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Add MS 88909/130
- Record Id:
- 040-000090871
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-000090674
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000502.0x000245
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88909/130
- Title:
- Bob Cobbing: Further Contemporaneous Material (A-F)
- Scope & Content:
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(1) Copied excerpt (6 stanzas, typescript) from [W H Auden, 'The Platonic Blow'], first published (unauthorised) in Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts, 5:8 (1965) and, separately, by Fuck You Press (New York, 1965).
(2) Michael Basinski: letter to Cobbing (12 November, 2001), with 'Flash+Card' postcard inviting submissions (poem by Basinski, signed, on the verso), and further signed texts by Basinski (3 sheets folded).
(3) Bob Cobbing: a set of poems, in manuscript and duplicated typescript, 'written by children on an Upward Bound summerschool course at the State College of Virginia', sent to Cobbing with covering letters from 'Ted' and Jean Symons (without date); 'This is to be a poem for England' and 9 copies of a composite sheet of visual poems including Cobbing.
(4) Paula Claire: two poems (typescript): 'Chatres [sic] Windows : Winter' and 'Dare'.
(5) Thomas A Clark: 'a cosmos' (single sheet).
(6) Barry Cole, three poems typescript: 'Bear Juggling Flowers', 'Pride of Possession', and 'A Quiet Time Among the Carnivores' (final poem signed by Cole).
(7) Kirby Congdon, two poems, both off-prints: 'When young, I quickly grew...' (broadside poems 9, dialogue press, 1964) and (with photograph on page) 'Dialogue with God' (New York: Crank Books).
(8) Mike da Costa: with covering letter (witout date) a single poem, 'Good-bad' (to be read at Heroes and Anti-Heroes 5th November').
(9) Ken Edwards, 'My Half of the Con/versation' (Reality Studios, 1980), with Writers Forum ISBN annotation (single sheet folded twice).
(10) The English Intelligencier: photocopy (8 numbered sheets) of 'This is Personal', [from The English Intelligencier, 1st ser. 20 (1967)] - a composite text splicing various first-hand accounts (in different hands and with different typewriters) relating to events at a gathering of poets at Sparty Lea.
(11) Clayton Eshleman, 'Portrait of Hans Bellmer' (3 sheets typescript, annotated by Eshleman 'March 24, 76 / copy for Eric Mottram').
(12) Peter Finch: Six American Poets (No Walls Broadsheet Number Fifteen, Second Aeon Publications, 1969), and 'Davies the aberdada' (single sheet original collage: 'excerpt from "a history of the welsh dada movement"').
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000090674
033-000090837
040-000090871 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88909 : The Papers of Bob Cobbing
Add MS 88909/97-142 : Bob Cobbing and his Contemporaries
Add MS 88909/130 : Bob Cobbing: Further Contemporaneous Material (A-F) - Hierarchy:
- 032-000090674[0006]/033-000090837[0034]/040-000090871
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88909
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1964
- End Date:
- 2001
- Date Range:
- 1964-2001
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Auden, Wystan Hugh, poet, 1907-1973
Basinski, Michael, poet, b 1950
Claire, Paula, poet, b 1939
Clark, Thomas A., poet, publisher Moschatel Press, b 1944
Cole, Barry, poet, 1936-2014
Congdon, Kirby, poet, b 1924
Edwards, Ken, poet, author, publisher, b 1950
Eshleman, Clayton, American poet, translator and editor, 1935-2021
Finch, Peter, poet, small press publisher, b 1947