Curry and Bread available from Made in Durban

Pravasan Pillay's Curry and Bread is now available on Made in Durban.

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

Sketches of dreams in Johannesburg

Seven poems from my recent collection Somewhere else have been translated into French by poet and collagist Bruno Sourdin, and appear on his blog Syncopes.

Thank you, Bruno Sourdin!

Somewhere else was published in 2024 by Graffiti in Kolkata, the publishing venue of the late Bengali poet Subhankar Das.

The cover art and cover design is by UK artist Paul Warren. 

He Said/ /She Said still available at Clarke's in Cape Town

 

Kobus Moolman's He Said/  /She Said is still available at Clarke's Bookshop in Cape Town. You can order a copy here.

Or, if you are in the area, why not pop into the store at 199 Long Street, Cape Town.

Remember that this is a limited numbered edition of 120 copies, and Dye Hard Press is now out of stock. 

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