Scope and Contents This text of this book that was first published in Kontextsound in 1977 consists of an interview of Cobbing by Mottram. Cobbing discusses how he switched from composing conventional poems to sound poems circa 1963. He also makes mention of music as it relates to sound poems and his belief that avant garde musicians appropriated material from poets not vice-versa. Bob Cobbing died at age 82 years in 2002. Robert Shepard wrote the obituary in The Guardian October 7, 2002. "Bob Cobbing, who has died aged 82, was the major exponent of concrete, visual and sound poetry in Britain. Long after its international heyday in the 1960s, he continued to produce visual texts that were also scores for performance, many of them published as booklets by his Writers' Forum press, and launched at its associated workshop, which has been meeting in private houses and rooms above pubs since 1954. His work appears in many anthologies. Born in Enfield, Cobbing was brought up within that close religious...

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This work consisted of 37 copies of which six were reserved for Chopin, 6 numbered A-F ithatncluded an original typewriter poem (the Sackner copyi s C) and 25 were signed by Chopin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Stored in Furnival box. The cover is plakat 3, 1965 and the drawing was first published in Ou Dec 1964. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The text consists of notes for the record of the same title; the record is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Chopin created seven varient typewriter poems based solely on typing the year "1984." The drama, precede by a critical text, involves the three world leaders, Churchill (Mr. Cigar), Roosevelt (Mr. Invalid) and Stalin (Mr. Conquering Moustache). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This atalogue served as a major source for 1996 appraisals of the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the original of a typing which appears as page 3 of Chopin's book, "Le Repas" and also in "Le Dernier Roman du Monde." Crepuscule in English means dusk. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Rossana Apicella contributed a brief essay on Archive Denza, a colllection of visual poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Furnival describes the birth of his son to Henri Chopin and asks to use Chopin as a reference during his job search. The picture is of Harry as a newborn. There is a small concrete vowel poem at the bottom of drawing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue reproduces images of Chopin scrolls . smaller yhan the Sackner Archive holdings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The bird-like shapes of the perforations are repeated in the bird shapes of the folded papers collaged onto the several pages. Except for the page with text by Chopin, the book is entirely white and was handmade by Bal. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This copy of the portfolio contains all the original works for the edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This copy contains all the original typings for the edition, the manuscript text with corrections, and a copy of the printed trade edition. Each of the pages and typings are seperate entries into the database. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Includes a large listing of Dieter Roth's works, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The eight typed poems reproduced in this book are based upon the numbers 1984 from the book by George Orwell; the original typings are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.