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The book is an anthology of poems selected from "The Poet's Voice" and produced by the Salzburg Studies in English Literature. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Also designated Writers Forum Poets Number 10. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book includes poems of cut-ups begun in 1956. The method was to decide on the number of lines, clip out newspaper lines of the required number, and paste them up in an effective order to give an appearance of a conventional poem. This work antedates Gysin's 1959 cut-ups, usually attributed as the first to employ it. This book also includes cut-ups of earlier cut-ups, and permutations or mutations based on newspaper headlines but originating from phrases clipped from books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Cobbing used the structure of the original book and added poems for a performance. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Designated writers forum poets number twentyfive. The handwritten, loose sheet consists of book production notes by Cobbing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This anthology was made to raise funds for Bill Butler's trial of obscenity after a raid by the Brighton police on his Unicorn bookshop. The poem print was done by Asa Benveniste and Paul Vaughn. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Second revised edition that was originally published as Second Aeon Booklet Series No.11 in 1970. The sound poem by Cobbing is a phonetic text using Kerouac's name. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Includes photographic portaits of the contributing poets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Bob Cobbing contributed 10 illustrations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Printed by Katherine Kuehn. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Printed by Katherine Kuehn. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In their introductory essay, "A Fair Field Full of Folk," the editors write about Bob Cobbing as follows: "Cobbing, a resourceful and tireless arts and workshop organizer and publisher, established his radical press Writers Forum in 1954, in 1963 putting its output on a more established and consistent footing, producing cheap mimeographed pamphlets of experimental writing and concrete poetry with great persistence. In his own work he was developing the fusion of visual and aural performance elements that make him a consistent force within British poetry. His re-defining of the nature of the 'text' - as shown by work in this anthology - remains extreme and radical today." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The cover of this issue was designed by Patricia Farrell. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book reproduces Bob Cobbing's "15 Shakespeare Haku." The back cover lists a Declaration of Purpose for the Globe Playhouse Trust. One of its stated purposes was to construct a third Globe Playhouse on or near the original site. This purpose came to fruition in 1997, some 25 years after the printing of this book. Tom Phillips did the stage designs for the opening show. This book was also published as a 2nd edition in 1973 and five further editions. . -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.