WORK :
WRITING
There are the following sections:
- short fiction
- novels
- Space 1999
- collections
- poetry
- non-fiction books
- short non-fiction
- letters to the Editor
- copywriting
From ‘Circularisation of Condensed Conventional Straight-line Word-Image Structures (Radial-Planographic Condensed Word-Image Structures, Rotation About a Point)’, New Worlds #192, July 1969. Frame hand-drawn by Charles Platt
Short Fiction
‘Girl’, New Worlds #162, ed Michael Moorcock, illust Harry Douthwaite, Roberts & Vinter Ltd, May 1966
‘The Steel Corkscrew’, New Worlds #167, ed Michael Moorcock, Roberts & Vinter Ltd, October 1966
‘Concentrate 1’ (text edited by J G Ballard), New Worlds #174, ed Michael Moorcock, Magnelist Publications Ltd, August 1967; Wave IX #1, ed Jean-Paul L Garnier, Space Cowboy Books, USA 2024
‘The Baked Bean Factory’, New Worlds #176, ed Michael Moorcock, illust Harry Douthwaite, Magnelist Publications Ltd, October 1967; England Swings SF, ed Judith Merril, Doubleday Science Fiction, USA1968 (p/b Ace Books, USA 1968); The Space-Time Journal, ed Judith Merril, Panther Books, 1972
‘Concentrate 2’ (text edited by J G Ballard), New Worlds #181, ed Michael Moorcopck, Stonehart Publications Ltd, April 1968; as ‘Stick’, Koitus 80, ed Frank Rainer Scheck, translation by Rolph Eckart John & Frank Rainer Scheck, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Germany 1970; as ‘Stick’ and ‘The Pub That Exploded’ (formerly published together as ‘Concentrate 2’), The Savoy Book, eds Butterworth & Britton, Savoy Books, September 1978
‘Sergeant Pepper’s Postatomic Skull’, Ambit #36, ed JG Ballard, 1968; Døds-layoutet 1, eds Jannick Storm & Dan Turèll, translated by Arne Herløv Petersen, Arena, Denmark 1972
‘A Marijuana Smoker’s Lament’ (as by Edward Poe), Concentrate #1, ed Butterworth 1968; as ‘Smoker’s Lament’ in ‘Scatterhead’
‘Circularisation of Condensed Conventional Straight-line Word-Image Structures (Radial-Planographic Condensed Word-Image Structures, Rotation About a Point)’, New Worlds #192, ed Michael Moorcock, hand-drawn frames Charles Platt, New Worlds Publishing July 1969; The New Tomorrows, ed Norman Spinrad, new hand-drawn frames Charles Platt, Belmont Tower Books USA 1973; as ‘Circolarizzazione di strutture audio-visive condensate e rettilinee’), Galassia #211, Casa Editrice La Tribuna, Italy 1976; Smile Magazine, ed Andy Martin, 1992 (with commentary by editor); Caption Magazine, ed Jenni Scott (with commentary by Del Rooney) 1995
‘Postatomic’, The New SF, ed Langdon Jones, Hutchinson 1969; Arrow Books p/b 1970; Døds-layoutet 2 eds Jannick Storm & Dan Turèll, translated by Jens Smærup Sørensen, Arena, Denmark 1973; as ‘Postatomar’, Neue SF: Band 1, Fischer Taschenbuch, Germany 1973; Neuva Dimension #61, eds Sebastián Martínez, Domingo Santos & Luis Vigil, Ediciones Dronte, Spain 1974
‘Trial at Centre Time Ox: A Review of William Burroughs’ Nova Express’, Grass Eye #7 , ed Chris Dixon, Rainy City Co-Op 1969; as ‘Trial at Centre Time Ox’, Cut Up!, eds Joe Ambrose & AD Hitchin, Oneiros Books 2014
‘Concentrate 3’, New Worlds #197, ed and illust Charles Platt, New Worlds Publishing January 1970; New Worlds: An Anthology, ed Michael Moorcock, Flamingo 1983; New Worlds: An Anthology, ed Michael Moorcock, Thunder’s Mouth Press, USA,2004; Worlds of IF Vol 1 No 1 #177, eds Justin T O’Conor Sloane and John Paul L Garnier, Starship Sloane Publishing Company Inc USA February 2024
‘6B 4C DD1 22’, New Worlds #198, ed Charles Platt, illust Alan Stephenson, New Worlds Publishing, February 1970; Neue Welten, ed/translator Joachim Körber, illust Alan Stephenson, Sphinx Verlag Basel, Germany 1983
‘The Terminal’, New Worlds #199, ed Charles Platt, New Worlds Publishing March 1970; Curtains Magazine, ed Paul Buck 1971; Breakthrough Fictioneers, ed Richard Kostelanetz, Something Else Press USA 1973; Meuse # 1, eds Les Wicks & Bill Farrow, 1977 Australia; Speculative Fictions #1 (online), ed Gareth Jackson 2014; and in ‘Scatterhead’
‘Judgement From the Future’, Growth #1, eds Dave Robinson & Peter Kirkham, Growth Collective 1970
‘Cave’, Growth #1, eds Dave Robinson & Peter Kirkham, Growth Collective 1970; as ‘The Cave’, Meuse #1, eds Les Wicks & Bill Farrow 1977; and in ‘Scatterhead’
‘In Bed with Her Bones’, Growth #3, eds Dave Robinson & Peter Kirkham, Growth Collective 1970; Umbral 1978, ed Steve Rasnic; and in ‘Scatterhead’
'Plant’, Curtains Magazine, ed Paul Buck, December 1971; as ‘Scatterhead’ in ‘Scatterhead’; elsewhere as ‘Daffodil’
‘Axe’, Curtains Magazine, ed Paul Buck, December 1971
‘Sun Flower’, Skylight #1, ed Peter Baker 1971; and in ‘Scatterhead’.
