Biography
Simon Cutts (b. Derbyshire, UK 1944), a writer, artist, designer and founder of Coracle Press and Gallery, is an eminent figure in the field of artist books in Britain. As poet, artist and publisher, he has made books since the mid-1960s, firstly with Stuart Mills as Tarasque Press and then as Coracle. Cutts met Stuart Mills, poet and publisher, at the Trent Bookshop, run by Mills and Martin Parnell, in Nottinghamin 1964. They became friends and launched the little magazine Tarasque, devoted to poetry, which ran from 1966 to issue 11/12 in 1970. As well as the magazine, the Tarasque Press published small booklets and cards. These were poetry based but often also included visual material, with works by Cutts, Mills, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Ian Gardner and others.
