Concrete poetry

Resource on concrete, visual and optical poetry.

Poets, authors, collectives

• Milan Adamčiak
• Luis Alvarado
• Ronaldo Azeredo
• Lenora de Barros
• Derek Beaulieu
• Max Bense
• BpNichol
• Edgard Braga
• Augusto de Campos
• Haroldo de Campos
• Rosemarie Castoro
• Henri Chopin
• Paula Claire
• Wlademir Dias-Pino
• Stanisław Dróżdż
• Johanna Drucker
• Eugen Gomringer
• Bohumila Grögerová
• José Lino Grünewald
• Josef Hiršal
• Dom Sylvester Houédard
• Jiří Hůla
• Bengt Emil Johnson
• Vasily Kamensky
• Anatol Knotek
• Hansjörg Mayer
• New Tendencies
• Ry Nikonova
• Ewa Partum
• Décio Pignatari
• Juan Carlos Romero
• Dieter Roth
• Ardengo Soffici
• Mary Ellen Solt
• Bálint Szombathy
• UbuWeb
• Jiří Valoch
• Nico Vassilakis
• Edgardo Antonio Vigo
• Wiener Gruppe
• Emmett Williams

Iliazd (ed.), Poésie de mots inconnus, 1949, Log, PDF.

Jeff Berner (ed.), Astronauts of Inner Space: An International Collection of Avant-garde Activity, 1966, Log, PDF.

Emmett Williams (ed.), An Anthology of Concrete Poetry, 1967, Log, PDF.

Eugen Gomringer (ed.), konkrete poesie: deutschsprachige autoren, 1972, Log, PDF.

Alan Riddell (ed.), Typewriter Art, 1975, Log, PDF.

Anthologies

See also exhibition catalogues.