‘Disintegration’. New Worlds Quarterly #6, eds Michael Moorcock & Charles Platt, Sphere Books 1973; New Worlds Quarterly #5, Equinox Books USA 1973; Simultaneous Times Vol 3, ed Jean-Paul L Garnier, Space Cowboy Books, USA 2023
‘The Man Who Nothinged Himself’, Second Aeon #15, ed Peter Finch, Second Aeon Publications 1973
‘The Harme-Oates Effect’ [with J Jeff Jones], Science Fiction Monthly Vol 2 #2, ed Julie Davis, New English Library 1975; Simultaneous Times Vol 2.5 (online), ed Jean-Paul L Garnier, Space Cowboy Books USA 2021
‘The Room’, Wordworks #6, ed Butterworth 1975
‘Christmas Story’, New Worlds Quarterly #10, ed Hilary Bailey, Corgi Books 1976
‘Butterworth’s Treaty on Light’, New Worlds #214, ed Michael Moorcock, publisher Charles Partington, Autumn 1978
‘A New Frog: The Origin of Frivolity and the Shape of the New Literature’, New Worlds #215, ed Butterworth & Britton, illustrator Britton, Savoy Books 1979
‘Outline One’, New Worlds #216, ed/publisher Charles Platt, illustrator David Britton, September 1979
‘The End’, Kudos #4, ed Graham Sykes, 1980; and in ‘Scatterhead’
‘Bulletin of the Association of Amorphous Writers’, Kudos #4, ed Graham Sykes 1980
‘Wanker’, Peeping Tom #2, ed Cory Harding 1980
‘To Adam – From Oscar – Up Edgar’, as by Robert Holland (Butterworth & Britton), Something Else #3, ed Charles Partoington 1984
‘A Hurricane in a Nightjar’, Savoy Dreams, eds Butterworth & Britton, text Butterworth, illustrations Britton, Savoy Books 1984; as ‘Ein Hurrikan im Nachttopf’, Johann Sebastian Bach Memorial Barbecue, ed Wolfgang Jeschke, text Butterworth, illustrations Britton, Heyne, Germany l990
‘Hello, Mike. As you read this…’ Moorcock @ 60, ed John Davey (commemorative book for Michael Moorcock’s 6oth birthday), JaydeDesign 1999
‘Das Neue Leben’, Emanations, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2011; Nazi Fucks Punk Off, ed William Weiss, NULL23 2024
‘Sequences’, Emanations: Second Sight, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2012
‘Trinity Temple: Thelma’s Thought-triggered THC Trip’, Emanations: Second Sight, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2012
‘Night’, Emanations: Third Eye, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2013
‘Scatterhead’ (Compilation of thirteen shorts), Emanations: Foray into Forever, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2014
‘The River Bank’, included only in ‘Scatterhead’ 2014
‘The Fat Goddess’, included only in ‘Scatterhead’ 2014
‘Three’, included only in ‘Scatterhead’ 2014
‘Hey, Mr Pressman!’, Emanations: 2+ 2 = 5, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2015
‘Coldly as They Flicker’, Emanations: Chorus Pleiades, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2018
‘Spunkee-do!’, Butterworth, NULL23/International Authors UK/USA 2019
‘Coldly As They Flicker’, Butterworth, NULL23/International Authors UK/USA 2019
‘Memorandum of the World Council of Journalists, No 142575594827465’, Butterworth, NULL23/International Authors UK/USA 2019
‘Figures in a Landscape’, Butterworth, NULL23/International Authors UK/USA 2019
‘The Explorer’, Butterworth, NULL23/International Authors UK/USA 2019
‘Whithersoever (To absolutely any place you like)’, Emanations: When a Planet Was a Planet, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2021
‘Mr Lazellglass’, Emanations Zen, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2023
‘Mrs Hinchinilly’, Emanations Zen, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2023
‘The Dream Pharmacopoeia’, Emanations Zen, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2023
‘Untitled (Michael was getting old)’, Emanations Zen, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2023
‘Senseless’, Galaxy #264, eds Justin T O’Conor Sloane & Jean-Paul L Garnier, Starship Sloane Publishing Company Inc USA 2026.
Novels
The Time of the Hawklords (based on idea by Michael Moorcock), Aidan Ellis 1976; p/b Star Books 1976; Warner Books USA 1977; Producciones Editoriales, Spain 1978; Griffin Music/ Collector’s Guide Publishing, Canada 1995; Apex Verlag, German and new English edition (English edition fully revised with author introduction) 2021
Queens of Deliria (based on idea by Michael Moorcock), Star Books 1977; Griffin Music/Collector’s Guide Publishing, Canada 1995; Apex Verlag, German and new English edition (English edition fully revised with Introduction by Rick Evans), Germany 2021
Lord Horror (with David Britton), Savoy Books 1989; Volvox Globator, Czech Republic 1995; AST, Russia 2019
Ledge of Darkness, graphic novel sequel to The Time of the Hawklords and Queens of Deliria adapted by Bob Walker, Collector’s Guide Publishing, Canada 1994
My Servant the Wind, p/b NULL23/International Authors 2019
Space 1999
Space 1999: Planets of Peril, p/b Star Book 1977; h/b Allan Wingate 1977; Warner Books, USA 1977; Bastei-Lübbe, Germany 1977; 三笠書房 Mikasa Shobō), Japan 1977
Space 1999: Mind-Breaks of Space (with J Jeff Jones), Star Books, 1977; h/b Allan Wingate 1978; Warner Books, USA 1977; Bastei-Lübbe, Germany 1977; 三笠書房 (Mikasa Shobō), Japan 1977
Space 1999: The Space-Jackers, Star Books 1977; Warner Books, USA 1977; Bastei-Lübbe, Germany 1977
Space 1999: The Psycomorph, Star Books 1977; Warner Books, USA 1977; Bastei-Lübbe, Germany 1977
Space 1999: The Time Fighters, Star Books 1977; Warner Books, USA 1977; Bastei-Lübbe, Germany 1977
Space 1999: On the Edge of the Infinite, Warner Books, USA 1977; Bastei-Lübbe, Germany 1977
Space 1999: Year Two, omnibus edition revised in chronological order with new material and author Introduction, Powys Books, USA 2006
Collections
Butterworth, NULL23/International Authors 2019. Collected short fiction with author Introduction, Afterword by Charles Platt and illustrations by Misen. Collects most of my short fiction.
Michael Butterworth: Complete Poems: 1965-2020, with author Preface, Introduction by Jim Burns and jacket blurbs by Alan Moore and J Jeff Jones, Space Cowboy Books, USA 2023. Collects most of my poems up to 2020.
Poetry
Poems appear under their date of publication.
‘Useless Black and White Sex Over Manchester’, Manchester Independent, ed Anna Ford, Manchester University student newspaper Tuesday 7th March 1967
‘After Galactic War – From a Road on Earth’, New Worlds #177, ed Michael Moorcock, Magnelist Publications Ltd 1967. (Prose version in ‘Concentrate 1’.)
