Dr Steve Willey s.willey@bbk.ac.uk Birkbeck College, University of London
THE POEM AS A MULTI-USE ART SPACE
POETRY AT BATTERSEA ARTS CENTRE DURING THE 1970S
OR BOB COBBING THE POET IN RESIDENCE THAT BATTERSEA ARTS CENTRE NEVER HAD
FOUR EVENINGS OF PERFORMANCES ORGANISED BY TAPOCKETA PRESS
WHAT’S ON IN WANDSWORTH [BAC/8/BAC/003/004/030]
BOB COBBING, ‘CYGNET RING' (TAPOCKETA PRESS 1977)
COBBING PERFORMING WITH ABANA 1977 & 1978
ABANA: COBBING, DAVID TOOP, PAUL BURWELL
BURWELL, PERCUSSION, TOOP, WINDS, COOBING VOCALS (1977) FROM ‘BALLET OF THE SPEECH ORGANS’ (TORONTO: UNDERWHICH EDITIONS, 1998)
THE SOUND & SYNTAX INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF SOUND (1978)
CYGNET RING (TAPOCKETA PRESS, 1977), TYPESTRACT ONE, AND A DUPLICATOR
THE HOSPITALITY OF LOCAL GROUPS POETRY B.A.C. [BAC/8/BAC/003/002/004] ‘Bluefoot’:
“an outsider, a man from another country or parish who has come to settle among new villagers. The term arises because such a man is supposed to have bruised his belongings, looking for a new home. And even when this new comer finds his new home and marries and settles he is still referred to as the Bluefoot Man.’ James Berry quoted in James Proctor’s
ADRIAN MITCHELL AND BOB PEGG AT THE BATTERSEA ARTS CENTRE
WHAT’S ON IN WANDSWORTH [BAC/8/BAC/003/004/041]
Clip of taken from Peter Whitehead’s Film ‘Wholly Communion’ (1965), shot at the Albert Hall June 1965.
ALLEN GINSBERG AT BAC [BAC/8/BAC/003/002/003] (1979) Allen Ginsberg Reads at BAC 14 November 1979 as part of his 2nd European Tour ‘Europe Again & The Living Theatre’ October 1979. Chronology: www.allenginsberg.or g
ALLEN GINSBERG ‘Put Down Your Cigarette Rag’: Poetry Reading Shot by Don Rothenberg @ World symposium on Humanity, Toronto, Ontario, Canada April 1979.
‘Plutonium Ode’ Full video: vimeo.com/11 7931301
JOHN COOPER CLARKE AT THE BATTERSEA ARTS CENTRE
WHAT’S ON IN WANDSWORTH [BAC/8/BAC/003/004/043]
John Cooper Clarke reading ‘Health Fanatic’ (1978) taken from music documentary ‘Urgh! A Music War’ (1982)
PERFORMING ‘THE MERSEY SOUND’ AT BATTERSEA ARTS CENTRE (1976-8)
Roger Mcgough (1976) BAC/8/BAC/003/001/014
Brian Patten (1977) BAC/8/BAC/003/002/126
Adrian Henri (1978) BAC/8/BAC/003/002/016
‘The three Liverpool Poets, Roger McGough, Adrian Henri and Brian Patten in an unnamed bar somewhere in Liverpool.’ From www.brianpattern.co.uk
AVANT-GARDE PERFORMANCE PRACTICE — OVERLAPPING SPACES & SCENES
EXPERIMENTAL POETRY AND THEATRE
The People show, Jeff Nuttall Left
London Musicians’ Collective Flyer The People Show NO. 70 ‘Pictorial Smash’ BAC/8/BAC/003/002/030 BAC/8/BAC/003/002/030/011 1977
London Musicians’ Collective, David Toop Front
EXPERIMENTAL USE OF TYPEWRITER AND DUPLICATOR IN OTHER FLYERS
ROSEMARY BUTCHER DANCE COMPANY POSTER AND PROGRAMME BAC/8/BAC/003/002/072
IVOR CUTLER: VIRGIN ON THE RIDICULOUS BAC/8/BAC/003/001/017
POETRY, SOLIDARITY AND IDENTITY POLITICS AT BAC
BAC/8/BAC/003/001/059 (1975) & BAC/8/BAC/003/002/081 (1978)
THE LEGACY OF THE 1970S: APPLES & SNAKES AT BAC
BAC/4/APP/001
Brian Patten on the Bill (February 1999)
Jean Binta Breeze on the Bill (March 1999)
THE LEGACY OF THE 1970S: WORD ON THE STREET AT BAC
BAC/7/WOR/001/001
Outside the Beaufoy Bar (2001)
Clapham Intersection of Falcon Lane and Lavender Hill
ALLEN GINSBERG AT BAC [BAC/8/BAC/003/002/003] (1979) Allen Ginsberg Reads at BAC 14 November 1979 as part of his 2nd European Tour ‘Europe Again & The Living Theatre’ October 1979. Chronology: www.allenginsberg.or g
ALLEN GINSBERG ‘Put Down Your Cigarette Rag’: Poetry Reading Shot by Don Rothenberg @ World symposium on Humanity, Toronto, Ontario, Canada April 1979.
‘Plutonium Ode’ Full video: vimeo.com/11 7931301