• Poésie de mots inconnus, ed. Iliazd (Ilya Zdanevitch), Paris: Le Degre 41, 1949, 26 folded sheets. [1] (French)
• Concrete Poesie international. 13 Texte, Stuttgart: Hansjörg Mayer, 1965, [14] sheets.
• rot 21: "konkrete poesie international", eds. Max Bense and Elisabeth Walther, Stuttgart, 1965, [46] pp.
• Poesie visive, ed. & intro. Lamberto Pignotti, Bologna: Sampietro, 1965. Works by Alfredo Giuliani, Adriano Spatola, Luigi Tola, and Guido Ziveri. Special issue of Il Dissenso 8, part of Antologia della poesia visiva published as Il Dissenso 5-8. (Italian)
• Astronauts of Inner Space: An International Collection of Avant-garde Activity, ed. Jeff Berner, 1966, 66 pp. (English)
• Beloit Poetry Journal 17(1), ed. Stephen Bann, 1966. (English)
• Modulo 1: "poesia concreta", ed. Arrigo Lora Totino, Torino, 1966, 119 pp. (Italian)
• Concrete Poetry: An International Anthology, ed. Stephen Bann, London: London Magazine Editions, 1967. (English)
• An Anthology of Concrete Poetry, ed. Emmett Williams, New York: Something Else Press, and Stuttgart: hansjörg mayer, 1967; repr., New York: Primary Information, 2013, 342 pp.
• Experimentální poezie, eds. Josef Hiršal and Bohumila Grögerová, intro. Miloš Jůzl, Prague: Odeon, 1967, 265 pp. [2] (Czech)
• Bientot, ed. Jean Francois Bory, 1967. (French)
  • Once Again, ed. Jean-François Bory, New Directions, 1968, 132 pp. (English)
• Chicago Review 19(4): "An Anthology of Concretism" , ed. Eugene Wildman, Sep 1967. Excerpt. (English)
• The Cosmic Chef, ed. bpNichol, Oberon Press, 1970, UbuWeb. (English)
• rot 41: "konkrete poesie international II", eds. Max Bense and Elisabeth Walther, Stuttgart, 1970.
• Mindplay: An Anthology of British Concrete Poetry, ed. John J. Sharkey, London: Lorrimer Pub., 1971. (English)
• konkrete poesie: deutschsprachige autoren, ed. Eugen Gomringer, Stuttgart: Reclam, 1972, 174 pp; new ed., 2001. (German)
• Typewriter Poems, ed. Peter Finch, 1972. (English)
• Found Poems, ed. Malcolm Parr, 1972. (English)
• The Pipe: Recent Czech Concrete Poetry, eds. Jiri Valoch and bpNichol, Toronto: Coach House, 1973. [3] (English)
• Italian Visual Poetry, 1912-1972, ed. Luigi Ballerini, Finch College Museum / Istituto Italiano di Cultura, 1973.
• Gloup and Woup, ed. Bob Cobbing, 1974. (English)
• Typewriter Art, ed. & intro. Alan Riddell, London: London Magazine Editions, 1975, 157 pp. (English)
• Anthologie visuele poëzie. 133 dichters uit 25 landen / Visual Poetry Anthology: 133 Poets from 25 Countries, ed. G.J. de Rook, The Hague: Bert Bakker, 1975, [222] pp. (Dutch)/(English)
• International Anthology of Concrete Poetry, ed. John Jessop, Toronto: Missing Link Press & Poetry Toronto Books, 1978. (English)
• Text–Sound Texts, ed. Richard Kostelanetz, New York: William Morrow, 1980, 441 pp. (English)
• Poesia concreta, eds. Iumna Maria Simon, Vinicius Dantas and Abril Educacao, São Paulo, 1982, 111 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
• Poesía concreta. A. Artaud, M. Bense, D. Pignatari y otros, ed. Jorge Santiago Perednik, Buenos Aires: Centro Editor de America Latina, 1982, 146 pp. (Spanish)
• Juan Pintó, La poesia experimental: del concretismo hasta nuestro dias, Merida, Venezuela: Universidad de los andes, 1983, 133 pp. (Spanish)
• c/o Visual PoetryAnthology, eds. Franco Beltrametti and Patrizia Vicinelli, Bologna: c/o, 1984, 70 pp. (English)
• Die Wiener Gruppe. Achleitner, Artmann, Bayer, Rühm, Wiener, ed. Gerhard Rühm, Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1985. (German)
• WortBILD: visuelle Poesie in der DDR, eds. Guillermo Deisler and Jörg Kowalski, Halle and Leipzig: Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 1990, 163 pp. Anthology of East German visual poetry. (German)
• Visible Language 27(4): "Visual Poetry: An International Anthology", ed. Harry Polkinhorn, Oct 1993.
• Vrh kostek: česká experimentální poezie [1968], eds. Josef Hiršal and Bohumila Grögerová, Prague: Torst, 1993, 408 pp. Anthology of Czech visual poetry; originally prepared for publication in 1968. [4] [5] (Czech)
• 7 Poets/7 Poems: A Portfolio of Visual Poems, Minneapolis, MN: Hermetic Press, 1995, [7] pp. (English)
• The Last Vispo Anthology: Visual Poetry 1998-2008, eds. Nico Vassilakis and Crag Hill, Seattle, WA: FantaGraphics, 2012, 331 pp. Project website. Publisher. (English)
• Poesía visual mexicana. La palabra transfigurada, 5 vols., ed. Carlos Pineda, México: Ediciones del Lirio, 2013. Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3, Vol. 5. Review: Hernández Espinosa (Ancila). [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] (Spanish)
• Typewriter Art: A Modern Anthology, ed. Barrie Tullett, Laurence King, 2014, 176 pp. [12] (English)
• Marvin Sackner, Ruth Sackner, The Art of Typewriting, pref. John Maeda, forew. Steven Heller, London: Thames & Hudson, 2015, 351 pp. A selection of works from the Sackner Archive of Visual and Concrete Poetry by 200+ artists. Publisher. (English)
• The New Concrete: Visual Poetry in the 21st Century, eds. Victoria Bean and Chris McCabe, London: Hayward Publishing, 2015, 240 pp. Review: Poynor (Creative Rev). [13] [14] [15] (English)

