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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 278 Collections and/or Records:

Sonic Water / Houedard, Dom Sylvester, editor; cummings ee; Morgan E; Gomringer E; Jandl E; Finlay IH., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-55333-58854
Scope and Contents

The distribution to others of this work is unknown. The original typed poem, "Sonic Water" is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

splendid weeping (180267) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1970

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Identifier: CC-53337-59004
Scope and Contents

This might be considered a prophetic poem about the Wall Street crash of the internet bubble stocks in 2000 since Houedard used the @ symbols along side packed parentheses to evoke weeping for the imagery of this poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

super bliss (110167) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

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Identifier: CC-56128-9999572
Scope and Contents

There is a Roman arch form typed in the middle of the page surrounded by several typed mantras. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Sylvester / Kenelm Cox; Dom Sylvester Houedard., 1968

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Identifier: CC-20124-20519
Scope and Contents

The hands of this clock-like object each have a letter at their ends that spells, "Sylvester" after the poet Dom Sylvester Houedard. However, the arrangement of the gears which staggers the letters from ever lining up to form this word. The background creates a subtle Moire effect as the hands move across it. The clock was made by Kenelm Cox on behalf of Dom Sylvester Houedard. According to William Allen, bookseller, it was a surprise gift from Cox to Houedard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Sylvester / Kenelm Cox; Dom Sylvester Houedard., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-20124-20519
Scope and Contents

The hands of this clock-like object each have a letter at their ends that spells, "Sylvester" after the poet Dom Sylvester Houedard. However, the arrangement of the gears which staggers the letters from ever lining up to form this word. The background creates a subtle Moire effect as the hands move across it. The clock was made by Kenelm Cox on behalf of Dom Sylvester Houedard. According to William Allen, bookseller, it was a surprise gift from Cox to Houedard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Thalamus and Sol (proof copy) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

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Identifier: CC-55994-58909
Scope and Contents

A version of this concrete poem is printed as a card inThe Aylesford Review Vol.6 No.4, 1964-1965 and is also held as a separate entry as titled 'xmas poem 1964.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

THALAMUS & SOL (071264) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

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Identifier: CC-56381-9999796
Scope and Contents

This depicts a square of composed of two words in capital letters THALAMUS & SOL. Houedard has composed several poems using the neurologic structure, Thalamus, as their basis. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

The Basho Variations / McCaffery, Steve ; Houedard DS ; Nichol bp ; Higgins D ; Queneau R ; Ernst M ; Carroll L., 2007

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Identifier: CC-48448-69476
Scope and Contents

McCaffery has published very witty variations on this poem in the imagined style of others. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

[the longago & yetocome] (170963) / [poeme traduction] / POEME BLANC (140663) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Senghor LS., 1963

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Identifier: CC-57862-10001113
Scope and Contents

This page contains the three concrete poems in the title. The third poem is an" homage a leopold sedar senghor." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

The Singing of Feeling / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Cox K., 1968

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Identifier: CC-09688-9881
Scope and Contents

houedard provides a critical analysis of the artistic works of Ken Cox. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

the total ir relevance (050668) / C (250369) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968 - 1978

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Identifier: CC-56300-58994
Scope and Contents

Houedard plays on the similar pronunciation of particular French and English words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968 - 1978

The Word's Gotten Out / Espy, Willard R. ; Houedard DS ; Furnival J., 1989

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Identifier: CC-13346-13647
Scope and Contents

A poem written by Espy incorporating "Deus-Snap" reversal by Houedard is printed on page 47. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Three Gridshift Pomes for Exit (020268) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

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Identifier: CC-09115-9295
Scope and Contents

Houedard provides an explanation of the three poems which were written on the 18, 19 & 20 of July, 1966 for Exit magazine (1966). A copy of these prints is held by the Sackner Archive and is a catalog entry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

To Catch a White Man By His Manifesto [incomplete set] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester, editor; Students of Bath Academy; Furnival J., 1967 - 1968

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Identifier: CC-61066-10003840
Scope and Contents

Cover of original portfolio is incomplete because of water damage. Printed by John Furnival. To Catch a Whiteman by His Manifesto' is a portfolio containing experimental typography and concrete poetry made by Dom Sylvester Houedard and his students from Bath Academy of Art. The names of the ten students involved are; Stephen Lowndes, Sue Hudson, Liz Kelly, Jenny Osborne, Angus Davis, Erica Grice, Noelle Stewart, Alan Hext, Paul Ansell and Melody Craig. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967 - 1968