Various flyers, posters and programmes for events promoted by, or relating to, the Poetry Society. Includes Robert Armstrong, 'Contemporary Poetry and the Spoken Word' (signed typescript), a lecture presented to the Poetry Society's Week-End School, Magdalen College, Oxford (11 April, 1969) - w...
Bob Cobbing: Hendon Experimental Art Club and Group H (Exhibitions)
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The Hendon Experimental Art Group (formed in 1951) changed its name to the Hendon Group of Painters and Sculptors in 1954, and to Group H in 1957. The file contains: lists of works exhibited at several exhibitions (1953-69); 'Group H' 36th Exhibition booklet (Writers Forum Quartos Number Two, 1...
Word Score Utterance Choreography was the 750th Writers Forum publication, published with the assistance of Arts Council funding. The majority of the file comprises letters from the Arts Council concerning its grant to the New River Project to enable publication, including a copy of the origin...
A number of miscellaneous items, including: Writers Forum Ninth Annual Report (manuscript, signed Cobbing 13 June, 1961); exhibition list for 'Bob Cobbing & Writers Forum' (Sunderland Arts Centre, 2-30 November, 1974); list of Writers Forum Workshops and Events 1994-95; a note by Lawrence Up...
(1) 'Matters needing urgent attention at Better Books Paperback Dept' (Cobbing, 20 September, 1965), with 'Report on shelving supplied for paperback shop'. (2) Two copy letters, Cobbing to Eric White, Arts Council (5 July 1966 and 7 May 1967) concerning the setting up of a poetry centre. (3)...
Bob Cobbing: 'On the Occasion of the Artists' International Congress and Exhibition'
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Statement by the Surrealist Group (London) concerning the necessity to end a policy of 'non-intervention' with regard to the Spanish Civil War. In the form of a broadsheet, beginning: 'On the occasion of the Artists' International Congress and Exhibition we ask your attention.' Signatories (pri...
(1) A small assortment of material relating to magazine covers and to the 'Poetry Information' section, typescript and proofs, including corrected proofs of John Wieners, 'Let the Clocks Do It' [from Poetry Review 63:2 (1972)]. (2) Various notes in Cobbing's hand, concerning the magazine's bud...