Jeff Nuttall
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Jeff Nuttall | |
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Born | Jeffrey Addison Nuttall 8 July 1933 Clitheroe, Lancashire, England |
Died | 4 January 2004 Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales | (aged 70)
Occupation | Poet Publisher Actor Painter Sculptor Jazz trumpeter Anarchist sympathiser Social commentator |
Jeffrey Addison Nuttall (8 July 1933 – 4 January 2004) was an English poet, publisher, actor, painter, sculptor, jazz trumpeter, anarchist[1] and social commentator who was a key part of the British 1960s counter-culture. He was the brother of literary critic A. D. Nuttall.
Life and work
Nuttall was born in Clitheroe, Lancashire, and grew up in Orcop, a village in Herefordshire. He studied painting in the years after the Second World War and began publishing poetry in the early 1960s. Together with Bob Cobbing,[2] he founded the influential Writers Forum press and writers' workshop.[3]
His Selected Poems was published by Salt Publishing in 2003.[4]
Works
- Poems (1963), with Keith Musgrove
- The Limbless Virtuoso (1963), with Keith Musgrove
- The Change (1963), with Allen Ginsberg
- My Own Mag (1963–66)
- Poems I Want to Forget (1965)
- Come Back Sweet Prince: A Novelette (1966)
- Pieces of Poetry (1966)
- The Case of Isabel and the Bleeding Foetus (1967)
- Songs Sacred and Secular (1967)
- Bomb Culture (1968), cultural criticism
- Penguin Modern Poets 12 (1968), with Alan Jackson and William Wantling
- Journals (1968)
- Love Poems (1969)
- Mr. Watkins Got Drunk and Had to Be Carried Home: A Cut-up Piece (1969)
- Pig (1969)
- Jeff Nuttall: Poems 1962–1969 (1970)
- Oscar Christ and the Immaculate Conception (1970)
- George, Son of My Own Mag (1971)
- The Foxes' Lair (1972)
- Fatty Feedemall's Secret Self: A Dream (1975)
- The Anatomy of My Father's Corpse (1975)
- Man Not Man (1975)
- The House Party (1975)
- Snipe's Spinster (novel, 1975)
- Objects (1976)
- Common Factors, Vulgar Factions (1977), with Rodick Carmichael
- King Twist: a Portrait of Frank Randle (1978), biography of music hall comedian
- The Gold Hole (1978)
- What Happened to Jackson (1978)
- Grape Notes, Apple Music (1979)
- Performance Art (1979/80), memoirs and scripts, two volumes
- 5X5 (1981), with Glen Baxter, Ian Breakwell, Ivor Cutler and Anthony Earnshaw (edited by Asa Benveniste)
- Muscle (1982)
- Visual Alchemy (1987), with Bohuslav Barlow
- The Bald Soprano. A Portrait of Lol Coxhill (1989)
- Art and the Degradation of Awareness (1999)
- Selected Poems (2003)
Selected filmography
- Scandal (1989) – Percy Murray, Club Owner
- Robin Hood (1991) – Friar Tuck
- Just like a Woman (1992) – Vanessa
- Damage (1992) – Trevor Leigh Davies MP
- The Baby of Mâcon (1993) – The Major Domo
- The Browning Version (1994) – Lord Baxter
- Captives (1994) – Harold
- Paparazzo (1995) – Lionel
- Beaumarchais (1996) – Benjamin Franklin
- Crimetime (1996) – Doctor
- Monk Dawson (1998) – Sir Hugh Stanten
- Plunkett & Macleane (1999) – Lord Morris
- The World Is Not Enough (1999) – Dr. Mikhail Arkov, a Russian nuclear physicist whom Bond goes undercover as.
- Octopus (2000) – Henry Campbell
References
- ^ Gray, Maggie (2017). Alan Moore, Out from the Underground: Cartooning, Performance, and Dissent. Springer. p. 29. ISBN 978-3-319-66508-5.
- ^ Robert Sheppard. "Obituary: Bob Cobbing | Books". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
- ^ [1] Archived 21 November 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Salt — Publishers of Lesley Glaister, Alison Moore, Alice Thompson, the Best British anthologies and Modern Dreams". Salt Publishing. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
External links
- Michael Horovitz, "Jeff Nuttall – Author of 1968's Bomb Culture" (Obituary), The Guardian, 12 January 2004
- Biography and a poem
- Selected Poems listing
- People Show
- The Life and Works of Jeff Nuttall
- John May interviews Nuttall at the Chelsea Arts Club, 1985
- Jeff Nuttall at IMDb
- Off Beat: Jeff Nuttall and the International Underground
- Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University: Jeff Nuttall collection, 1962-1978
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