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Magazines, periodicals

• Noigandres, 5 numbers, eds. Haroldo de Campos, Augusto de Campos, Décio Pignatari, and Reinaldo Azeredo, São Paulo: Grupo Noigandres, 1952-62. Reprint. [16]. (Brazilian Portuguese)
• De Tafelronde, ed. Paul de Vree, 1953-81. [17] [18] (Dutch)
• Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts, 9 numbers, ed. Ed Sanders, New York, 1962-65. (English)
• Invenção: revista de arte de vanguardia, 5 numbers, eds. Décio Pignatari, Pedro Xisto, and Edgard Braga, São Paulo, 1962-67. [19]. [20]. (Brazilian Portuguese)
• Poor.Old.Tired.Horse., 25 numbers, ed. Ian Hamilton Finlay, 1962-68. Published an increasing amount of visual poetry from issue 5 onwards. See also issue of Roland dedicated to magazine (2009). (English)
• Marrahwannah Quarterly, ed. d.a. levy, Cleveland, 1964-67. (English)
• Poems for a Thaler, 4 numbers, eds. Vagn Steen and Hans-Jørgen Nielsen, 1964-65. (Danish)
• Buddhist Third Class Junkmail Oracle, ed. d.a. levy, Cleveland, 1967-69. (English)
• Stereo Headphones: An Occasional Magazine of the New Poetries, 10 numbers, ed. Nicholas Zurbrugg, Kersey near Ipswich, UK: Nicholas Zurbrugg, 1969-1982. Minimalist, sound, visual and concrete poetry. [21] [22] (English)
• Konkret, 1 issue, ed. Eric Amann, Toronto, 1979. (English)
• UNI/vers(;), 35 numbers, ed. Guillermo Deisler, Halle, 1987-95. (English)
• Essex Magazine, 4 numbers, eds. Scott Pound and William R. Howe, 1997-98. Features the resurgence of visual poetry in Toronto and Buffalo in the 1990s. (English)

Between Painting and Poetry, 1965, Log, PDF, IA, UbuWeb.

Exhibition catalogues

• Between Painting and Poetry, ed. Jasia Reichardt, London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1965, 81 pp. Exh. held 22 Oct-27 Nov 1965. (English)
• Konkrete Poesie deutschsprachiger Autoren, ed. Hansjörg Schmitthenner, Munich: Goethe-Institut, 1969, 48 pp.
  • Poesia concreta de autores de lingua alema / Konkrete Poesie deutschsprachiger Autoren, Munich: Goethe-Institut, 1973, 64 pp. (German)/(Portuguese)
• Klankteksten, konkrete poëzie, visuele teksten / Sound Texts, Concrete Poetry, Visual Texts / Akustische Texte, konkrete Poesie, visuelle Texte, Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1970. With LP. Exh. curated by Hansjörg Mayer (DE), Reinhard Döhl (DE), Bob Cobbing (UK) and Paul De Vree (BE); held at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Nov 1970; International Cultural Centre, Antwerp; Stuttgart; Nuremberg; Liverpool; Oxford. [23] (Dutch)/(English)/(German)
• Taalbeeld-beeldtaal. Nederlandse visuele dichters, Amsterdam: Kunsthistorisch Instituut, 1975. Exh. held 14 Nov-6 Dec 1975. (Dutch)
• Czeska i słowacka poezja konkretna, ed. Barbara Baworowska, Wroclaw: Muzeum Narodowe we Wrocławiu, 1976, [23] pp. (Polish)
• Vom Aussehen der Wörter: visuelle Poesie/Notationen, eds. Michael Erlhoff and Bernhard Holeczek, Hannover: Das Kunstmuseum, 1980, 215 pp. Exh. held at Kunstmuseum Hannover mit Sammlung Sprengel, 14 Nov-7 Dec 1980. (German)
• auf ein Wort! Aspekte visueller Poesie und visueller Musik, ed. Dietrich Mahlow, Heidelberg: Braus, 1987, 176 pp. Exh. held at four venues in Mainz. (German)
• Visuelle Poesie, eds. Guillermo Deisler and Karla Sachse, Club der Kulturschaffenden "Johannes R. Becher", 1988, [30] pp. (German)
• Text als Figur: visuelle Poesie von der Antike bis zur Moderne, eds. Jeremy Adler and Ulrich Ernst, Weinheim: Acta Humaniora, 1990, 336 pp. Exh. held at Zeughaus der Herzog-August-Bibliothek, 1 Sep 1987-23 May 1988. (German)
• Visuelle Poesie, eds. Karla Sachse and Guillermo Deisler, Gotha: Museen der Stadt Gotha, 1990, [34] pp. (German)
• Konkrete Poesie. Innovation und Tradition, ed. Ulrich Engel, Wuppertal: Bergische Univ., 1991, 130 pp. Exh. held at Universitätsbibliothek Wuppertal, 14 May-7 Jun 1991. (German)
• Peacedream Project. UNI/vers(;). 5 Jahre / 5 Years, ed. Guillermo Deisler, Halle/Saale, 1992, [31] pp. Published after UNI/vers(;) 18. (German)
• Peacedream Project. UNI/vers(;). 5 Jahre, ed. Guillermo Deisler, Halle/Saale, 1992, [12] pp. Published after UNI/vers(;) 20. (German)
• Buchstäblich wörtlich, wörtlich buchstäblich. Eine Sammlung konkreter und visueller Poesie der sechziger Jahre in der Nationalgalerie, Berlin, ed. Michael Glasmeier, Berlin: Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, 1994, 281 pp. (German)
• Báseň, obraz, gesto, zvuk: experimentální poezie 60. let, Prague: Památník národního písemnictví, 1997, 43+[51] pp. Texts by Josef Hiršal, Petr Kotyk, Josef Hlaváček, et al. Exh. held at Zimní refektář Strahovského kláštera, 10 Mar-2 Jun 1997. [24] (Czech)
• Akce, slovo, pohyb, prostor. Experimenty v umění šedesátých let, ed. Vít Havránek, Prague: Galerie hl. města Prahy, 1999, 508 pp. TOC. [25] (Czech)
• Concrete Poetry, Fluxus and Conceptual Art: A Book Friction, ed. Marc Goethals, Ghent: Witte Zaal, 2008, 100 pp. Introduction. [26] [27] (English)
• From Concrete to Liquid to Spoken Worlds to the Word, Genève: Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève, 2017. Exh. held 31 May-31 Aug 2017. Review: Watson (Artforum).

