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Cobbing, Bob, 1920-2002

 Person

Nationality

British

Found in 643 Collections and/or Records:

Octo, 1969

 Item — Box 633: [Barcode: 31858072464732]
Identifier: CC-17450-17815
Scope and Contents

Designated Writers Forum Folder number five. This is the first edition. Poems contained in Octo "Are Your Children Safely in the Sea?" "Integration Alone Is Not Enough," "Spontaeous Appealinair Contemprate Apollinaire," and "Marvo Movies Natter." Each poem is presented in two versions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

On Impulse / Cobbing, Bob., 1994

 Item — Box 385: [Barcode: 31858072461506]
Identifier: CC-20550-20947
Scope and Contents

This book provides s sampling of Cobbing's previously published poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Open Folios, 1993

 Item — Box 635: [Barcode: 31858072464757]
Identifier: CC-20539-20936
Scope and Contents

Includes several texts from 1965 to 1968 that have been reworked and new texts from 1972 to 1993 that were not previously published. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

or / ro / Cobbing, Bob., 1970

 Item — Box 392: [Barcode: 31858072461563]
Identifier: CC-17471-17837
Scope and Contents

Each of the four pages of this book depicts a typewriter poem that consists of the text "or/ro" and other two letter words such as "we/we." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Oral Complex at the October Gallery, 1982

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

Oral Complex performed at The October Gallery in London on Mary 21st and 22nd, 1982.

Dates: 1982

Origins of British Experimental Poetry / Cobbing, Bob; Gomringer E; Houedard DS; Finlay IH; Morgan E; deMelo e Castro EM; Garnier P; Chopin H; Novak L; Fahlstrom O; Cox K; Williams J; Edmonds T., 1973

 Item — Box 393: [Barcode: 31858072461571]
Identifier: CC-17671-18039
Scope and Contents

Cobbing discusses the early concrete poems of Ian Hamilton Finlay, John Furnival, Kenelm Cox, Dom Sylvester Houedard, and Tom Edmonds in depth. This essay is unbpubished. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

OW 2 / Cobbing, Bob., 1996

 Item — Box 388: [Barcode: 31858072463676]
Identifier: CC-20825-21233
Scope and Contents

This is the last book made on Cobbing's original photocopying machine. It broke down in 1996 and was replaced. The replacement was funded by the Sackners who received a few of Cobbing's concrete poetry wall works in exchange for the money. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

OW / Cobbing, Bob., 1996

 Item — Box 388: [Barcode: 31858072463676]
Identifier: CC-20824-21232
Scope and Contents

Reprinted from a work entitled, Aphabetroyal 1966. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Pack of Cards / Cobbing, Bob., 1991

 Item — Box 386: [Barcode: 31858072461514]
Identifier: CC-17362-17726
Scope and Contents

All the images on the outside covers of these greeting cards are abstract. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Pattern of Performance / Cobbing, Bob., 1979

 Item — Box 387: [Barcode: 31858072461522]
Identifier: CC-17511-17877
Scope and Contents

The sound poems are read from abstract markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Picturesheet One, 1978 November

 Item — Box 635: [Barcode: 31858072464757]
Identifier: CC-17690-18058
Scope and Contents

Designated Card Series No.32. This is the second edition of the print first published in 1974. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978 November