Knowing the gems that @letterformarchive have in their collection, this will be well worth $5.
Collections Tour: Concrete Poetry
with Milosh Sokolikj, Christina Newhard
Explore a facet of Letterform Archive’s vast collection with this online, docent-led tour.
Date: Wed, May 7, 2025
Time:11:00am–12:30pm PT (7:00pm–8:30pm GMT)
https://letterformarchive.org/shop/themed-tour-concrete-poetry/
the abbreviation of a vacation spent wistfully yearning
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The Company One Keeps: Ian Hamilton Finlay & the Concrete Poets
14 May, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh & online
Dr Greg Thomas explores Iain Hamilton Finlay’s aesthetic & cultural ties with the international concrete poetry movement, & to figures such as Edwin Morgan & Dom Sylvester Houédard
“The idea of a ‘vanguard’ in literature has never had much acceptance in this country, though it’s a commonplace on the Continent. The English Channel is a pretty narrow strip of water, but it’s remarkable what an effective barrier it has been to the passage of ideas.”
—Edwin Morgan, in his 1968 essay “Concrete Poetry” – published in In Touch With Language: A New Prose Collection 1950–2005 (ASL, 2020)
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https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/edwin-morgan-in-touch-with-language/
“Concrete poetry – which emerged almost simultaneously in central Europe and Brazil, and travelled as far as Japan – went down like a lead balloon with British readers, despite finding some of its liveliest practitioners among the Scottish avant-garde.”
—Jeremy Noel-Tod examines the reception of Edwin Morgan’s “Message Clear” following its publication in the Times Literary Supplement
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https://someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/this-elementary-purist-temple
“This poem was written when my father was very ill, dying of cancer, & I was coming home from the hospital. Suddenly this line ‘I am the resurrection & the life’ came into my head & then the poem began to emerge from the line.”
—Edwin Morgan on “Message Clear”
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I thought i’d check if the font in the last pick really was souvenir but the myfonts font finder just gave me #vispo #concretepoetry as a result, and it’s rather wonderful
a sociological understanding of an objectification
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