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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.
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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In his "ferro-concrete" (reinforced concrete) poems, Vasily Kamensky replaced grammar and syntax with a spatial arrangement of words that celebrates concrete as a dynamic force in the invention of the modern city. The artists discarded customary book materials and printed Tango on cheap wallpaper as a parody of urban bourgeois taste.
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
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.
Paula Claire (born 1939, Northampton, England) [1] is a British Poet-Artist, whose work spans the areas of sound, visual, concrete and performance poetry. She was associated with the British Poetry Revival Movement in the 1970s and a member of Konkrete Canticle, [2] a poetry collective founded by Bob Cobbing, which performed works for multiple voices and instruments.