Jeff Nuttall

Jeff Nuttall was an English poet, painter, sculptor and performer who also worked as an actor, teacher and jazz musician. His birthplace was Clitheroe, Lancashire, and his upbringing was in Orcop, Herefordshire. He studied at Hereford College of Art and the Bath Academy of Art, then taught at a secondary school in Finchley after moving to London in 1959. In 1963 he launched My Own Mag, which ran to seventeen issues and included writing by William Burroughs, and in 1965 he put on early Happenings at Better Books in London. He founded The People Show in 1966 and wrote Bomb Culture, his study of the alternative society, which appeared in 1968. He taught at Leeds Polytechnic from 1970 to 1981, was chosen to chair the National Society of Poetry in 1975, and reviewed poetry for The Guardian from 1979 to 1981. He later headed fine art at Liverpool Polytechnic until 1984. He died in 2004.