Catastrophes choisies et autres poèmes

Catastrophes choisies et autres poèmes -- selected poems of South African Beat poet Sinclair Beiles, translated into French by Bertrand Grimault, published by Monoquini, Bordeaux, France.  Limited to 99 numbered copies.

Two poems by Sinclair Beiles in The bloody horse

 

Courtesy: Bruce Fereday

Two Cities, May 1960: An advertisement for Minutes to Go and Taking Aim at Souza ( an open letter) by Sinclair Beiles

 

Front cover of Two Cities, May 1960. Sinclair Beiles listed as a contributor.

Back cover of Two Cities, May 1960. Advertisement for Minutes to Go by William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Brion Gysin and Sinclair Beiles.

Taking aim at Souza (an open letter) by Sinclair Beiles, Two Cities, May 1960.

A poem for Sinclair Beiles from Jean Fanchette

 

Courtesy: Gerard Bellaart 

New in French translation: Sinclair Beiles’s Selected Catastrophies & Other Poems

Catastrophes Choisies is not Sinclair Beiles’s first poetry collection to appear in French, but it is the most elaborate. The South African emigré poet, writer, and editor was born in Uganda of Russian-Jewish descent, in 1930, and grew up in Johannesburg from the age of six. An ex-patriate for most of his life, Beiles lived at various times in Tangiers, Athens, London, Rotterdam, and Paris, and sporadically had himself committed to hospital wards to deal with his sometimes fragile mental health  ...  Read more.

Portrait of SInclair Beiles, 1997

 

Artist: Reshada Krouse. Courtesy of the artist.