COBBING, Bob

A sometime civil servant, farmer, teacher, and manager of a London literary bookshop, Cobbing has for many years been the principal mover and shaker in British experimental literature, first as a prolific poet, then as a strong performer, especially of his sound poems, but also as the founder of the chapbook-publishing Writers Forum (since 1963) and coeditor of the occasional periodical Kroklok (1971), which was at its beginnings among the most avant-garde literary magazines in England. If only for...