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Cobbing, Bob, 1920-2002

 Person

Dates

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

Nationality

British

Found in 971 Collections and/or Records:

PALPI (Poetry and Little Press Information). No.30/Dec / Bill Griffiths, Bob Cobbing, editors ; Farrell P., 1992

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Identifier: CC-04439-4523
Scope and Contents

The cover of this issue was designed by Patricia Farrell. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

PALPI (Poetry and Little Press Information). No.22:1/2/Sep / Bill Griffiths, Bob Cobbing, editors., 1989

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Identifier: CC-31357-32833
Scope and Contents

This is a PALPI Supplement that chronicles the first 22 1/2 years history of the Association of Little Presses.Its inaugural meeting was held in Arlington Mill in July 1966. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Partial Additives / Dutton, Paul; Cobbing, Bob., 1994

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Identifier: CC-16123-16466
Scope and Contents

Dutton added a letter to recognizable words to take on a new meaning. The defintions of the new word are printed on the same page. The Sackner Archive holds the printed book based upon this manuscript. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Pattern of Performance / Cobbing, Bob., 1979

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Identifier: CC-17511-17877
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1979

[Photographic Album] / Cobbing, Bob., 1982

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Identifier: CC-17300-17664
Scope and Contents

Works are print-ready, sound poems housed in a standard photographic album. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Picture Songs for Bob / Upton, Lawrence ; Cobbing B., 1990

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Identifier: CC-01006-1032
Scope and Contents

Dedicated to Bob Cobbing on his 70th birthday.*WEB 1998: Upton noted error in Nationality field that was corrected: "I am not an American." [Email]uptonl@globalnet.co.uk. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Picturesheet One, 1978

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Cobbing, Bob (3 of 3): [Barcode: 31858072491347]
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

Plan / Cobbing, Bob., 1971

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Identifier: CC-17487-17853
Scope and Contents

In a personal communication from Paula Claire, she stated that this poem ie 'two' of 'Three Poems for Voice and Movement' by Bob Cobbing (1971). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

plouk / kuolp / Cobbing, Bob ; Upton, Lawrence., 2000

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Identifier: CC-45010-47186
Scope and Contents

At least one of the poems by Cobbing is a modification of a poem with the same typographic layout used by another poet. For example, Cobbing writes as a column, TH - MIS - PO - IS - TH - POM. Nannucci wrote "The Missing Poem is the Poem." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Poems by Twelve Members of Writers Forum 2nd Edition / Cobbing, Bob, editor ; Rowan J., 2000

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Identifier: CC-35072-36800
Scope and Contents

Contains poems by 12 contributors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Poems by Twelve Members of Writers Forum / Cobbing, Bob, editor ; Cobbing B ; Rowan J., 1959

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Identifier: CC-17440-17805
Scope and Contents

This book includes poems by 12 contributors. Bob Cobbing (July 30, 1920 - September 29, 2002) was a British sound, visual, concrete and performance poet who was a central figure in the British Poetry Revival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1959

Poems for Canada; The Northwest Territories / Cobbing, Bob., 1976

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Identifier: CC-17491-17857
Scope and Contents

Designated writers forum fours number 11. These poems are dedicated to the N.W. Territories of Canada and the poets William Angrave, Sean O'Huigin and Herbert Burke. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Poems for Shakespeare / Hampton Christopher, editor ; Cobbing B ; MacBeth G ; Mitchell A., 1972

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Identifier: CC-28254-29425
Scope and Contents

This book reproduces Bob Cobbing's "15 Shakespeare Haku." The back cover lists a Declaration of Purpose for the Globe Playhouse Trust. One of its stated purposes was to construct a third Globe Playhouse on or near the original site. This purpose came to fruition in 1997, some 25 years after the printing of this book. Tom Phillips did the stage designs for the opening show. This book was also published as a 2nd edition in 1973 and five further editions. . -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Poems for the Northwest Territories / Cobbing, Bob., 1975

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Identifier: CC-17496-17862
Scope and Contents

Cobbing writes that these originals were "ideas sorted out for use in Poems for the N.W. Territories (some used as Christmas Cards). In the event, most of this batch of work was mislaid and the N.W. Territory poems were largely created on the day of printing." The abstract markings of the monoprints are sound poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

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Sound poetry 521
Concrete poetry 241
Abstract markings 214
Xerox art 118
Documentation 87