Sinclair Beiles as foreign editor for The San Francisco Earthquake # 5

 

Sinclair Beiles was listed as one of the foreign editors -- along with Carl Weissner and Nanos Valaoritis - for The San Francisco Earthquake # 5, published in 1969. He was also a contributor this and other issues of the journal.

Who was Sinclair Beiles? in Rotterdam

Nice to see a copy of Who was Sinclair Beiles? in the bookcase of atist and publisher Ben Schot, of Rotterdam -- with cat Boris the Birman peeping out from behind!

Who was Sinclair Beiles? was edited by Gary Cummiskey and Eva Kowalska, and published by Dye Hard Press. Contributors include Alan Finlay, dawie malan, George Dillion Slater, Heathcote Williams, Carl Weissner and Fred de Vries. 

Copies are still available. Email cummiskeyg@gmail.com to order.

Sinclair Beiles in The Outsider

 The Outsider was a literary journal, published in New Orleans. The first issue was published in 1961.

From Sub 71 magazine

 

Three poems by Sinclair Beiles from the magazine Sub 71. There is also one from his first wife, Annie Rooney.

Sinclair Belies in The Insect Trust Gazette

There were just three issues of The Insect Trust Gazette, and Sinclair Beiles was published in the second and third issue.

Photos: Courtesy of Jeffrey Ball.  

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.