Catalogue No.1

Concrete, Visual & Sound Poetry

Catalogue No.1

Concrete, Visual & Sound Poetry

I am pleased to present my first antiquarian catalogue dedicated to Concrete, Visual and Sound Poetry, which features a range of books, catalogues, LPs, prints and ephemera. The variety of the selected material highlights the diverse practices within these movements. The works are often elusive and hard to categorise, however, they remain strongly connected. Most items in the catalogue were produced in the 1960s and 1970s, but I have also included contemporary works that reflect the enduring influence and continuing impact of Concrete, Visual and Sound Poetry.

This catalogue, containing ninety-four items, includes the seminal exhibition catalogue edited by Jasia Reichardt entitled ‘Between Poetry and Painting’, the rare samizdat printed by Bob Cobbing at Better Books entitled ‘Concerning Concrete Poetry’, two Text Sound Composition LP’s produced for the festivals of the same name, ephemera by Henri Chopin, issue number one of the seminal Brazilian magazine ‘Ponto’ edited by Wlademir Dias-Pino, as well as works by Julien Blaine, Lars-Gunnar Bodin, Sten Hanson, John Furnival, Dom Silvester Houédard, Richard Kostelanetz, Ferdinand Kriwet, Françoise Mairey, Lucia Marcucci, Hansjörg Mayer, Peter Mayer, Sarenco, and more.

Between Poetry and Painting.

Reichardt, Jasia, ed.

£300

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with a significant show held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts from 22nd October to 27th November 1965. Texts written by Jasia Reichardt. Artists in the exhibition included Henri Chopin, Bob Cobbing, Kenelm Cox, Ian Hamilton Finlay, John Furnival, Pierre Garnier, Eugen Gomringer, Raoul Hausmann, Bernard Heidsieck, Dom Sylvester Houedard, as well as the Lettriste Movement and Noigrandres Group, among many others. Includes b/w illustrations and biographies of each artist.

‘The work presented in this exhibition crosses the frontier between two quite clearly defined fields of creative activity — poetry and painting. There may be no single accurate definition of this hybrid form of expression — one thing is quite clear, nevertheless — visual poetry in its various forms constitutes the first international poetry movement.’ — From the first introduction’s paragraph, written by Jasia Reichardt.

London: Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), 1965. First edition. Square 8vo (20.2 × 20.5 cm). Softcover. Texts in English. Plastic comb binding. Illustrated in black and red on wrappers. Offset litho printed in black throughout. Condition: Fine. Item ID: 1509.

Subjects:Concrete Poetry,20th Century,Art

Format:Exhibition Catalogues

Klankteksten ? Konkrete Poëzie Visuele Teksten. Sound texts ? Concrete Poetry Visual Texts. Akustische Texte ? Konkrete Poesie Visuelle Texte.

(de Campos, Augusto; Carlo Belloli et al).

Crommelin, Liesbeth, ed.

£200[Sold](Concrete Poetry, Sound Poetry, Visual Poetry, 20th Century)

Concrete Poetry. A World View.

Solt, Mary Ellen, ed.

£130[Sold](Concrete Poetry, 20th Century)

Concerning Concrete Poetry.

Cobbing, Bob & Peter Mayer.

£300(Concrete Poetry)

Concerning Concrete Poetry 1978/2014.

(Cobbing, Bob & Peter Mayer).

Cobbing, William; Rosie Cooper et al, eds.

£100[Sold](Concrete Poetry)

An Anthology of Concrete Poetry.

(Cobbing, Bob; Henri Chopin et al).

Williams, Emmett, ed.

£65[Sold](Concrete Poetry, 20th Century)

An Anthology of Concrete Poetry (In Braille).

Simkover, Rachel, ed.

£45[Sold](Concrete Poetry)

Women in Concrete Poetry: 1959-1979.

Balgiu, Alex & Mónica de la Torre, eds.

£23[Sold](Concrete Poetry)

The Multimedia Text. (Art & Design No.45).

Zurbrugg, Nicholas, ed.

£20[Sold](Art, Concrete Poetry, Sound Poetry, 20th Century)

Catalogue of the Second International Exhibition of Experimental Poetry.

(Kriwet, Ferdinand).

Cameron, Charles, ed.

£60[Sold](Concrete Poetry, Sound Poetry, 20th Century)

Sehtexte und Kommentare.

Kriwet, Ferdinand.

£50[Sold](Concrete Poetry, 20th Century)

Imaged Words & Worded Images.

Kostelanetz, Richard, ed.

£80[Sold](Concrete Poetry, 20th Century)

Poëzie in Fusie.

de Vree, Paul, ed.

£100[Sold](Visual Poetry, Concrete Poetry, 20th Century)

Verbivisivoco. A Performance of Poetry.

Cobbing, Bob & Bill Griffiths, eds.

£50[Sold]

“This, the 500th Writers Forum publication, represents one of the most outstanding and original achievements in poetics publication in Britain this century. Bob Cobbing and Bill Griffiths have assembled a major representation of the inventive vitality of British poetry, far beyond the scope of any other book. ‘Verbivisivoco’ is in itself a publication performance that exposes the sheer imitative dullness of official British poetry as presented by the capitalist publishing house, their official backers, agents and minions, as well the virtually defunct cabaret-performance poetasters, the almost defunct Poetry Society, the English departments of universities and their wilfully ignorant librarians, and the unenterprising but greedy bookstore chains”. — Eric Mottram, 1972.

London: Writers Forum, 1992. First edition. 8vo (24.7 × 17.5 cm). Paperback. Texts in English. Wrappers. Perfect bound. Illustrated in b/w throughout. Condition: Fine. Item ID: 1506.

Subjects:Concrete Poetry,20th Century,Sound Poetry

Format:Monographs

Bob Cobbing. VerbiVisiVoco. Selected Poems 1942—2001.

(Cobbing, Bob).

Lentz, Michael, ed.

£60(Concrete Poetry, Visual Poetry, Sound Poetry)