With an original buff storage envelope marked 'Exhibition version of Octo' (with Writers Forum Octo cover adhered), eight typewriter images on white card of varying size, from Writers Forum publication (1969).
Bob Cobbing: Cobbing and Peter Mayer, 'Introduction to Concrete Poetry'
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Original manuscript of [Introduction to Concrete Poetry] prepared by Cobbing and Mayer, in the form of 32 sheets (numbered 4-35) with cut-and-pasted text for subsequent reproduction. The introductory paragraph notes that the booklet was prompted by 'the desire by both The Poetry Society and The...
Bob Cobbing: Cobbing and Peter Mayer, Concerning Concrete Poetry
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Original materials for the Writers Forum publication by Cobbing and Mayer, comprising sheets with cut-and-pasted text for reproduction and photocopied material. Also, two small photocopied items: a one-paragraph review of the book from Kaldron, 11 (1980); and a small extract from L A Wallrich c...
In autograph draft and as duplicated typescript, 'The Tom Poems', drafted 1983, first published 1984 and reprinted in Sockless in Sandals, Collected Poems Volume Six (Second Aeon, 1985) - see notes to the volume.
Bob Cobbing: 'Texts for Introductions' (Performance)
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Retained together in an envelope marked, in Cobbing's hand, 'Texts for Introductions', 9 card sheets, on each of which Cobbing has written in capital letters various introductory remarks about sound poetry. Original storage envelope in file.
Sixteen A4 card sheets and two smaller sheets (all pale blue), each with an abstract image (a score or notation for voice) in black ink, produced by Cobbing using a Sinclair QL computer (storage envelope - not retained - marked 'QL Images').
Five A4 card sheets (white), each with an individual abstract image in black ink. With original buff storage envelope marked 'Incomplete / 4 [sic] cards from Citicisms' [sic]and yellow 'post it' note attached ('Bob / performance version'). Cf. Citycisms (Writers Forum, 1977).
Set of 30 A4 card sheets, each with an individual abstract image in black ink, suggesting fabric in various magnifications. With two additional sheets of a different character: the first is a photocopy of the title-page of Leonard Emmerson, The Infanta of Castile (Scribblers Editions) and the s...