Memory is deep

 

New from Dye Hard Press: Curry and Bread by Pravasan Pillay

 

Blending memoir, humour, lists, slices of life, and vignettes into a layered collage, Curry and Bread is Pravasan Pillay’s offbeat exploration of the food and foodways of working-class South African Indians – as well as his own food memories.

The book’s structure is an intriguing interplay between lighter and more melancholic moments. There are tongue-in-cheek guides to eating bunny chows and messy crab curries, an examination of the special relationship between Indian aunties and ice cream containers, an ode to the humble baked beans curry, a ranking of extremely weird sandwiches, a trainspotter’s list of South African Indian tomato chutneys, and much more – a veritable breyani in its construction.

Pillay now lives in Sweden and we are also given glimpses of his culinary adjustment there, ranging from his experimental dhals to his ruminations on frozen curry leaves.

Curry and Bread is a funny, and, at times, bitter-sweet book about food, but it is ultimately about memory, home, nostalgia, migration, and identity.

140 pages.

ISBN: 978-1-0370-6553-8

If you order directly from Dye Hard Press, the price is R320, including the cost of courier directly to your door. Email the publisher at cummiskeyg@gmail.com.

Curry and Bread will also soon be available from Made in Durban and select bookstores.

Curry and Bread has arrived from the printer

 

Curry and Bread is the latest title by Pravasan Pillay, published by Dye Hard Press.

Alchemical room

 

Eye patch

 

Inside your head

 

The future's so bright ...

 

Rengade eye: collages by Gary Cummiskey

 

Renegade eye is a selection of 18 collages by Gary Cummiskey, published by new imprint Turquoise Press. Renegade eye is available as a flip-book on Heyzine. 

You can also download it as a PDF here.

Gary Cummiskey is a South African poet, writer and publisher of Dye Hard Press. His latest poetry collection is Somewhere else, published by Graffiti, Kolkata, in 2024.

There vanished forever

 

You Joe

 

Coming soon: Renegade eye -- collages by Gary Cummiskey

Renegade eye is a selection of 18 collages by Gary Cummiskey, published by new imprint Turquoise Press. Renegade eye will be available as a flip-book and PDF on Issuu. 

Gary Cummiskey is a South African poet, writer and publisher of Dye Hard Press. His latest poetry collection is Somewhere else, published by Graffiti, Kolkata, in 2024.

Animal eyeball, his collaboration with British artist Paul Warren, is also available on Issuu.

The proof copy of Curry and Bread has arrived

 The proof copy of Pravasan Pillay's Curry and Bread has arrived and it is looking beautiful! Curry and Bread is the latest and third title by Pillay to be published by Dye Hard Press.

I ain't no dancer

 

 

Translations from Somewhere else to appear in French literary journal

French poet and collagist Bruno Sourdin has translated some poems from my collection Somewhere else (Graffiti, Kolkata), which will be published in the French literary journal Dierese.

I am looking forward to receiving a copy soon! 

 

Curry and Bread is off to the printer!

Pravasan Pilay's new book, Curry and Bread, is now at the printer! Dye Hard Press should receive the proof copy early next week.

Watch this space!

On this day in 2021

On this day in 2021, Sreemanti Sengupta in Kolkata, India, received her copy of Thunder on the highway by Gary Cummiskey, published by Dye Hard Press.

Thunder on the highway was limited to 50 numbered copies.