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Thoughtshapes and Wordshapes were among the first batch of books I bought as a new teacher at the end of the Eighties. It is the least I can do to recommend them to the next generation that it is my privilege to teach here in Exeter. I would have replied sooner, Anthony but I have been seriously ill and recently had an operation for a brain tumour.

I am recovering I am glad to say. He hated me, or indeed anyone to be ill.

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I have started to put together an anthology of his unpublished poems and other writing. I have found some wonderful stuff. Dad enjoyed his year at Exeter. He did a Masters in Creativity there in about Paddy Creber was working there then. Dad had known Paddy when they worked together with Geoff Summerfield at Churchfields.

You must be happy in your work. I have loved my work with young teachers.

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Thank you so much again for keeping the faith- as they say Kind regards Val. Sadly I never got to meet Paddy Creber.

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He was an inspiration to generations. I have good friends who named their boy after him. As Raymond Carver would say, we are talking INfluence here. I do keep the faith with my new teachers. They renew me and keep me going. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account.

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Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Twitter Facebook Instagram Search. April 13, Author: Anthony Wilson 8 Comments. Lifesaving Poems Share this: Thanks for a great post, as ever. As ever with thanks for your support and comments, Anthony Like Like. Valerie Maybury Like Like. Dear Valerie Thank you so much for your lovely and generous comment. It is likely that some of the same attitudes were held by the establishments in democratic countries, but with less dire consequences.

Concrete poems just are

The effect of self-illustration in concrete poetry is achieved in a variety of ways, including the use of photographs or drawing and the arrangement of type. The categories I have outlined below, formulated originally in to analyse my large collection of word-images cut from advertisements, serve as means of understanding the basically parallel mechanisms at work in concrete poetry and as a conceptual programme for generating word-images. Concrete poems have ingredients from signs, letter s , number s , picture s and colours.

The enormous condensation of meaning present in the genre means that there are concrete poems which work at the level of a single letter. Concrete poetry is even more condensed than conventional poetry.

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The conceptual procedures involved are equally wide ranging and inventively syncretic, including the use of condensation, fragmentation, metonymy, onomatopoeia, palindrome, permutation, paronomasia, series, tautology and other rhetorical figures and tropes. Concrete poetry extends to a much broader range of forms than one might expect.

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To many people, poetry connotes only books, magazines and perhaps postcards and posters, from the Dadaist Raoul Hausmann to the present poetry posters on London underground. This is perhaps unsurprising since the peak in the production of concrete poetry coincide with the development of Conceptual Art, Pop Art, Op Art, minimalism, kinetic sculpture and that most democratic yet unpublic of art forms, mail art — all of these are reflected in concrete poetry. Had personal computers been available to practitioners during the s and early s concrete poetry might have been even more widely disseminated.

Most of the concrete poetry being produced today under that name is restricted to the traditional figurative pattern poem.

While there are some signs of a wider reawakening of interest in the genre in a handful of literature and graphic design courses, the study of the subject is hampered by a lack of basic material in print. Re-publication is long overdue and the entire phenomenon of concrete poetry seems ready for reassessment. Dick Higgins, Pattern Poetry: Guide to an unknown Literature, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, Kathleen McCullough, Concrete Poetry: Mary Ellen Solt, ed.

Something Else Press and Stuttgart: Writers Forum have published concrete and visual poetry for many years. It is available from all good design bookshops and online at the Eye shop , where you can buy subscriptions and single issues.