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Nick Toczek
Born
Nicholas Toczek (1950-09-20) 20 September 1950 (age 73) Shipley, England
Occupation
Writer
Nationality
British
Genre
Poetry, Music, Journalism, Disc Jockey
Nick Toczek (born 20 September 1950; Shipley, England) is a British writer and performer working variously as poet, journalist, magician, vocalist, lyricist and radio broadcaster. He was raised in Bradford and then took a degree in Industrial Metallurgy at Birmingham University (1968–71) where he began reading and publishing his poetry. Staying on in Moseley, Birmingham, until 1977, he founded his poetry magazine The Little Word Machine, had several books and pamphlets published by small presses, co-founded Moseley Community Arts Festival, and toured with his music and poetry troupe, The Stereo Graffiti Show. Moving back to Bradford in 1977, he co-founded the seminal music fanzine The Wool City Rocker and formed the band Ulterior Motives, in which he was lyricist and lead vocalist. Continuing to tour as a poet and to publish his writings, he also recorded songs with a variety of bands. During the early 1980s, he ran a series of weekly punk and indie gigs. Throughout the late '80s and early '90s, he ran weekly alternative cabaret clubs, usually co-organising these with fellow performer Wild Willi Beckett. Since the mid-'90s, his collections of children's poetry (first with Macmillan and later with Hodder, LDA, Caboodle, etc.) have seen him become a best-selling children's writer. Also, since 1997, he has been regularly collaborating with the composer Malcolm Singer, starting with their Dragons Cantata. By 2011, Toczek had worked as a visiting writer in thousands of schools, visiting dozens of countries worldwide in the course of this work. He is also a professional close-up magician, a skilled puppeteer, an authority on far-right neo-Nazi and racist groups, a prolific print journalist and an experienced broadcaster.
NickToczek (born 20 September 1950; Shipley, England) is a British writer and performer working variously as poet, journalist, magician, vocalist, lyricist...
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2013, p. 38. Toczek 2016, p. 83. Toczek 2016, p. 38. Toczek 2016, p. 269. Toczek 2016, p. 85. Toczek 2016, p. 94. Toczek 2016, p. 96. Toczek 2016, p. 257...
Number Parade: Number Poems from 0–100 (with Jackie Kay, Grace Nichols, NickToczek and Mike Rosen). LDA, 2002 Hello H2O. Hodder Children's Books, 2003 From...
including Richard Hell, Jim Carroll, Patti Smith, John Cooper Clarke, NickToczek, Raegan Butcher and Attila the Stockbroker. Carroll's autobiographical...
melodies together. Prior to their collaboration, Russell was with poet NickToczek in a Bradford-based new wave outfit called Ulterior Motives. After impressing...
1949) clarinetist, academic and Director of the Royal College of Music NickToczek (born 1950), writer and performer Victoria Braithwaite (1967–2019), animal...
(1920–1973), Somali poet Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki (born 1962), Polish poet NickToczek (born 1950), English writer, poet and broadcaster Melvin B. Tolson (1898–1966)...
2005) J. A. Cloake and M. R. Tudor, Multicultural Britain (OUP, 2001) NickToczek, Haters, Baiters and Would-Be Dictators: Anti-Semitism and the UK Far...
Titchmarsh – (born 1949) gardener, broadcaster and novelist. Born in Ilkley. NickToczek – (born 1950) writer and poet, born in Shipley. Jack Toll – (1914–1972)...
Jones), 4 stars from The Mirror (Gavin Martin), 4 stars from Rock n Reel (NickToczek) and 9/10 from Americana UK (Tim Martin). The band’s debut album, The...
Psychiatric Hospital, has published seven poetry volumes in Nigeria. NickToczek, performance poet and children's writer, studied industrial metallurgy...
stars in Mojo where Ben Thompson described the album as "barnstorming". NickToczek gave the album four stars in the magazine, Rock'n'Reel, and wrote "....
Paul Roche, Anna Adams, Michael Horovitz, Pete Morgan, Patrick Bew, NickToczek, Geraldine Monk, Heathcote Williams and (posthumously) Bill Butler.[1]...
Snow Bill Spooner Marc Spitz Neil Strauss Touré Greg Tate Jon Tiven NickToczekNick Tosches Touré Everett True Rob Tyner Richie Unterberger Penny Valentine...
Dagger Winner 2008, Sefi Atta, Janet Fisher, Louise Page, Jim Greenhalf, NickToczek and Yunis Alan. Joanne Harris, Lemn Sissay, Ian McMillan, John Cooper...
1978, p. 51. Toczek 2015. Griffiths 1983, p. 98. Thurlow 1987, pp. 70, 80. Toczek 2015, p. 38. Toczek 2015, p. 39. Toczek 2015, p. 43. Toczek 2015, p. 44...
magazines. He was associated in particular with Peter Mortimer's Iron, NickToczek's The Little Word Machine, and Ian Robinson's Oasis, all of which he helped...
Obituary- W. D. Crick, F.G.S., p. 134 Haters, Baiters and Would-Be Dictators: Anti-Semitism and the UK Far Right, NickToczek, Routledge, 2016, p. 246 v t e...
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