Bob Cobbing

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Bob Cobbing (30 July 1920 - 29 September 2002) was a British sound, visual, concrete and performance poet who was a central figure in the British Poetry Revival. His involvement with performance began with the Hendon Experimental Art Club and the Hendon-based magazine And in 1951. This led to his setting up Writers Forum, which began publishing in 1963. In 1964 he published ABC In Sound, a book that combined his interest in sound and concrete poetry in an exploration of the visual and auditory possibilities of the English alphabet. He left teaching around this time and managed Better Books on Charing Cross Road, London. This shop was the venue for a number of events and happenings associated with what Cobbing's friend Jeff Nuttall termed the Bomb Culture, the British version of the 1960s counterculture. Cobbing was a prolific writer and performer and continued to work right up to his death. He also used his teacher training to work on performances with school children. Much of his later work consists of visual texts, artist's books and markings that were used as notations or, more strictly speaking, jumping off points for performance. He also worked on more directly collaborative works with other poets, such as the Domestic Ambient Noise project, a series of 300 booklets created with his friend and fellow Writers Forum editor Lawrence Upton. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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Experiments in Disintegrating Language/Konkrete Canticle

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Punk Poets Beatniks And Counter Culture Heroes

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? Concrete Poetry

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Text-Sound Compositions - A Stockholm Festival

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Futura Poesia Sonora (Disc 4)

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Ou 34-35 36-37

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POESIA SONORA

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Variations 3 - A London Compilation

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Phonetische Poesie

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Fylkingen Text-Sound Festivals-10 Years

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OU Review - DIsc 3

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