Poetic Form
Concrete Poetry
Emerged as an international movement in the 1950s (Eugen Gomringer, Noigandres group). Bridges poetry and visual art.
Definition
Poetry in which the visual arrangement, shape, or typography of the text on the page constitutes part of the meaning.
Example
e.e. cummings' poems use unconventional spacing and capitalisation; Apollinaire's Calligrammes shape words into pictures.