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Cobbing, Bob, 1920-2002

 Person

Nationality

British

Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:

Anthology Meaning Meanings, 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-28995-30331
Scope and Contents

This booklet was written for a workshop in a grade school class and is a second edition of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Chapbooks Eleven to Twenty / Cobbing, Bob, editor ; Adler B ; Fisher A ; Radin B ; Pike J ; Griffiths B ; Cobbing B ; Claire P ; Upton L ; Musgrove K ; Bielski A., 1979

 Item — Box 387: [Barcode: 31858072461522]
Identifier: CC-17521-17887
Scope and Contents

Designated Wallet Number Three. Includes the following pamphlets: 11) Bettina Adler: eIghT FIGURES, 12) Allen Fisher: SSSSPEECH, 13) Allen Fisher: Atherapy studies group docket Q, 14) Jennifer Pike: Water Works, 15) Betty Radin: Masks, 16) Bill Griffiths, Bob Cobbing & Paula Claire: Gin Chap, 17) Paula Claire: Circuits, 18) Lawrence Upton: Loops, 19) Keith Musgrove: Tests and 20) Alison Bielski: Mobiles. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Collected Poems Volume Seven: Vowels & Consequences / Cobbing, Bob ; Griffiths B., 1985

 Item — Box 391: [Barcode: 31858072461555]
Identifier: CC-17350-17714
Scope and Contents

Bill Griffiths' introductory essay explains how Cobbing has used the duplicator, ink, stencils and over-printing to create texts of shapes and textures. They "move away from word and letter as conventional symbols...into a new semantics of shape. The works in this book date from 1970 to 1976. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

David/Norman Press (Letter to Shit Magazine), 1986

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Co-Cu: [Barcode: 31858072491354]
Identifier: CC-20025-20415
Scope and Contents

Reviews international small press scene. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Mary Rudolf's Chromosomes, 1972

 Item — Box 634: [Barcode: 31858072491313]
Identifier: CC-17787-18157
Scope and Contents

This poem with the appearance of a film sequence in the form of a grid, was published in Second Aeon No.15, 1972. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Run Runes (from the book), 1974

 Item — Box 396: [Barcode: 31858072461605]
Identifier: CC-17782-18152
Scope and Contents

Published as page 6 in Ceolfrith No.26: Bob Cobbing & Writers Forum. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

The End Of An Era, 1986

 Item — Box 635: [Barcode: 31858072464757]
Scope and Contents

Flyer for Clive Fencott and Bob Cobbing's farewell poetry reading held on April 17 1986 at the Camden Head in London. On the back, handwritten note reads: "We have given up poetry. I am now into music and computer-graphics (scores) -Bob"

Dates: 1986

Visual and Sound Poetry Opening Celebration - Kris Kingles Kesmes Korals

 Item — Box 635: [Barcode: 31858072464757]
Scope and Contents

Flyer for visual and sound poetry show. Held at the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center (BBAC) gallery

Dates: -

Visual Poems, Text Poems, Book Three, Book Four, Book Five, 1970 - 1980

 Item — Box 634: [Barcode: 31858072491313]
Identifier: CC-17301-17665
Scope and Contents

The titles of each book, each containing 32 prints with each print glued one to a page, are written on the covers by Cobbing. These books constitute a "scrapbook of Cobbing's published prints." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970 - 1980