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The first performance of Cobbing, Claire and Chant for this record on July 6, 1971 marked the birth of the group now known as Konkrete Canticle. A copied tape cassette is also held by the Sackner Archive.The manuscript for Ga(il)o(ng) performed inthis record is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The first performance of Cobbing, Claire and Chant for this record on July 6, 1971 marked the birth of the group now known as Konkrete Canticle. A copied tape cassette is also held by the Sackner Archive.The manuscript for Ga(il)o(ng) performed inthis record is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents It appears that Bob Cobbing was the author/editor of this book that mostly consisted of works of Houedard, several of which are held by the Sackner Archive. Cobbing writes in this book of Houedard's poetry (1949-1972) that he deserves publication of a large body of work because he was important in his innovative religious thinking, philosophy, poetry and criticism. He mentions that much of the material is held by the Sackner Archive and anyone 'doing the big book' would need to see and be inspired by that collection. The current book was edited by Cobbing and/or Thomas Clark.The composition of Houedard's typewriter poems using the portable Olivetti Lettera 22 as described by Houedard In Mary Ellen Solt's 'A World Look at Concrete Poetry': "there are 86 type units available on my machine for use w/2-color or no ribbon - or with carbons of various colors - the maximum size surface w/out folding is abt 10" diagonal--the ribbons may be of various ages--several ribbons may be used on a...

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Experiments in Disintegrating Language was a group composed of Charles Verey, Neil Mills, and Thomas A. Clark. Konkrete Canticle was a group composed of Bob Cobbing, Paula Claire, and Michael Chant. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Experiments in Disintegrating Language was a group composed of Charles Verey, Neil Mills, and Thomas A. Clark. Konkrete Canticle was a group composed of Bob Cobbing, Paula Claire, and Michael Chant. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This anthology includes the works of a number of Scottish concrete poets who have not appeared in international anthologies in this field. The book also includes a section of commentaries on concrete poetry by Finlay, Gomringer, Riddell, Morgan, and Leonard. The final section of the book annotates selected poems. A compact disc in an insert in the rear dust jacket has interviews, poetry readings and sound poetry by various poets.Peter Manson's review: This exciting and compendious anthology collects an unprecedented variety of poems written by Scots from the Renaissance to the present day, though the great bulk of its contents was written in the last 40 years. Its remit is wide but definable: the poems all, in one way or another, place the emphasis on poetry as a pattern made from the various material aspects of language: language as sound, as letters carved or arranged on a page, as words or phrases to be varied or permuted. Historically, it ranges from Renaissance pattern-poems,...