In his introduction, Eric Mottram writes that "Voice Prints is for voice performance, and looking or meditating performance...[The] poem-texts or poem-images continue Bob Cobbings's experimental achievements with many uses of words, word-orders and word designs." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Richard Truhlar writes "Cobbing uses the writer's tools (typewriter, various duplicating machines, ink, etc.) to explore the word and/or letter as hieroglyph, as phonetic symbol, and as concrete graphic interaction of language image with eye and body rhythms." This volume mainly depicts typewriter poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Many of the poems in this book, which are generally abstract, were performed by Birdyak (Hugh Metcalfe & Bob Cobbing). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book incorporates all the material in the two publications, Sound Poems (An A B C in Sound), January 1995, and Kurrirrurriri, November 1967. It consists largely of sound poems though some are written in expressive visual format. The earliest poem in the book, 'Worm' was written in 1954 but did not achieve its final version until 1964. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Cobbing notes that this piece was performed by the new vocal group "Alphonso" consisting of Bob Cobbing and Bill Millis. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Consists of texts obtained with a dot matrix computer, some of which are altered by passing through a photocopier several times. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Reprinting of favorite poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Cobbing describes the history of contemporary sound poetry and the techniques utilized by the poets. He concludes "The very diversity of sound poetry is in line with its emphasis on the freedom of the individual and the withering of external authority, on man as a communal and social animal, on communication as a life-giving activity, things which in this bureaucratic and techncratic age we need constantly to remember." This is Cobbing's manuscript essay for the ground-breaking exhibition, "klankteksten ? konkrete poezie visuele tesksten - sound texts ? concrete poetry visual texts - akustiche texte ? konkrete poesie visuelle texte." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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.

According to Theo Green of Inkblot, less than 30 copies of Collected Poems Volume Eight were assembled and he is only aware of five copies, all in private hends. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.