‘Tryclops’, Necrophiliac #1 (school student publication) eds Ric Barman, David William Charlesworth, Andy Mason and Dave Wilson 1967/68; as ‘Behind His Eyes’, Zimri #6, ed Lisa I Conesa, 1974; as ‘Misophonia’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, 2023
‘Highlights of a Ten-Minute Conversation Between Two Girls’, Quill #36, ed Michael Thomas 1968
‘Farness’, Lyric #1, ed Rowland Winn, 1968
‘The Importance of Me’, Breakthru #39, ed Ken Geering 1968
‘Icicle the Tricycle and the Letter Box’, Breakthru #41, ed Ken Geering 1968; Emanations #1, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2011
‘Valve’, as part of ‘Concentrate 3’, New Worlds #197, ed Charles Platt, New Worlds Publishing 1970
‘Untitled (a million light years from here)’, Complete Poems 1965-2020 (composed 1970)
‘Sun Flower’, Skylight #1, ed Peter Baker, Spring 1971; Dodo Vol 2 #2-3, eds Keith Shadwick, Michael Witts & Tom Thompson, Australia, 1977
‘Three Poems (First lines ‘Death Feels’, ‘Tiny Whorl’, ‘Against My Will’)’, Platform #6, eds Andrew & Jim Cozens, Cynthea Corres, Paul Robinson 1974; Emanations: Chorus Pleiades, ed Carter Kaplan USA 2018
‘there’s no blood’ Zimri #6, ed Lisa I Conesa, 1974
‘Along the Beach’ Zimri #6, ed Lisa I Conesa, 1974
‘For G’, Zimri #8, ed Lisa I Conesa, 1976; Sepia #1, ed CD Webb, July 1977
‘Pan Handle’, Sepia #1, ed CD Webb July 1977
‘Love Poem for V’, Sepia #1, ed CD Webb July 1977
‘Space Radio: Last Ever Broadcast’, Ugly Duckling #7, eds Keith Richmond & Susan Jane 1977; elsewhere as ‘Space Radio’ and ‘Poem written as a series of statements’
‘2 Poems’ (‘Stamen protruding stick’ and ‘There’s no blood’), Ludd’s Mill #16/17, ed Andrew Darlington 1980
‘Party 8’, Peeping Tom #3 (or #4), ed Cory Harding 1980
‘Hoover & Writer’, Cipher #5, eds Jake Tilson & Stephen Whitaker 1981
‘Under the Influence of Bush’, Ludd’s Mill #18, ed Andrew Darlington 1981
‘The 1980s – Part One’, in ‘A Hurricane in a Night Jar’, Savoy Dreams, eds Butterworth & Britton, Savoy Books 1984;
‘The 1980s – Part Two’, in ‘A Hurricane in a Night Jar’, Savoy Dream, eds Butterworth & Britton, Savoy Books 1984
‘The 1980s – Part Three’, in ‘A Hurricane in a Night Jar’, Savoy Dreams, eds Butterworth & Britton, Savoy Books 1984
‘The Melting Lands’, Hawkfriends #4, ed Trevor L Hughes 1985
‘The Bomb Explodes’, Emanations #1, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2011
‘A Slut in Bed’, Emanations #1, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2011
‘brass life’, Emanations #1, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2011
‘The Cracks in the Neighbourhood’, Emanations #1, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2011
‘Girl in Bath’, Emanations #1, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2011
‘hoover & writer’ Reprint’, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors Emanations #1, USA 2011
‘Illusion’, Emanations #1, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2011
‘Long Legs’, Emanations #1, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2011
‘Mouselow’, Emanations #1, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2011
‘On Broken Hill’, Emanations #1, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2011
‘the nose’, Emanations #1, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2011
‘the snammer-man’, Emanations #1, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2011
‘Me a Society Visitor’, Emanations #1, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2011
‘Untitled (Unscalable rock faces…)’, Emanations #1, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2011
‘Untitled (When I walk, I bounce…)’, Emanations #1, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2011
‘Breakdown 3’, Emanations: Second Sight, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2012
‘Premature’, Emanations: Second Sight, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2012
‘The Builders of the Transpennine Motorway Part 1’, Emanations: Second Sight, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2012; Speculative Fictions #1 (online), ed Gareth Jackson 2014
‘The Builders of the Transpennine Motorway: Part 2’, Emanations: Second Sight, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2012; Speculative Fictions #1 (online), ed Gareth Jackson 2014
‘The Chemical Genesis of the Known Universe’, Emanations: Second Sight, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2012
‘Space Radio’ (Diff to ‘Space Radio’ in Ugly Duckling #7), Emanations: Second Sight, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2012
‘Until Now’, Emanations: Third Eye, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2013.
‘Untitled (I can remember/ when she gave me…)’, Emanations: Foray into Forever, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2014.
‘The Likeness’, Speculative Fictions #1 (online), ed Gareth Jackson 2014
‘Untitled (Gallant?/For fighting?...)’, Emanations: 2+2=5, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2015
‘Untitled (Adam/Was made/From Eve…)’, Emanations: 2+2=5, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2015
‘Fields’, Speculative Fictions #2 (online), ed Gareth Jackson 2015; as ‘From a train window’ in Complete Poems: 1965-2020
‘Rout’, Speculative Fictions #2 (online), 2015
‘Buddhafield’ (shortened version), Speculative Fictions #2 (online), 2015
‘Forget’, Speculative Fictions #3 (online), ed Gareth Jackson 2016
‘Where am I? Here I am! Summer Poems (After Ryõkan)’, Emanations: I Am Not a Number, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2017
‘Buddhafield’, Emanations: I Am Not a Number, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2017
‘Three Poems (First lines Silent black forms, I sit in endless, There is no escape)’, Emanations: Chorus Pleiades, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2018
‘Two Poems (First lines, I have decided to wear, I shall wind down)’, Emanations: Chorus Pleiades, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2018
‘Untitled (Noting the appearance)’, elsewhere a stanza in ‘Three connected poems’, Emanations: Chorus Pleiades, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2018
‘Untitled (I used to think)’, elsewhere a stanza in ‘Three connected poems’, Emanations: Chorus Pleiades, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2018
‘Untitled (Signs may)’, elsewhere a stanza in ‘Three connected poems’, Emanations: Chorus Pleiades, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2018
‘Untitled (I have decided to wear)’, Emanations: Chorus Pleiades, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2018
‘Untitled (I shall wind down)’, Emanations: Chorus Pleiades, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2018
‘Emptiness’, Speculative Fictions #6 (online), ed Gareth Jackson 2019
‘Wind’, Speculative Fictions #6 2019 (second stanza of ‘Shell Island (Looking Out to Bardsey)’)
Untitled (‘Like we arrived’), Octo-Emanations, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2020
‘The Playground’, Octo-Emanations, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2020
‘Untitled (My heart/And head)’, Octo-Emanations, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2020
‘Untitled (I did/The 3-D)’, Octo-Emanations, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2020
‘Shell Island’, Octo-Emanations, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2020; as ‘Shell Island (Looking out to Bardsey)’ in Complete Poems: 1965-2020
‘At Seventy’ Octo-Emanations, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2020; as ‘Untitled (Here I am / Sitting in my skin)’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020
‘Early Blackbird at Ty Mawr’, Octo-Emanations, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2020
‘Untitled (Traffic swells/And ebbs)’, Octo-Emanations, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2020; as ‘Room’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020
‘Pain’, Octo-Emanations, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2020
(Untitled) ‘Plug in with Sony’, Octo-Emanations, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2020
‘1958’, Octo-Emanations, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2020
Untitled (‘I’m here/Still here’), Octo-Emanations, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2020
Untitled (‘Little Thinking’), elsewhere as ‘Much Drinking and Little Thinking’, Octo-Emanations, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2020
‘Dermot Healey’, Octo-Emanations, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2020
Untitled (‘Drip / Drip / Drip)’, Octo-Emanations, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2020; as ‘On the closing of a local haunt’ in Complete Poems: 1965-2020
‘Travelling to Meet S’, Octo-Emanations, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2020
‘At Ladybarn’, Octo-Emanations, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2020
‘Off to the Riots!’, Octo-Emanations, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2020
‘Love Poem for S’, Octo-Emanations, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2020
‘Untitled (The fastest / Spreading thing)’, Octo-Emanations, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2020
‘Untitled (Hot/February)’, Octo-Emanations, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2020
‘Untitled (Shall I go)’, Octo-Emanations, USA 2020; as ‘Woodland Near Otley, Phill Hopkins’, Complete Poems:1965-2020 USA 2023
‘Untitled (You can have me. But)’, Octo-Emanations, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2020
‘Untitled (They arrive/Slowly now)’, Octo-Emanations, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2020 (alternative stanza from ‘Two Poems’, Complete Poems:1965-2020 USA 2023)
‘Time Trap’, Emanations Zen, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2023
‘Untitled (Tulip, Bent yesterday)’, Emanations Zen, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2023
