Jeff Nuttall
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.
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(s) | Poet Publisher Actor Painter Sculptor Jazz trumpeter Anarchist sympathiser Social commentator |
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]
Written by James Charnley, Anything But Dull: The Life & Art of Jeff Nuttall was published in September of 2022 by Academica Press. This is the first full-length biography of Nuttall and is based in several years research and over 80 interviews with Nuttall's family, friends, teaching colleagues and former collaborators. Charnley was one of Nuttall's students at Leeds College of Art (later Polytechnic), where Nuttall was an art lecturer from 1970 to 1981. Charnley also covered part of the era in his previous book, Creative License: From Leeds College of Art to Leeds Polytechnic, 1963-1973.
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] 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
- 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