Houedard (Dom Sylvester 1924-1992). Sand, Rock & Tide (Openings, Wall Poem I), circa 1964, handprinted linocut, 'Openings/WallPoemI/dsh' in red to right edge, sheet size 58 x 77.7 cm (22 7/8 x 30 5/8 ins) (Quantity: 1) Born on Guernsey, as Pierre (Peter) Thomas Paul Jean Houédard, he studied at Jesus College, Oxford. He served in British Army Intelligence from 1944 to 1947, and in 1949 joined the Benedictine Prinknash Abbey in Gloucestershire, being ordained as a priest in 1959 and taking the religious name Sylvester. Houédard was a leading exponent of concrete poetry, with regular contributions to magazines and exhibitions from the early 1960s onward. His elaborate, typewriter-composed visual poems ("typestracts") were scattered across many chapbooks.
Houedard (Dom Sylvester 1924-1992). Sand, Rock & Tide (Openings, Wall Poem I), circa 1964, handprinted linocut, 'Openings/WallPoemI/dsh' in red to right edge, sheet size 58 x 77.7 cm (22 7/8 x 30 5/8 ins) (Quantity: 1) Born on Guernsey, as Pierre (Peter) Thomas Paul Jean Houédard, he studied at Jesus College, Oxford. He served in British Army Intelligence from 1944 to 1947, and in 1949 joined the Benedictine Prinknash Abbey in Gloucestershire, being ordained as a priest in 1959 and taking the religious name Sylvester. Houédard was a leading exponent of concrete poetry, with regular contributions to magazines and exhibitions from the early 1960s onward. His elaborate, typewriter-composed visual poems ("typestracts") were scattered across many chapbooks.
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