Showing posts with label Bob Cobbing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bob Cobbing. Show all posts

Monday, 5 December 2011

More on Bob Cobbing

An original recording from 1972,  a selection of Bob Cobbing's sound poems and interview with Charles Amirkhanian recorded in Cobbing’s home. Bob Cobbing (1920 - 2002) was a British sound, visual, concrete and performance poet and a central figure in what has been described as the British Poetry Revival.

Bob Cobbing in Stockholm

Here for the recording http://radiom.org/detail.php?omid=OTG.1972.09.20.c1. You will have to register first.

A glorious minute from Cris Cheek

Cris Cheek is a British poet, artist, interdisciplinary performer and academic currently resident at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, USA. Born in London in 1955, he lived and worked in the UK until the early 1990s. One early influence was working alongside Bob Cobbing at the Poetry Society and the Writers Forum group of poets who met with regularity there.

cris cheek

http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/cheek/skin3b2.wav  and press play for the minute excerpt from Rooftop Fog.