Bibliography

• Kathleen McCullough, Concrete Poetry: An Annotated International Bibliography, with an Index of Poets and Poems, Troy, NY: Whitston Publishing, 1989. (English)

Archives, resources

• Visual Poetry on UbuWeb
• The Sackner Archive of Visual and Concrete Poetry, est. 1979 in Miami Beach, Florida.
• The Archive of Maurizio Spatola, incl. 20+ scanned publications. Blog.
• Fondazione Bonotto & Luigi Bonotto Collection, Molvena, Italy.
• Concrete poetry in Bibliotheque Kandinsky
• Poesia Concreta: A Projeto Verbivocovisual, São Paulo.
• Lori Emerson's blog posts on visual poetry
• Visual Poetry, a tumblr by Anatol Knotek, Vienna.
• A Tumultuous Assembly: Visual Poems of the Italian Futurists exhibition, Getty Center, Los Angeles, Aug 2006-Jan 2007.
• Design & The Concrete Poem exhibition, Lighthouse, Glasgow, Sep-Oct 2016. Curated by Bronac Ferran.
• Concrete Poetry: Words and Sounds in Graphic Space exhibition, Getty Research Institute, 2017.

Reception, art historical studies, theory

Augusto de Campos, Décio Pignatari, Haroldo de Campos, Teoria da Poesia Concreta – Textos Críticos e Manifestos 1950-1960, 1965; 2nd ed., 1975, Log, PDF.

Josef Hiršal, Bohumila Grögerová (eds.), Slovo, písmo, akce, hlas. K estetice kultury technického věku, 1967, Log, PDF.

Mary Ellen Solt (ed.), Concrete Poetry: A World View, 1968, HTML.

Bit International 5-6: "The Word Image", 1969, Log, PDF.

Dick Higgins, Pattern Poetry: Guide to an Unknown Literature, 1987, Log.

