Writers Forum Information

Writers Forum will publish Bob Cobbing’s late work with our tongue our drills and quadras. More details in some weeks’ time. Scheduled publication date  Saturday 9th October 2010 (subject to change) Price to be advised. No orders taken yet.

Bob Cobbing’s 8 image poem “Wire and Fork” from September 1992, which has apparently never been published, will be published in a small / limited edition by No Press of Calgary during 2010 and then republished by Writers Forum in an unlimited edition later in the year or in 2011. More information when it becomes available

Writers Forum will publish Richard Tipping’s new book Off the page in October:

Tipping, Richard; Off the page; 40 pp, 20 in colour. Further details will be available soon. Scheduled launch date Saturday 30th October 2010 – Richard Tipping, who is based in NSW, Australia, will be present

Price to be announced

The next Writers Forum Workshop meeting will be on 25th September 2010, as those on our e-mailing list have already been told.
Bring things to read / perform – two sets, if you can

PS At the meeting on 28th August 2010 we relaunched A Processual Double Octave and ABC in Sound, both by Bob Cobbing. The latter, ABC in Sound, was a relaunch of an impression from earlier this decade while the former, A Processual Double Octave, is a new printing. Those titles are now available for purchase by post and will be included, turn and turn about, in stalls at future workshops

The next workshop – the first of the 2010 / 2011 season – is Saturday 28th August 2010 at The Betsey Trotwood, Farringdon Road, E.C.1. from 3.30 for 4 pm.
Bring work to perform, if you wish, ideally two shortish sets (we’ll play that by ear)

Publications will be available for sale. Bring cash to buy books! (There is no charge for the workshop)

The next date in the schedule is still subject to confirmation. More news on that on 28th

It is planned to reissue two important books by Bob Cobbing:

ABC in Sound / Sound Poems – the latest printing of his first solo publication – and Destruction in Art – the first posthumous Cobbing title

Please DO NOT try to order them yet. They will be – other things being equal – on sale at the first workshop of the new season, 28th August 2010 and then by post thereafter

We have an e-mailing list to remind you of upcoming meetings, changes of meetings and so on. You might get one or two posts a month

To be added to the list, please email mailinglist at wfuk.org.uk

Enquiries to info at wfuk.org.uk

No unsolicited mss by email please

Writers Forum Workshop is on its holidays now.

We meet up again, 3.30 for 4 pm, 28th August 2010

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The usual sales stall will resume in the autumn when it is hoped to relaunch,

perhaps amongst others, and certainly in any order:

Fracted by Bob Cobbing, 1977
Slow violence by Lawrence Upton, 2006
Tonight - The Shawford Mill Cut by Alaric Sumner, 2006 (written 1998?)
The Instability of Inherence by Alaric Sumner, 2006 (written 1995?)
My half of the conversation by Ken Edwards, 1980
The flowering of atomic romanticism in the desolation of poetry by Alaric Sumner,
2005 (written 2000?)

Please do not try to order any of these titles yet; and note that not all of these titles may be available on the same day

The next WF workshop, the last of the 2009 / 2010 is an extended workshop from 4 to 7 with a slightly modified format in order to incorporate a birthday celebration for Jennifer Pike, as previously announced.

If you are coming, we ask you to turn up on time, 3:30 for 4:00, and not any time later, so as not to disturb the workshop. There is no separate performance. 

 The workshop is intended, though a celebration too, as all our workshops are, to be low key. It will have a changing format this time; but it is one thing

All who support the aims of the workshop are welcome. Bring material to perform and please be on time