‘Untitled (I’m hoovering, manoeuvering)’, Emanations Zen, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2023
‘Little Sister’, Emanations Zen, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2023
‘Untitled (You say green, Is a socialist plot), Emanations Zen, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2023
‘Untitled (You’re moving through life)’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Author in His Room, at Night’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘the nose’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘An Ode to Collage Artists’, Complete Poems 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Untitled (one day/ a man opened)’, Complete Poems 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Girl in Bath’, Complete Poems 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Farness’, Complete Poems 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Untitled (The deep warm/Immersed you)’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Untitled (Unfinished/Flashes of cloudscape)’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘over a neon city’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘brass life’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘The Legacy (spoken by King Trash in 2030)’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020 Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘In Willian Fields’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Paula’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘girl hitchhiker’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘My Bed is Too Short’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘for gina’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Four Poems’ (first lines, ‘One wife stays out’, ‘I’m not spending’, ‘This is just to confirm’, ‘The phone rings’), Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Waste Paper’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Untitled (this new life)’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Untitled (The buildings are very low round here)’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Untitled (My Gina/Georgina)’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Untitled (After all the words)’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Untitled (Wounded in the flesh)’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Untitled (OK, so I’ve been put on this planet)’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Untitled (Breaking New Ground)’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Autumn Poem’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Untitled (In the Morning’s All Clear)’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Untitled (All things must have an eye)’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Untitled (My being radiates longing)’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘The Mad Girl’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘The Sitting Ducks’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘The New Man’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Untitled (you in your smart clothes)’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Ghosts’, Complete Poems 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023; Electronic Brain #1, ed Jean-Paul L Garnier USA 2025. Originally as prose in ‘A Hurricane in a Night Jar’, Savoy Dreams, eds Butterworth & Britton, Savoy Books 1984
‘In the Modern World’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Untitled(the/clock/ticking)’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘The Union’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Untitled (I lie in bed)’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Untitled (From time to time the world reminds)’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Juxtapositions’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Wanker’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘History Lesson’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Untitled (When I was asked by Mary Lou)’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘The Ogi Men’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘In Dunham Park’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Untitled (The end will arrive)’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Untitled (When all the charging about’s been done)’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Untitled (This voice, recognisable)’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘A weight of fog, please’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Bus Stop’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Untitled (Dark world)’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Untitled (Moral of the dark night)’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Slow, soulful jazz song’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘I’m clinging to the rock face’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Untitled (These strange things called trees)’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘At pant-yr-esgair’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘For Sophie and Lianne’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Untitled (The punctual face of the blind ripper)’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘For Charlotte’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘For Martin’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Zazen at Bookchain’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Ode to No One in Particular’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘For Natalia’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020 Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘For Lucy’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘For S’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘The Storehouse of Life’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘For Richard Kostelanetz’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Buddhafield Again’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Untitled (If nothing/ new)’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Untitled (While our parents live)’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Untitled (Adam was / made)’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘They shoot people, don’t they?’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘After the Election’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Untitled (He remembered / Cradling each other)’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Untitled (Absorbed in work, I forget)’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Beech Croft Farm’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Untitled (The lowering sun)’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Untitled (My heart and head were linked)’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Untitled (Your eyes wide)’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Untitled (I did / The 3-D / Puzzle)’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Death of a great mammal’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Beware Perfidious Albion’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Room’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘The Racist English’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Cooperation’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Mit Senoj, at the Manchester Contemporary’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Untitled (Like an old husk)’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Daydream’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Untitled (Laden arms / Of hawthorn’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Birthday Poem for M’, Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Fragments of a Letter Found in a Dead Astronaut’s Possessions’, Worlds of IF Vol 2 No 2 #179, eds Justin T O’Conor & John-Paul L Garnier, Starship Sloane Publishing Company, Inc USA 2025. (Published as prose in ‘Concentrate 1’)
Non-fiction books
AC/DC: Hell Ain’t No Bad Place to Be!, as by Richard Bunton, Omnibus Press/Savoy Editions 1982
The Blue Monday Diaries: In the Studio with New Order, Plexus Publishing 2016
Short non-fiction
‘Absurd and Phantastic’, Corridor #3, Michael Butterworth Publications June 1972
‘The Ugly Guest’ (editorial), Ugly Duckling #7, eds Keith Richmond & Susan Jane March 1977
‘Periodical Memoirs: Concerning an Opuscule’, Ugly Duckling #7, eds Keith Richmond & Susan Jane March 1977
‘Michael Moorcock: The Double Archetype’, as by Robert Holland, Something Else, ed Charles Partington, Winter 1980
‘Extracts from the Cosmic Diary (review of Mike Harrison’s A Storm of Wings)’, Ludd’s Mill #16/17, ed Andrew Darlingtin 1980
‘Under Siege: The Trial Regina v David Britton: An Open Letter to the Reader: A Report from Prison’, Savoy Dreams: The Secret Life of Savoy Books, eds Butterworth & Britton, Savoy Books 1984
‘Introduction’, The Xenon Codex (Bob Walker’s Hawkwind-related artwork), ed Trevor Hughs, Zephyr Hawkfrendz 1989
'Beyond The Hill of Dreams', Machenalia Vol 1, ed Raymond Russell, October 1990
‘Adios Mr D! Honest Sentiments Expressed by the Loyal Mister Ecker’, Meng & Ecker #7, Savoy Books 1993
‘Editorial’, Avallaunius: The Journal of the Arthur Machen Society #11, Autumn 1993
Lord Horror film script, early 1994. After being approached by an agent who wanted to pitch the idea for a Lord Horror film to a well-known film director, David Britton and I co-authored the opening part of a script. It turned out the director wasn’t interested, but the script became the basis for Reverbstrorm, Savoy’s new Lord Horror mini-series, instead
‘Savoy Books History Pages’, Savoy website, 1997/98. I wrote and co-wrote other website pieces and co-edited the site.