General

• Eugen Gomringer, "vom vers zur konstellation", Augenblick 1:2, 1955. (German)
• Augusto de Campos, Décio Pignatari, Haroldo de Campos, Teoria da Poesia Concreta – Textos Críticos e Manifestos 1950-1960, 1965; 2nd ed., São Paulo: Duas Cidades, 1975. (Brazilian Portuguese)
• Franz Mon, Zur Poesie der Fläche / Texte in den Zwischenräumen, St. Gallen: Galerie Press, 1966, 12 pp. [28] (German)
• Josef Hiršal, Bohumila Grögerová (eds.), Slovo, písmo, akce, hlas. K estetice kultury technického věku, Prague: Československý spisovatel, 1967, 256 pp. (Czech)
• Franz Mon, "An eine Säge denken", Akzente 15, 1968, pp 429-436. (German)
• Mary Ellen Solt (ed.), Concrete Poetry: A World View, Bloomington: Indian University Press, 1968, 311 pp. (English)
• Bit International 5-6: "The Word Image: poésie concrète / Oslikovljena riječ: konkretna poezija", ed. Vera Horvat-Pintarić, Zagreb: Galerije grada Zagreba, 1969, 145 pp. Texts by Vera Horvat-Pintarić, Branimir Donat, Max Bense, Tomaž Brejc, Siegfried J. Schmidt, and Željko Bujas. (Serbo-Croatian)/(English),(French),(German)
• David William Seaman, French Concrete Poetry: The Development of a Poetic Form from the Origins to the Present Day, Stanford University, 1970, xiv+522 pp. PhD dissertation. (English)
• Text + Kritik 25: "Konkrete Poesie I", ed. H.L. Arnold, Munich, 1970. (German)
• Text + Kritik 30: "Konkrete Poesie II", ed. H.L. Arnold, Munich, 1971. (German)
• Klaus Peter Dencker, Text-Bilder: visuelle Poesie international: von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Cologne: M. DuMont Schauberg, 1972, 190 pp. (German)
• Thomas Kopfermann (ed.), Theoretische Positionen zur Konkreten Poesie. Texte und Bibliographie, Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1974. (German)
• Harald Hartung, Experimentelle Literatur und konkrete Poesie, Göttingen, 1975. (German)
• Dieter Kessler, Untersuchungen zur Konkreten Dichtung: Vorformen, Theorien, Texte, Meisenheim am Glan: Hain, 1976, 418 pp. (German)
• Armando Zárate, Antes de la vanguardia: historia y morfología de la experimentación visual: de Teócrito a la poesía concreta, Buenos Aires: Rodolfo Alonso, 1976, 122 pp. (Spanish)
• Wolfgang Max Faust, Bilder werden Worte: zum Verhältnis von bildender Kunst und Literatur im 20. Jahrhundert oder Vom Anfang der Kunst im Ende der Künste, Munich: Hanser, 1977, 268 pp. Based on PhD dissertation from TU, Berlin, 1976. (German)
• Bob Cobbing, Peter Mayer, Concerning Concrete Poetry, London: Writers Forum, 1978, 85 pp; repr., London: Slimvolume, 2014. (English)
• Thomas Kopfermann, Konkrete Poesie: Fundamentalpoetik und Textpraxis einer Neo-Avantgarde, Peter Lang, 1981, 335 pp. (German)
• Poetics Today 3(3): "Concrete Poetry", Summer 1982. (English)
• Visible Language 20(1): "Pattern Poetry: A Symposium", ed. Dick Higgins, Jan 1986. (English)
• Willard Bohn, The Aesthetics of Visual Poetry, 1914-1928, Cambridge University Press, 1986; University of Chicago Press, 1993, x+228 pp.
• Dick Higgins, Pattern Poetry: Guide to an Unknown Literature, SUNY Press, 1987, x+275 pp. (English)
• Visible Language 23(1): "The Printed Poem and the Reader", ed. Richard Bradford, Jan 1988. (English)
• Bob Cobbing, Changing Forms in English Visual Poetry: The Influence of Tools and Machines, London: Writers Forum, 1988, [16] pp. Lecture given at the international conference Visuelle Poesie im Historischen Wandel / Changing Forms of Visual Poetry held in the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbuttel, 30 Aug-4 Sep 1987. (English)
• Víťazoslav Hronec, Jaroslav Supek (eds.), Nový život. Nové umenie, Novi Sad: Obzor, 1990. (Slovak)
• Harvard Library Bulletin 3(2): "Material Poetry of the Renaissance/The Renaissance of Material Poetry", ed. Roland Greene, Summer 1992. Bibliography. [29] [30] (English)
• John Byrum, Crag Hill (eds.), Core: A Symposium on Contemporary Visual Poetry, Mentor, OH: Generator Press, and Mill Valley, CA: Score, 1993, 156 pp. (English)
• Victoria Pineda, "Speaking about Genre: The Case of Concrete Poetry", New Literary History 26:2, 1995, pp 379-393. [31] (English)
• K. David Jackson, Eric Vos, Johanna Drucker (eds.), Experimental-Visual-Concrete. Avant-Garde Poetry Since the 1960s, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996, 448 pp. TOC. (English)
• Eugen Gomringer, Theorie der Konkreten Poesie. Texte und Manifeste 1954-1997. Gesamtwerk Band II, Vienna: Splitter, 1997. (German)
• Willard Bohn, Modern Visual Poetry, Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2001. [32] (English)
• Willard Bohn, Reading Visual Poetry, Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2010, 176 pp. (English)
• Klaus Peter Dencker, Optische Poesie: Von den prähistorischen Schriftzeichen bis zu den digitalen Experimenten der Gegenwart, De Gruyter, 2011. [33] (German)
• E. Berry, "Visual Poetry", in The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 4th ed., ed. Roland Greene, Princeton University Press, 2012, pp 1522-1525. (English)
• Aleksandra Kremer, "Poezja konkretna w trzech obszarach językowych" [Concrete Poetry in Three Languages], Przestrzenie Teorii 19, Poznań: Adam Mickiewicz University Press, 2013, pp 95-114. (Polish)
• Jamie Hilder, Designed Words for a Designed World: The International Concrete Poetry Movement, 1955-1971, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016, 277 pp. Based on PhD dissertation, 2010. (English)
• Richard Bradford, Graphic Poetics: Poetry as Visual Art, Bloomsbury, 2011. (English)

