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The Sackner Archive of Visual and Concrete Poetry

By L ( Elizabeth ) Lawes, on 30 October 2007

Bob Cobbing: Five Visual Poems, 1971. Copyright Marvin and Ruth Sackner Limited PartnershipThe Sackner Archive of Visual and Concrete Poetry, based in Miami Beach, Florida,  is a collection of books, critical texts, periodicals, ephemera, prints, drawings, collages, paintings, sculptures, objects, manuscripts, and correspondence relating to concrete and visual poetry.

The archive includes examples of typewriter art and poetry, experimental calligraphy, mail art, stamp art, sound poetry, performance poetry, assembling periodicals, ‘zines,’ and graphic design as well as conventional poetry and prose written by concrete/visual poets and artists in the collection. The Sackners collected manuscripts, sketchbooks and letters written by poets and artists including Ian Hamilton Finlay, Carl Andre, Bob Cobbing, Dom Sylvester Houedard and Tom Phillips, among others.

The online version of the Archive contains 47,000 citations and 6,200 images.

UCL Library has an extensive collection of concrete and visual poetry which can be found in the Poetry Store and Little Magazine collections at UCL Special Collections.

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