Martin Booth

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Martin Booth : biography

7 September 1944 – 12 February 2004

Martin Booth (7 September 1944 – 12 February 2004) was a prolific British novelist and poet. He also worked as a teacher and screenwriter, and was the founder of the Sceptre Press.

Works

  • Paper Pennies and Other Poems (1967)
  • Supplication to the Himalayas. A Poem and Sketch (1968)
  • In the Yenan Caves (1969)
  • A Winnowing of Silence (1971) (poems)
  • Pilgrims and Petitions (1971)
  • The Crying Embers (1971) (poems)
  • On the Death of Archdeacon Broix (1971)
  • James Elroy Flecker, Unpublished Poems and Drafts (1971) (editor)
  • White (1971)
  • In Her Hands (1973) (poem)
  • Teller: Four Poems (1973)
  • Brevities (1974) (poems)
  • Hands Twining Grasses (1974) (poems)
  • Spawning The Os (1974)
  • Yogh (1974) (poems)
  • Snath (1975)
  • Two Boys and a Girl, Playing in a Churchyard (1975) (poem)
  • Stalks of Jade: Renderings of early Chinese erotic verse (1976)
  • Horse and Rider, a poem (1976)
  • The Book of Cats (1977) (editor with George MacBeth)
  • Extending Upon the Kingdom (1977)
  • Folio/Work in Progress. Poems (1977) (broadside anthology, editor with John Stathatos)
  • The Knotting Sequence (1977)
  • The Dying (1978)
  • The Earth Man Dreams of a Turned Sod (1978)
  • Winter’s Night: Knotting (1979)
  • Decadal: Ten Years of Sceptre Press (1979)
  • Calling with Owls (1979) (poems)
  • The Bad Track (1980) (novel)
  • Devil’s Wine (1980) (poems)
  • Bismarck (1980)
  • British Writing Today (1981) (editor)
  • The Cnot Dialogues (1981)
  • Meeting the Snowy North Again (1982) (poems)
  • Looking for the Rainbow Sign: Poems of America (1983)
  • Tenfold: Poems for Frances Horovitz (1983) (editor)
  • Travelling Through the Senses: A Study of the Poetry of George MacBeth (1983)
  • Contemporary British And North American Verse (1984) (editor)
  • British Poetry 1964 to 1984: Driving through the barricades (1985)
  • Hiroshima Joe (1985) (novel)
  • Killing the Moscs (1985)
  • Under the Sea (Impressions) (1985)
  • Aleister Crowley: Selected Poems (1986)
  • Carpet Sahib, A Life of Jim Corbett (1986) (biography of a shikari)
  • The Jade Pavilion (1987) (novel)
  • Black Chameleon (1988) (novel)
  • Dreaming of Samrkand (1989) (novel)
  • A Very Private Gentleman (1990) (novel), adapted as the 2010 film The American
  • American Dreams. A Poem (1992) (broadside)
  • Rhino Road: The Black and White Rhinos of Africa (1992)
  • The Humble Disciple (1992) (novel)
  • The Iron Tree (1993) (novel)
  • Toys of Glass (1995) (novel)
  • Adrift In The Oceans Of Mercy (1996)
  • War Dog (1996) (novel)
  • Opium: A History (1996)
  • Doctor and the Detective – a Biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1997)
  • Music on the Bamboo Radio (1997) (novel)
  • The Industry of Souls (1998) (novel)
  • Magick Life: A Biography of Aleister Crowley (2000)
  • The Dragon Syndicates: The Global Phenomenon of the Triads (2000)
  • PoW (2000)
  • Panther (2001)
  • Islands Of Silence (2002) (novel)
  • The Alchemist’s Son: Doctor Illuminatus (2003) (fantasy fiction)
  • Cannabis: A History (2003)
  • Gweilo: Memoirs of a Hong Kong childhood (2004) [US ed., 2005, published as Golden Boy]
  • Midnight Saboteur (2004)
  • The Alchemist’s Son: Soul Stealer (2004)
  • The American (2010 edition of A Very Private Gentleman, first published 1990. The cover design is taken from the 2010 Corbijn film The American, which is based upon this novel.)