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D S H (Dom Sylvester Houédard), 1924-1992

 Person

Found in 1306 Collections and/or Records:

foecundationem (140469) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1969

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Identifier: CC-56279-9999717
Scope and Contents

Typed red sphere composed of slashes, dashes and periods is at the open end of a black box composed of colons, slashes and undeline marks. There are seven typed red lines of poetry on the top of the page.The first word of the title poem in Latin translates to impregnate. The image depicts the sed sphere entering (impregnating) the hollow cube. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

FOR AH (230864) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

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Identifier: CC-56368-59674
Scope and Contents

The page is divided into six different spaces with varying typed poetic forms. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

for alan neame (091164) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

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Identifier: CC-08655-8828
Scope and Contents Hoho Eleison typed in poem refers to the Gregorian chant. Internet: Alan John Neame, only son of Alan Bruce (1888-1967) and Annie Victoria Neame, was born on 24 January 1924 in the Kentish village of Selling. His interest in family history started with a childhood discovery that a large part of the village churchyard was filled with Neame memorials. This early interest, nurtured by elderly relatives with vivid memories of his ancestors living in the mid 19th century, became a fascination that would endure throughout the seventy-six years of his life. Alan Neame graduated from Wadham College, Oxford just after the war, and taught modern languages at Cheltenham College before moving on to lecture at the University of Baghdad. After further lecturing posts in various other Middle Eastern capitals, he gave up teaching for writing and was soon to return to England and to the village of his birth that he so loved. Alan was a religious scholar, working for three years as Literary Editor...
Dates: 1964
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

For Alan Neame: Credo in Om / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1971

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Identifier: CC-09113-9292
Scope and Contents Internet: Alan John Neame, only son of Alan Bruce (1888-1967) and Annie Victoria Neame, was born on 24 January 1924 in the Kentish village of Selling. His interest in family history started with a childhood discovery that a large part of the village churchyard was filled with Neame memorials. This early interest, nurtured by elderly relatives with vivid memories of his ancestors living in the mid 19th century, became a fascination that would endure throughout the seventy-six years of his life. Alan Neame graduated from Wadham College, Oxford just after the war, and taught modern languages at Cheltenham College before moving on to lecture at the University of Baghdad. After further lecturing posts in various other Middle Eastern capitals, he gave up teaching for writing and was soon to return to England and to the village of his birth that he so loved. Alan was a religious scholar, working for three years as Literary Editor of the Jerusalem Bible (Old Testament) [dsh was also a...
Dates: 1971
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

For Alan Neame: Credo in Om / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1971

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Identifier: CC-09114-9293
Scope and Contents Internet: Alan John Neame, only son of Alan Bruce (1888-1967) and Annie Victoria Neame, was born on 24 January 1924 in the Kentish village of Selling. His interest in family history started with a childhood discovery that a large part of the village churchyard was filled with Neame memorials. This early interest, nurtured by elderly relatives with vivid memories of his ancestors living in the mid 19th century, became a fascination that would endure throughout the seventy-six years of his life. Alan Neame graduated from Wadham College, Oxford just after the war, and taught modern languages at Cheltenham College before moving on to lecture at the University of Baghdad. After further lecturing posts in various other Middle Eastern capitals, he gave up teaching for writing and was soon to return to England and to the village of his birth that he so loved. Alan was a religious scholar, working for three years as Literary Editor of the Jerusalem Bible (Old Testament) [dsh was also a...
Dates: 1971
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

For Alan Neame: Credo in Om / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1971

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Identifier: CC-55574-9999197
Scope and Contents Internet: Alan John Neame, only son of Alan Bruce (1888-1967) and Annie Victoria Neame, was born on 24 January 1924 in the Kentish village of Selling. His interest in family history started with a childhood discovery that a large part of the village churchyard was filled with Neame memorials. This early interest, nurtured by elderly relatives with vivid memories of his ancestors living in the mid 19th century, became a fascination that would endure throughout the seventy-six years of his life. Alan Neame graduated from Wadham College, Oxford just after the war, and taught modern languages at Cheltenham College before moving on to lecture at the University of Baghdad. After further lecturing posts in various other Middle Eastern capitals, he gave up teaching for writing and was soon to return to England and to the village of his birth that he so loved. Alan was a religious scholar, working for three years as Literary Editor of the Jerusalem Bible (Old Testament) [dsh was also a...
Dates: 1971
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

For Alan Neame: Credo in Om / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1971

