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

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...

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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This poem is laid out in the style of ee cummings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This piece consists of two poems in which complete and incomplete solid rectangles are formed from densely packed m's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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One image is a rectangle of the words MATCHBOXES and a second image is a free form composed of red m's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image is formed solely from slashes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poem reads lisson and refers to Nicholas Logsdale's Lisson Gallery in London. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This work contains the names Maria (?) and Enrique (?) in a constructivistic format. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Three pages wee scanned and cleaned up with Photoshop and stored in binder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poem is typed on red stock paper and is based upon John Donne's sermon with the noted paragraph that reads, 'No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poem is typed on white stock paper (another copy is on red stock paper) and is based upon John Donne's sermon with the noted paragraph that reads, 'No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.