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