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Further Acknowledgements
Review of Pattern of Performance: An outtake from an article dated 15th April 1980. First
published in Lobby Press Newsletter on 15th May 1980.
Bob Cobbing at The Voice Box: A cut down and edited version of ‘REPORT Maggie O’Sullivan &
Bob Cobbing at The Voice Box’, posted immediately after the event on the British and Irish Poets
discussion list. The bulk of the report was on Bob from the start; and I edited it at an early date to
its current extent. There was no antipathy to Maggie O’Sullivan of whom I had written separately.
Bob Cobbing at The Klinker: Posted immediately after the event on the British and Irish Poets
discussion list.
Co-editing Word Score Utterance Choreography: A talk given at ‘Unpacking the Anthology: A
Conference on Anthologies, Anthologists and Anthologising in Literary Studies’ at Edge Hill
University College on 16th July 1999. The text was published as a booklet by Housepress Canada in
2001.
Cobbing and Upton at the Barbican: Originally entitled ‘Cobbing & Upton—Barbican 19 11 99—
a Note by Upton’, posted immediately after the event on the British and Irish Poets discussion list.
Introduction of Bob Cobbing at the 5th Eric Mottram Celebration: Subsequently posted on the
British and Irish Poets discussion list, and later on the Sub Voicive Poetry website.
Bob Cobbing and Eric Mottram Celebration: A first draft, not previously published.
Bells, Whistles; and Sounds and Words: Published in Cauldron & Net (edited by Claire
Dinsmore).
Introduction to Bob Cobbing at Sub Voicive Poetry: Published on the British and Irish Poets
discussion list, and then posted on the Sub Voicive Poetry website.
Cobbing, Pike and Upton at 291 Gallery: First published on the website of Caroline Andrews.
My thanks to Ms Andrews for permission to reprint.
Bob Cobbing: A Worker in Progress: Written on request during Summer 2002 for a project
which did not happen. An earlier version of the paragraphs on the Writers Forum Workshop,
come from a posting by the author on the Wryting discussion list on 25th May 2002. Published by
Lollipop in October 2002.
Funeral Oration for Cobbing: Given on Friday, 11th October 2002.
Celebrating the Memory of Bob Cobbing At Sub Voicive Poetry: Sub Voicive Poetry staged a
series of celebrations of Cobbing in the early years of this millennium. This was the brief
introduction to the first in 2003