Add MS 88909/70

(1) A complete copy of Spotlight, Vol 1, No. 2 (November 1947) including Robert W Cobbing, 'The Poet and the Theatre' (p. 27), a short article that considers whether 'we are to have another great period of verse-drama'. The publication was a journal of the Swindon and District Theatre Guild.

(2) Bob Cobbing, 'Chamber Music', futura, 19, edition hansjörg mayer (Stuttgart, 1967) - large folded sheet. Two copies, one unmarked, the other with Cobbing's annotations in red and blue ink to each section indicating tempo and mood, and with 'Susanne Feingold' and studio telephone number written on front panels.

(3) Notes (1974) in Cobbing's hand referring to found poems ('my song signals are found poems') and including parts of transcribed conversation with N[icholas] Z[urbrugg].

(4) A Round Dance by Bob Cobbing (signed), Writers Forum Minibooks 9 (Stockholm, August 1976).

(5) Statement by Cobbing on Ernst Jandl (Writers Forum letterhead, without date).

(6) Fragment (typescript) headed 'introduction to the extraverse bobcobbing'.

(7) Delivery receipt from Space, Victoria, British Columbia (without date): 'Bob, yr pages arrived today - Thanks - Notebook. Should be in mails by late March. Dave.'

(8) 'A Contract is a Contract is a Contract' - statement in Cobbing's hand concerning the cancellation by the Welsh Academy of a four-day course for young writers (July 1982).

(9) Various autograph poems and notes (e.g. beginning 'siege of 1300 / maxwells / wardens of the West March' and 'have you ever noticed / how some scientists in neuroscience', and a poem of variations upon 'SO' with a tally of the number of letters used per line added to the right).

(10) Prospects (Writers Forum, July 1986) - an anthology of poems by pupils from Classes 3E and 3P, Epping Forest High School, Loughton, Essex (Visiting Poet, Bob Cobbing).

(11) Single sheet announcing results of UK Haiku Championships 1996, listing winners including Bob Cobbing, of Highbury (Highly Commended) - haiku (not present) printed in competition anthology Haiku '96 (Poetry Postcard Quarterly, 3).