Phyllis April King, née Leiterman,[1] is a Britishpoet and children's author. She appears and reads her material onIvor Cutler's albumsDandruff,Velvet Donkey andJammy Smears.[2][3] King designed some of the Ivor Cutler album covers, and worked with him on the radio seriesKing Cutler which was broadcast onBBC Radio 3 in 1990.[4]
King was born in Canada to a creative family whose siblingsDouglas,Richard[5] andElaine (Campbell) were all in film and television. She married film directorAllan King, with whom she had a daughter, and they moved to London in the 1960s where she worked as a teacher.[6] They divorced in the late 1960s.
King was in a long-term relationship with Ivor Cutler for over forty years up to his death in 2006 though they did not live together, preferring to retain their independence.[7][8] Cutler wrote the song "Beautiful Cosmos" about her.[9] She lives in Wiltshire.[10]
In 2014 she was portrayed by Elicia Daly in the stage playThe Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler, a co-production byVanishing Point andNational Theatre of Scotland.[11]
Survived by ...his sister Phyllis King
Finally, we must mention Phyllis April King, who nurtured Ivor and kept an eye on him.
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