Published on March 24th, 2025
Dick McBride reads William Carlos Williams' introduction to Howl and Other Poems.
Read more about Dick McBride reading William Carlos Williams' introduction to Howl at the 1993 Cheltenham Literature Festival.
Published on March 23rd, 2024
McBride Brothers & Broadley are featured in the Winter 2024 issue of Beat Scene.
Read more about McBride Brothers & Broadley and the Winter 2024 issue of Beat Scene.
Published on March 20th, 2024
Urthona - Buddhist & Art Magazine still have plenty of back issues available, including Issue 15: Struggle and Serenity (2001) which features Allen Ginsberg & The Blue Rinse Brigade, an affectionate memoir of Allen Ginsberg by Dick McBride.
Published on March 20th, 2024
This month marks the 20th anniversary of Remembered America (Rue Bella, 2004).
Published on March 4th, 2022
Over at the Allen Ginsberg Project, Peter Hale writes about Cometh with Clouds (Memory: Allen Ginsberg) (Cherry Valley Editions, 1982), Dick's memoir of Allen Ginsberg.
Published on May 1st, 2016
Dick McBride with Celluloid is now available to stream in its entirety.
Read more about Dick McBride's collaboration with Celluloid: The Last Beat.
Published on October 25th, 2012
Dick McBride was a poet of the Beat Generation who acted as a literary bridge between the United States and Britain, bringing the writings and spirit of the Beats to this country. In books and in performances of his own works and those of fellow writers, he sought to broaden awareness of the poets who had made such an impact on American writing.
Read the rest at The Independent
Published on August 28th, 2012
Dick McBride died peacefully at his home in Colwall, Herefordshire, on Tuesday 28 August 2012.
As grass grows
So ceases sorrow
Madness welcomes sanity
Anger burns out
Hearts open again
Like roses rising in
The ashes of memory
So ceases sorrow
As the rubber of the sun
Erases the blackboard fog
Of desperate blindness
So ceases sorrow
Iron hands
Tied in knots of
Bound joy
Released as
The grass grows again
After the noise
Of hungry blades
Swift clocks brightening
Smiles of daisies in
Recently mown lawns
Softening the claws
In soft paws
Of sleep
Wounds heal
So ceases the
Sorrow of muddy rain
Erupting like glue
On palm-tree sands
And yet the grass grows again
Still the sun shines
As tall, green blades
Surgically remove doors
Of halls and
Cupboards hiding old taboos
As the grass grows
So ceases sorrow
And the grass grows again
From Remembered America: Poems by Dick McBride (Rue Bella, 2004)
Published on June 2nd, 2009
Dick McBride reads the first chapter of The Astonished I.
The author recalls a conversation with Jack Kerouac, who had phoned City Lights to talk to Lawrence Ferlinghetti about publishing Visions of Cody.
Read more about Dick McBride's reading of the first chapter of The Astonished I