‘Introduction’, I Was Elvis Presley’s Bastard Love-Child & Other Stories of Rock’n’Roll Excess, Andrew Darlington, Critical Vision/Headpress 2001
‘Foreword’ to Space 1999: Year Two, my omnibus edition of the series, Powys Books 2006
‘The Final Academy Documents’, Academy 23: An Unofficial Celebration of William Burroughs, eds Matthew Levi Stevens & Emma Doeve, Wholly Books 2012
‘Introduction to Ikon Video’s The Final Academy Documents (July 1984)’, Academy 23: An Unofficial Celebration of William Burroughs, eds Matthew Levi Stevens & Emma Doeve, Wholly Books 2012
‘J G Ballard: Worlds Come Together’, The Big Issue in the North, ed Kevin Gopal 13-19 May 2013
‘Go! Push Pops’, review of artists-in-residence Go! Push Pops at the Alexandra Arts Pankhurst in the Park festival Autumn 2014, Corridor8 Online blog, ed Lauren Velvick, 9 December 2014
‘Court in the Act’, a memoir of the Manchester Cavern Beat Club, Cromford Court, The Big Issue in the North, ed Kevin Gopal, 16-22 March 2015
‘Going to Ost’, review of the book launch for Robert Meadley’s novel Going to Ost at & Model Gallery, Leeds, Corridor8 online blog, ed Rebecca Senior, June 19, 2015
‘The Frog Should Possibly be Let In’, Privately distributed rejoinder to Lauren Velvick’s and Robert Carter’s article about Savoy Books, ‘Pippa Pippa, They Boil Frogs’ in the Exhibition Catalogue to Modern History Vol 3, curator: Lynda Morris, Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre 19th Sept – 21st November 2015
‘The Leopard’, initially ‘Bug Jack Barron: My Fight-Back’, 21st January 2016. For private circulation and revised several times until June 2026. Michael Moorcok left my name out of an important resume of New Worlds in his Afterword to the 1999 Toxic Press edition of Norman Spinrad’s novel and included Dave Britton’s name instead! My publishing partner at Savoy Books had nothing to do with New Worlds! This article is my howl about what was happening to me and kickstarted my fight to relaunch myself as an independent practitioner
‘Creation Facts About Lord Horror’. For private circulation. 23rd September 2016 but revised several times until 2025
‘The Islands’, Emanations: I Am Not a Number, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors, USA, 2017. First extract from my memoir The Sunshine Island
‘AESTEPOTH’, review of the artist duo Wilson & Wilson’s second solo exhibition in The White Van Gallery, a travelling tradesman’s van parked in Platt Fields, Manchester, 9th September 2017. Privately circulated to Lucas Wilson, Daniel Wilson and their publicity agent Abby Kearny
‘Tribute to James Cawthorn’, James Cawthorn: The Man and His Art, ed John Davey, Jayde Design 2018
‘Introduction’, Escape Trajectories, Gareth Jackson & William Weiss, NULL23 2018
‘Excerpts from My Servant the Wind: A Diary of the New Wave’, Emanations: Chorus Pleiades, ed Carter Kaplan. Written as fiction but heavily autobiographical and published by Kaplan as non-fiction. International Authors, USA 2018.
‘Foreword’, Butterworth, a collection of my New Worlds-era work, NULL23 2019
‘Afterword’, My Servant the Wind, NULL23 2019
‘Off the Shelf’, The Big Issue in the North, ed Kevin Gopal, 2019. My book recommendations.
‘Medicine of the Future’, Emanations: Octo-Emanations, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2020. Further extract from my memoir The Sunshine Island
‘Introduction’, Time of the Hawklords, Apex-Verlag, Germany 2021
‘The Hautes-Pyrénées’, Emanations: When a Planet Was a Planet, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2021. Extract from The Sunshine Island
‘Introduction’, Michael Buttertworth: Complete Poems 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books USA 2023
‘Further Extracts from The Sunshine Island’, Emanations Zen, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors USA 2023
‘Introduction’, Cardboard Spaceship by Jean-Paul L Garnier, Shacklebound Books, USA 2024
‘Book blurb’, Retrofuturism for the Dispossessed by Oz Hardwick, The Hedgehog Poetry Press, August 2024. (Printed inside the booklet alongside a blurb by music performance artist Arthur Brown.)
‘More Extracts from the Sunshine Island’, Emanations #11, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors, USA 2024
‘The Little Arundalean’, Emanations #12, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors, USA 2026. First extract from my memoir Driven by Anger
Letters to the Editor
‘As Much General Interest as Possible’, New Worlds Vol 49 No 158, ed Michael Moorcock, Roberts & Vinter January 1966. Decrying the serialising of novels and making a case for the ‘tale’ in a “new Age of Romance”. First appearance in New Worlds.
sf Impulse Vol 1 No 9, ed Keith Roberts, Roberts & Vinter November 1966. Taking exception to Managing Editor Harry Harrison’s view (sf Impulse #4) that experimental prose a la William Burroughs shouldn’t be foisted on the reading public. Roberts’ snide hostility to my off-the-cuff ‘Beat’ penmanship takes me by surprise.
sf Impulse Vol 1 No 12, ed Keith Roberts, Roberts & Vinter February 1967. Satirical response to Keith Roberts’ treatment of my letter in sf Impulse #9 – written at speed ‘Beat’ style, unedited – Roberts gleefully lampoons my “experimental prose”. I still haven’t realised I am in the enemy camp, the ‘Stuckists’ of the New Wave! I do realise though that I am only digging myself a hole by continuing the correspondence further.
Ludd’s Mill #11, Magazine, Andy Darlington, UK, 1975, calling for better ways of communicating using words and visuals. The first edition of Wordworks appeared that year.
Science Fiction Studies, ed Rob Latham, DePauw University, Indiana, USA, November 2015. Tracing the New Wave of Science Fiction
Copywriting
McDonald’s Advertising Agency, Dale and Tariff Streets, creative director David Ledgard. I worked there from Jan – Mar 1974
IMA (Integrated Marketing and Advertising), Piccadilly Plaza, MD Ian Hobson. I worked there from April – June 1974
Promotional & Performative
Interviewer
‘Sinclair Beiles talks with Michael Butterworth’, Wordworks #7 1976
‘The Bells of Buchenwald’, interview with Kris Guidio, Sinister Legends, Savoy Books 1988
‘Richard Kostelanetz and Michael Butterworth in Conversation’. Interlocuter Derek Horton, Soanyway online magazine 2011. Also, in The Idea of the Avant Garde and What it Means Today, Marc James Léger, Manchester University Press 2014
Articles from interviews
‘Join Him in a World of Fantasy’, Paul Campbell, Radcliffe Times (Manchester), 8th July 1976, on publication of The Time of the Hawklords; also Bury Times (Manchester), 13th July 1976 (abbreviated report). See also Radcliffe Times September 16th 1976 and May 5th 1977 for further reports
‘Tales to Astonish’, Charles Platt (writing as Gabby Snitch), Patchin Review #6, USA March-May 1983. Scurrilous account of the collapse of Savoy Books Ltd in 1982
‘P J Proby – Savoy’s Tainted Hero’, Andrew Darlington, Northern Kickback magazine, October 1987
‘Lord Horror: The Ultimate Horror Story’, Andy Darlington, The Small Hours, 1989 (?)
‘P J is back’, Jasper Rees, The Daily Telegraph Weekend, September 16th 1989
‘Savoy Raided’, Speakeasy Magazine #104, November 1989
‘Let me take you down ‘cause I’m going to…’, Colin de Suin, Speakeasy #115, November 1990. On censorship in comics
‘Sinister Legends from Savoy’, Andrew Darlington, Strange Adventures #31, 1990 (?)
