In 1990, I published eight postcards under my Concrete Events imprint. This was to coincide with the visit to Britain, which I organised, of the amazing French concrete poet Henri Chopin (at the end of the ‘About’ page of this website is a link to notes on my friendship with Henri Chopin). The main focus of the visit was a programme of performances by Henri Chopin of his sound poetry (the final venue being ‘The Voice Box’ next to the Arts Council Poetry Library in the Royal Festival Hall, London). In addition, he very kindly allowed me to publish two of his typewriter poems as postcards. I received enough funding from Lincolnshire and Humberside Arts (at the time the Regional Arts Board that covered where I lived) to publish six of my own concrete poems as well. In the last few years, I have been donating these Concrete Events postcards to collections (usually titled ‘Special Collections) that are interested in concrete poetry (these have included the British Library, the Bodleian Library, Oxford University and the library of Trinity College, Dublin, amongst others). In recent weeks, they have been accepted into two more collections: Brizdle-Schoenberg Special Collections, Ringling College of Art and Design, Florida and New York University (NYU) library: Special Collections.
