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Add MS 88909/132
- Record Id:
- 040-000090873
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-000090674
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000502.0x000247
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88909/132
- Title:
- Bob Cobbing: Further Contemporaneous Material (M-V and Unidentified)
- Scope & Content:
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(1) Peter Mayer: with annotated envelope front ('To Bob from his fellow traveller for two decades') listing various materials concerning visual poetry by Mayer (all as photocopies).
(2) Friederike Mayröcker, metaphorisch (Stuttgart), inscribed to Cobbing, July 1966.
(3) Cavan McCarthy: 4 typestract poems (1967) and a single sheet map-based visual poem entitled 'Mozambique / Rhodesia / Zambia / Malawi / Angola' (numbered 40/50, Leeds, July 1966).
(4) Jean-Claude Moineau: envelope addressed to Cobbing (franked 25 September, 1969) with French prose text (single sheet) from Moineau, Page Arrachée; also, a single sheet off-print from an unidentified French publication including work by Moineau and Joel Rabinowitz.
(5) Arthur Moyse: on the verso of an invitation card to private viewing of Alfred Dunn exhibition (Redfern Gallery, November, 1966), a treated portrait photograph (b/w) signed by Moyse (1968).
(6) B P Nichol, Dada Lama (London: Tlaloc, 1968).
(7) John Rety, 'Gregory Corso's Bomb Poem' (single sheet photocopy, c 1990), supplied by Rety to Cobbing with message at top of sheet.
(8) Schuldt: unused postcard with word list on the recto (1967).
(9) Robert Sheppard: 'Recording and Informing a Generation' (concerning the death of Eric Mottram), Pages 280-281 (1995), and a Writers Forum Workshop booklet (Stephen Sheppard).
(10) Mary Ellen Solt: 'Moon Shot Sonnet' (single sheet, without date).
(11) Timm Ulrichs: 'stets' (printed visual poem, Hannover, 1966).
(12) Jiří Valoch, g a (Writers Forum, 1971).
(13) Unidentified items, where authorship is not indicated or is not immediately apparent, as follows:
- (a) 'Formed from observations from a plat-form' (single sheet typescript, green paper);
- (b) 'arithmetical poem and three variations' (single sheet off-print, annotated 'sample page');
- (c) 3 small sheets ('Slogans Pour Jean Toche');
- (d) two poems (typescript): 'Decoy in Memoriam' and 'Finding once again he was alone' (with brief typed letter to Cobbing on the verso, from 'Keith', London);
- (e) single sheet poem (typescript) beginning 'I am the composer', with obscure signature at the foot;
- (f) single sheet (manuscript) headed '4 Katrina';
- (g) single sheet (photocopy) of grid of squares containing letters and symbols;
- (h) folded card with two grids adhered, containing runic poem and its Latin transposition ('Felis Silvestris');
- (i) 4 sheets original carbon typescript of a prose text beginning 'ENOUG(H) ... tales!' and ending with 'William says Borrows...agame' (the name, and the style of composition, suggest William Burroughs; and Cobbing's address - '262Randolph Avenue Lond.' - appears in the midst of the first sheet).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000090674
033-000090837
040-000090873 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88909 : The Papers of Bob Cobbing
Add MS 88909/97-142 : Bob Cobbing and his Contemporaries
Add MS 88909/132 : Bob Cobbing: Further Contemporaneous Material (M-V and Unidentified) - Hierarchy:
- 032-000090674[0006]/033-000090837[0036]/040-000090873
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88909
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
French
German - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1966
- End Date:
- 1995
- Date Range:
- 1966-1995
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Burroughs, William Seward, novelist, writer, painter, and spoken word performer, 1914-1997
Moyse, Arthur, cartoonist, writer, 1914-2003
Nichol, Barrie Phillip, poet, 1944-1988
Sheppard, Robert, poet, author, b 1955
Solt, Mary Ellen, poet, translator, 1920-2007
Valoch, Jiří, art critic, curator, b 1946