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Concrete poetry relates more to the visual than to the verbal arts although there is a considerable overlap in the kind of product to which it refers. Historically, however, concrete poetry has developed from a long tradition of shaped or patterned poems in which the words are arranged in such a way as to depict their subject.
Bob Cobbing (30 July 1920 – 29 September 2002) was a British sound, visual, concrete and performance poet who was a central figure in the British Poetry Revival. Early life [ edit ]
The two are also interdependent and "without concrete poetry the current forms of visual poetry would be unthinkable". [10] The academic Willard Bohn, however, prefers to categorize the whole gamut of literary and artistic experiment in this area since the late 19th century under the label of visual poetry and has done so in a number of books ...
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Judith Copithorne works with concrete poetry and other types of experimental writing in prose, poetry and visual poetry. Her core themes include domestic space and community. [2] Copithorne writes between text and visual forms, with early work combining text with abstract line drawings, called Poem-drawings.
Calligrammes is noted for how the typeface and spatial arrangement of the words on a page plays just as much of a role in the meaning of each poem as the words themselves – a form called a calligram. In this sense, the collection can be seen as either concrete poetry or visual poetry. Apollinaire described his work as follows:
This is meant to become a comprehensive list of concrete and visual poets. Please feel free to add names of those writers and artists actively working in this area. For a definition of concrete and visual poetry, please take a look at the Concrete Poetry Wikipedia entry. Thanks so much Matthew and Paul for helping the list! Jesse