Bob Cobbing

The Spoken Word

ISBN:: 9780712305945
Published:: 01/05/2009
Format:: 1 CD, total running time 66 minutes
Price:: £10.16 inc. VAT

Recordings of one of the most unusual poets of the twentieth century.

Key selling points

Many of the tracks are previously unpublished
Concerns the work of a unique and intriguing poet
Other titles in the series have received press coverage in national newspapers in the UK and USA plus coverage on BBC radio

Further details

Bob Cobbing (1920 - 2002) was a crucial figure in the British avant-garde poetry and publishing scenes of the latter half of the twentieth century. The primary focus of his energies was performance sound poetry, a pan-continental phenomenon whose practitioners dispensed with conventional poetic language and syntax almost entirely. For Cobbing, a graphic pattern was as fitting a score for performance as a text. The recordings in this collection are drawn mainly from private tapes now in the care of the British Library and include Cobbing's first commercially issued sound work ‘26 Sound Poems' plus collaborations with Annea Lockwood, Henri Chopin, François Dufrêne and others. Includes an introductory booklet.

Track listing
1. 26 Sound Poems
2. Are Your Children Safe in the Sea
3. Worm
4. Soleil
5. Variations on a Theme of Tan
6. Slowly, Slowly the Tongue Unrolls
7. Computer Poem
8. Vive Rabelais
9. Whisper Piece No.3: Voitex
10. Hymn to the Sacred Mushroom (Konkrete Canticle)
11. e Colony