The original volumes were published in very limited editions intended to have an extremely small circulation among subscribers only. This new edition, which as usual with this publisher, demonstrates refreshingly high artistic and production values, provides the opportunity to experience what had been intended for that select number of ‘friends and collectors’.

— John Howard, Wormwood

Edition 69 is a lovely little volume – a beautifully produced book (as one can always expect from Twisted Spoon Press), with some significant (if explicit) artwork. Both Nezval and Štyrský's short prose pieces are well worthwhile – more than curiosities – and, though not nearly of the same literary quality, Halas' poems are an amusing enough accompaniment.

— M.A.Orthofer, The Complete Review

Much of the material in Twisted Spoon’s new collection of Edition 69 still provokes and disturbs nearly a century after their original publication. [...] Edition 69 has its highs and its lows, but I think it’s another important document of Czech surrealism from Twisted Spoon, and in its finest moments it reminds us that we are bodies pulling a psyche around, no matter how much we fool ourselves. Good stuff.

— Biblioklept

[Edition 69] is an absolute gem, offering for the first time in English a pair of linguistically innovative works that proved more than 70 years ago what our world has only recently come to understand: The best national interpretation is, above all, a personal interpretation.

— Czech Business Weekly

Erotic writings of the highest order.

— John Taylor, The Antioch Review

Jindrich Styrsky's "Emily Comes to Me in a Dream" ... is an exquisite exercise in dream-writing.

— RALPH

While the visual arts of Czech Surrealism have attracted increasing attention recently, very little Czech Surrealist literature has been translated, and from that perspective the present book is a welcome corrective. ... and especially by providing what is, as far as I am aware, the first translation of any text by the fascinating and under-recognized writer Bohuslav Brouk, this volume provides a valuable service.

— Peter Zusi, Slavic and East European Journal

... worth seeking out by anyone with a taste for a kind of writing that is distinctively middle European: intellectual, graphic and surreal.

— Nicholas Clee, The Guardian

The publication of Edition 69 in Slast's graceful translation is a landmark event in itself, in that it effectively brings together all of the various movements (Poetism, Surrealism, Constructivism) occupying the Czech interwar avant-garde into one accessible, not to mention beautiful, volume.

— Think again