Dick McBride (poet)

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Dick McBride (born 1928) is an American beat poet and novelist. Born in Indiana, he moved to San Francisco, California where he worked as the store manager at the City Lights Bookstore with Lawrence Ferlinghetti. He was a friend of Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. In 1969, McBride moved to the United Kingdom and then during the 1980s, he moved on to Australia. In 1998, McBride returned to the UK and settled in Colwall, Herefordshire, where he continues to write and perform.

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[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Prose

  • "Lonely The Autumn Bird" (1963)
  • "Memoirs Of A Natural-Born Expatriate" (1966)
  • Cometh with Clouds - Memory (1986)
  • The Call Of The Far Horizons (1994)
  • "The Astonished I (Memories & Wet dreams) (1995)
  • "Macho Ovum"

[edit] Poetry

  • Oranges (San Francisco: Wilder Bentley, 1960)
  • "Ballads of Blood" - (Golden Mountain Press, 1961)
  • Remembered America: Poems by Dick McBride Volume 1 (Rue Bella, 2004)

[edit] Plays

  • "From Out The Whale's Mouth"
  • "Unnecessary Miracle"
  • "Devil In A Quandary"
  • "There And Where"

[edit] References