Concrete Poetry

[Ben Jackson]

Concrete poetry is arrangement of linguistic elements in which the typographical effect is more important in conveying meaning than verbal essence, relating more to visual than to verbal arts.

Key Members:
August de Campos
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Edwin Morgan
F Tomasi Marinetti
Guillaume Apollinaire

 

[Leseratte]

I love concrete poetry:
Here are some lists, none of them complete, some names can be found in more than one list.
General Wikipedia list (selection):

• Friedrich Achleitner (Austria)
• Guillaume Apollinaire (France)
• Alain Arias-Misson (Belgium)
• H. C. Artmann (Austria)
• Carlo Belloli (Italy)
• Max Bense (Germany)
• Chris Bezzel (Germany)
• Bill Bissett (Canada)
• Ivar Breitenmoser (Schwitzerland)
• Claus Bremer (Germany)
• Roman Brombosz (Polen)
• Joan Brossa (Catalunya)
• Augusto de Campos (Brazil, Noigandres)
• Haroldo de Campos (Brazil, Noigandres)
• Safiye Can (Germany)
• Henri Chopin (France)
• Carlfriedrich Claus (Germany)
• Bob Cobbing (UK)
• Małgorzata Dawidek Gryglicka (Polonia)
• Caterina Davinio (Italy)
• Stanisław Dróżdż (Polonia)
• Paul de Vree (Belgium)
• Reinhard Döhl (Germany)
• Joseph Felix Ernst (Germany)
• Öyvind Fahlström (Sweden)
• Ian Hamilton Finlay (Scotland)
• Heinz Gappmayr (Austria)
• Lisa Golze (Germany)
• Eugen Gomringer (Switzerland)
• Ferreira Gullar (Brazil)
• Helmut Heißenbüttel (Germany)
• Sylvester Houédard (England)
• Ernst Jandl (Austria)
• Angelika Janz (Germany)
• Kitasono Katue (Japan)
• Jiří Kolář (Tschechien)
• Barbara Kozłowska (Polonia)
• Ferdinand Kriwet (Germany)
• Wolfgang Lauter (Germany)
• Jackson Mac Low (USA)
• Kurt Marti (Switzerland)
• Kurt A. Mautz (Germany)
• Hansjörg Mayer (Germany)
• Eugenio Miccini (Italy)
• Franz Mon (Germany)
• Edwin Morgan (Scotland)
• Christian Morgenstern (Germany)
• Maurizio Nannucci (Italy)
• bp Nichol (Canada)
• Seiichi Niikuni (Japan)
• Jürgen O. Olbrich (Germany)
• Ewa Partum (Polonia)
• Tom Phillips (England)
• Décio Pignatari (Brazil, Noigandres)
• Lamberto Pignotti (Italy)
• Arne Rautenberg (Germany)
• Carl Frederik Reuterswärd (Sweden)
• Diter Roth (Switzerland)
• Gerhard Rühm (Austria)
• Konrad Balder Schäuffelen (Germany)
• Siegfried J. Schmidt (Germany)
• Kurt Schwitters (Germany)
• Carlo Stasi (Italy)
• Witold Szwedkowski (Polonia)
• André Thomkins (Switzerland)
• Timm Ulrichs (Germany)
• Witold Wirpsza (Polonia)
• Wolf Wezel (Germany)
• Emmett Williams (USA)
• Jonathan Williams (USA)

Selection: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konkrete_Poesie
Poets writing in German (alphabetic order):

Liste von deutschsprachigen Dichtern der konkreten und visuellen Poesie – Wikipedia

de.wikipedia.org

Brazilian Concretists, the first three names wrote for the literary journal Noigandres:

• Augusto de Campos
• Haroldo de Campos
• Décio Pignatari
• Ronaldo Azeredo
• José Lino Grünewald
• Ferreira Gullar
• José Paulo Paes
• Paulo Leminski

 

[Benny Profane]

Well, I did a thread about Concrete Poetry a while. If the moderation staff could unify them, it will be better.

Concrete Poetry

As we had conversations on specific threads such as Poems about Paintings and the Nobel Speculation thread, I've decided to open this thread for discussions about this "marginal" movement of Poetry. Since Arno Holz (the grandfather of Modern Concrete Poetry) to de Campos brothers in Brazil, the...

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