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Cobbing, Bob, 1920-2002

 Person

Nationality

British

Found in 643 Collections and/or Records:

Songs All over the Place / Cobbing, Bob, editor., July 1986

 Item — Box 395: [Barcode: 31858072461597]
Identifier: CC-17535-17901
Scope and Contents

These poems were written by students at Epping Forest High School, Loughton, Essex, when Bob Cobbing was the visiting poet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: July 1986

Songsignals, 1971

 Item — Box 633: [Barcode: 31858072464732]
Identifier: CC-17539-17905
Scope and Contents

Edited by Peter Finch. This is issue No.1 of Second Aeon Folder series; the second and final number, J.P. Wards's "From Alphabet to Logos," is also held by the Sackner Archive. In the introduction, Cobbing describes how he altered the found poems in this work to their final form. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Sonic Icons / Cobbing, Bob., 1970

 Item — Box 392: [Barcode: 31858072461563]
Identifier: CC-17469-17835
Scope and Contents

Designated Quartos number nine. Cobbing documents the first publication and performance of the poems in this volume which include a reprinting of Hymn to the Sacred Mushroom, Serenade.., Suesequence, Or/Ro, and Beethoven Today. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Sonic Icons / Cobbing, Bob., 1970

 Item — Box 392: [Barcode: 31858072461563]
Identifier: CC-17470-17836
Scope and Contents

Designated Quartos number nine. Cobbing documents the first publication and performance of the poems in this volume which include a reprinting of Hymn to the Sacred Mushroom, Serenade.., Suesequence, Or/Ro, and Beethoven Today. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Sonic Icons / Cobbing, Bob., 1970

 Item — Box 392: [Barcode: 31858072461563]
Identifier: CC-19971-20359
Scope and Contents

Designated Quartos number nine. Cobbing documents the first publication and performance of the poems in this volume which include a reprinting of Hymn to the Sacred Mushroom, Serenade.., Suesequence, Or/Ro, and Beethoven Today. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Spearhead 2nd Edition / Cobbing, Bob., 1972

 Item — Box 389: [Barcode: 31858072461530]
Identifier: CC-17484-17850
Scope and Contents

Designated pamphlets number nine. A performance copy of this work with added notes is also held by the Sackner Archive. it has the title, "Ana 1 - 5." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Spearhead 3rd Edition / Cobbing, Bob., 1973

 Item — Box 389: [Barcode: 31858072461530]
Identifier: CC-17485-17851
Scope and Contents

Designated pamphlets number nine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Sprechgedichte, Sound Poems, Introduction and Ancestry 2nd Ed. / Jandl, Ernst ; Cobbing, Bob ; Houedard, Dom Sylvester ; Carroll L ; Morgenstern C ; Khlebnikov V ; Ball H ; Albert-Birot P ; Hausmann R ; Marinetti FT ; Schwitters K ; Seuphor M ; Lemaitre M ; Wittgenstein L ; Hodell A., 1966

 Item — Box 385: [Barcode: 31858072461506]
Identifier: CC-08236-8398
Scope and Contents

This is a reprinting of the book which was first published in 1965; it is No.15 in the Poets* series. In the introduction, Houedard traces the history of sound poetry through a listing of the chronology of "notable soundpoems" beginning with Lewis Carroll in 1855 and ending with Cobbing in 1965. He also mentions Egyptian hymns 300 B.C. of breath poems consisting of may notes sung to one syllable. Houedard's manuscript for this essay is held by the Sackner Archive. This book was written to accompany Writers Forum Record No.1 by Jandl and Cobbing. One of the poems by Jandl in this book, "time passes," also appears in the manuscript and book of "mai hart...," works also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Springtime Greetings / Cobbing, Bob; Pike, Jennifer., 1991

 Item — Box 386: [Barcode: 31858072461514]
Identifier: CC-19509-19892
Scope and Contents

The author is also known as Jennifer Cobbing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Stamp Book / Cobbing, Bob., 1994

 Item — Box 385: [Barcode: 31858072461506]
Identifier: CC-20547-20944
Scope and Contents

Images consist of photocopied reproductions of collages made from postal stamps and fragments of envelopes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Statue of Liberty Suite / Cobbing, Bob., 1980

 Item — Box 387: [Barcode: 31858072461522]
Identifier: CC-17523-17889
Scope and Contents

Also designated Other Branch Readings : 1. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980