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Typewriter poetry

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

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

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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

Letter to mdc [my dear charles] (290565) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Kearns L; McCarthy C; Page R; Wright E; Metzger G., 1965

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Identifier: CC-57885-10001136
Scope and Contents

This letter to Charles Cameron contains several names and details for poetry readings and several handwritten notes and instructions in red and black ink for a poetry reading to which DSH has been invited.The verso typing reads "cavan says ANDREI vOZNESENSKY reading leeds U Russdept 19:30hrs 4 june tell every one" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

[Letter to my dear angelBuds] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Weaver M; Furnival J; Wright E; Morgan E., 1967

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Identifier: CC-56692-10000082
Scope and Contents

angelBuds might be John and Wendy Sharkey. Houedard's rants on concrete poetry and homosexual thoughts on page one. He writes that John Furnival is making a motorisation of his POND - FROG - PLOP poem and discusses different typewriter companies on page two. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

my dear john [furnival] (220264) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Finlay IH; Sharkey JJ; Wright E; Morgan E; Hollo A; Stone B; Roth D; Gomringer E; DeCampos A; Chopin H; Garnier P., 1964

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Identifier: CC-43530-45603
Scope and Contents

The body of this letter deals with making an introduction to John Furnival and dropping names of concrete poets prominent on the international scene. The left margin has several concrete poems by Houedard typed in black ink. Houedard typed his name at the bottom of the letter by forming each letter by overtyping the letter 'e'. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Programmed Text / Wright, Edward., 1969

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Identifier: CC-54535-63188
Scope and Contents

The vertical typed lists are vowel structure, phonetic, Spanish and English translation of the vowel sounds. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Typescript for environmental poem - visual text I.b / Wright, Edward., 1969

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Identifier: CC-54537-62727
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This is a vertical typed poem with progressively diminishng number of vowels in vertical clusters typed in red ink the. On the verso Wright wrote "1969 (eventually on lined 680 x 80 cm) see group III." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969