"Jeff Nuttall's Bomb Culture Revisited: Art, Politics, and the Underground"

Jeff Nuttall (1933-2004) was a British artist, poet, critic, actor, and musician. The author of almost forty books, Nuttall was involved in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) from the late 1950s, and then played a major role in the British counter-cultural scene. During the 1960s, Nuttall edited My Own Mag: A Superb Absorbent Periodical, a seminal underground little magazine, which published work by British avant-garde writers, among them B.S. Johnson, but also US authors, including William Burroughs. Bomb Culture, Nuttall’s idiosyncratic account of the underground scene was first published in 1968, and it remained out of print until the publication of the 50th anniversary edition in 2018.