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 ...

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 ...

Humankind may struggle to find the right words to describe thoughts and feelings but for concrete poets like Scotland's Ian Hamilton Finlay, who once said, ''The mind will always try to make words out ...

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.

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Recently launched by Hayward Publishing, The New Concrete: Visual Poetry in the 21st Century ...

Los Angeles Letter, a 1968 painting by Michael Morris, encourages you to move back and forth in front of it, catching furtive glimpses of yourself. Rendered in narrow vertical stripes of blue paint, ...