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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 278 Collections and/or Records:

extinct i / compartments / Houedard, Dom Sylvester ; Barker, Audrey ; Wright E ; Cox K., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-09394-9580
Scope and Contents The Hoiuedard exhibtion presented 26 plastic poems, 26 typewriter poems, and 13 one sided plastic laminated poems with titles. None of these Houedard poems were titled. Gu ardian Obituary for Audrey Barker: Audrey Barker, who has died aged 69, was an inspiration to the development of the young as artists, especially through her work and thoughts about people with disabilities. She was born in West Ham, in London's docklands, and during the second world war was evacuated to a farm where she contracted tuberculosis from untreated milk. This led to crippling bone damage and eight years in hospital. She missed much formal education, but she read avidly, gaining a scholarship to East Ham Grammar School for Girls in 1944, later attending Walthamstow School of Art (1950-55) and then Leicester College of Art for a teacher training year. She exhibited her paintings widely from 1953 in group shows such as Young Contemporaries, the Royal Academy summer shows, the New English Art club and...
Dates: 1967
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

extinct i / compartments [missing cover and one page] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester ; Barker, Audrey ; Wright E ; Cox K., 1967

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Identifier: CC-09090-9269
Dates: 1967
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

Extra Verse. No.17 / Bob Cobbing ; Cobbing B ; Houedard DS., 1966

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Identifier: CC-13958-14263
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1966
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Eyearun / Cobbing, Bob; Houedard DS., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-17444-17809
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1966
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Eyearun / Cobbing, Bob; Houedard DS., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-18958-19337
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1966
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

[flag with twelve stars] (110569) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1969

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Identifier: CC-08674-8847
Scope and Contents

The stars are made of two V's one over the other and upside down. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

[flag with twelve stars] (110569) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-08675-8848
Scope and Contents

The flag has 12 stars in groups of four made with capital V's typed over each other with one upside down. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

for alan neame (091164) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

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Identifier: CC-08655-8828
Scope and Contents Hoho Eleison typed in poem refers to the Gregorian chant. Internet: Alan John Neame, only son of Alan Bruce (1888-1967) and Annie Victoria Neame, was born on 24 January 1924 in the Kentish village of Selling. His interest in family history started with a childhood discovery that a large part of the village churchyard was filled with Neame memorials. This early interest, nurtured by elderly relatives with vivid memories of his ancestors living in the mid 19th century, became a fascination that would endure throughout the seventy-six years of his life. Alan Neame graduated from Wadham College, Oxford just after the war, and taught modern languages at Cheltenham College before moving on to lecture at the University of Baghdad. After further lecturing posts in various other Middle Eastern capitals, he gave up teaching for writing and was soon to return to England and to the village of his birth that he so loved. Alan was a religious scholar, working for three years as Literary Editor...
Dates: 1964
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

for bill butler[2] - let him make the next move (151068) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-56319-9999743
Scope and Contents

This page contains a poem for Bill Butler and two drawings in the lower right corner. Written in red ink in the lower right corner by Houedard is 'iso lithic shadow games." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

for george dowden 2 (120664) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-56284-9999722
Scope and Contents

This poem is one of three that form a sequence. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

for george [dowden] 3 / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

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Identifier: CC-56084-9999531
Scope and Contents

George in the title of this poem refers to the British poet, George Dowden. The handwritten leaflet reads, 'these 3 form a sequence & go together as a set.' The other two components are catalogued individually in the Sackner Archive, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

for george dowden (120664) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Dowden G., 1964

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Identifier: CC-09378-9564
Scope and Contents

George Dowden in the title of this poem refers to the British poet. Moire effects in this poem were produced by overtyping tight grids of letters. This work was reproduced in the Dom Sylvester houedard book edited by Nicola Simpson, "Notes from the Cosmic Typewriter: The Life and Work of Dom Sylvester Houedard" and is stored in the binder labeled DSH London 2012. This poem is one of three that form a sequence. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

for jn furnival (130763) [periods for furnival] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Furnival J., 1963

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Identifier: CC-55559-59668
Dates: 1963
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

for john furnival (130763) [v's for furnival] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Furnival J., 1963

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Identifier: CC-55560-58791
Dates: 1963
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

for li (281167) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-56272-59698
Scope and Contents

The poem reads lisson and refers to Nicholas Logsdale's Lisson Gallery in London. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Freewheel / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Burri S; Cox K; Finlay IH; Furnival J; Houedard DS; Lord S; Mayer HJ; Phillips T; Stevenson A., 1967

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Identifier: CC-09693-9886
Scope and Contents

Prices of works exhibited are mentioned. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Freewheel / John Furnival, curator ; Dom Sylvester Houedard, curator ; Cox K ; Farrell S ; Finlay IH ; Lord S ; Mayer HJ ; Phillips T ; Stevenson A ; Verity S ; Willcocks J., 1967

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Identifier: CC-10949-11161
Scope and Contents

The exhibition was curated by John Furnival and Dom Sylvester Houedard. The latter wrote an introductory essay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

Frog Pond / Nightingalecicada / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1965

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Identifier: CC-09380-9566
Scope and Contents

This depicts working ideas for Frog Pond Plop, later realized in a different format as Opening Number No.6, 1965. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

frog pond plop - the yoga of concrete in the work of Dom Sylvester Houedard: Installation Views / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 2010

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Identifier: CC-55237-9998996
Dates: 2010
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

from the cosmic typewriter - a somantric diversion [1] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

 Item
Identifier: CC-55545-9999176
Dates: 1963
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

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