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Celebrating the Memory of Bob Cobbing At Sub Voicive Poetry (2003) [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.] We have been saddened by the death of Bob Cobbing, but tonight we are celebrating him. And let us remember that he lived to a decent age, declaring himself in the last days of his life to be happy. He was in action right to the end of his life despite increasing infirmity and physical immobility directing the activities of Writers Forum the day before he died. In case anyone here does not know, Writers Forum passed to me and Adrian Clarke jointly—the last workshop was two days ago, and the next is on 24th of this month—and the latest Writers Forum publication is on sale tonight. Bob’s artistic career was a lifelong affair, but he was recognised internationally as a major artist for the last 4 decades of his life, from the publication of ABC in Sound. And the range of artists who acknowledged him then with enthusiasm speaks for itself, from the various artists working at the Fylking in Stockholm to Henri Chopin to Dom Sylvester Houédard— and I am mentioning only a few. The ABC is deceptive. It can appear simple. But its sophistication is immediately apparent in its performance. It is a masterwork. And it releases its meanings with benign slyness. Don’t be fooled by Cobbing’s stories about one or both of flu and whiskey, whether they are true or not. It is one of many masterworks. That binary of eye and ear throughout Cobbing’s work is a cleaving in both senses, what he originally called, following Dom Sylvester Houédard, eye and ear versions feed back to each other. But despite that continuity, in the decade following ABC, Cobbing’s work performed an extraordinary leap. I centre that in Sonic Icons, but one could place it in several other titles—in this case we have the intermediate stages resulting from new properties that Cobbing’s work accreted—for example, the idea of the graphical being readable into utterance; the idea of text on the page as being a landscape. I’d also identify among his major works the processual series and Domestic Ambient Noise. Many
commentators ignore the first and almost all ignore the second.
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Page 4 and 5: Contents Acknowledgements 6 Introdu
Page 6 and 7: Acknowledgements An earlier and sho
Page 8 and 9: That first essay, from over 30 year
Page 10 and 11: Review of Pattern of Performance (A
Page 12 and 13: Bob Cobbing at The Voice Box Cobbin
Page 14 and 15: Bob Cobbing at The Klinker (29th Ap
Page 16 and 17: Co-editing Word Score Utterance Cho
Page 18 and 19: It took Cobbing 10 years—or 20 ye
Page 20 and 21: • Do you use machines/technology
Page 22 and 23: I would like to see the visual inte
Page 24 and 25: Introduction of Bob Cobbing at the
Page 26 and 27: tonight at Bob’s instigation, a f
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Page 30 and 31: espect. The contents are linear poe
Page 32 and 33: the level of the book rather than a
Page 34 and 35: medium may leave us more flexibilit
Page 36 and 37: Introduction to Bob Cobbing at Sub
Page 38 and 39: Ladies and Gentlemen, Bob Cobbing.
Page 40 and 41: silent. Then he turned intense atte
Page 42 and 43: Bob Cobbing: A Worker in Progress I
Page 44 and 45: It was during that time that I met
Page 46 and 47: Funeral Oration for Cobbing (11th O
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Page 52 and 53: As well as the simplicity of approa
Page 54 and 55: The Destruction in Art volume recen
Page 56 and 57: themselves and not a completion in
Page 58 and 59: Reissue of Kroklok Kroklok was an e
Page 60 and 61: Republication of Bob Cobbing’s Li
Page 62 and 63: and the foreground of the image; an
Page 64 and 65: has been more difference in aesthet
Page 66 and 67: It might be that he changed his min
Page 68 and 69: So far, within a page, Cobbing has
Page 70 and 71: Review of With Our Tongue Our Drils
Page 72 and 73: criteria before being sure of them;
Page 74 and 75: Collaborations for Peter Finch Lawr
Page 76 and 77: The working order of pages changed
Page 78 and 79: Introduction to Bob Cobbing and Wri
Page 80 and 81: The supposed improvement in product
Page 82 and 83: inevitable. I am not sure it was so
Page 84 and 85: ut eye elements! A notional alien n
Page 86 and 87: However, there is functional writin
Page 88 and 89: There are those poets who inherit t
Page 90 and 91: I have included less on the 1980s
Page 92 and 93: word or any inflection of it; nor d
Page 94 and 95: making poetry than he had been. And
Page 96 and 97: he did formally, in a context of th
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And now as poetry more and more bec
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Another Story of Bob Cobbing Welcom
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Yet, as I have said before, Bob Cob
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Both afford ample evidence of Cobbi
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Bob Cobbing: A Talk Given at Boat T
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3. Published by Writers Forum in 20
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