TEXTBOOKLET 2. 1979.

Dunsyre, Lanark: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1979)

10 x 5.2cm, 18pp (printed on one side only) accordion fold. The artist’s book has a text printed vertically: “VTOLP” and then a few pages later “V/S” and the next page the TOLP is printed as an upward ascending text.
This is a concrete poem relating to the abbreviation of Vertical Take Off and Landing plane which first revealed to the public in the mid 1960s. The first page shows the passage of the plane upwards, the second is a representation of a normal plane taking off at an angle. We cannot work out what the “S” in the second typographic section stand for however. A shame but we continue to research this. VG.