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Cobbing, Bob, 1920-2002

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1920-07-30 - 2002-09-29

Nationality

British

Found in 973 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to my dear bob [cobbing] (740822) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Cobbing B., 1974

 Item
Identifier: CC-56665-10000060
Scope and Contents

Houedard writes that he is sorry to have missed meeting Bob Cobbing in Gloshire. He writes that he "was in london fleetingly to flip thru papers at lisson - noticed several of what looked like sound poems i had collected for kroklok & some i had done myself - not sure how they got there - if you count kroklok as wf [writers Forum] work you wld have a lot of stuff - do you still have the MSS of all the oddments i have had in wf?" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

[Letter to my dear david [medalla ?] (730817) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Cobbing B., 1973

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Identifier: CC-56687-59738
Scope and Contents

Houedard's dense text comments and makes suggestions on a paper sent to Houedard by david (medella?) for his review. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

[Letter to my dear peter[finch] (740202) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Matthews H; Cobbing B., 1973

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Identifier: CC-56680-10000074
Scope and Contents

The name peter is typed in red with dashes and slashes. Houedard writes that " here i am in the middle of 3 years work revising the bible (once more) - but taking time off to see the students at cardiff artcoll under patric ?nolan ?dolan." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

[Letter to my dear peter[mayer] (731127) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Matthews H; Cobbing B., 1973

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Identifier: CC-56679-10000073
Scope and Contents

The large P in the heading to Peter is typed with slashes and dashes. Houedard has requested mention of OULIPO to be included in Peter's Mayer's book with Bob Cobbing, 'Concerning Concrete Poetry.'. He states that his files and things have arrived from the old abbey and he is putting them in order. He also makes suggestions to study the medieval manuscripts for shaped forms and "also the covers of the new encyclopaedia iudaica has a very well done tree with hebrew alphabet leaves...the psychology of inventing pseudo hebrew & pseudo greek might be looked into." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Life the Universe and Everything / Cobbing, Bob., 1993

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Identifier: CC-61913-10004387
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive holds the book of the same title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

List #6: Richard Truhler: noumonals / Room 3o2 Books ; curry jw ; Truhlar R ; Cobbing B ; Dedora B ; McCaffery S ; Kilodney C ; bissett b ; Dean M ; lefler P ; Power N ; Balan J ; Barreto-Rivera R ; Dutton P., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-54633-990080
Scope and Contents

This catalogue consists of a listing of the works of Richard Truhlar, his separate publications, his contributions to books, his contributions to periodicals, and cited material. jw curry provides an introductory biographic sketch. Several examples of Truhlar's poetry are reproduced in this catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Little Magazines and How They Got That Way / Cobbing B ; Phillips T ; Houedard DS ; Furnival J., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-07387-7531
Scope and Contents

Review of small magazines published in England and America from the 19th century to contemporary times. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Additional filters:

Subject
Sound poetry 521
Concrete poetry 241
Abstract markings 214
Xerox art 118
Documentation 88