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371:"Pierre's grandfather, whom he knew as LaLa, was born 'Gouédart', a name that derives from the Breton dialect and means 'river of blood'. LaLa changed the spelling of his name when he migrated to Jersey because the pronunciation that he used was closer to an aspirated 'h' than to the guttural 'g' that an English reader would give it ... Pierre suggested that Houédard should sound like 'wed are'." Charles Verey, "Dom Sylvester Houédard: to widen the context" in 264:. He published several works of literary criticism, often with eccentric typography, and corresponded widely with leading poets, artists, theologians and philosophers of his day, including 207:, with regular contributions to magazines and exhibitions from the early 1960s onward. His elaborate, typewriter-composed visual poems ("typestracts") were scattered across many 336:
in London in 1967. Medalla curated the first solo exhibition by Houédard in 1976 at Artists for Democracy's Fitzrovia Cultural Centre, 143 Whitfield Street, London.
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in London on a book about the connection between poetry and painting. Houédard collaborated next with Filipino poet and artist
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Houédard cultivated an interest in multiple religious traditions; he wrote commentaries on
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and was a founder-member of the Eckhart Society, as well as an honorary fellow of the
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Notes from the Cosmic Typewriter: The Life and Work of Dom Sylvester Houédard
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This book incorporates several essays and images of Houédard's art.
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in Covent Garden, London, in 1967. Houédard contributed a poem to
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from 1944 to 1947, and in 1949 joined the Benedictine
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Dom Sylvester Houédard
Guernsey
poetry
concrete poetry
literary criticism
theology
translation
spirituality
/ˈwɛdɑːr/
WED-ar
Benedictine
priest
theologian
concrete poet
Guernsey
Jesus College, Oxford
British Army Intelligence
Prinknash Abbey
Gloucestershire
religious name
concrete poetry
chapbooks
zen
haiku
Matsuo Bashō
Jerusalem Bible
Meister Eckhart
Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society
Robert Graves
Edwin Morgan

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