Monday, 22 July 2024

Guided by colours: Gary Cummiskey speaks to Robert Roman about Pascal Ulrich

Pascal Ulrich in Toulouse in 2005.


The latest issue of The Odd Magazine - Oddity 28 - contains an interview by Gary Cummiskey with Robert Roman, poet, artist and publisher, about artist and poet Pascal Ulrich.

The interview is both in English and French.

Thank you to Robert Roman for the interview and for translating the English interview into French.

There is an excellent blog, created by Robert Roman, devoted to the work of Pascal Ulrich.

Oddity 28: The latest issue of The Odd Magazine is out!

Check out the latest issue of The Odd Magazine at: https://theoddmagazine.wixsite.com/oddity28

Note: Desktop viewing preferred.

Your wild ride begins here:


Odd Poetry
:
 Claudia Wysocky, Erin Jamieson, Jay Passer, John Grey, Mathew Friday, and Sean Meggeson.

Odd Shorts:  Dominik Slusarczyk, John Fain, Kapka Nilan, Karen Schauber, Kathryn Silver-Hajo, Louella Lester, Luanne Castle, Mario Mussa, Meg Pokrass, and Mehreen Ahmed.

Odd ArtPascal Ulrich, Howie Good, and Eric Brunet

Odd Interview: Robert Roman conversation with Gary Cummiskey (in English and French


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Yours Oddly,
Sreemanti Sengupta
Odditor, The Odd Magazine & Odd Books

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Sunday, 21 July 2024

Something is happening, but you don't know what it is ...

Dye Hard Press will soon publish a new collection by one of South Africa's top poets, but I am not saying anything more just yet.


Watch this space!

Thursday, 11 July 2024

Somewhere else arrives in England


Paul Warren the UK arist responsible for the cover design and cover design of Somewhere else, has received his copy. Publisher Subhankar Das was getting ready to send the copy when he passed sp tragically and suddenly. Sub's widow Sabina organised getting the copy to Paul, along with a copy of Subhankar's poetry, Another Ordinary Day.  

Thank you, Sabina.


Monday, 08 July 2024

Thursday, 04 July 2024

Chatsworth still getting around!


 Artist Lucelle Bernadette Pillay received her copy of Pravasan Pillay's Chatsworth today! Chatsworth is published by Dye Hard Press and is available from Clarke's in Cape Town or directly from the publisher.

Monday, 01 July 2024

Thursday, 27 June 2024

Chatsworth in Swedish in hardcover


Today I received my copy of the Swedish translation of Pravasan Pillay's debut shorty story collection Chatsworth -- and it is in hardcover! 

The original, English version of Chatsworth was published Dye Hard Press and is still available from Clarke's in Cape Town.

Tuesday, 25 June 2024

Aiyo! still around

 

Pravasan Pillay's Aiyo! is still available at Clarke's in Cape Town - either order online or if you are in the area, pop into the shop in Long Street.

Copies are also available at The Commune bookstore in Braamfontein, Johannesburg. 

Please remember this is an edition limited to 100 numbered copies!

Somewhere else in Cape Town!


 Somewhere else,a new chapbook of poems by Gary Cummiskey, will soon be available at Clarke's Bookstore in Cape Town. Watch this space!

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

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

Thursday, 06 June 2024

Outside the cave and Thunder on the highway arrive two years later!


Good lord - copies of Outside the cave and Thunder on the highway sent by airmail to Pravasan Pillay in Stockholm two years ago have finally arrived! Maybe the SA Post Office is trying to come back to life!

Somewhere else!


Somewhere else, the latest collection of poems by Gary Cummiskey, is available for sale in South Africa directly from the author for R180 includiong courer to your door, at cummiskeyg@gmail.com. Cover art and design by UK artist Paul Warren and published by Graffiti Kolkata, the groundbreaking small press of the late Subhankar Das.

Outside the cave is still out there!


 Outside the cave, selected poems of Gary Cummiskey and introduced by Kobus Moolman, is still available for sale from Clark's Books in Cape Town. You can also order directly from the publisher at cummiskeyg@gmail.com.

That I like


 

Saturday, 25 May 2024

Gifts from the past


 

The late Subhankar Das was a generous soul, and in the good old days when the South African Post Office still worked we would send books to each other. These are two much-treasured books that he sent to me.

Thursday, 23 May 2024

Travelling the stark electric space ...


The book that brought Subhankar Das and I together - the stark electric space: an international anthology of indie writers, published by Graffiti Kolkata.