 As a poet, he has been active on the literary scene since the 1960s, initially writing experimental poetry in the circle connected with the Poetry Society.He published alongside experimentalists like Bob Cobbing, Cris Cheek, Lawrence Upton and Bill Griffiths, bringing out over a dozen poetry books and pamphlets.He has been represented in numerous exhibitions, such as "Sprachen jenseits von Dichtung" (1979), "[The Open and Closed Book]" at the Victoria and Albert Museum and "[Vom Aussehen der Woerter]" at the Kunstmuseum Hannover, and in anthologies such as "Typewriter Art" (2014) and "A Human Document" (2014).