The Barren Tree in Blossom. Poems by Dimitris Nikolitseas, prologue by Sinclair Beiles. 

SIGNED, DATED & INSCRIBED BY SINCLAIR BEILES, Published by Athina Kisba & "Bibliophilia" K. Spanos, 1986, softcover, 46 pages, condition: very good.

Sinclair Beiles ( Kampala, Uganda, 19302000, Johannesburg) was a South African beat poet and editor for Maurice Girodias at the Olympia Press in Paris. He developed along with William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin the cut-up technique of writing poetry and literature. He won the 1969 Ingrid Jonker Prize for poetry for his collection, Ashes of Experience.

Beiles was involved with American beat poets Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Brion Gysin, and Burroughs at the legendary Beat Hotel in Paris. The photographer Harold Chapman recorded this period in his book The Beat Hotel (Gris Banal, 1984). He co-authored Minutes to Go with Burroughs, Gysin and Corso (Two Cities Editions, 1960). Beiles helped edit Burroughs' Naked Lunch.

Beiles wandered through Europe, including a spell in London and settled in the Greek islands during the 1970s. In later life he returned to South Africa and was associated with the Johannesburg-based Gallery III group of poets, writers, composers and performance artists.

He married the poet, Marta Proctor, and they lived together in Yeoville, Johannesburg, then a bohemian neighbourhood of artists, filmmakers and writers.