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Vito Acconci
Working his way from poetry to performance art via Minimalism, Acconci created 'found poetry' in which the arrangement of words superceded their meaning.
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Carl Andre
Andre's Shooting a Script renders accounts of a Wild West gunfight as a cubist textual narrative.
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Anna Barham
Barham's anagrammatic works reveal the unconscious meanings of words.
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Matthew Brannon
Brannon's collage and letterpress works recall the advertising aesthetics of a disillusioned 1950s America.
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Henri Chopin
Sound poet, curator, critic and founder of the journal OU.
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Ian Hamilton Finlay
Founder of the periodical Poor. Old. Tired. Horse. whose practice evolved from Concrete Poetry to working directly with the landscape in his own garden.
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Alasdair Gray
Better-known as a novelist, but also a muralist, playwright and illustrator, Gray's work includes the frontispieces for his own Lanark.
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Philip Guston
Notorious for his late-60s rejection of Abstract Expressionism, Guston's later work included 'Poem-Pictures' made in collaboration with Clark Coolidge, Robert Creeley and others.
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David Hockney
Hockney's engraved illustrations commissioned to accompany the love poems of Constantine Cavafy.
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Karl Holmqvist
Holmqvist's hypnotic readings and photocopied works on paper reveal his interest in repetition and patterns.
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Dom Sylvester Houédard
Mystic, spy, monk, and pioneer of typewritten visual poetry.
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Janice Kerbel
Kerbel's fantastic fairground posters introduce a world of imaginary figures.
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Christopher Knowles
Knowles' 'typings' build up words and phrases into intricate multi-coloured patterns using an electric typewriter.
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Ferdinand Kriwet
Kriwet's work in Poor. Old. Tired. Horse. brings together poetic language, commercial function and mystical forms.
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Liliane Lijn
Kinetic artist and creator of rotating conical 'poetry machines'.
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Robert Smithson
Blake meets Bosch in Smithson's early drawings exploring the pictorial possibilities of language.
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Frances Stark
Works based of the self-reflexivity of modernist writing.
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Sue Tompkins
Tompkins' performances involve rapid readings from typewritten works.