Peter Hoy IN PARTICULAR #1 1967 1/225 Paris Leary Glen Cavaliero Anthony Conran

Description: Peter Hoy (editor) IN PARTICULAR #1 Published by Privately Printed, Oxford, UK, Summer 1967. Poems, Translations, Versions & Critical Forum by contributors Glen Cavaliero, Anthony Conran, Lyman Andrews, Gillian Fidler, Mark Jacobs, Carmelo Moya, Alan Riddell, G.S. Fraser, Paris Leary. Lithographs by Rigby Graham (printed separately on special paper). Edition limited to 225 copies. 8" x 9 3/4". 174pp. Original stiff wraps. Condition NF. PETER HOY, scholar, bibliographer, writer, translator and teacher, was born into an army family in Aldershot in 1934. The parents took Peter and his sister on an army posting to India for a couple of years, but returned to the UK at the outbreak of war. In Leicester, where he taught at the university from 1963 till 1967, Hoy met Rigby Graham and other devotees of private-press books and fine printing, which remained an abiding passion throughout his life; he built up a fine collection including books in every possible shape and was on the editorial board of the annual journal Private Press Books from 1964 till 1990: his particular responsibility was listings, which dovetailed with another great passion, the art and science of bibliography. In later years he became well-known in specialised academic circles for his scholarly and creative work in this field. He was associated with Bill Alden's annual critical bibliography French Twenty for 30 years, editing it for many of them. For the French publisher Minard, he edited a series of bibliographies, writing several himself, including those on Julien Gracq and Camus. Hoy wrote and spoke French fluently. Among Hoy's masters were Maurice Blanchot, Borges and Beckett, and I surmise that he was inhibited rather than inspired by the example of these great writers; inhibited too by his qualities of heart, in particular his extraordinary gifts as a caring teacher and friend. I got to know Hoy in 1968, early in his Oxford career, after reading an advertisement he placed in John Cotton's periodical Priapus, inviting contributions to Fishpaste and other periodicals. Fishpaste was a typically enchanting Hoy/Graham product: a series of illustrated postcards, hand- printed, and hand-coloured by several people including Dorothy, his first wife, with texts which included Peter's own translations and mini- essays. Peter Hoy was a superb translator of the prose of poets, especially Francis Ponge and Rene Char. Glen Cavaliero is an English poet and critic. He read Modern History at Magdelen College, Oxford, was a staff member at Lincoln Theological College 1956-61 and then read English at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, 1965. He was awarded a Ph.D. from Cambridge in 1972. He is a member of the Faculty of English at Cambridge University, a Fellow Commoner of St Catharine's College, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the President of the Powys Society. Alan Riddell Poet, Artist and Journalist, was born of Scottish parents in Townsville, Australia in 1927. He was educated in Scotland where he founded the Scottish Poetry Magazine Lines in 1952. He worked as a journalist in Scotland, in England on the Daily Telegraph, and in Australia. Alan Riddellís first book The Stopped Landscape, a collection of traditional poetry ñ won a Scottish Arts Council prize in 1968. He had his first one-man exhibition of Screen-Printed Concrete Poems, at the New 57 Gallery in Edinburgh in 1971. His seminal books Eclipse, Concrete Poems 1963-1971, and Typewriter Art came out in 1972 and 1975. His Concrete Poetry has been exhibited in many group shows, among them Celebration of Guillaume Apollinaire (ICA London 1968), Print Show (Gallery A. Sydney, 1969), Concrete Poetry (Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1970), Typewriter Art (New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh, 1973), Experiments in Visual Poetry (Morioka Gallery, Morioka, Japan, 1975) Alan Riddell died suddenly in 1977 aged 50. Concrete Poetry is an Ancient Art. The Greeks 2500 years ago arranged words and phrases into simple geometrical shapes, investing them with magical or mystical powers. It occurs in Asian Art, Manuscripts, and Magic Scrolls. Examples occur in Western Culture, from George Herbertís Easter Wings in the 17th century, to Lewis Carrollís The Mouseís Tail in the 19th century, where words are given an added visual dimension. In the mid 20th century Concrete Poetry was seriously explored in Europe and pioneered in Great Britain by Alan Riddell. His volume Eclipse was the first substantial one-man collection of Concrete Poems to be published. Paris Leary, poet and educator, was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1931. He was educated at Centenary College, Seabury-Western Theological;College, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois., St. Augustine's College, and Canterbury and Oxford Universities. He taught at the University of Kentucky; Bard College (New York), and the University of Leicester in England. Dr. Leary is the author of several books of poetry, a novel, The Innocent Curate, and The Jack Sprat Cookbook, and is best known for his anthology "A Controversey of Poets" (1965) which he edited with the poet and teacher Robert Kelly. Leary was published in many magazines including Poetry. Anthony Conran (Tony) (1931 - 2013) was an Anglo-Welsh poet and translator of Welsh poetry. His own poetry was mostly written in English and Modernist in style but was very much influenced by Welsh poetic tradition, Welsh culture and history. Conran spent most of his working life in Bangor, North Wales. Until 1983, he taught at the Bangor University. He took a particular interest in Welsh poetry, both in Welsh and English; also in traditional folksong and ballads. After retiring from academic life, Conran continued to develop his own poetic art, often combining dramatic presentation of his work in conjunction with visual and performance artists. Conran's first collection of original poetry was Formal Poems (1958). His numerous other collections include Stelae and Other Poems (1965), Spirit Level (1974), and Life Fund (1979). He has also written many critiques of Welsh literature, including a collection of essays entitled The Cost of Strangeness (Gomer Press, 1982). In 1967, he produced a celebrated collection of Welsh language poetry in translation, Welsh Verse (Penguin). This collection was re-published in 1982 by Poetry Wales Press with an extensive and influential introductory essay by Conran. He has also edited a collection of poetry by South Wales poet Idris Davies. Rigby Graham MBE (1931 - 7 May 2015) was an English landscape and topographical artist who worked within the English Romanticism tradition. Graham trained as a mural painter at the Leicester College of Art. After teaching at a number of local schools, Graham returned to lecture at the College of Art, firstly in Graphic Design and Printing, then in Education and latterly in Bookbinding. Graham illustrated more than 250 books and pamphlets and wrote extensively on art and artists.

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