Boooook : the life and work of Bob Cobbing / edited by William Cobbing and Rosie Cooper.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cobbing, William, 1974- editor.

Cooper, Rosie, editor.

John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cobbing, Bob, 1920-2002--Criticism and interpretation.

Cobbing, Bob.

Cobbing, Bob, 1920-2002.

Experimental poetry, English--20th century.

Experimental poetry, English.

Visual poetry, English--20th century.

Visual poetry, English.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

207 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Life and work of Bob Cobbing

Place of Publication:

[London] : Occasional Papers, [2015]

Summary:

"This is the first book devoted to the life and work of Bob Cobbing (1920-2002), one of the most adventuresome concrete and sound poets of the second half of the twentieth century. His performances stretched language to its furthest reaches, into shouts, hisses, groans, meshed with more familiar tracts of spoken word. This publication reveals Cobbing to be not only a protean verbal artist, but equally an inspirational organiser and collaborator, playing a decisive role in such important collective initiatives as abAna, the Antiuniversity, Better Books, London Film-makers' Co-op and Writers Forum. Edited by William Cobbing and Rosie Cooper - and illustrated with numerous reproductions of artworks, documents and poems from the Bob Cobbing family collection - Boooook features contributions by Adrian Clarke, Arnaud Desjardin, Sanne Krogh Groth, Will Holder, Gustav Metzger, Marc Matter and Tris Vonna-Michell, Robert Sheppard, David Toop, Steve Willey, Andrew Wilson and Maxa Zoller"-- From back cover.

Contents:

Introduction / William Cobbing and Rosie Cooper

Locating the 1950s: Bob Cobbing's Poems and Places / Steve Willey

Hendon Arts Together

Writers Forum

Conversation about Writers Forum / Arnaud Desjardin and Adrian Clarke

Association of Little Presses

ABC in Sound / Robert Sheppard

Selected Work

THIS IS NOT AN ADVERTISEMENT: Notes on a Bookshop Manager at a Certain Time / Andrew Wilson

Frame-by-Frame: Bob Cobbing, Avant-Garde Cinema and Underground Film / Maxa Zoller

Destruction in Art Symposium

Better Books Installation: Conversation with Gustav Metzger / William Cobbing

Dom Sylvester Houédard

Boooooks

The Antiuniversity

Going Beyond the Word: From Sound Poetry to Text Sound / Sanne Krogh Groth

Buried in Black Ink and Sound: Bob Cobbing and abAna / David Toop

Poetry Politics

Konkrete Canticle

Birdyak

Concerning Concrete Poetry

N156NT / Will Holder

Bob Cobbing's Curriculum Vitae

Colophon.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

0992903955

9780992903954

OCLC:

925498263

Publisher Number:

99966556817