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.

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.