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Nuttall, Jeff

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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Pieces of Poetry 2nd edition / Nuttall, Jeff., 1997

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Identifier: CC-45085-47262
Scope and Contents Designated Writers Forum Poets No.17.Wikipedia: Jeff 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 the British 1960s counter-culture. He was born in Clitheroe, Lancashire, and grew up 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, 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 one of the founders 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...
Dates: 1997