Bibliography
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)
- Behan & The Beats (Appliance Books, 2005)
- Cometh with Clouds (Memory: Allen Ginsberg) (Aspect Design, 2nd edition, 2011)
Collected Poetry:
- Oranges: Illustrated by Victor Wong (Bread & Wine Press, 1960)
- Ballads of Blood (Golden Mountain Press, 1961)
- Jacqui (Love Poems) (Raglan House, 1994)
- Jacqui (Love Poems) (McBride's Books, 1997)
- Remembered America: Poems by Dick McBride (Rue Bella, 2004)
- Remembered America: Poems by Dick McBride (Sea Minor, 2020)
Uncollected Poetry:
Beatitude
- St. Francis (Random thoughts of a Protestant Cop) (Beatitude #2, John Kelly, May 1959)
- Weeping of the Sun (Beatitude #4, John Kelly, May 1959)
- San Francisco Saturday Scene (Beatitude #5, John Kelly, June 1959)
- Little Bells and Pretty Snow (Beatitude #6, Unlisted, 1959)
- Now King Come Down From (Beatitude #6, Unlisted, 1959)
- O Epileptic Boy, Epileptic Boy (Beatitude #6, Unlisted, 1959)
- 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)
- Specter / August Six (Beatitude #11, Bread & Wine Mission, November 1959)
- Stones (Beatitude #12, Bread & Wine Mission, 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
- Ballad of the Dead Children (Root and Branch: A Radical Quarterly #1, Root and Branch Press, (1962) ed. Robert Scheer and David Horowitz)
- Unknown (Root and Branch: A Radical Quarterly #2, Root and Branch Press, (1963) ed. Robert Scheer and David Horowitz)
em
- Fleur-de-lis (em one, em writing & music, 1997)
- The Soft Watch (em one, em writing & music, 1997)
- What’s So Good About Friday? (em one, em writing & music, 1997)
- Mysterium (em one, em writing & music, 1997)
- Step Right Up, Folks! (em one, em writing & music, 1997)
- Stand Up Comedian (em one, em writing & music, 1997)
- Picasso Couldn’t Say it all in Guernica (em one, em writing & music, 1997)
- The Greatest Story Never Told (em one, em writing & music, 1997)
- Enough To Try the Patience of a Saint (em one, em writing & music, 1997)
- The House that Jack Built (em one, em writing & music, 1997)
- Satie-Faction (em one, em writing & music, 1997)
- Lady Day Dies (em one, em writing & music, 1997)
The Rue Bella
- Stardust (The Rue Bella Volume Four: Larking Gratey, The Rue Bella, 2000)
- Kiss (The Rue Bella Volume Four: Larking Gratey, The Rue Bella, 2000)
- Moth (The Rue Bella Volume Four: Larking Gratey, The Rue Bella, 2000)
- When Summer (The Rue Bella Volume Four: Larking Gratey, The Rue Bella, 2000)
rrat: Irrationalist Writing
- Unknown (rrat: Irrationalist Writing Volume 4, 3rd Millennium Literature, December 2000)
Short stories:
- Dreams from the Readers (Olympia Number One, Olympia Press, 1962)
- Haircut Dream (City Lights Journal: Number One, City Lights Books, 1963)
- Tall Tales & Outright Lies / Satie-Faction (Martin Wheeler, 1993)
- Cwazy Man (Debatable Lands, Panurge New Fiction 21, Panurge Publishing, 1994) ed. John Murray
- Garden (Annihilator Press, 1999)
- Garden (Annihilator Press, 2nd edition, 2000)
- from Apocrypha (The Rue Bella Volume Four: Larking gratey, The Rue Bella, 2000)
- Depression Waitress Blues (The Rue Bella Volume Six: As High as the Bullet Holes, The Rue Bella, 2001)
Plays:
- From Out The Whale's Mouth (n.d) - Staged at the Theatre San Francisco in 1952 and produced by the Bread and Wine Mission in 1961.
- An Unnecessary Miracle (n.d)
- There And Where (n.d) - Staged at the Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center, San Francisco in 1960 and double-billed with William Saroyan's Sweeney in the Trees.
- Elephants (n.d) - Based on the story of Francis Grutzius.
- Devils In A Quandary (n.d)
Anthologies:
Dick's poetry and prose has been published in the following anthologies:
- Beatitude Anthology (City Lights Books, 1960) ed. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- The Real Bohemia (Basic Books, 1961)
- Beat Voices: An Anthology of Beat Poetry (Henry Holt, 1995) ed. David Kherdian
- The Beat Journals Volume One (Beat Scene Press, 1995)
- Beatitude Golden Anniversary 1959-2009 (Beatitude/Latif Harris, 2009)
Articles:
- Whizzkiddery (The Three Rope Trick, Panurge New Fiction 22, Panurge Publishing, 1995) ed. John Murray
- Allen Ginsberg & The Blue Rinse Brigade (Urthona - Issue 15, 2001)
- The Beat Goes On (The Idler - Issue 29, 2001)
Stories, Poems and Articles published in:
- The Spectator
- Ramparts
- Kayak (edited and published by George Hitchcock)
- Logos Review (Bread & Wine Press)
- Hastings Daily Tribune
- Mainstreet Journal
- Transit (Beat Scene Press)
Unpublished:
- Composed While Walking the Dog (n.d) A collection of poetry that was written during his time in Australia.
- Flop (n.d) A story about the McBride family during the Great Depression that morphs into a story about John Dillinger.
- Apocrypha (n.d)
- Macho Ovum (n.d.)
- Don't Forget (A memoir) (n.d)
Interviews:
- A site for small presses - Jay Landesman (The Bookseller, 1978)
Audio:
- From Deathrow: The Poetry of Jack Rainsberger (Pacifica Progams, 1968)
- The Last Beat: Dick McBride with Celluloid (Mad Swan Records, 2001)
- Reading at Home (Privately produced CD-R, 2004)
- Live at the Octagon Bar (Privately produced CD-R, 2004)
- Live at the Big Chill Festival 2006 (Privately produced CD-R, 2006)
- UpBeat & Groovy: Dick McBride Reads Poems 1960-2008 (Ltd CD, 2008)