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EXTRA VERSE NUMBER 17. 1966.

paul robertson — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 18:36:57 +0000

London: Great Percy Street, 1966

20.5 x 12.5cm, 16pp plus card wrappers. One fold out (with original scotch tape as issued creating the fold). A concrete poetry journal edited by Barry Cole, which was designed by Bob Cobbing. and with an introduction by Dom Sylvester Houedard. Contributions by Tan Tandinnanan, McAllister and cover by Cobbing. Staples a bit rusty and its a miracle the scotchtape is still holding the tab in place else VG. Scarce.

OPENINGS PRESS. PRICE LIST. C. 1965.

paul robertson — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 09:34:11 +0000

Woodchester: Openings Press, n.d. c. 1965 25.5 x 21cm, 1pp. Price list issued by Furnival and dsh's concrete and visual poetry press which lists the first six Openings publications and the first two plakats and the first "wallpoem" as wel as the "9-minute tape, Devil Trap by Ernest Jandl and John Furnival". Some wear along right hand side and minor browning else VG. Scarce ephemera.

SPLENDID WEEPING. 1970. SIGNED & NUMBERED BY DSH FROM AN EDITION OF ONLY 75.

paul robertson — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 13:37:10 +0000

Woodbridge: Openings Press, 1970 52 x 77.5cm, red and blue offset on cream stock, signed and dated in pencil by the artist bottom right. Based on an typestract from 1967 by the artist. One of only 75 copies. Some edge wear and handling creases and very slight browning from previous framing around the edges where it was previously matted. Over all VG with the print area itself in VG++ condition.

EPITAPHS FOR LORINE. 1973. BACK PAGE BY FINLAY.

paul robertson — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 08:43:58 +0000

Penland: Jargon Society, 1973. 16.7 x 10cm, 48pp. Original pictorial wrappers. A memorial publication for Lorine Niedecker who had died 3 years earlier. Each of 32 poets contributed a work to the book. Finlay who had published her poetry book "My Friend Tree" as the first ever Wild Hawthorn Press book contributed the back cover image of "SONG/ WIND/WOOD" which honours here Niedecker's love for nature. Jonathan Williams edited this small delight and there are poems by dsh, Gael Turnbull, John Furnival and others. VG condition.

TYPESTRACT 1. 1965.

paul robertson — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 15:27:38 +0000

Woodchester: Openings Press, 1965 24 x 20.5cm, 1pp. The first card published by Openings Press in the series. Originally designed by dsh for OU in 1964, this is the first stand alone version. Slight brown marks on the left of the card else VG. now quite scarce.

SPATIAL POSTER. c. 1968.

paul robertson — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 13:50:19 +0000

N.p. (London) : n.p. (Trigram Press), n.d. (1968) 86 x 56cm, red on cream paper. Large concrete poetry broadside with various works by Ian Hamilton FInlay, dsh, Sonia John Sharkey, Ernst Jandl, Josef Hirsal, Augusto de Campos. bp Nicol, John Furnival, Eugene Gomringer, Edwin Morgan and Thomas Clark. Folded with minor tears along folds and some handling creases. A rare visual poetry item which was printed (and probably published) by the London Trigram press.

ICA BULLETIN. Nr 152. 1965. FLUXUS AND HAPPENINGS.

paul robertson — Sun, 08 Dec 2019 17:04:14 +0000

London: ICA, 1965

24 x 17cm, 24pp including printed wraps. A single number of this gallery bulletin which is notable for two things - firstly the English publication of Shiomi's important score (without her permission!) for Spatial poem Nr 2 which asks for submissions from artists describing their direction at a specified time and day, and an 8pp article by Robert Label on the Paris Happenings of that year accompanied by 4 b/w photographs including Schneemann's Meat Joy. There are also 3 typewriter poems by dsh reproduced and a Kolar collage as well as a traditional Chinese typographic (concrete) poem: an exhoration forbidding "the killing and eating of oxen" which is drawn in the shape of an Ox. Inserted, two info sheets. Fine.

KEN COX MEMORIAL

unoriginalsins — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 02:34:10 +0000

Salisbury: South Street , 1975 56 x 50cm, 2pp. Original green and red poster print on yellow paper with the title work on the front and a text by dsh “the sun cheese wheel ode” on the back. Limitation not know but not many. VG+ Scarce.