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Conventional poetry

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 63 Collections and/or Records:

No.1426: Million Volt Light-Sound Rave / Maggs Brothers ; Cobbing B., 2009

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Identifier: CC-49327-70369
Scope and Contents The annotation to the originals of nine maquettes of posters by Bob Cobbing offered for sale reads as follows. The origins and progress of London's theatrical, film andpoetic avant gardes and a significant tranche of the counterculture are traceable through these unique events posters (and one pure artwork) produced by a small and obscuregroup that emerged from the unlikely setting of suburban Hendon and Finchley. Bob Cobbing was the group's guiding spirit and founder, Britain's "major exponent of concrete, visual and sound poetry" (Guardian Obituary). He almost singlehandedly started, or at least inspired, the small DIY press revolution in Britain, founding the influential Writers' Forum, the long running "And' 'zine (copies of which are available above), and revitalising the experimental poetry scene in London in the process. Cobbing grew up in Enfield in a very strict family of fundamentalist Plymouth Brethren of hardworking signwriters (Guardian Obituary). He inherited...
Dates: 2009

Notes from the Correspondence / Adler, Jeremy ; Cobbing, Bob., 1980

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Identifier: CC-45649-47848
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The images were done by Bob Cobbing. A 2nd edition with etchings by Sylvia Finzi was published in 1983. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

PALPI (Poetry and Little Press Information). No.30/Dec / Bill Griffiths, Bob Cobbing, editors ; Farrell P., 1992

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Identifier: CC-04439-4523
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The cover of this issue was designed by Patricia Farrell. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Poems by Twelve Members of Writers Forum 2nd Edition / Cobbing, Bob, editor ; Rowan J., 2000

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Identifier: CC-35072-36800
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Contains poems by 12 contributors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Poems by Twelve Members of Writers Forum / Cobbing, Bob, editor ; Cobbing B ; Rowan J., 1959

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Identifier: CC-17440-17805
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This book includes poems by 12 contributors. Bob Cobbing (July 30, 1920 - September 29, 2002) was a British sound, visual, concrete and performance poet who was a central figure in the British Poetry Revival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1959

Sub Voicive Poetry. No.22 / Alan Halsey ; Geraldine Monk ; Cobbing B., 1997

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Identifier: CC-31695-33204
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Edited by Lawrence Upton. The front and back covers were designed by Bob Cobbing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

The Last Blewointment Anthology (Vol.1: AC-LE: 1963-1983) / bissett, bill, editor ; Atwood M ; Gilbert G ; bissett b ; Broudy H ; Cobbing B ; Copithorne J ; curry jw ; DiPrima D ; Farrell L ; Gadd M ; Hollingshead R ; Jankola B ; Lachance B ; Lantz C ; levy da ; Kearns L ; Birney E., 1985

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Identifier: CC-23027-23464
Scope and Contents One copy placed has been placed in bill bissett box, the otherin blewointment press box. John W. Doull: BISSETT, Bill. The Last Blewointment Anthology 1963-1983. Volume 1 : AC-LE.(Toronto : Nightwood Editions, 1985). Pp (2),[1]-123,(3). Illustrated. 4to, illustrated blue card covers. "During its twenty-year history blewointment offered unprecedented access to publication to a wide variety of artistsand writers, among them some of Canada's most important and influential poets. In "the last blolewointment anthology," bill bissett has selected excerpts from the press's vast output of books, magazines and anthologies. In his introduction, he explains how the press came into existence and how it brought the work of bissett and many others before the public. "the last blewointment anthology" has been divided into two volumes. Volume 1- "AC to LE"- features Milton Acorn, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Avison, Deidre Ballantyne, Earle Birney, bill bissett, ooljah bissett, Yvonne Bond, Hart...
Dates: 1985