ROBSON, Ernest

An industrial chemist who returned to poetry in his retirement, Robson developed a sophisticated, precomputer technique for visually notating his radical articulations, similar to those of sound poetry, but in his case of conventionally syntactical texts. He called it An Orthographic Way of Writing English Poetry, or prosodynic print. Robson also published theoretical treatises with titles such as Transwhichics (1970), Prosodynic Print ( 1975), Vowel and Diphthong Tones (1977), and Poetry as a Performance...