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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 239 Collections and/or Records:

15 Shakespeare Kaku 3rd edition / Cobbing, Bob., 1973

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Identifier: CC-20097-20491
Scope and Contents Designated minibooks number six. This is the third edition of the booklet. jw curry writes on the WEB: "15 Shakespeare Kaku was given a three-voice and organ live performance by Konkrete Canticle (Bob Cobbing, Paula Claire and Michael Chant) on April 23rd 1972 at a Shakespeare Birthday Week Gala Concert in Southwark Cathedral. The text presents fifteen spatially sequential typographical assemblages, I refer to them as figures, that are so partial as to be all but illegible. Two exceptions are the first and last figures, the first being a compacted version of the title page minus the word kaku, "shake" overprinted above and overprinted "spear". Although neither is cleanly present the expected closure Shakespeare can easily be made. Cobbing's final figure reprises the spear but does so to draw emphasis to "ear." The six-page text sequence begins on the recto with three horizontal figures, a double page spread with one vertical figure opposite to three more horizontal figures, a...
Dates: 1973

15 Shakespeare Kaku 5th edition / Cobbing, Bob., 1979

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Identifier: CC-46463-49192
Scope and Contents Designated minibooks number six. This is the fifth edition of the booklet. jw curry writes on the WEB: "15 Shakespeare Kaku was given a three-voice and organ live performance by Konkrete Canticle (Bob Cobbing, Paula Claire and Michael Chant) on April 23rd 1972 at a Shakespeare Birthday Week Gala Concert in Southwark Cathedral. The text presents fifteen spatially sequential typographical assemblages, I refer to them as figures, that are so partial as to be all but illegible. Two exceptions are the first and last figures, the first being a compacted version of the title page minus the word kaku, "shake" overprinted above and overprinted "spear". Although neither is cleanly present the expected closure Shakespeare can easily be made. Cobbing's final figure reprises the spear but does so to draw emphasis to "ear." The six-page text sequence begins on the recto with three horizontal figures, a double page spread with one vertical figure opposite to three more horizontal figures, a...
Dates: 1979

15 Shakespeare Kaku Augmented Version / Cobbing, Bob., 1998

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Identifier: CC-45014-47190
Scope and Contents

This is an augmented version of an eight page booklet first published in 1972. It was first published in poems for Shakespeare by the globe playhouse trust. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

15 Shakespeare Kaku / Cobbing, Bob., 1972

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Identifier: CC-17492-17858
Scope and Contents Designated minibooks number six. This is the first edition of the booklet. jw curry writes on the WEB: "15 Shakespeare Kaku was given a three-voice and organ live performance by Konkrete Canticle (Bob Cobbing, Paula Claire and Michael Chant) on April 23rd 1972 at a Shakespeare Birthday Week Gala Concert in Southwark Cathedral. The text presents fifteen spatially sequential typographical assemblages, I refer to them as figures, that are so partial as to be all but illegible. Two exceptions are the first and last figures, the first being a compacted version of the title page minus the word kaku, "shake" overprinted above and overprinted "spear". Although neither is cleanly present the expected closure Shakespeare can easily be made. Cobbing's final figure reprises the spear but does so to draw emphasis to "ear." The six-page text sequence begins on the recto with three horizontal figures, a double page spread with one vertical figure opposite to three more horizontal figures, a...
Dates: 1972

A Gala Exhibition / Cobbing, Bob; Houedard DS; Cox K; Wright E; Verey C; Furnival J; Finlay IH; Morgan E; Gerz J; Chopin H; Garnier P; Gette PA; Logue C; Lucie-Smith E., 1969

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Identifier: CC-19507-19890
Scope and Contents

Cobbing mentions that nearly a thousand items were included in this exhibition that took place over one month's period which thirty thousand people attended un London's Royal Festival Hall.. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

A Movie Book 2nd edition / Cobbing, Bob., 1978

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Identifier: CC-17508-17874
Scope and Contents

This is the 2nd edition of a book first published in 1971. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

A Peal in Air / Cobbing, Bob., 1968

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Identifier: CC-17750-18119
Scope and Contents

The verso of this drawing became a printed concrete poem by Jiri Valoch entitled Structure 1. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

A Peal in Air / Cobbing, Bob., 1970

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Identifier: CC-18726-19100
Scope and Contents

Text on this poster indicates that Cobbing's "visual poems are either notations for sound poems or complex monotypes using many techniques to destroy or re-create the word." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

A Performance of Concrete and Sound Poetry/An Exhibition of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Cobbing, Bob ; Fencott, P.C. ; Marvin Sackner ; Ruth Sackner., 1982

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Identifier: CC-17287-17648
Scope and Contents

The exhibition was curated by Ruth and Marvin Sackner. The catalogue was issued on the occasion of the exhibition and performance of Cobbing and Fencott at the Richter Library, University of Miami, February 25, 1982. The exhibition and performance was sponsored by Josephine Johnson, University of Miami. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

ADU / Cobbing, Bob., 1974

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Identifier: CC-17779-18148
Scope and Contents

This broadside was published as page 36 in Ceolfrith No.26: Bob Cobbing & Writers Forum. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

An H in teh Heart: A Reader / Nichol, bp ; Bowering G ; Ondaatje M ; levy da ; Gorman L ; Cobbing B ; Smith St ; Kroetsch R ; McCaffery S., 1994

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Identifier: CC-48506-69535
Scope and Contents

The works for this volume were selected by George Bowering and Michael Ondaatje who respectively contributed a forward and an afterward. Nichol provide several hilarious stories about body parts. This book includes a graphic novella illustrated with photographs of Nichol and his friends. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994