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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Designated Fives No.1. All phonemes in poems consist of repetitions and variations of "ga." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is a compendium of experimental music scores that have been translated into the Czech language where appropriate. The title translated by Rodano Parmova & Petr Sevcik into English is Score: Graphic Music, Phonic Poetry Events, Paraphrases, INterpretations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.