Alex Selenitsch, Horizon thru & thru, 2009, Rare Books collection. Reproduced by kind permission of Alex Selenitsch

Concrete poets use visual means to enhance the meaning of their words, playing with typography, layout and three-dimensional sculptural forms. Melbourne poet and architect Alex Selenitsch's debut concrete poetry exhibition at his friend Sweeney Reed's Strines Gallery in 1969 was the first of its kind in Australia. Over 20 years, Selenitsch has produced a series of more than 25 sculptural concrete poems called Horizons, responding to a specific concrete poem by Reed that featured this word. The series asks viewers to read 'around, over to, at, towards and through the HORIZON', a hopeful exercise that takes on particular poignancy given Reed's premature death in 1979.