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Bob Cobbing

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Bob Cobbing (30 July 1920 – 29 September 2002) was a British sound, visual, concrete and performance poet who was a central figure in the British Poetry Revival. [1]

38 relations: Allen Ginsberg, Artist's book, Arts Lab, Association of Little Presses, Better Books, Bill Griffiths, Bomb Culture, British literature, British Poetry Revival, Charing Cross Road, Concrete poetry, Conscientious objector, Counterculture, Derek Shiel, Enfield Grammar School, Enfield Town, English alphabet, Happening, Hendon, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Indica Gallery, Jeff Nuttall, John Cage, Keith Albarn, Lawrence Upton, London, London Film-Makers' Co-op, Michael Chant, Paula Claire, Performance poetry, Plymouth Brethren, Poet, Poetry Society, Sound poetry, UK underground, Visual poetry, World War II, Writers Forum.

Allen Ginsberg

Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet, philosopher, writer, and activist.

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Artist's book

Artists' books (or book arts) are works of art that utilize the form of the book.

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Arts Lab

The Arts Lab was an alternative arts centre, founded in 1967 by Jim Haynes at 182 Drury Lane, London.

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Association of Little Presses

The Association of Little Presses (ALP) was an organisation dedicated to promoting small press publishing activity in Britain and Ireland.

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Better Books

Better Books was an independent bookstore.

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Bill Griffiths

Bill Griffiths (August 20, 1948 – September 13, 2007) was a poet and Anglo-Saxon scholar associated with the British Poetry Revival.

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Bomb Culture

Bomb Culture is a book by Jeff Nuttall about the counter-culture in London, which was first published in 1968.

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British literature

British literature is literature in the English language from the United Kingdom, Isle of Man, and Channel Islands.

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British Poetry Revival

"The British Poetry Revival" is the general name given to a loose poetry movement in Britain that took place in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Charing Cross Road

Charing Cross Road is a street in central London running immediately north of St Martin-in-the-Fields to St Giles Circus (the intersection with Oxford Street) and then becomes Tottenham Court Road.

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Concrete poetry

Concrete, pattern, or shape poetry is an arrangement of linguistic elements in which the typographical effect is more important in conveying meaning than verbal significance.

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Conscientious objector

A conscientious objector is an "individual who has claimed the right to refuse to perform military service" on the grounds of freedom of thought, conscience, or religion.

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Counterculture

A counterculture (also written counter-culture) is a subculture whose values and norms of behavior differ substantially from those of mainstream society, often in opposition to mainstream cultural mores.

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Derek Shiel

Derek Shiel was a Dublin-born, London-based painter, sculptor, writer, and film-maker.

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Enfield Grammar School

Enfield Grammar School is a boys' secondary school with academy status in Enfield Town in the London Borough of Enfield in north London.

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Enfield Town

Enfield Town, also known as Enfield, is the historic centre of the London Borough of Enfield.

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English alphabet

The modern English alphabet is a Latin alphabet consisting of 26 letters, each having an uppercase and a lowercase form: The same letters constitute the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

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Happening

A happening is a performance, event, or situation meant to be considered art, usually as performance art.

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Hendon

Hendon is a London suburb in the Borough of Barnet, northwest of Charing Cross.

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Ian Hamilton Finlay

Ian Hamilton Finlay, CBE (28 October 1925 – 27 March 2006) was a Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener.

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Indica Gallery

Indica Gallery was a counterculture art gallery in Mason's Yard (off Duke Street), St. James's, London, England during the late 1960s, in the basement of the Indica Bookshop co-owned by John Dunbar, Peter Asher and Barry Miles.

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Jeff Nuttall

Jeffrey Addison "Jeff" Nuttall (8 July 1933 – 4 January 2004) was an English poet, publisher, actor, painter, sculptor, jazz trumpeter, anarchist and social commentator who was a key part of the British 1960s counter-culture.

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John Cage

John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist.

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Keith Albarn

Keith Albarn (born 28 January 1939 in Nottingham) is an English artist and the father of the musician, Damon Albarn and the artist, Jessica Albarn.

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Lawrence Upton

Lawrence Upton (born London 1949, of Cornish origins) is a poet, graphic artist and sound artist, currently directing Writers Forum.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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London Film-Makers' Co-op

The London Film-makers' Co-op, or LFMC, was a British film-making workshop founded in 1966.

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Michael Chant

Michael Chant is an English composer and political activist.

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Paula Claire

Paula Claire (born 1939, Northampton, England) is a British Poet-Artist, whose work spans the areas of sound, visual, concrete and performance poetry.

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Performance poetry

Performance poetry is poetry that is specifically composed for or during a performance before an audience.

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Plymouth Brethren

The Plymouth Brethren are a conservative, low church, nonconformist, evangelical Christian movement whose history can be traced to Dublin, Ireland, in the late 1820s, originating from Anglicanism.

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Poet

A poet is a person who creates poetry.

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Poetry Society

The Poetry Society is a membership organisation, open to all, whose stated aim is "to promote the study, use and enjoyment of poetry".

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Sound poetry

Sound poetry is an artistic form bridging literary and musical composition, in which the phonetic aspects of human speech are foregrounded instead of more conventional semantic and syntactic values; "verse without words".

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UK underground

The British counter-culture or underground scene developed during the mid 1960s, and was linked to the hippie and subculture of the United States.

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Visual poetry

Literary theorists have identified visual poetry as a development of concrete poetry but with the characteristics of intermedia in which non-representational language and visual elements predominate.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Writers Forum

Writers Forum is a small publisher, workshop and writers' network established by Bob Cobbing.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Cobbing

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