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.

The Edge of Things at a reduced price

 

Dye Hard Press still has FIVE copies left of The Edge of Things, an anthology of South African short fiction selected by Arja Salafranca and published in 2011.

The Edge of Things contains short stories by Jayne Bauling, Arja Salafranca, Liesl Jobson, Gillian Schutte, Karina Magdalena Szczurek, Jenna Mervis, Jennifer  Lean, Fred de Vries, Margie Orford, Aryan Kaganof, Bernard Levinson, Hamilton Wende, Pravasan Pillay, Beatrice Lamwaka, Hans Pienaar, Rosemund Handler, Tiah Beautement, Angelina N Sithebe, Jeanne Hromnik, David wa Maahlamela, Perd Booysen, Gail Dendy, Silke Heiss and Dan Wylie.

272 pages.

The Edge of Things is now available at a reduced price of R90 per copy. To courier it to your door will be R100, so R190 altogether.

We regret that due to operational problems at the South African Post Office this offer is for South Africa only. 

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.

Huge turnout for launch of He Said/ She Said at the Red Wheelbarrow

Well, it was a huge turnout for the launch of He Said/   /She Said at The Red Wheelbarrow in Cape Town last night, and 30 (signed) copies were sold!

He Said/   /She Said is also available from Dye Hard Press and will soon be available from Clarke's in Cape Town.

It is limited to 120 numbered copies, which are selling fast!

Wednesday night is the night!

Kobus Moolman is to read from his new chapbook He Said/  /She Said, published by Dye Hard Press.

Copies will be available for sale. 

Beyond Touch listed as a pick of the week for Pride Month

 

Arja Salafranca's poetry collection Beyond Touch, published in 2015 by Modjaji Books and Dye Hard Press, has been listed a pick of the week for Pride Month!

Congratulations, Arja!

Aiyo! in Cape Town

 

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!

Outside the cave still available at Clarke's

 

Outside the cave: selected poems, by Gary Cummiskey, is still available at Clarke's Bookshop in Cape Town. You can either pop into the shop in person in Long Street, or order online.

Selected by renowned South African poet Kobus Moolman, Outside the cave brings together work by Gary Cummiskey from 1990 to 2020. 

Outside the cave is published by Dye Hard Press.

Kobus Moolman reading at the Red Wheelbarrow

Annoucement by The Red Wheelbarrow:

Kobus Moolman will be reading at 6 Spin Street Restaurant on Wednesday, 30 October at 7pm. 

Please RSVP here (free entry): https://forms.gle/Brf7NYxz44sihHnW6

Kobus Moolman will be launching his new chapbook, He Said /  / She Said (Dye Hard Press, 2024) on 30 October at 6 Spin Street at 7pm. His new collection is a limited edition chapbook with original artwork by Katherine Glenday. 

Kobus is Professor of Creative Writing in the Department of English Studies at the University of the Western Cape. He is an award-winning poet, playwright and short story writer. He has published nine previous collections of poetry, two collections of plays and a collection of short stories. Copies of the book will be on sale.

He Pleaded Ignorance

He did not know what the sky was made of.

He did not know what fire tasted like.

He did not know how far away from the earth the truth was.

He did not know how long a man could survive without any covering over his body. Such as skin.

He did not know the current market value of love.

He did not know the lengths a man would go to in order to find deception.

He did not know where it all came from.

Then he came up out of the water.

Then he found that he could still breathe. 

Even though it was air.

– Kobus Moolman (from He Said /  /She Said, Dye Hard Press, 2024)

As always, the reading by the featured poet will be followed by an open mic session for poets from the audience. Poets are welcome to read from their own work as well as from the work of a favourite poet.

 

Please note that 6 Spin Street offers a cash bar.

We look forward to seeing you there!

 

Date: Wednesday, 30th October 2024

Time: 19:00

Venue: 6 Spin Street Restaurant Gallery, 6 Spin Street, Church Square, Cape Town

Phone: 021 461 0666

Dreamin' wide awake