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Identifier: CC-55575-9999198
Scope and Contents Internet: Alan John Neame, only son of Alan Bruce (1888-1967) and Annie Victoria Neame, was born on 24 January 1924 in the Kentish village of Selling. His interest in family history started with a childhood discovery that a large part of the village churchyard was filled with Neame memorials. This early interest, nurtured by elderly relatives with vivid memories of his ancestors living in the mid 19th century, became a fascination that would endure throughout the seventy-six years of his life. Alan Neame graduated from Wadham College, Oxford just after the war, and taught modern languages at Cheltenham College before moving on to lecture at the University of Baghdad. After further lecturing posts in various other Middle Eastern capitals, he gave up teaching for writing and was soon to return to England and to the village of his birth that he so loved. Alan was a religious scholar, working for three years as Literary Editor of the Jerusalem Bible (Old Testament) [dsh was also a...
Dates: 1971
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

For Anselm Hollo (120863) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1969

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Identifier: CC-08750-8924
Dates: 1969
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

for ash-tray / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1962

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Identifier: CC-55406-444444
Dates: 1962
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

for bill butler [1] - let him make the next move / for dave wildpigeon (171068) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

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Identifier: CC-56297-58963
Scope and Contents

This page contains two poems, one for Bill Butler and one for Dave Wildpigeon. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

for bill butler[2] - let him make the next move (151068) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

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Identifier: CC-56319-9999743
Scope and Contents

This page contains a poem for Bill Butler and two drawings in the lower right corner. Written in red ink in the lower right corner by Houedard is 'iso lithic shadow games." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

for christmas 1989 & new year1990 & male iron- horse / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1990

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Identifier: CC-56490-9999895
Scope and Contents

A paper fragmen with the handwritten signature Silvester Houedard accompanies this pieced. This work may be the last typewriter work houedard did. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

for ej [ernst jandl] (300565) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1965

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Identifier: CC-55998-9999463
Scope and Contents

Ernst Jandl was a Viennese sound/concrete poet who published with Houedard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

for eugen: frau an [illegible] (130764) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Gomringer E., 1964

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Identifier: CC-55828-58839
Scope and Contents

The dedication of the woman's name to eugen [gomringer], one of the founders of concrete poetry, in this poem is illegible. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

for ew (210464) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

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Identifier: CC-33763-35427
Scope and Contents

The dedication, "for ew," probably refers to emmett williams. Houedard left the carbon copy intact on the folded page below the original typing such that when the work is unfolded, the carbon typed page presents a shadowy mirror image. The work is composed of parentheses marks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

for fk (011165) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1965

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Identifier: CC-55890-58830
Dates: 1965
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

for Francis Rose / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1966

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Identifier: CC-55473-99995
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Wikipedia: Francis Rose MBE (29 September 1921 "“ 15 July 2006) was an English field botanist and conservationist. He was an author, researcher and teacher. His ecological interests in Britain and Europe included bryophytes, fungi, higher plants, plant communities and woodlands. Rose was born in south London. He studied natural sciences at Chelsea Polytechnic and Queen Mary College, University of London, graduating with a degree in botany. He obtained a PhD in 1953, studying the structure and ecology of British lowland bogs.From 1949, he taught at Bedford College and other colleges in London. In 1964, he joined the geography department as Senior Lecturer in Biogeography at King's College London, becoming a Reader in 1975 until 1981. He married in 1943 and had a family of three sons and a daughter. Rose was awarded the MBE in 2000. He died at Liss in Hampshire. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

for george dowden 2 (120664) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

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Identifier: CC-56284-9999722
Scope and Contents

This poem is one of three that form a sequence. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

for george [dowden] 3 / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

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Identifier: CC-56084-9999531
Scope and Contents

George in the title of this poem refers to the British poet, George Dowden. The handwritten leaflet reads, 'these 3 form a sequence & go together as a set.' The other two components are catalogued individually in the Sackner Archive, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

for george dowden (120664) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Dowden G., 1964

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Identifier: CC-09378-9564
Scope and Contents

George Dowden in the title of this poem refers to the British poet. Moire effects in this poem were produced by overtyping tight grids of letters. This work was reproduced in the Dom Sylvester houedard book edited by Nicola Simpson, "Notes from the Cosmic Typewriter: The Life and Work of Dom Sylvester Houedard" and is stored in the binder labeled DSH London 2012. This poem is one of three that form a sequence. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

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