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Sunday, 08 July 2018

Literary bunny chow: a review of Pravasan Pillay's Chatsworth in Sunday Times


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The queen begins to dream


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Dye Hard Press is a small publisher in Johannesburg, South Africa. Since 1994 it has published more than 30 titles, including work by Alan Finlay, Phillip Zhuwao, Arja Salafranca, Gus Ferguson, Kobus Moolman, Gail Dendy, Allan Kolski Horwitz, Khulile Nxumalo and Pravasan Pillay. For order details about in print Dye Hard Press titles, send an email to dyehardpress@gmail.com.


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He Said // She Said, a new collection of poems by Kobus Moolman. 44 pages.

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Animal eyeball is a free e-chapbook of seven cut-up prose poems by Gary Cummiskey, complemented with collages by Paul Warren.

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Aiyo! Three tales of bizarre love by Pravasan Pillay. 48 pages. Limited to 100 numbered copies. SOLD OUT.

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Outside the Cave: selected poems by Gary Cummiskey. Selected and introduced by Kobus Moolman. Email dyehardpress@gmail.com to order.

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Titles by Gary Cummiskey

The Secret Hour, Dye Hard Press, Johannesburg,1994
Lost in a World, Dye Hard Press, 1994
Conspiracies of the Interior, Dye Hard Press, 1994
Visitations, Dye Hard Press, 1995
River of Dreams, Dye Hard Press, 1995
City, Sun Belly Press, Johannesburg, 1995
When Apollinaire Died, Firfield Press, Cape Town, 1996
Head (with Roy Blumenthal), Dye Hard Press, 1998
Reigning Gloves, Dye Hard Press, 2000
Bog Docks, Dye Hard Press, 2005
April in the Moon-Sun, Dye Hard Press, 2006
Today is their Creator, Dye Hard Press, 2008
Who was Sinclair Beiles? (co-edited with Eva Kowalska), Dye Hard Press, 2009 and 2015
Romancing the Dead, Tearoom Books, Durban, 2009
Sky Dreaming, Graffiti Kolkata, India, 2011
I Remain Indoors, Tearoom Books, Stockholm, 2013
Off-ramp, Dye Hard Press, Johannesburg, 2013
Don't Stop Until Incinerated, Tearoom Books, Stockholm, 2016
In Naked Field, Concrete Meat Press, Leicester, England, 2019
Thunder on the highway, Dye Hard Press, Johannesburg, 2020
Outside the cave: Selected Poems, Dye Hard Press, Johannesburg, 2001 Animal eyeball (with Paul Warren), Dye Hard Press, Johannesburg, 2024 Somewhere else, Graffiti Kolkata, India, 2024

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