By Sinclair Beiles

Sinclair Beiles (b. Kampala, Uganda, 1930–2000, Johannesburg) was a South African beat poet and editor for Maurice Girodias at the Olympia Press in Paris. He developed along with William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin the cut-up technique of writing poetry and literature. He won the 1969 Ingrid Jonker Prize for poetry for his collection, Ashes of Experience.

Cold Turkey Press, Rotterdam 1971.
Edited by Gerard Bellaart.
Number 42 out of 250.

Cold Turkey Press is the name of a Rotterdam underground publishing house, active from 1970 to 1976. The publishing house was led by visual artist Gerard Bellaart .

The Cold Turkey Press collection includes the first Dutch translations of Charles Bukowski , William Burroughs , and Federico Garcia Lorca . In addition, English-language editions were published by Sinclair Beiles and Ira Cohen, among others. In 1975 , a stir arose when Cold Turkey Press published transcripts of the radio speeches that Ezra Pound broadcast from fascist Italy during World War II , for which he was imprisoned after the war and eventually declared insane. In 2006, the Historical Museum Rotterdam devoted an exhibition to Cold Turkey Press.

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