Calder Publications

Cain's Book is one of the most celebrated novel's of the sixties, and after Burrough's Naked Lunch, probably the most celebrated book about drug addiction and the hazards and excitements of the addict's life. Alexander Trocchi left Glasgow...
By: Alexander Trocchi

This large volume is a selection from Fried's previously unpublished poems in English.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

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

"Although the sun was low in the sky, the heat was still overpowering in that part of Africa, near the equator, and the thundery atmosphere, untempered by the slightest breeze, weighed oppressively on every one of us" - Chapter 1. A compelling...
By: Raymond Roussel

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

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

Green Henry is one of the most important novels in European literature, and undoubtedly the greatest masterpiece of fiction by a Swiss writer. Keller wrote Green Henry during the years 1846-1855. His own life spanned almost the whole of the 19th...

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