the West

• Liselotte Gimpel, "Concrete" Poetry from East and West Germany: The Language of Exemplarism and Experimentalism, Yale University Press, 1977, xvi+268 pp. Reviews: Butler (J Eur Stud), O'Swald (GDR Bulletin), Weimar (GDR Bulletin). (English)
• David H.T. Scott, Pictorialist Poetics: Poetry and the Visual Arts in Nineteenth-Century France, Cambridge University Press, 1988. (English)
• Michael Backes, Experimentelle Semiotik in Literaturavantgarden: über die Wiener Gruppe mit Bezug auf die Konkrete Poesie, Munich: Fink, 2001, 345 pp. (German)
• Humphrey Ottenhof, De letter te lijf: beeldvorming van concrete en visuele poëzie in Nederland en Vlaanderen, Groningen: DMZ/MAW, 2005, 329 pp. PhD dissertation. [34] (Dutch)
• La parola intermediale: un itinerario pugliese, eds. Francesco Aprile and Cristiano Caggiula, Comune di Cavallino, 2017, 180 pp. A history of Apulian visual poetry. (Italian)

East-Central Europe

Czech Republic

See also magazine Psí víno.

• Jiří Valoch, "Česká vizuální poezie sedmdesátých let", in Radomír Pospíšil, et al., Literárněvědný sborník Památníku národního písemnictví, Prague: PNP, 1982, pp 42-51. (Czech)
  • "Češka vizualna poezija sedemdesetih let", trans. Nives Vidrih, Problemi. Literatura 22:242, Ljubljana: RK ZSMS, 1984, pp 50-58. (Slovenian)
• Jiří Valoch, "České vizuální texty. Náčrt přehledu šedesátých až osmdesátých let", Rok 1, Brno, 1991. (Czech)
• Josef Hiršal, Bohumila Grögerová, Let let: Pokus o rekapitulaci, 3 vols., Prague: Rozmluvy, 1993-94; repr., Prague: Torst, 2007, 1046 pp. Memoir covering the years 1952-68. Review: Karfík (Respekt).
• Josef Hlaváček, "Vizuální a konkrétní poezie, lettrismus", in Dějiny českého výtvarného umění VI/1, eds. Rostislav Švácha and Marie Platovská, Prague: Academia, 2007, pp 232-239. (Czech)
• Wagon 3-4: "Experimentální poesie", ed. Olga Stehlíková, 2007, 557 pp, HTML. (Czech)
• "Laboratoře básnického experimentu", in Dějiny české literatury 1945-1989, vol. 3: 1958-1969, ed. Pavel Janoušek, Prague: Academia, 2008, pp 232-242.
• Astrid Winter, "Jiná estetika. Konceptualismus a transmedialita v české literatuře po druhé světové válce", in Česká literatura v intermediální perspektivě, ed. Stanislava Fedrová, Prague: Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR, and Akropolis, 2010, pp 26-38. [35] (Czech)
• Josef Štochl, "Antologie Vrh kostek, Die Wiener Gruppe a Havlovy Antikódy", in Česká literatura v intermediální perspektivě, ed. Stanislava Fedrová, Prague: Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR, and Akropolis, 2010, pp 39-50. [36] (Czech)
• Eva Krátká (ed.), Česká vizuální poezie. Teoretické texty, Brno: Host, 2013, 308 pp. [37]. Reviews: Košnarová (Tvar), Peková (Psí víno), Rehúš (Romboid), Langerová (A2), Ledvina (Art+Antiques), Šanda (Právo), Kuběnský (Vaseliteratura.cz). (Czech)
