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Add MS 88909/105
- Record Id:
- 040-000090846
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-000090674
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000502.0x00022c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88909/105
- Title:
- Bob Cobbing: Various Brief Commentaries on Cobbing
- Scope & Content:
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(1) Kit Robinson, 'Bob Cobbing's Blade', Poetics Journal (1982), concerning Cobbing, Cygnet Ring (1977).
(2) Unattributed commentary (c 1980, 4 sheets typescript) beginning: 'The distance in time between the initial "discoveries" of the avant garde...'.
(3) Fragment (sheet 2 only) of review by Allen Fisher (1982) of Herne Tapes, recordings made by John Whiting, October Sound.
(4) Christian Scholz, 'Paralipomena zu: Sehtexte-Hörtexte', Bildende Kunst (1989, photocopy, in German).
(5) Giorgio Guglielmino, 'Aspetti Della Ricerca Verbo-Visuale Nella Nuova Poesia Britannica' (in Italian, c 1990, photocopy, source not indicated) - includes sections on Cobbing and Peter Finch.
(6) Several sheets of copied press cuttings (in German) provided by Kultur!Buro concerning Festival der Internationalen Lautpoesie (1992), including short report on Cobbing (with translation into English).
(7) Stan Trevor, On the Poetry of Bob Cobbing (Anarcho Press, 1992).
(8) Chris Jones, 'A Forward Step to the Primitive' (typescript) - undergraduate essay, together with eight letters to Cobbing (1992-93).
(9) Extract (single sheet) from bill bissett, 'Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series', Vol. 19 (Detroit, 1994), p. 55.
(10) Review by Claire Powell of Finch, Five Hundred Cobbings (c 1994).
(11) Robert Sheppard, 'The Poet as the Letter C: some writings on Bob Cobbing' (Ship of Fools, 1995), together with 'A thing or two upon the page' (1998) and two other items from Sheppard.
(12) Michael Lentz, 'VerbVisiVocals: Bob Cobbing's concrete sound-performance' (1997, typescript in German).
(13) Photocopied extracts from the Introduction to Caddel and Quartermain (eds.), Other (1999), including some Cobbing visual poems, in the form of a booklet prepared by Cobbing.
(14) Copy of e-mail message from 'Harry' [Gilonis?], Reaktion Books (29 January 2002) relaying reports of Mertz Nite (which included Cobbing), Victoria & Albert Museum, by Ken Edwards, cris cheek, and Elizabeth James.
(15) Copy of posting by Lawrence Upton to discussion list Wryting (25 May 2002).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000090674
033-000090837
040-000090846 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88909 : The Papers of Bob Cobbing
Add MS 88909/97-142 : Bob Cobbing and his Contemporaries
Add MS 88909/105 : Bob Cobbing: Various Brief Commentaries on Cobbing - Hierarchy:
- 032-000090674[0006]/033-000090837[0009]/040-000090846
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88909
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
German
Italian - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1989
- End Date:
- 2002
- Date Range:
- 1989-2002
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Bissett, William Frederick, poet, b 1939
Lenz, Michael, performance poet, author, musician, b 1964
Sheppard, Robert, poet, author, b 1955
Upton, Lawrence, poet and graphic artist, 1949-2020