka David W. Harris. jw curry provides an introductory biographic sketch. On another page (depicted in this record), curry mentions that the Singing Hands Series #2 issue only amounted to 6 of the projected 200 copies and only 2 are known to exist. This was to be David UU's first separate publication but he withdrew it in October 1966. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

List No.93-7 & 8 / Nelson, William ; Ball, Nelson ; curry jw ; bissett b ; Nichol bp ; Copithorne J ; Fones R ; UU D., 1993

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Identifier: CC-23803-24251
Scope and Contents

The catalogue offered a fairly complete collection of the publications of Curvd H&Z press that are not listed individually for Canadian $3,600. David UU prepared the catalogue for this collection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Names / UU, David ; Coleman V ; curry jw ; Ross S ; Nichol bp ; Ball N ; Gilbert G ; lefler P., 2000

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Identifier: CC-36515-38316
Scope and Contents

According to the widow of David UU, Ingrid Harris, these poems were created in late 1990 (North Vancouver, BC) and 1991 (Hamilton, Ontario). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000