WHAT'S WRONG? WHAT'S RIGHT?
poems by John Calder
poems by John Calder
65 pages, 22.8 x 14.8 cm
Published by Mosaic Press and Handshake Editions
Cover design: Amy Land
Cover Photo: Ohnerkraller/Wespennest
Cover design: Amy Land
Cover Photo: Ohnerkraller/Wespennest
What's Wrong? What's Right? is John Calder's first collection
of published poetry although he wrote and published many poems as a young
man and as a student.
"Between the ages of twenty-three and seventy-one
I wrote hardly any poems for reasons that are made clear in the poems
Autobiography and The Prodigal Muse in this collection.
All the poems here were composed in 1997-98. The arrangement is not chronological.
They are the fruits of reflection, often when travelling, always when
alone, driven by the rhythms in my head. If some poems read like nonsense,
then listen to them either as music or as playfulness. In large part they
reflect my love of France, where I have always wanted to live and now
do."
John Calder
Internationally renowned publisher, John Calder has
published almost fifteen hundred books and twenty Nobel Prize Winners
since 1949. He is best known for his publishing commitment to life-long
friend Samuel Beckett, for promoting the French nouveau roman writers
and introducing the major figures of European literature into the English-speaking
world. For fifty years, his commitment to literary excellence has influenced
generations of authors, readers and publishers.
©John Calder, 1999