• Ha!art 42(2): "Czeska i słowacka literatura nowomedialna", Kraków: Korporacja Ha!art, 2013. (Polish)
• Enter+: Creative Manual for Repurposing in Electronic Literature, eds. María Mencía and Zuzana Husárová, Košice: Dive Buki, 2015, 104 pp. [38] (English)
• Eva Krátká, Vizuální poezie. Pojmy, kategorie a typologie ve světovém kontextu, Brno: Host, 2016, 320 pp. [39] (Czech)

Slovakia

See also magazines Kloaka and Enter.

• Zora Rusinová, "Experimentálna poézia", in Slovník svetového a slovenského výtvarného umenia druhej polovice 20. storočia, Bratislava: Kruh súčasného výtvarného umenia, 1999, pp 75-79. Encyclopedic entry. (Slovak)
• Zora Rusinová, "Lettrizmus", in Slovník svetového a slovenského výtvarného umenia druhej polovice 20. storočia, Bratislava: Kruh súčasného výtvarného umenia, 1999. Encyclopedic entry. (Slovak)
• František Štraus, Štefan Moravčík, Princípy hry v slovenskej poézii, Martin: Matica slovenská, 2001. (Slovak)
• Miloš Štofko, "Experimentálna poézia", in Štofko, Od abstrakcie po živé umenie. Slovník pojmov moderného a postmoderného umenia, Bratislava: Slovart, 2007, pp 59-62. Encyclopedic entry. (Slovak)
• Katarína Ihringová, "Experimentálna poézia a jej podoby v slovenskom vizuálnom umení", Slovenská literatúra 58:4, Bratislava: Slovenská akadémia vied, 2011, pp 317-330. [40] (Slovak)
• Katarína Ihringová, Vzťah slova a obrazu v slovenskom vizuálnom umení, Trnava: Pergamen, 2012. (Slovak)
• Bogumiła Suwara, Zuzana Husárová (eds.), V sieti strednej Európy: nielen o elektronickej literatúre, Bratislava: SAP & Ústav svetovej literatúry, 2012, 312 pp. (Slovak),(Czech)
• Michal Rehúš, Jaroslav Šrank, "Nesystematický návod na použitie slovenskej experimentálnej poézie", in V sieti strednej Európy: nielen o elektronickej literatúre, eds. Bogumila Suwara and Zuzana Husárová, Bratislava: SAP a Ústav svetovej literatúry, 2012, pp 241-264. (Slovak)
• Ha!art 42(2): "Czeska i słowacka literatura nowomedialna", Kraków: Korporacja Ha!art, 2013. (Polish)
• Michal Jareš, Veronika Ráczová, Ľubica Schmarcová, "Experimentálna línia", in Hľadanie súčasnosti. Slovenská literatúra začiatku 21. storočia, Bratislava: Literárne informačné centrum, 2014. [41] (Slovak)
• Enter 24: "Kreatívny manuál pre slovenskú nekonvenčnú poéziu", ed. Michal Murin, Košice: Dive Buki, Dec 2015, 90 pp. [42] (Slovak)
• Michal Murin, "Triangulačné body nekonvenčnej poézie na Slovensku", in Milan Adamčiak, Archív II (KOPO): konkrétna poézia 1964-1972, Košice: Dive Buki, 2016, pp 12-85. (Slovak)
• Peter Zajac, "Optická poézia Milana Adamčiaka v kontexte slovenskej literatúry", in Milan Adamčiak, Archív II (KOPO): konkrétna poézia 1964-1972, Košice: Dive Buki, 2016, pp 294-326. (Slovak)
• Zuzana Husárová, "Slovenská elektronická literatúra", World Literature Studies 3:8, 2016, pp 57-77. (Slovak)