‘Savoy title seized: A cautionary Tale’, Sarah Bolesworth, Comics International #13, September 1991
‘Are You Still a Meathead?’, Andrew Darlington, Hot Press, Ireland, February 3rd 1999
‘P J Proby: Mr Impossible’, Robert Chalmers, The Independent newspaper (Review section), September 30th 2007
‘Controlled Chaos’, Jon Savage, The Guardian newspaper, 10th 2008, about Joy Division. See also Supervert’s article on the RealityStudio website
‘Corridor of Creativity’, Faye Grima, The Big Issue in the North, 17-23 September 2012, about Corridor8 #3 Part 4
‘Lord Horror: A History of Savoy Publishing’, Carol Huston, The Quietus online magazine, December 16th 2012
‘Joy Division’s Eat the Document?’, Ian Harrison, Mojo #316, March 2020. Interview started with a small piece in Mojo #314 (January 2020) about Malcolm Whitehead, to which I responded with a letter, see Mojo #315 (February) …which led on to Ian’s article in the March edition.
Live Readings and Addresses
University of Kent at Canterbury, Solo reading, UK, February 1967
Poetry Workshop/Manchester Unity of the Arts, group reading, November 1968. Workshop produced by Kate Edge and me
Poetry Workshop/Manchester Unity of the Arts, group reading, December 1968. Workshop produced by Kate Edge and me
Poetry Workshop/Manchester Unity of the Arts, group reading, January 1969. Workshop produced by Kate Edge and me
Detra Studio/Manchester Arts Commune, Solo reading and performance of ‘Stick’, with Gina Butterworth who held up placards to the audience, August 1969
University of Manchester Poetry Society, Solo reading. Manchester University’s Catholic Chaplaincy, Oxford Road, October 23rd 1969
University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology (UMIST), New Worlds Fiction & Poetry Extravaganza, group reading. Benefit for New Worlds organised by Diane Lambert and Geoff Cowie. February 19th, 1970. Geoff remembers the event as being held at the Student Union in the Barnes Wallace Building. I read ‘Postatomic’ from the just-issued paperback of The New SF (ed Langdon Jones), author copies by chance delivered to me that day! Libby Houston read from her poetry collection Plain Clothes, which was about to be released from Allison & Busby. Peter Kirkham from Growth magazine gave a talk about the new SF. Geoff and others read from their work. We were unable to save New Worlds from collapsing. The last newsstand edition appeared in April 1970
Liberal Studies Dept Tameside College of Technology, Ashton-under-Lyne, Manchester, Solo reading, 6th April 1976
The Old Bull Events/Hebden Bridge Arts Centre, Wordworks Live, group reading produced by Peter Inch and Jay Jeff Jones, supported by Yorkshire Arts Association, 11th November 1976. Promotional event for Wordworks #7 launched in April. The Old Bull was the residence of Peter Inch. An old pub, the function room upstairs was considered too cold and derelict for the events it named. Three ‘Old Bull’ events took place altogether. Heathcote Williams appeared at two of them, including this one
Barzooka Café Bar, 70 Victoria Street, Blackburn. Address on the 25th Anniversary of Ian Curtis’s death, I Know Nothing video event, producer Brian Nicholson, May 18th 2005
University of East Anglia, Julian Study Centre, The Science Fiction ‘New Wave’ at Fifty, conference organisers Dr Mark P Williams, Dr Jacob Huntley and Dr Matthew Taunton, UK, 31st May 2014. I attended only, my work represented in Keynote Speech by Professor Rob Latham, University of California and other speakers
Posh Teckel Bar, Pflügerstr 4, 12047 Berlin, The New Order Diaries–An Evening with Michael Butterworth, promoter Richard Barman, solo reading November 5th 2016. Reading from my book The Blue Monday Diaries: In the Studio with New Order
Macclesfield Crematorium, eulogy for John Roberts Warren, group reading, Wednesday 21st December 2016, 1.2opm. John, friend and author of Return from the Wild: The Story of Lassie, the Collie Born in a Fox Earth
Manchester School of Art, New Modes of Art Writing 1, conference, audio-visual presentation with Lara Eggleton, organisers Bob Dickinson, Sara Davies, Gemma Meek & Gary Spicer, 18th May 2016. As I hand over the running of Corridor8 to Lara Eggleton I explain the origins of the journal while Lara presents recent developments and its future
Oak Chapel, Crown Hill Crematorium, Milton Keynes, eulogy for Geoff Cowie, group reading. Monday 20th January 2024 at 2.00pm. My long-time friend Geoff first met when he co-organised the benefit for New Worlds, Feb 19th 1970
Awards
Best of Urbis Manchester Awards 2007 Visual Arts Category won for Roger McKinley, author of my publication Jackson Pollock the Musical
National Fantasy Fan Federation Laureate Award, Best SF Poet, 16th October 2023, Michael Butterworth: Complete Poems 1965-2020
Critters Annual Readers Poll, Best Poet, 2023, Michael Butterworth: Complete Poems 1965-2020
Interviewee
By Alan Nixon, Radio Manchester, 13.20 pm, 13th July 1976. About The Time of the Hawklords
By Mike Wild, for Starburst, 26th July 1979. About my writing, particularly Space 1999. Possibly unpublished
‘New Books from Old Raincoats’, by Andrew Caesar, New Manchester Review, November 16th – 19th 1979. Me and David Britton, Kevin Cummins photography.
