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Add MS 88909/46
- Record Id:
- 040-000090785
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-000090674
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000502.0x0001f1
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88909/46
- Title:
- Bob Cobbing: Notebook of Poems
- Scope & Content:
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Dated poems, and occasional passages of prose, beginning with 'Two Experiments' (1954) comprising two sets of words arranged in four columns ('Meditation on Worms' and 'Snow').
Entries continue until 1964, although the earliest entries appear to have been copied into the notebook later (c 1960?) than the dates (of composition) indicated.
At the back of the notebook are notes of a later date referring to magazine publication, recordings, and the use of cut-up procedures derived from Tristan Tzara and Brion Gysin (a draft text for Cobbing, Collected Poems Vol 1). There are also six sheets found loosely inserted in the notebook that are successive drafts of a poem circular in design ('Fame / Thought / Key / Box').
Further indication of the date of the notebook is suggested on the first page, which lists - using three different pens which can be correlated with some of the contents - three addresses for Cobbing (the first two of which are struck-through).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000090674
033-000090779
040-000090785 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88909 : The Papers of Bob Cobbing
Add MS 88909/41-78 : Bob Cobbing: Works
Add MS 88909/46 : Bob Cobbing: Notebook of Poems - Hierarchy:
- 032-000090674[0004]/033-000090779[0006]/040-000090785
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88909
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1955
- End Date:
- 1970
- Date Range:
- [c 1960]-1970
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- 1 hard-cover notebook (230 x 180mm), with six sheets loosely inserted.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)