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Cobbing, Bob, 1920-2002

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1920-07-30 - 2002-09-29

Nationality

British

Found in 986 Collections and/or Records:

And: WF 100. No.6 / Bob Cobbing, editor ; Themerson S ; Harwood L ; Butler B ; Greenham L ; Finch P ; Mottram E ; Nuttall J ; Mayer P ; Houedard DS ; Watkins I ; Clark TA ; Cobbing J ; Tomazos C ; Fetherston P ; Rowan J ; Adler J ; Claire P ; Griffiths B ; McCarthy U., 1973

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Identifier: CC-46977-49715
Scope and Contents

This issue commemorates the tenth year of Writers Forum and its 100th publication. It is listed under Writers Forum 100 and stored in the Cobbing box and appraised there. Many poems were written especially for this issue. It is also designated Writers Forum fours number four. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

And: WF 100. No.6 / Bob Cobbing, John Rowan, editors ; Themerson S ; Harwood L ; Butler B ; Greenham L ; Finch P ; Mottram E ; Nuttall J ; Mayer P ; Houedard DS ; Watkins I ; Clark TA ; Cobbing J ; Tomazos C ; Fetherston P ; Rowan J ; Adler J ; Claire P ; Griffiths B ; McCarthy U., 1973

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Identifier: CC-20552-20949
Scope and Contents

This issue commemorates the tenth year of Writers Forum and its 100th publication. Many new poems were written especially for this issue. This book is also designated Writers Forum fours number four. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

And: WF 100. No.6 / Bob Cobbing, John Rowan, editors ; Themerson S ; Harwood L ; Butler B ; Greenham L ; Finch P ; Mottram E ; Nuttall J ; Mayer P ; Houedard DS ; Watkins I ; Clark TA ; Cobbing J ; Tomazos C ; Fetherston P ; Rowan J ; Adler J ; Claire P ; Griffiths B ; McCarthy U., 1973

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Identifier: CC-20553-20950
Scope and Contents

This issue commemorates the tenth year of Writers Forum and its 100th publication. This copy has been signed by all contributors. Many poems were written especially for this issue. Also, designated Writers Forum fours number four. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Angel Exhaust. No.4 / Simon Smith ; Andrew Duncan ; Cobbing B ; Morgan E ; Horovitz M ; Nuttall J ; Adler J ; Halsey A ; Mottram E ; Fencott PC ; Trevor S ; Monk G ; Fisher A ; Tabor R ; Cheek C ; Musgrove K ; Dennis H ; Robinson I ; O'Sullivan M ; Sheppard R ; Torrance C., 1981

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Identifier: CC-26116-26578
Scope and Contents

Helen Dennis (H.D.) and Keith Musgrove (K.M.) probe sound poetry with Bob Cobbing (B.C.), e.g. B.C...Basel Bunting who to my mind is our finest living poet, said that poetry is as natural as breathing - and I believe him. K.M. Not everybody can breat properly. B.C. That's true. K.M. I think poetry, the word as it is said in poetry, ought to make you breathe properly, it ought to make you catch your breath. B.C. Yes, you've got to breathe properly in order to do it - and drink properly too. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Application to Arts Council / Cobbing, Bob., 1995

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Identifier: CC-61914-10004388
Scope and Contents

This application led to a book, "Life the Universe and Everything' published by Interim Booksin 1993, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Approach Magazine. No.2 / Gilbert Ryle, editor ; Bann S ; Houedard DS ; Cobbing B ; Bense M ; Jandl E ; Ulrichs T ; Ruhm G ; Chopin H ; DeVree P ; Heidsieck B ; Furnival J ; Finlay IH ; Cox K ; Valoch J., 1968

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Identifier: CC-24819-25272
Scope and Contents This issue includes a Glyn Pursglove's essay, "An Introduction to Concrete Poetry." He states "The phrase 'Concrete Poetry' is bandied about a great deal in a way which seems to suggest that all those to whom it is applied are part of a conscious, united movement, and that they are artists whose work is dictated by a set of common and explicit principles. As anyone with any understanding of artistic 'movements' will readily imagine, this is a superficial and misleading idea. Certainly there have been plenty of explicit statements by some of the poets involved but these have, naturally, attracted as many opponents as supporters. One of the most important of such statements was 'POSITION 1 of International (Movement) for Spatial Poetries" organised by, among others, Pierre Gamier. This was not quite a manifesto, in the sense of a document proclaiming plans for the future, but rather a formalisation of a situation. Gamier was fully conscious of the difficulties, and his closing words...
Dates: 1968

Archive of Correspondence: [Letter from Cinicolo to Houedard](sun 21 my 72) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Cinicolo 3, Donato; Cobbing B; Cage J., 1972

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Identifier: CC-09517-9706
Scope and Contents

Cinicolo aknowleges receipt of corrected proofs of Newcastle catalogue and mentions telephone coversations with John Cage and Bob Cobbing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Are Your Children Safe? In the Sea? / Cobbing, Bob., 1998

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Identifier: CC-44990-47166
Scope and Contents

This work was published as a triptych of prints in 1964 and then as broadsides in Eyearun in 1966. Cobbing stated on title page that first publication was 1966 but the Sackner Archive holds the prints published in 1964. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

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Subject
Sound poetry 523
Concrete poetry 239
Abstract markings 220
Xerox art 124
Documentation 93