Picture poetry
Found in 168 Collections and/or Records:
53 Vicarage Grove: The Face Behind the Aspidistra, 1983
The image depicts a self-portrait of Phillips. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
A Bouquet for Bill [Segal], 1994
First draft of poem written on the occasion of Smith's friend, Bill Segal's 90th birthday. Segal is married to Marielle Buscon, the book artist. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
A Bouquet for Bill [Segal] [copy], 1994
Final version of poem; the first draft is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
A Christmas Colouring Book, 1982
A Florentine and a Venetian, 1972
A Folly for Wisdom [from Dante's Inferno] , 1979 - 1980
A Formal Pool for Stockwood Park, Luton , 1992
The inscription around the pool is taken from the "Poem on Nature" by Empedokles, the Presocriatic philosopher. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
A Proposal for the Grounds of the Serpentine Gallery, 1997
This book and the commission to Finlay were dedicated to Diana, Princess of Wales by the Board of Trustees and Staff of the Serpentine Gallery. The first fold-out page consists of the architectural layout and the second a print enumerating trees in the area arranged as a mandala dedicated to Diana in its center. The commission itself consisted of poetic engravings for eight benches and a tree-plaque placed in the meadow around the Sepentine. The captions on these objects are brief sentences adapted from writings, rendered in Latin and English, on Arcadia by Virgil. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
A Proposal for The Robert Louis Stevenson Club , 1987
The poem to be inscribed as "A Man of Letters R.L.S." on a formal stone with irregular edges is inscribed with a 'one-word poem' and set in the grass within a small grove of birch trees" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
A Remembrance of R.L.S. / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary; McIntosh C; Kurs K., 1987
This memorial to Robert Louis Stevenson takes the form of a sacred grove bounded by an ashlar wall on a half circle and by five silver birch trees (Betula pendula) across the diameter. At the foot of the tree trunk is a stone tree column base inscribed with R.L.S. and Stevenson's dates beneath (1850-1894). The site is a Stevenson sanctuary, an area for reflection that is half private and enclosed and half open to the world, just as are Stevenson's writings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
A Rock Rose / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Demarco, Richard., 1971
The print depicts a sailboat with yellow sails (rose) passing rocky shoals (rock). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
A World A Word A Poem, 1993
ABC, 1976
Agentzia Blatt: To Be A BEEEEEEEE, No. 4, 1971
The image is a large "bee" with a caption from the title below it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
[Alec Sensed...] , 1984
This card is part of the Bug House Archives. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
[Although the Meteorological] / Furnival, John., 1997
A drawing of four windows in a partially drawn bolted door. The graphite pencil is worked onto the surface of the paper so that the glass panes have a silvery reflection. The complete text printed at the top of the drawing reads, " Although the Meteorological Office has not yet released the forecast for September, it is not expected to be a cheerful one. " Part of a series of eight prints in collaboration with Jonathan Williams, "St Swithin's Swivet." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
[Alumination] , 1987
An Obsolete Native of Dent... / Furnival, John., 1996
Depicts a summer landscape through double windows and lists 19 words, several archaic or made-up, that describe the weather. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
