Scope and Contents This issue includes a Glyn Pursglove's essay, "An Introduction to Concrete Poetry." He states "The phrase 'Concrete Poetry' is bandied about a great deal in a way which seems to suggest that all those to whom it is applied are part of a conscious, united movement, and that they are artists whose work is dictated by a set of common and explicit principles. As anyone with any understanding of artistic 'movements' will readily imagine, this is a superficial and misleading idea. Certainly there have been plenty of explicit statements by some of the poets involved but these have, naturally, attracted as many opponents as supporters. One of the most important of such statements was 'POSITION 1 of International (Movement) for Spatial Poetries" organised by, among others, Pierre Gamier. This was not quite a manifesto, in the sense of a document proclaiming plans for the future, but rather a formalisation of a situation. Gamier was fully conscious of the difficulties, and his closing words...

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The first edition was published in 1974; this is from a second printing in 1981. Stored on shelf with Hundertmark material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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13 items in the Gronk Series 5 No.7 issue constitute Ganglia 5 Cent Mimeo Series No.40-52 but are not individually numbered. These items are not separately stored in Ganglia 5 Cent Mimeo Series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Probably published in an edition of 400 copies. The 13 items in this issue also constitute Ganglia 5 Cent Mimeo Series No.40-52 but are not individually numbered. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Probably published in an edition of 400 copies. The 13 items in this issue also constitute Ganglia 5 Cent Mimeo Series No.40-52 but are not individually numbered. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Designated Writers Forum #18. This is the second edition published in June 1967 and does not appear to differ in content from the first edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Designated Writers Forum #18. This is the first edition published in February 1966. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Jakub Hanzi (internet): Jiri Valoch (1946-) theorist, art critic, columnist, exhibit curator, and conceptual artist. He is the creator of visual and conceptual poetry, photographic poetry and photographic concepts, text installations and conceptual drawings. Between 1965-1970 he studied German Language and Literature, Czech Language and Literature, and Aesthetics at the College of Philosophy (Philosophical Faculty) of Masaryk University in Brno. In the 1960s and 1970s he addressed the production of visual and conceptual poetry focused on linguistic introspection, text installations, and conceptual drawings, and events touching upon the field of body art, land art and conceptual photography. His poetic texts, bordering between word and image, gradually followed a more radical evolution. They began more to reflect his own language, work with texts becomes subordinate to a strict concept, and he returns to a traditionally-expressed, linear, poetic text: most often tied to the classic...

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This book consists of examples of Ovcacek's typewriter, letraset, and stencilled letter works done between 1962-1993 along with critical essays in the Czech language. Jiri Valoch contributed an introductory essay. Ovacek's typewriter poetry marks him as one of the foremost contributors to this style of concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Valoch indicates that he is sending books to David UU in exchange for Canadian Avant Garde poetry books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Valoch mentions materials that he is sending for his exhibition, 'microproseplus' and method of payment, i.e., prefers books to money. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poems in this book were given to Charles Verey by Valoch and are now in the collection of Willliam Allen, the book dealer. Thre book was printed by Colin Sackett. In a letter to Verey reproduced in this book, Valoch declares that the four optical, concrete poems later reproduced in this book are a gift to Verey. The Sackner Archive holds two similar poems that were initially given to Wally Depew by Jiri Valoch. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.