Pages from Universal Truths Revealed in White Tobacco Fumes

Published by Bob Cobbing's Writers' Forum, London, January 176

Signed copy of Minutes to Go, 1960

Copy of the original 1960 Two Cities edition of Minutes to Go signed by Sinclair Beiles, William Burroughs, Brion Gysin and Two Cities publisher Jean Fanchette.

Minutes to go (second edition)

Published by Beach Books, Texts & Documents, San Francisco, 1968.

Minutes to go

Published by Two Cities Editions, Paris, 1960.

Photo: James Pennington

Sinclair Beiles and John Lennon

I had a dream recently that Sinclair Beiles had hooked up with John Lennon in London, in 1965, and together they had worked on some cut-up prose poems.

As Mike Hardaker has pointed out, such a meeting would not have been impossible.

And on the subject of music, Beiles once maintained that he had read poetry at a Grateful Dead concert at the Great Pyramids in Egypt. The Dead had indeed once played there, sometime in the 70s, but had Beiles shared the stage with them? Who knows ...

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Sinclair Beiles in London, August 1975

Photos of Sinclair Beiles by Susan Janssen

Source: Beat Books

Poet Nanos Valaoritis, 98, dies

The prolific and esteemed Greek poet, novelist, playwright and translator Nanos Valaoritis has died, according to an announcement on his Facebook page. He was 98 years old, and “lived a life full of riches,” fellow poet Dinos Siotis said in a Facebook post.

Valaoritis was close friends with Sinclair Beiles for many years and edited his selected poems, A South African Abroad, published by Lapis Press in 1991.

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Houses of Joy by Anonymous

Houses of Joy by Anonymous, Masquerade Books, 1991.

Originally published by Olympia Press in 1959 under the pseudonym Wu Wu Ming (or Meng).

Source: Beat Books

Renowned Greek sculptor Takis dies at 93

World-renowned Greek sculptor Takis has died aged 93, his foundation said Friday, just as London's Tate Modern museum holds a major show of his work.

The poised stalks, coloured lights and moving balls of Takis's creations made him a noted figure of the 20th-century "kinetic" art movement along with the US artist Alexander Calder.

The Takis Foundation that promotes his work announced his death in a tribute to him on Facebook, without giving any details.

It called him "a true pioneer, innovator and legend... A prolific and visionary mind, whose ingenuity, passion and imagination was endless". Read more.

Letter to Astrid Noppen from Anthony Russell, on behalf of Sinclair Beiles, March 1966

A letter to Astrid Noppen in Tel Aviv, from Anthony Russell in Hydra, in March 1966, notifying her that Sinclair had been hospitalised due to a nervous breakdown.

Postcards from Sinclair Beiles to Astrid Noppen, 1965

Postcards from Sinclair Beiles in Hydra to Astrid Noppen in Tel Aviv, 1965.

Courtesy: Cold Turkey Press