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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.

 

An unusual situation

 

A year ago today

It was a year ago today that Kolkata-based poet and publisher Subhankar Das passed on. I still struggle to comprehend that is is gone.  Just a month before he had published my latest poetry collection, Somewhere else.

Life is fragile. We are fragile.

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

Here's a sneak peak of the cover of Pravasan Pillay's forthcoming book, Curry and Bread, soon to be published by Dye Hard Press.

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.

Watch this space! 

What goes up?

 

Chatsworth is still around

 

A reminder that you can still buy copies of Pravasan Pillay's much-acclaimed debut short story collection Chatsworth at Made in Durban.

Don't forget to telephone God at bandcamp!

 

I telephoned God, a 40-minute recording of Gary Cummiskey reading a selection of his poetry and released by Sloow Tapes in Belgium, is available for download on Bandcamp.

Check it out here.

Animal eyeball is waiting for you

 

Respected and acclaimed South African poet Kobus Moolman calls Animal eyeball 'a fantastic visual and linguistic collaboration'. 

Animal eyeball is a free e-chapbook of seven cut-up prose poems accompanied by collages by UK artist Paul Warren.

It won't cost you anything to read, but it may take your mind to where it has never been before!

To access the book on Issuu click here.

You can also access and download a PDF version here.

Outside the cave still available

 

Outside the cave: selected poems by Gary Cummiskey, is still available from Clarke's Bookstore or directly from the publisher at cummiskeyg@gmail.com.

Selected and introduced by Kobus Moolman. 162 pages. Selected poems from 1990 to 2020.

Dreaming Princess