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The cover illustration is a Signografia by Clemente Padin. Henri Chopin contributed a critical essay. This work is stored in the Vigo box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Consists of selected texts of Bob Cobbing 1944-1990. Jennifer Pike, Bob's wife, also writes under the name Jennifer Cobbing. -- 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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The cover reproduces a letter poem by Clemente Padin. The exhibition was organized by Ovum 10 and includes a listing of international journals of avant garde literature. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The original portfolio was discarded owing to water damage sustained in an accident and its frontpiece collaged to this replacement portfolio; no damage occurred to the prints. Seven copies hos commerce were given to each of the contributors. This festival was also printed as a smaller format exhibition catalogue. Copies of the exhibition catalogue with the same title are also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This pamphlet announces events during the region for January 1981. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Proposes a sound poetry performance. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The book begins with a timeline of the history of sound poetry tracing the literature, instruments, playing and treatises. It contains a descriptive analysis of the works of the major European sound poets with minimal attention to the works of non-European poets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The book begins with a timeline of the history of sound poetry tracing the literature, instruments, playing and treatises. It contains a descriptive analysis of the works of the major European sound poets with minimal attention to the works of non-Europeans. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Issued in conjunction with Chopin's book of the same title, a work also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Issued in conjunction with Chopin's book of the same title, a work also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition and catalogue were organized as a memorial to Dufrene who died in 1982. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This photocollage was used for OU 23/24, 1965. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents British Library: "Bob Cobbing (1920"“2002) was a British sound, visual, concrete, and performance poet; a central member of the British Poetry Revival; and an influence on generations of artists, sound experimenters, educators, poets, and printmakers. Perhaps his most famous work is 26 Sound Poems, several poems of which are included here, alongside collaborations with Annea Lockwood, Henri Chopin, François Dufrene, and others, as well as previously unreleased archival recordings from the BBC and the British Library's Sound Archive, in which the listener can hear Cobbing's unique exploration of the visual and auditory possibilities inherent in the English alphabet. In a career marked by the emergence of the 1960s counterculture and the thrilling potential for sound-based performance poetics, the work of Bob Cobbing stands alone as an instrument at play for the human voice; a testament to the core interdisciplinarity between writings for print and sound; and the strangely verbal...

Scope and Contents British Library: "Bob Cobbing (1920"“2002) was a British sound, visual, concrete, and performance poet; a central member of the British Poetry Revival; and an influence on generations of artists, sound experimenters, educators, poets, and printmakers. Perhaps his most famous work is 26 Sound Poems, several poems of which are included here, alongside collaborations with Annea Lockwood, Henri Chopin, François Dufrene, and others, as well as previously unreleased archival recordings from the BBC and the British Library's Sound Archive, in which the listener can hear Cobbing's unique exploration of the visual and auditory possibilities inherent in the English alphabet. In a career marked by the emergence of the 1960s counterculture and the thrilling potential for sound-based performance poetics, the work of Bob Cobbing stands alone as an instrument at play for the human voice; a testament to the core interdisciplinarity between writings for print and sound; and the strangely verbal...