Calder Publications

This volume contains Tzara's famous manifestos which first appeared between 1916 and 1921 and became the basic texts upon which Dada was based, as well as the precursors for the surrealist manifestos which were to appear subsequently from Breton and...
By: Tristan Tzara

Publish and be damned' - Wellington's famous adage - runs like a leitmotif through John Calder's memoirs. He has been damned by a censorious press, by politicians, by other publishers, and by organs of the state for publishing books on sensitive...
By: John Calder

In these translations by Gilbert Bowen, the best work of Paul Eluard (1895-1952), perhaps the most popular of twentieth century French poets, has been collected in a bilingual edition. This edition contains a representative selection of poems from...
By: Paul Eluard

Increasingly Samuel Beckett's writing is seen as the culmination of the great literature of the twentieth century - succeeding the work of Proust, Joyce and Kafka. Beckett is a writer whose relevance to his time and use of poetic imagery can be...
By: John Calder

The importance of Frank Wedekind (1864-1918) to the history of literature and the development of drama in particular, is enormous. The influence of Strindberg on his work is conspicuous, but he filled the legacy of realism with a new content: the...
By: Frank Wedekind

This large volume is a selection from Fried's previously unpublished poems in English. Hailed as a major modern poet by the British press, his reputation is also firmly established in Europe. Fried's poetry holds some of the most tender lines of...
By: Erich Fried

Austrian-born Erich Fried 's poems are very accessible to all readers and this volume, his first appearance in English, was translated by his close friend Stuart Hood - one time controller of the BBC. Always aware that he was living in an alien...
By: Erich Fried