‘Doin’ That Savoy Shuffle’, by Andrew Darlington, International Times, Summer 1980. Me and David Britton
‘Over the Top’, by Jim McClellan, i-D Magazine October 1989
‘Stomping on the Savoy’, by Marek Kohn, The Guardian, Denis Thorpe photography, July 30th 1992
‘Savoy Wars’, by David Kerekes, Headpress #4 1992. Also, as ‘Banned. Torn & Quartered: The Story of Savoy’, Critical Vision: Random Essays & Tracts Concerning Sex Religion Death, eds David Kerekes/David Slater, Critical Vision, July 1995
‘The copper and the comic-books’, by Byron Rogers, The Sunday Telegraph Arts Section, Simon Norfolk photography, October 10th 1993. Me and John Coulthart
‘The Lord Horror Show’, by Kenan Malik, Living Marxism #63, January 1994
‘Censor & Sensibility: Savoy Grill’, by John Williams, GQ Magazine, May 1996
‘A Memoir of William Burrough, by Sara Jane Inkster, Geek internet magazine (Manchester), September 1997. Me and David Britton. Also, The Edge #6, ed Graham Evans, winter 1997/98; A Serious Life, DM Mitchell, Savoy Books 2004; RealityStudios website; and ‘Bunker Tales’, Simon Sellars, Ballardian website
‘Obscene but not heard’, by Ally Fogg, The Big Issue in the North, Ben Blackall photography, July 6-12th 1998. Me and John Coulthart; also, The Big Issue in Scotland, July 2nd-8th 1998
‘Gentlemen in a round-table discourse on this and that’, by DM Mitchell, A Serious Life, Savoy Books 2004
‘Seriously Rebellious’, by Cheryl Morgan, Emerald City #108, internet magazine, August 2004
‘Savoy: An Exclusive Interview’, Matt Leyshon, Blood from Stones… #7, Waterstone’s Deansgate Manchester SF & Horror Department, August/September (?) 1998
‘Lord of Horror: The Trials and Triumphs of Savoy Books’, Quentin Dunne, Penny Blood magazine, USA Fall 2008
By Sovay Berriman, Spike Island Artists’ Book and ‘Zine Fair, 2009, October 31st 2009
‘Driven By Anger: An Interview with Michael Butterworth’, Mike Holliday, Ballardian website, November 5th 2009
By Yakub Qureshi, Manchester Evening News March 2011. Long interview, unused
‘The Survival of Print Media and Brand Management for Independent Magazines: Interview Survey’, Yvette Chiu, postgraduate student, London College of Communication University of Arts, Research study, UK, uly/August 2011
‘The Savoy Section’, by Matthew Levi Stevens, Academy 23: An Unofficial Celebration of William Burroughs, Wholly Books 2012
By David Brittain, Eduardo Paolozzi at New Worlds: Science Fiction and Art in the Sixties, Savoy Books, 2013
‘Michael Butterworth & Bob Dickinson in Conversation’, Single screen HD video, director Clara Casian, Part Three of Modern History, curator Lynda Morris, Bury Art & Sculpture Gallery 18 Sept-21st Nov 2015
‘Author Q&A’, Kevin Gopal, Big Issue North #1118, 8-14 February 2016. About writing The Blue Monday Diaries
‘The House on the Borderland’, single channel digital video, director Clara Casian, La Movida exhibition, HOME Arts Complex Manchester 14th April 2017 – 17th July 2017. Talking about James Anderton and my archive. Includes narrative by Fay Ballard about her father JG making an artwork in their garden; screened again June 16th 2018 at The Speaker is a Type of Membrane, hosted by Film Material/Paradise Works at Paradise Works, Salford, UK to coincide with Nick Jordan’s solo exhibition Mental State Signs; also screened at Braziers Mini Indi Film Festival, Ipsden, Wallingford, UK, 24th-27th August 2018, and at Circularisation my solo exhibition at Art Queen Gallery, Joshua Tree CA, June 17th 2023
‘Interview with Michael Butterworth’, Hannah Nussbaum, iii online magazine, 15th March 2019
By Jon Savage ,The Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else: Joy Division the Oral History, Faber & Faber, 2019. Comprising unused interview with me about Ian Curtis’ patronage of the Savoy bookshops for Jon’s article ‘Controlled Chaos’ (about Joy Division), The Guardian, May 10th 2008
‘An interview with Michael Butterworth’, by Jean-Paul L Garnier, Parallel Worlds, #15, Sara Jane Inkster photography 2020
By Joe Banks, Sideways Through Time, Strange Attractor Press October 2020. Limited edition supplementary to Banks’ Hawkwind: Days of the Underground (Strange Attractor Press). Contains the full interview I did for his book. See revised November 2024 edition of Sideways from Strange Attractor for longer print-run availability
‘Warning is What I do: SciFi New Wave Legend Michael Butterworth’, by Gabriel Hart, Sara Jane Inkster photography, Lit Reactor magazine, USA February 6th 2023
‘Author Interview’, by Jean-Paul L Garnier, Simultaneous Times Newsletter, Sara Jane Inkster photography, USA February 2023. On the publication of Michael Butterworth: Complete Poems: 1965-2020, Space Cowboy Books 2023
‘Author Interview: Michael Butterworth’, Jean-Paul L Garnier, Ionosphere, Sara Jane Inkster photography, USA February 2023. Ionosphere is a publication of the National Fantasy Fan Federation Fan-Pro Coordinating Bureau, editor (and Bureau Chief) John Thiel
‘A Tea Dance with Savoy Books’ Michael Butterworth’, Danny Moran, About Manchester online magazine, February 12th 2023
‘Jean-Paul L Garnier Interviews Michael Butterworth’, Jean-Paul L Garnier, Vector (Journal of British Science Fiction Association) online, January 25th 2024. About my work and Corridor8, on being long-listed for the BSFA Awards for 2023 for Michael Butterworth: Complete Poems: 1965-2020
Exhibitions
International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Butterworth, solo exhibition, curator The Exhibition Centre for the Life and use of Books (Lauren Velvick, Robert Carter and Dan Fogerty), 15th August – 5th September 2014. Retrospective of my work as writer and publisher. Publications, films and talks
Kent State University Library, Butterworth–Green Frog Exhibition, 15th January – 15th May 2015, USA, as ‘Butterworth’ exhibition but differently curated by curators Dr Mack Hassler and Libraries Dean James Bracken. Talk and publication by Mack Hassler, On the Origin of Exhibits: Monster Birth
Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre, Modern History Vol III, group exhibition, curator, Lynda Morris, initiator Contemporary Visual Art Network North West (CVAN NW), organiser Sophia Crilly, 9th September – 21st November 2015. Wall-mounted display of New Worlds 1964-1970, New Worlds Quarterly and samizdat editions of New Worlds plus film Michael Butterworth in Conversation with Bob Dickinson by Clara Casian. My work also used by The Exhibition Centre for the Life and use of Books for their installations in the Modern History Vol I group exhibition, curator Lynda Morris, at the Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, 25th April – 13th June 2015
Special Collections Library Manchester Metropolitan University, Outsiders and Insiders: Savoy Through the Lens of the Michael Butterworth Archive, curator David Brittain, solo exhibition, June – 7th July 2018, extended 1-2 weeks beyond closing date. Mini ‘taster’ exhibition following deposit of my archive at the SCL
Manchester School of Art, Awaken, curator David Brittain, group exhibition, 7th February 2019, Student-led exhibition of artwork inspired by my archive
‘Lay-Bys We Have Known and Loved’, photos and text. Collaboration with Sarajane Inkster. Octo-Emanations, ed Carter Kaplan, International Authors, USA 2020
Art Queen Gallery Joshua Tree CA, Circularisation, curator Jean-Paul L Garnier, Space Cowboy Books, solo exhibition, the whole of June/July 2023 USA (opening reception June 17th). Exhibition based on my work ‘Circularisation’, including digital installations of the Circularisation process made by Garnier and screening of Clara Casian’s House on the Borderland. The event doubled as the official launch of Michael Butterworth Complete Poems:1967-2020.
