Cold Turkey Press

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Cold Turkey Press was an underground press from Rotterdam, The Netherlands which was led by Dutch artist Gerard Bellaart from 1970 to 1976.

Cold Turkey Press published limited, handmade editions of works by authors like Allen Ginsberg, Sinclair Beiles, d.a. levy, William Burroughs, Blaise Cendrars, and Charles Bukowski. In 1975 Cold Turkey Press caused controversy by publishing transcriptions of the notorious radio speeches of Ezra Pound. The speeches had been broadcast from fascist Italy during the Second World War and had led to the imprisonment and confinement to an asylum of Ezra Pound after the war.

In 2006 the Historical Museum of Rotterdam dedicated an exhibition to Cold Turkey Press, during which a CD of previously unreleased poetry readings by Beat poets was compiled.