In the 1950s and ’60s, the counterculture scene, the introduction of typewriters, and a new interest in typographic innovations all converged to form the concrete poetry movement. Visual poets like ...

Ian Hamilton Finlay, interior of “4 Sails” (1966) (image courtesy of the Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay) Tug, fug, chug, glug — such are the rhyming words used by the writer and artist Ian Hamilton ...

Her writing toed the line between fine art and poetry, asking readers to think of language as a multidimensional tool of communication and politics. If you ask a poet what poetry is, these are the ...

Not everything mixed with water becomes clay, and not everything dried beneath the sun hardens into lifeless stone. In the hands of an ...

Dom Sylvester Houdéard was both a Catholic priest and a member of the counter-culture art movement in the 1960s. His abstract concrete poems are still significant to the movement today.

Photos by John Badman | The Telegraph The word “MY” is etched and dyed into the sidewalk, along with other footprint shapes filled with one word, for 20 consecutive slabs of sidewalk, which will form ...

This graphically inventive sequence of concrete poems, printed in red and black on white, mimes an 11-year-old's sarcastic perspective. The protagonist, Robert, opens with a poem in black type that ...