Calder Publications

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

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

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