Audio/audio-visual & spoken-word recordings
‘Religion and the Rebel’, unreleased reading from Colin Wilson’s book with musical backing by As Deviants Stagger, producer Malcolm Whitehead, 13th July 1976. Around the same time I also did voice-over for a Whitehead airport training film
‘In Bed with Her Bones’, poetry reading set to music (with Nichola Butterworth), Dial-A-Poem Northwest, hosted by British Telecom, producer Malcolm Whitehead, February 1980. You could pay to listen to a poem. My poem ran for one month
‘Space Radio: Last Ever Broadcast’, unreleased audio reading with studio backing track, producer Malcolm Whitehead, music by As Deviants Stagger, 1981. Eventually included as a bonus track on Michael Butterworth: Selected Poems 1965-2020, CD, Space Cowboy Books USA, 20th January 2023
‘The Liquidator’, 12” vinyl, Savoy Records, producers Michael Butterworth & Stephen Boyce-Buckley 1987. My guttural effects at the finale of Savoy’s cover of the Harry J All Stars song ‘The Liquidator’
Snaps! Film. Voice-over and script. Producers Savoy Books, director Malcolm Whitehead. Film of book signing tour by New York graphic artists collective The Studio organised by Big O Publishing. Signings took place at two of Savoy’s bookshops, Bookchain Leeds Ltd and Bookchain Manchester Ltd, October 22nd 1979. The film was thought lost until its discovery in 2017. Internet Archive, 2026
‘Spunkee Doo!’, reading of my work by Jean-Paul L Garnier for Simultaneous Times episode #26, Podcast, music by RedBlueBlackSilver, Space Cowboy Books, USA, April 15th 2020
‘Disintegration’, reading of my work by Jean-Paul L Gardnier, Simultaneous Times episode #30, Podcast, music by RedBlueBlackSilver, Space Cowboy Books, USA, August 15th 2020
‘Ghosts’, reading by me for Simultaneous Times episode #59, Podcast, music Julie Carpenter, Space Cowboy Books, USA, January 19th 2023
Michael Butterworth: Selected Poems 1965-2020, reading from my own work, 24 tracks plus bonus track, CD, Spotify, i-tunes, music by Phog Masheen, Julie Carpenter, Field Collapse and John-Paul L Garnier; plus bonus track: ‘Space Radio Last Ever Broadcast’ (see above). Album editor/producer: John-Paul L Garnier, Space Cowboy Books, USA 20th January 2023
‘Space Radio’, reading by me for Simultaneous Times Episode #68, Podcast, music by Phog Masheen, Space Cowboy Books, USA, October 15th 2023
Publishing & Editing
For Savoy Books see Savoy Books website
Books edited
The Savoy Book, co-editor with David Britton, anthology, Savoy Books 1978
New Worlds #215, magazine, co-editor with David Britton, Savoy Books 1979
Here to Go: Planet R-101: Brion Gysin Interviewed by Terry Wilson. Original commissioning editor at Savoy Books, conceiver, co-originator and commissioner of the William Burroughs introduction, Re/Search Publications, USA 1982
Savoy Dreams, co-editor with David Britton, anthology, Savoy Books 1984
Lord Horror by David Britton, co-author and editor, Savoy Books 1989
Hard Core Horror #1-5, January 1990-January 1991, editor of all fiction by Britton – five works in total
Avallaunius: The Journal of the Arthur Machen Society #11, magazine, The Arthur Machen Society, editor, Autumn 1993
Reverbstorm #1-7, May 1994-Jul 2000, editor of all fiction by Britton – seven works in total
Motherfuckers: The Auschwitz of Oz by David Britton, editor, Savoy Books, 1996
Baptised in the Blood of Millions by David Britton, editor, Savoy Books 2001
La Squab: The Black Rose of Auschwitz by David Britton, editor, Savoy Books 2012
Return From the Wild: The Story of Lassie, the Collie Born in a Fox Earth by John Roberts Warren, co-author and editor, input by Philip Snow, Michael Butterworth Books 2012
Invictus Horror by David Britton, editor, Savoy Books 2013
Lord Horror: Reverbstorm by David Britton (script Britton/art John Coulthart, with art additions by Kris Guidio), partial co-author with Britton and editor of all the fiction segments, February 2013
Razor King by David Britton, editor, Savoy Books 2017
Old Death by David Britton, editor, Savoy Books 2022
Corridor8 magazine (publisher and co-founder with Sarajane Inkster)
Corridor8 #1, editor Roger McKinley, co-editors Jo McGonigal, Laura Mansfield and Michael Butterworth 2009
Corridor8 #2, editor Roger McKinley, co-editors Jo McGonigal, Laura Mansfield and Michael Butterworth 2010
Corridor8 #3 Part 1, editor Bryony Bond, co-editor Michael Butterworth, executive directors Roger McKinley & Jo McGonigal, December 2011
Corridor8 #3 Part 2, editor Bryony Bond, co-editor Michael Butterworth, executive directors Roger McKinley & Jo McGonigal, March 2012
Corridor8 #3 Part 13, editor Bryony Bond, co-editor Michael Butterworth, executive directors Roger McKinley & Jo McGonigal, June 2012
Corridor8 #3 Part 4, editor Bryony Bond, co-editor Michael Butterworth, executive directors Roger McKinley & Jo McGonigal, September 2012
Corridor8 – Ripe, print part of Corridor8 Writing Residency led by Lara Eggleton, editor Lara Eggleton, early 2017
Corridor8 – Restlessness, print part of Corridor8 Writing Residency led by Lara Eggleton, editor Lara Eggleton, contributing editor Lauren Velvick, 2017
Corridor8 – Occasional Residents, print part of Corridor8 Writing Residency led by Lara Eggleton, editor Lara Eggleton, residency coordinator Rebecca Senior, 2017
New Vegetarian magazine (editor)
New Vegetarian August 1977, The Vegetarian Society (UK) Ltd, associate editor Derek McEwen, secretary Rosemary Stewardson
New Vegetarian September 1977, The Vegetarian Society (UK) Ltd, associate editor Derek McEwen, secretary Rosemary Stewardson
New Vegetarian October 1977, The Vegetarian Society (UK) Ltd, co-editor Derek McEwen, secretary Rosemary Stewardson
New Vegetarian November 1977, The Vegetarian Society (UK) Ltd, co-editor Derek McEwen, secretary Rosemary Stewardson
New Vegetarian December 1977, The Vegetarian Society (UK) Ltd, co-editor Derek McEwen, secretary Rosemary Stewardson
New Vegetarian January 1978, The Vegetarian Society (UK) Ltd, co-editor Derek McEwen, secretary Rosemary Stewardson
New Vegetarian, February 1978, The Vegetarian Society (UK) Ltd, co-editor Derek McEwen, secretary Rosemary Stewardson
Michael Butterworth Publications (publisher & editor)
Concentrate #1, broadsheet, cover art Stephen Greenhalgh, October 1968. Distributed free inside New Worlds #185 and Ambit #36.
Corridor #1, magazine, design Ric Barman, January 1971
Corridor #2, magazine, design Ric Barman, May/June 1971
Corridor #3, magazine, design Ric Barman, May/June 1972
Corridor #4, magazine, design Ric Barman, cover art David Britton, January 1973
Corridor #5, magazine, design David Britton, June 1974
Wordworks #6, magazine, design/co-publisher David Britton February 1975. Corridor renamed
Wordworks #7, magazine, design/co-publisher David Britton, April 1976
Michael Butterworth Books (publisher & editor)
Colin Wilson: Philosopher of Optimism, Brad Spurgeon, jacket Fine’n’Dandy 2006; 2nd edition with new author preface 2017
Jackson Pollock the Musical, Roger McKinley, jacket Fine’n’Dandy 2007. Roger won Best of Urbis Manchester Awards 2007 Visual Arts Category for this book
Return From the Wild, John Roberts Warren, design Studio dust 2012. Art and additional writing Philip Snow
Going to Ost, Robert Meadley, design Studio dust 2015. Published in conjunction with Lucy Evans