Concrete 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

Poésie de mots inconnus, 1949, Log, PDF.

An Anthology of Concrete Poetry, 1967, Log, PDF.

Anthologies

• 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.
• Between Painting and Poetry, ed. Jasia Reichardt, London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1965. Catalogue for exh. held 22 Oct-27 Nov 1965. (English)
• 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)
• Astronauts of Inner Space: An International Collection of Avant-garde Activity, ed. Jeff Berner, 1966. (English)
• Beloit Poetry Journal 17(1), ed. Stephen Bann, 1966. (English)
• An Anthology of Concrete Poetry, ed. Emmett Williams, Something Else Press, 1967; New York: Primary Information, 2013, 342 pp.
• Experimentální poezie, eds. Josef Hiršal and Bohumila Grögerová, Prague: Odeon, 1967, 265 pp. (Czech)
• Once Again, ed. Jean-François Bory, New Directions, 1968, 132 pp.
• The Cosmic Chef, ed. bpNichol, 1970. (English)
• konkrete poesie: deutschsprachige autoren, ed. Eugen Gomringer, Stuttgart: Reclam, 1972, 174 pp. (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. [2] (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)
• 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)
• Visible Language 27(4): "Visual Poetry: An International Anthology", ed. Harry Polkinhorn, Oct 1993.
• The New Concrete: Visual Poetry in the 21st Century, eds. Victoria Bean and Chris McCabe, London: Hayward Publishing, 2015, 240 pp. [3]

Magazines, periodicals

• Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts, 9 numbers, ed. Ed Sanders, New York, 1962-65. (English)
• Poor.Old.Tired.Horse., 25 numbers, ed. Ian Hamilton Finlay, 1962-68. Published an increasing amount of visual poetry from issue 5 onwards. (English)
• Marrahwannah Quarterly, ed. d.a. levy, Cleveland, 1964-67. (English)
• Buddhist Third Class Junkmail Oracle, ed. d.a. levy, Cleveland, 1967-69. (English)
• Konkret, 1 issue, ed. Eric Amann, Toronto, 1979. (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)

Archives, resources

• Visual Poetry on UbuWeb
• The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry
• http://www.poesiaconcreta.com
• http://www.getty.edu/news/press/tumultuous_assembly/
• http://visual-poetry.tumblr.com
• http://loriemerson.net/tag/concrete-poetry/
• The Archive of Maurizio Spatola, incl. 20+ scanned publications.
• Concrete poetry in Bibliotheque Kandinsky

Literature

• Mary Ellen Solt (ed.), Concrete Poetry: A World View, Bloomington: Indian University Press, 1968, 311 pp. (English)
• Visible Language 20(1): "Pattern Poetry: A Symposium", ed. Dick Higgins, Jan 1986. (English)
• Visible Language 23(1): "The Printed Poem and the Reader", ed. Richard Bradford, Jan 1988. (English)
• Harvard Library Bulletin 3(2): "Material Poetry of the Renaissance/The Renaissance of Material Poetry", ed. Roland Greene, Summer 1992. Bibliography. [4] [5] (English)
• 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)
• 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)
• Eva Krátká (ed.), Česká vizuální poezie. Teoretické texty, Brno: Host, 2013, 308 pp. [6]. Reviews: Košnarová (Tvar), Peková (Psí víno), Rehúš (Romboid), Langerová (A2), Ledvina (Art+Antiques), Šanda (Právo), Kuběnský (Vaseliteratura.cz). (Czech)
• Enter 24: "Kreatívny manuál pre slovenskú nekonvenčnú poéziu", ed. Michal Murin, Košice: Dive Buki, Dec 2015, 90 pp. [7] (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)
• Eva Krátká, Vizuální poezie. Pojmy, kategorie a typologie ve světovém kontextu, Brno: Host, 2016, 320 pp. [8] (Czech)
• 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)