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Poetry’ published in Riding the Meridian 2.1, 1999.
7. Extra Verse No.17, 1966.
8. ‘Performing the Wor(l)d; Contemporary British Concrete Poetry’ by Julian Cowley, in In Black
and Gold: Contiguous Traditions in Post-War British and Irish Poetry; edited by C. C. Barfoot,1964.
Review of With Our Tongue Our Drils and Quadras
1. A web edition of Finnegan’s Wake has now been published by University of Adelaide under the
imprint eBooks@Adelaide; and I have been able to make myself the check which I proposed.
Finnegan’s Wake does not appear to be the source of the title.
2. Poetry Wars: British Poetry of the 1970s and the Battle of Earls Court by Peter Barry published by
Salt, 2006.
Collaborations for Peter Finch
1. Space Studios, London Fields, 25th March 2011 until 7th May 2011.
2. Talk at the University of Miami in Ohio, Spring 2010.
Bob Cobbing’s Sound Poems
1, Published by Writers Forum as Sound Poems in January 1965, reprinted in October 1965 and
again in June 1967. Published by Writers Forum as ABC in Sound in March 1986 and again in May
1990, June 1992, March 1994, April 2000 and 2004.
2. Writers Forum may be found at wfuk.org.uk.
3. The arts complex then centered on Royal Festival Hall.
4. I made a paper note at the time; but cannot now locate it. However, I have heard the same or
similar remarks in the years since; and one still hears the set dismissed as triviality.
5. Chapter 15, That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis, 1946.
6. ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’.
7. A survey of Modernist Poetry by Laura Riding and Robert Graves, published by Heinemann 1927,
reprinted in A Survey of Modernist Poetry and a Pamphlet Against Anthologies, published by
Carcanet in 2002. The book is an idiosyncratic and selective approach but this particular analysis
is sound on its own terms.
8. Bob Cobbing and Writers Forum, ibid p.33.