Donato ManciniDonato Mancini has worked within the worlds of concrete poetry and visual art since 2000. In 2005, his first volume of verse, Ligatures, explored his fascination with the typographical possibilities of the alphabet. It garnered an honourable mention n the Alcuin book design awards, was shortlisted for the ReLit, and was reviewed favourably by respected American writer Kevin Killian on Amazon.com. Mancini continues to experiment in a variety of media. 911/7-Eleven is a chapbook, published by Victoria's Open Space Gallery in 2004, that parodies corporate strategizing in a high-gloss format. In 2004, Mancini's "monument of concrete poetry," ligature, was on show at the Western Front Gallery. In 2003, he sampled passerby's conversations and displayed the results in the window at Artspeak, a gallery in Vancouver's Gastown neighbourhood where artists, the indigent and tourists on cruise-ship junkets coexist in uneasy proximity. Mancini earned his BA in art history and music composition at the University of Victoria in 1999. Read More Read Less