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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Concrete Poetry

 Collection
Identifier: MS28
Abstract John Furnival (b. 1933), Ian Hamilton Finlay, Dom Sylvester Houédard, Henry Chopin and Tom Phillips expanded the genre of concrete poetry to pioneer the broader concept of visual poetry. This collection of concrete poetry includes correspondence and poems sent to John Furnival between 1963 and 1970 by Bob Cobbing, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Dom Sylvester Houédard, Aram Saroyan, Jiří Valoch, and Jonathan Williams and other concrete poets. The bulk of the collection consists of typopoems by Dom...
Dates: 1963 - 1970

Ian Hamilton Finlay Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MS35
Abstract

Poet Ian Hamilton Finlay was born in 1925 in Nassau, Bahamas, but relocated to Scotland with his family as a child. This collection contains letters between Ian Finaly or his wife Sue Finlay and literary friends John Furnival and Derek and Peggie Stanford.

Dates: 1949 - 1970; Other: Majority of material found within 1968 - 1970