Robert Frame - Unoriginal Sins https://unoriginalsins.co.uk AVANT-GARDES Sat, 18 Apr 2020 21:13:23 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cropped-nTKdHdZI-1-1-32x32.png Robert Frame - Unoriginal Sins https://unoriginalsins.co.uk 32 32 AIR LETTERS. 1968. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/air-letters-1968/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=air-letters-1968 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/air-letters-1968/#respond Tue, 18 Jun 1968 21:12:23 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=18596 Nottingham: Tarasque Press, 1968

25.6 x 10.4cm, 20pp plus tissue end papers and original card covers. Printed typographic dustjacket. An artist's book published by Stuart Mill's press - seven couplet poems (poems that have two lines, one above the other separated by a thick line) by Finlay are illustrated below by Robert Frame. Each first line has a subject and ends with the word poem - indicating the word or letters below ARE the poem.

One such poem is


The Windmill's Poem

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X

The X of course being a letter that looks like the sails of a windmill.

The post AIR LETTERS. 1968. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> The post AIR LETTERS. 1968. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/air-letters-1968/feed/ 0 POTH (POOR OLD TIRED HORSE) NR 10. 1963. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/poth-poor-old-tired-horse-nr-10-1963/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=poth-poor-old-tired-horse-nr-10-1963 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/poth-poor-old-tired-horse-nr-10-1963/#respond Fri, 15 Nov 1963 11:43:58 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=18076 Edinburgh; Wild Hawthorne Press, 1963

26 x 21cm, 4pp. The ninth tenth of Finlay’s poetry publication with contributions by Robert Frame, Finlay himself, Eugene Gomringer, Anselan Hollo, Dom Sylvester Houedard, Robert Lax and Edwin Morgan. This number was printed in part red on white and was designated by Finlay as "the Concrete number" and all the poems included can be regarded as such. There is an abstract illustration by Robert Frame as an insert (printed b/w).

ALSO INSERTED:

FROM BURGOS JAIL.

29.5 x 19.5cm, 1pp. Folded. Promotional leaflet printed green and black on white published by Appeal for Amnesty in Spain: for a poetry book protesting fascist political prisoners under Franco.

This was the first issue to break with the previous size format - thereafter while most numbers were 26 x 21cm, some were smaller or even oblong. New printing techniques were being used also - the earliest numbers of POTH were laid up using pretty much only type - these slightly later numbers were pasted up and some typesetting also used (which allowed more flexibility in design and made reproducing visual and concrete works more easy (and accurate).

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One poem by Morgan on the back page was mistakenly corrected by the printer (Gaol was corrected to Goal) so each copy was hand altered to indicate the correct format - it should have been thus:

BRAZILIAN "FOOTBALL"

1958 - Goal! Goal! Goal!

1962 - Goal! Goal! Goal!

1964 - Gaol! Gaol! Gaol!

The post POTH (POOR OLD TIRED HORSE) NR 10. 1963. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> Edinburgh; Wild Hawthorne Press, 1963
26 x 21cm, 4pp. The ninth tenth of Finlay’s poetry publication with contributions by Robert Frame, Finlay himself, Eugene Gomringer, Anselan Hollo, Dom Sylvester Houedard, Robert Lax and Edwin Morgan. This number was printed in part red on white and was designated by Finlay as “the Concrete number” and all the poems included can be regarded as such. There is an abstract illustration by Robert Frame as an insert (printed b/w).
ALSO INSERTED:
FROM BURGOS JAIL.
29.5 x 19.5cm, 1pp. Folded. Promotional leaflet printed green and black on white published by Appeal for Amnesty in Spain: for a poetry book protesting fascist political prisoners under Franco.

This was the first issue to break with the previous size format – thereafter while most numbers were 26 x 21cm, some were smaller or even oblong. New printing techniques were being used also – the earliest numbers of POTH were laid up using pretty much only type – these slightly later numbers were pasted up and some typesetting also used (which allowed more flexibility in design and made reproducing visual and concrete works more easy (and accurate).

*********

One poem by Morgan on the back page was mistakenly corrected by the printer (Gaol was corrected to Goal) so each copy was hand altered to indicate the correct format – it should have been thus:

BRAZILIAN “FOOTBALL”

1958 – Goal! Goal! Goal!

1962 – Goal! Goal! Goal!

1964 – Gaol! Gaol! Gaol!

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