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...
(1) Ten A4 card sheets (white) with elongated images suggesting fabric in black ink, originally retained together. (2) Set of twelve white cards (each approxximately 250 x 250mm) with images in black ink. On the verso of each is a direction arrow, and some are identified as being from 'Four Le...
Bob Cobbing: Various Off-Prints for Performance (1)
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Three sets of materials used in performance: (1) Material from Five Vowels (Writers Forum, 1974), including 'One of Five Copies of Version One of e colony (for The Five Vowels)', signed and dated by Cobbing, February 1973. (2) Material from glossolalie un hallali (Writers Forum, 1997). (3)...
Bob Cobbing: Various Off-Prints for Performance (2)
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(1) Kurt Schwitters, Ursonate - photocopied pages (pp. 214-36) from an unidentified printed source. The first sheet is marked 'Bob's copy' and sections are marked 'Clive' or 'C' [Fencott] and 'Bob' or 'B' [Cobbing], for performance. (2) 43 card sheets of various Cobbing poems (mostly verbal, a...
Bob Cobbing: Various Off-Prints for Performance (3)
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Largely examples of visual material, including two images (photocopy from photograph) of Lol Coxhill and two images of Jennifer Cobbing with headscarf/hood. Also two selections of text-based works, including material from Found & Sound (Writers Forum, 1993).