Nick Toczek

Quick Facts

Full Name	Nick Toczek
Occupation	Poet
Date Of Birth	Sep 20, 1950(1950-09-20)
Age	74
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Virgo

Nick Toczek Biography

Nick Toczek is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on September 20, 1950 in England, United Kingdom. He was an English poet and children’s writer. He also founded The Little Word Machine literary journal. His poetry collections include Because the Evenings and God Shave the Queen.

Like fellow British author His work, like that of fellow British author Adrian Henri, spans both poetic and musical genres. his work spans both musical and poetic genres.

In the late 1960s, his poetry began to appear regularly in journals. Some of his short punning poems appeared in The Sunday Times and again in two collections they published entitled Worse Verse (1971) and More Worse Verse (1972).

While at university, he began to read his poetry in public and was co-founder and co-editor of the campus poetry magazine, Black Columbus (nine editions, one per term, 1969–72).

In 1984, he married Gaynor D. Doherty. Doherty and he later became parents of a son, and a girl.

Nick Toczek Net Worth

Nick Toczek is one of the richest Poet from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Nick Toczek 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He studied Industrial Metallurgy at Birmingham University. He published his first poetry in the late 1960s.

He was a professional magician and puppeteer.

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.

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During the last half of 1976 and the first few months of 1977, Toczek was drawn into punk after seeing Birmingham gigs featuring The Clash, Ramones, The Adverts, The Slits, The Vibrators, Blondie, The Prefects, Talking Heads and others. After he and his then-partner and fellow Stereo Graffiti member, Kay Russell, moved to Bradford in the summer of 1977, they formed the band Ulterior Motives, releasing a single – “Y’Gotta Shout” c/w “Another Lover” – on their own label, Motive Music, in 1979. That December, the pair co-edited and published the first edition of the seminal indie rock mag, The Wool City Rocker. Toczek and Russell split up in mid-December and, at a Christmas Day party, he met his future wife, Gaynor.

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Nick Ranked on the list of most popular Poet. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Nick Toczek celebrates birthday on September 20 of every year.

Since the early 1980s, he has been collecting an archive of far-right and racist literature, especially from Britain and America. His 1991 book, The Bigger Tory Vote details racist activity in the UK. In the immediate aftermath of the April 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, he wrote lengthy features for The Guardian, The Independent, Pagina (Argentina), The South China News (Hong Kong) and Rheinisher Merkur (Germany). He has since been employed as a researcher by most UK newspapers and has appeared in this capacity on numerous UK TV and radio programmes.