I’m Siôn Smith: I tell stories—some you read, some you hear, some you can sing along with. You’ve found your way to my little corner of the madness. Now… let’s make some noise.

NEW BOOK COMING: AUGUST 21st, 2025

In 1967, four Beat writers began exchanging letters about strange encounters with beings who seemed to have stepped straight out of the future of television and into the real world. What began as casual correspondence spiraled into a chronicle of evolving consciousness, media disruption, and the dissolution of personal identity.

Danny Kowalski sees silver-suited figures performing "upgrades" in downtown Denver. Marcus Delacroix hitches a ride with two monster-hunting brothers on a Kansas backroad. Solomon "Big Daddy" Rothstein finds enlightenment pulsing from a flickering TV set. Theodore Nakamura warns of control systems disguised as entertainment. Reality is beginning to unravel.

Discovered bound in twine in a secondhand bookshop in San Francisco, these letters document the transformation of four literary outsiders into something else entirely: a shared awareness, a broadcast mind, a mythic echo calling itself The Electric Dharma.

Part spiritual memoir, part media theory, part beatnik prophecy, this strange, funny, and mind-bending collection invites you to tune in and drop through.

The signal is live. The revolution is electric.

It’s your move.

I have a new book out in the world. This one is free, but you have to go looking for it. You can find it in various stores around London, Liverpool and Manchester. It’s called The Cult Writer’s Survival Kit–if you’re a writer going your own way, it might just save your life (or at least your sanity). If you don’t want to trawl the streets, drop your email here and I’ll whip you over a digital version.

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Dig Out Your Own Pirate Grave collects most of my lyrics from 1994 to 2024, which seemed like a good place to stop (for now). There’s all kinds of things in here, from Baby Dynamite to Spiritwalker right up to last year with the Johnny Beatnik and the Deadbirds project.

Did I mention it was illustrated? Probably not, but it is.

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I’m Siôn Smith: I tell stories—some you read, some you hear, some you can sing along with. You’ve found your way to my little corner of the madness. Now… let’s make some noise.

NEW BOOK COMING: AUGUST 21st, 2025

Dig Out Your Own Pirate Grave collects most of my lyrics from 1994 to 2024, which seemed like a good place to stop (for now). There’s all kinds of things in here, from Baby Dynamite to Spiritwalker right up to last year with the Johnny Beatnik and the Deadbirds project.

Did I mention it was illustrated? Probably not, but it is.

Death Takes A Holiday