Poland

• Tadeusz Sławek, Między literami. Szkice o poezji konkretnej [Between Letters: Sketches on Concrete Poetry], Katowice: Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie, 1989. (Polish)

• Piotr Rypson, Obraz slowa historia poezji wisualnej, Warsaw, 1989, 373 pp. (Polish)

• Piotr Rypson, Piramidy, słońca, labirynty. Poezja wizualna w Polsce od XVI do XVIII wieku, Warsaw: Neriton, 2002, 350 pp. (Polish)

• Małgorzata Dawidek Gryglicka, Historia tekstu wizualnego. Polska po 1967 roku, Kraków: Korporacja Ha!art, 2012, 752 pp. Review: Kearns (Enclave). (Polish)

• Piotr Bogalecki, "Lewą ręką: polscy teoretycy poezji konkretnej jako konkretyści (Józef Bujnowski, Tadeusz Sławek, Piotr Rypson)" [With the Left Hand. Polish Theoreticians of Concrete Poetry as Concrete Poets], Teoria - Literatura - Kultura 36, 2018, pp 179-210. (Polish)

Yugoslavia

• Dubravka Đurić, "Radical Poetic Practices: Concrete and Visual Poetry in the Avant-garde and Neo-avant-garde", in Impossible Histories: Historical Avant-gardes, Neo-avant-gardes, and Post-avant-gardes in Yugoslavia, 1918-1991, eds. Dubravka Djurić and Miško Šuvaković, MIT Press, 2003, pp 64-95. (English)
• OEI 90-91: "Sickle of Syntax & Hammer of Tautology: Concrete and Visual Poetry in Yugoslavia, 1968-1983", ed. Sezgin Boynik, Stockholm, 2021, 304 pp. [43] [44]

Romania

• Andrei Oisteanu, "The Romanian Avant-Garde And Visual Poetry", in Dada East? The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire, eds. Adrian Notz and E-cart.ro, Zurich: Cabaret Voltaire, and Bucharest: E-cart.ro, 2007; repr. in Exquisite Corpse. A Journal of Letters and Life, n.d. (English)

East Germany

• Liselotte Gimpel, "Concrete" Poetry from East and West Germany: The Language of Exemplarism and Experimentalism, Yale University Press, 1977, xvi+268 pp. Reviews: Butler (J Eur Stud), O'Swald (GDR Bulletin), Weimar (GDR Bulletin). (English)

Latin America

• N.N. Argañaraz, Poesía visual uruguaya, Montevideo: Mario Zanocchi, 1986, 84 pp. (Spanish)
• N.N. Argañaraz, Poesía latinoamericana de vanguardia: de la poesía concreta a la poesía inobjetal, Montevideo: O Dos, 1992, 107 pp. (Spanish)
• Pavla Korpaczewski, Experimentální poezie: brazilská konkrétní poezie v letech 1950-1960, Prague: Karlova univerzita/Filozofická fakulta, 2010, 139 pp. Master's thesis. (Czech)

See also

• Conceptual writing
• Artists' publishing
• Sound poetry
• Typewriter art
• Code poetry