Bibliography

In general I am gladdened by writing that can be wild like Ginsberg and is never far from ecstasy. Philip Callow (2004)

Novels:

Lonely The Autumn Bird; Two Novels (A Swallow Paperbook, 1963)
Memoirs Of A Natural-Born Expatriate (Alan Swallow, 1966)
The Astonished I (Memories & Wet Dreams) (McBride’s Books, 1995)

Biography:

Cometh with Clouds (Memory: Allen Ginsberg) (Cherry Valley Editions, 1982)
Cometh with Clouds (Memory: Allen Ginsberg) (Aspect Design, 2nd ed, 2011)

Short stories and articles:

Dreams from the Readers (Olympia #1, Olympia Press, 1961)
Haircut Dream (City Lights Journal: Number One, City Lights Books, 1963)
Tall Tales & Outright Lies / Satie-Faction (Martin Wheeler, 1993)
Cwazy Man (Panurge New Fiction 21, Debatable Lands, Panurge Publishing, 1994)
Whizzkiddery (Panurge New Fiction 22, The Three Rope Trick, Panurge Publishing, 1995)
Satie-Faction (em writing and music #1, 1997)
The Garden (Annihilator Press, 1999)
Depression Waitress Blues (The Rue Bella Volume Six: As High as the Bullet Holes, The Rue Bella, 2001)
Allen Ginsberg & The Blue Rinse Brigade (Urthona – Issue 15, 2001)
The Beat Goes On (The Idler – Issue 29, 2001)
Macho Ovum
Behan & The Beats (Appliance Books, 2005)

Collected Poetry:

Oranges: illustrated by Victor Wong (Bread & Wine Press, 1960)
Ballads of Blood (Golden Mountain Press, 1961)
Jacqui – Love Poems (McBride’s Books, 1997)
Remembered America: Poems by Dick McBride (Rue Bella, 2004)

Uncollected Poetry:

Beatitude

St. Francis (Random thoughts of a Protestant Cop) (Beatitude #2, John Kelly, 1959)
The Weeping of the Sun (Beatitude #4, John Kelly, May 1959)
San Francisco Saturday Scene (Beatitude #5, John Kelly, June 1959)
Three Poems: Little bells and pretty snow (Beatitude #6, Unlisted, 1959)
Three Poems: Now King come down from (Beatitude #6, Unlisted, 1959)
Three Poems: O epileptic boy, epileptic boy (Beatitude #6, Unlisted, 1959)
Hafiz in Persian with Three Anglish Verions: World down like dung (Beatitude #6, Unlisted, 1959)
There was this house (Beatitude #8, Bread & Wine Mission, August 1959)
How many big things (Beatitude #9, Bread & Wine Mission, September 1959)
San Francisco: One way of doing it (Beatitude #10, Bread & Wine Mission, October 1959)
Specter / August six (Beatitude #11, Bread & Wine Mission, November 1959)
Stones (Beatitude #12, Bread & Wine Press, December 1959)
San Francisco: One way of doing it (Beatitude #13, Bread & Wine Mission, February 1960)
San Francisco Saturday Scene (Beatitude #14, Bread & Wine Mission, May 1960)
The Village of Man-eating Wives (Beatitude #15, Bread & Wine Mission, June 1960)

Deathman: Issue, date and publisher unknown but was included in Beatitude Anthology (City Lights Books, 1960)

Shig’s Review

Unknown (Shig’s Review #1, Adler Press (1960) ed. Shigeyoshi Murao

Root and Branch: A Radical Quarterly

Unknown (Root and Branch: A Radical Quarterly #1, 1962) ed. Robert Scheer and David Horowitz
Ballad of the Dead Children (Root and Branch: A Radical Quarterly #2, 1962) ed. Robert Scheer and David Horowitz

em one

Lady Day Dies (em writing and music #1, 1997)

Plays:

From Out The Whale’s Mouth (Staged at the Theatre San Francisco in 1952 and produced by the Bread and Wine Mission in 1961)
There And Where (Staged at the Telegraph Hill Neighbourhood Centre, San Francisco in 1960 and double-billed with William Saroyan’s Sweeney in the Trees)
Unnecessary Miracle
Devils In A Quandary

Anthologies:

Dick’s poetry has been published in the following anthologies:

Beatitude Anthology (City Lights Books, 1960)
The Real Bohemia (Basic Books, 1961)
Beat Voices: An Anthology of Beat Poetry (Henry Holt, 1995)
The Beat Journals Volume One (Beat Scene Press, 1995)
Beatitude Golden Anniversary 1959-2009 (Beatitude/Latif Harris, 2009)

Stories, Poems and Articles published in:

The Spectator
Ramparts
Kayak (edited and published by George Hitchcock)
Logos Review (Bread & Wine Mission)
Hastings Daily Tribune
Mainstreet Journal
Transit (Beat Scene Press)
em one (em writng and music, 1997)

Audio:

Upbeat & Groovy: Poems 1960-2008 (Ltd CD, 2008)
Live at the Big Chill Festival 2006 (Ltd CD-R, 2006)
Dick McBride w/ Celluloid: “The Last Beat” [Listen] [Buy]
Live at the Octagon Bar (Ltd CD-R, 2004)

Video:

Acknowledgments:

Thanks to N. Savage of Beatitude Poetry for her assistance in providing the titles of Dick’s poems that were published in Beatitude and for publishing The Weeping of the Sun and San Francisco Saturday Scene on the Beatitude Poetry website.

NB This bibliography is a work in progress and is pieced together from conversations with Dick and supplemented with my own research.

If you have any information regarding Dick’s published works please feel free to contact me at robcmcdowall[at]gmail[dot]com

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