Jeff Nuttall

Jeff Nuttall (1933-2004)

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Jeff Nuttall
Born	Jeffrey Addison Nuttall Template:Birthdate Clitheroe, Lancashire
Died	4, 2004(2004-Template:MONTHNUMBER-04) (aged 70) Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales
Occupation	poet, publisher, actor, painter, sculptor, jazz trumpeter

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

Life

Nuttall was born in Clitheroe, Lancashire, and grew up in Herefordshire. He was the brother of literary critic A.D. Nuttall.

Jeff Nuttall studied painting in the years after the Second World War and began publishing poetry in the early 1960s. Together with Bob Cobbing, he founded the influential Writers Forum Press and writers workshop.

He also associated with many of the American beat generation writers, especially William Burroughs. Nuttall's self-published "My Own Mag" mimeographed newsletter provided Burroughs with an important outlet for his experimental literature in the early 1960s.

In 1966 he was a founder of the People Show, an early and long-lasting performance art group, and was involved in the founding of the UK underground newspaper International Times. In 1967 2 of his illustrations appeared in the counter-cultural tabloid newspaper The Last Times (Volume 1, number 1, Fall 1967) published by Charles Plymell.

His book Bomb Culture (1968) was a key text of the countercultural revolution of the time, a work which drew links between the emergence of alternatives to mainstream societal norms and the threatening backdrop of potential nuclear annihilation. Nuttall was a pioneer of the happening in Britain.

Nuttall served as Chairman of the National Poetry Society from 1975 to 1976, a period when the Society briefly served as a home for the British Poetry Revival. He was poetry critic for several national newspapers and was the Poetry Society nominee for Poet Laureate but was overlooked in favour of Ted Hughes.

Nuttall worked as an art teacher; senior lecturer at Leeds Polytechnic and was head of fine art at Liverpool Polytechnic (now Leeds Metropolitan University). As an actor he appeared in over 40 feature films and television programmes. His Selected Poems was published by Salt Publishing in 2003.

Publications

Poetry

• The Limbless Virtuoso (with Keith Musgrove). London: Writers Forum, 1963.
• Poems I Want to Forget. London: Turret Books, 1965.
• Pieces of Poetry. London: Writers Forum, 1965.
• The Case of Isabel and the Bleeding Foetus. London: Turret Books, 1967.
• Songs Sacred and Secular. London: Writers Forum, 1967; London: Indica Books, 1968.
• Penguin Modern Poets 12 (with Alan Jackson and William Wantling). Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1968.
• Journals. Brighton: Unicorn, 1968.
• Mr. Watkins Got Drunk and Had to Be Carried Home: A Cut-up Piece. London: 1968.
• Love Poems. Brighton, UK: Restif Press, 1969.
• Pig. London: Fulcrum Press, 1969; Ink Monkey Books, 2013.
• Poems, 1962–1969. London: Fulcrum Press, 1970.
• The Foxes' Lair. London: Aloes Books, 1972.
• Wolves at the Door (with Mike Dobbie & Nick James). Poet & Peasant, 1974.
• Fatty Feedemall's Secret Self: A dream. Bradford, Yorkshire, UK: Jack Press, 1975.
• The Anatomy of My Father's Corpse. Toronto: Basilike, 1975.
• Man Not Man. Llanfynydd, UK: Unicorn Bookshop, 1975.
• Krak. Bradford, Yorkshire, UK: Jack Press, 1975.
• The House Party. Toronto: Basilike, 1975.
• Objects. London: Trigram Press, 1976.
• Sun Barbs. Hayes, UK: Poet & Peasant Books, 1976.
• Common Factors, Vulgar Factions (Rodick Carmichael). London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977.
• The Gold Hole. London: Quartet Books, 1978.
• What Happened to Jackson. London: Aloes Books, 1978; London: Ink Monkey Books, 2013.
• Grape Notes, Apple Music. Bradford, UK: Rivelin Press, 1979.
• Muscle. Bradford, UK: Rivelin Press, 1982.
• Visual Alchemy (with Bohuslav Barlow). Todmorden, UK: Babylon Trust, 1987.
• Scenes and Dubs. London: Writers Forum, 1989.
• 22 Poems. Reading, UK: L. Upton, 1994.
• Selected Poems (edited by Roy Fisher). Cambridge, UK: Salt, 2003.

Novels

• Come Back Sweet Prince: A novelette. London: Writers Forum, 1966.
• Oscar Christ and the Immaculate Conception: Another novelette. London: Writers Forum, 1968.
• Snipe's Spinster. London: Calder & Boyars, 1975.

Non-fiction

• Bomb Culture. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1968.
• King Twist: A portrait of Frank Randle (biography of music hall comedian). London & Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978.
• The Bald Soprano. A Portrait of Lol Coxhill. Nottingham, UK: Tak Tak Tak, 1989.
• Art and the Degradation of Awareness. London: J. Calder, 2001.

Collected editions

• Performance Art (memoirs and scripts) 2 volumes, London: J. Calder, 1979 [1980].
• Jeff Nuttall's Work (edited by Geoffrey Soar). London: Writers Forum, 2002.
• Jeff Nuttall, 1933-2004: A celebration (book & CD). Todmorden, UK: Arc, 2004.

Edited

• My Own Mag (journal). London: 1963-1966.
• George, Son of My Own Mag (journal). London: 1969-1970.

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.

Selected filmography

Off Beat- Jeff Nuttall and the International Underground

• Beaumarchais (1996)
• The World is Not Enough (1999) as Dr. Mikhail Arkov, an enemy nuclear physicist whom Bond goes undercover as.

See also

• List of British poets

References

Fonds

• Jeff Nuttall Papers at the University of Manchester

External links

Books

• Jeff Nuttall at Amazon.com

About

• Jeff Nuttall obituary in The Guardian
• The Life and Works of Jeff Nuttall Official website
• Jeff Nuttall at the Internet Movie Database
• John May interviews Nuttall at the Chelsea Arts Club, 1985
• Selected Poems listing

Etc.

• People Show