Sunday could be Friday

 

Three Kobus Moolman titles published by Dye Hard Press

 

Over the past 17 years Dye Hard Press has published three titles by renowned South African poet Kobus Moolman: the play Full Circle (2007), and the poetry collections Left Over (2012) and He Said/  /She Said (2024). 

He Said/  /She Said was printed in a limited, numbered edition of 120 copies. You can order the book from Clarke's Bookshop here.

Blast from the past: Head by Gary Cummiskey and Roy Bumenthal

 

Roy Blumenthal and I collaborated on this wee chapbook of poems back in 1998. The cover (in fact, the entire chapbook) was designed by Roy. It was also for this publication that Roy created the Dye Hard Press colophon.

Gone fishing - a collage by Paul Warren

 

Gone Fishing is a collage by UK artist Paul Warren, inspired by my prose poem 'Gone Fishing' from my latest collection, Somewhere else, published by Graffiti in Kolkata.

The poem is as follows:

The fish with the face of a judge moves slowly as always, just breaking the surface. There is no sound as you trace your fingers down the length of my spine. The fan in the restaurant turns noiselessly round and round. The waiters stand in the doorway, casting over our table. Hooks lodge in our lips, so we dare not move.

You can order Somewhere else from Clarke's Bookshop in Cape Town here.

Presences that should not be there

 

Reminder: Chatsworth available for sale at the Durban International Book Fair

 

Pravasan Pillay's much-acclaimed debut short story collection Chatsworth will be available for sale at the Micromega stand at the Durban International Book Book at Eduvos Umhlanga Campus from 27 November to 1 December.

Chatsworth has gone into four printings and is published by Dye Hard Press.

I telephoned God awaits you!

Sloow tapes in Belgium has released a 40-minute cassette tape of me reading my poetry, titled I telephoned God.

The poems read are from my selected poems volume Outside the cave, but also from Thunder on the highway, Animal eyeball (a collaboration with UK artist Paul Warren), and my latest collection Somewhere else.

The cover shows three collages by French poet and collagist Bruno Sourdin.

To order, please visit Sloow Tapes.

Can do in no day

 

With the Safety Off at reduced price!

 

It’s Yeoville in the mid-1990s. Enter Fig, a copywriter with a penchant for living on the edge – staying up all night, having casual sex and snorting cocaine. Drifting from seedy clubs to grotty flats, Fig continues his aimless odyssey … until the day he falls asleep in a client presentation and is fired.

Nine months later Fig is hooked on heroin and turns to drug-dealing for survival. If his previous lifestyle skirted close to the danger zone, it’s now gloves off as he drops all pretence of respectability and descends into a world of syndicates and violence.

From now on, he’s living with the safety off.

A novel not for the faint-hearted ...

Graeme Feltham was born in 1965 and grew up in Uitenhage. He completed a degree in journalism at Rhodes University and moved to Johannesburg in the late 1980s. In addition to being a writer, he was an experimental composer and performance artist. His novella One Hundred Naked Beers was published by Brevitas in 2002. His work also appeared in literary journals such as New Coin and donga. Feltham died in December 2017.

With introductions by Luke Feltham and James de Villiers.

220 pp.

ISBN 978-0-9869982-6-3

We are offering the book at a reduced price of R60 per copy. Courier to your door is R100, so R160 altogether.

Email cummiskeyg@gmail.com to order.

Kobus Moolman's He Said/ /She Said now available at Clarke's Bookshop in Cape Town

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

Remember that this is a limited numbered edition of 120 copies, which is selling out fast!

Praise for Pravasan Pillay's Chatsworth

Artist Lucelle Bernadette Pillay says of Chatsworth:  "An insightful read, with interesting and authentic characters. Pravasan Pillay is an observant storyteller, a skilled wordsmith who paints nostalgic scenes of old Chatsworth."

Pravasan Pillay's much-acclaimed debut short story collection Chatsworth will be available for sale at the Durban International Book Book at Eduvos Umhlanga Campus from 27 November to 1 December.

Chatsworth has gone into four printings and is published by Dye Hard Press.

Pravasan Pillay's Chatsworth will be available at the 2024 Durban International Book Fair

Pravasan Pillay's much-acclaimed debut short story collection Chatsworth will be available for sale at the Durban International Book Book at Eduvos Umhlanga Campus from 27 November to 1 December.

Chatsworth has gone into four printings and is published by Dye Hard Press.

 

Off-ramp is now available at reduced price!

 

Dye Hard Press still has copies of Gary Cummiskey's Off-ramp in stock.

A finalist for the 2014 Nadine Gordimer Short Story Award, Off-ramp is the debut short fiction collection of Gary Cummiskey and consists of ten stories often characterised by a surreal eroticism. Set mainly in contemporary South Africa, the book opens with a young man’s hallucinatory encounter with a derelict in a Johannesburg street; there is a couple’s visit to a sinister Free State farm; an editor who reluctantly agrees to meet an aspiring woman writer at midnight; two young men who go out on a drinking spree as the country teeters on the edge of civil war; a restless teenager who stalks an unknown woman; and a middle-aged academic who engages in an obsessive, sadistic relationship with a prostitute.

The stories in this startling collection offer a vision of individuals who are slowly being devoured by paranoia and absurdity. Beyond the off-ramp lies a pervasive, heavy dread and an unnameable, perhaps unknowable fear. Cummiskey creates an off-kilter reality that is both disturbing and compelling.

Off-ramp is now available at a reduced price of R60 per copy, and the cost of courier to your door in South Africa is R100 -- so R160 altogether.

Regretfully I cannot ship overseas due to operational problems at the South African Post Office.

Email cummiskeyg@gmail.com to order.
 

Take a visit to Animal eyeball

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.

Who was Sinclair Beiles? still available at Clarke's in Cape Town

 

Who was Sinclair Beiles?, a compilation of writings about South African beat poet Sinclair Beiles, edited by Gary Cummiskey and Eva Kowalska, is still available from Clarkes.

Alternatively, you can order a copy directly from the publisher at cummiskeyg@gmail.com

Originally published in 2010, this is a revised and expanded edition that was published in 2014. 

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.