The shadow world

 

 

Outside the cave, the selected poems of Gary Cummiskey, is still available from Dye Hard Press. 162 pages of poetry from 1990 to the present.

Here is one poem from the collection:

Recipe 

Take your favourite 

book of poems. 

Place in an oven dish. 

Drizzle (as the menus

always say) 

with olive oil. 

Place the dish in the middle 

of the oven. 

Turn to maximum on Grill.

 

Don’t stop until incinerated. 

Copies of With the Safety Off still available!

We still have TWO copies of Graeme Feltham's With the Safety Off available ...

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
Available directly from Dye Hard Press for R260, including courier to your door.

South Africa only.

Christmas is coming and Chatsworth is still in stock!

 

Christmas is around the corner so why not buy a copy of Pravasan Pillay's Chatsworth as a gift for someone? You can order a copy from Made in Durban or Clarke's Bookstore in Cape Town.

Aiyo! still available at Clarke's and The Commune

 

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. 

Coming soon from Graffiti Kolkata: Somewhere else by Gary Cummiskey

 

A new collection of 28 poems, Somewhere else, by Gary Cummiskey will be published in 2024 by Graffiti Kolkata, India. Cover art by British artist Paul Warren.

Watch this space!