Renegade eye is a selection of 18 collages by Gary Cummiskey, published by new imprint Turquoise Press. Renegade eye is available as a flip-book on Heyzine.
You can also download it as a PDF here.
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French poet and collagist Bruno Sourdin has translated some poems from my collection Somewhere else (Graffiti, Kolkata), which will be published in the French literary journal Dierese.
I am looking forward to receiving a copy soon!
Watch this space!
On this day in 2021, Sreemanti Sengupta in Kolkata, India, received her copy of Thunder on the highway by Gary Cummiskey, published by Dye Hard Press.
Thunder on the highway was limited to 50 numbered copies.
Life is fragile. We are fragile.
Watch this space!
A reminder that you can still buy copies of Pravasan Pillay's much-acclaimed debut short story collection Chatsworth at Made in Durban.
I telephoned God, a 40-minute recording of Gary Cummiskey reading a selection of his poetry and released by Sloow Tapes in Belgium, is available for download on Bandcamp.
Respected and acclaimed South African poet Kobus Moolman calls Animal eyeball 'a fantastic visual and linguistic collaboration'.
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.
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.
We are almost there - watch this space!
Sabina, the widow of poet and publisher Subhankar Das, at the Graffiti stand of the Small Magazine Fair in Kolkata. At the front centre is a book of Subhankar with a painting by Pascal Ulrich on the cover.
Graffiti published my latest collection of poems, Somewhere else, in 2024, as well as an earlier collection, Sky dreaming, in 2011.
I recently conducted an interview with poet and publisher Robert Roman about the life and work of artist and poet Pascal Ulrich.
Gary Cummiskey is a poet, short story writer and publisher living in Johannesburg. He is the author of several poetry chapbooks and collections, the latest being Somewhere else (Graffiti, Kolkata, 2024). In 2009 he published Who was Sinclair Beiles?, a compilation of writings about the South African Beat poet, co-edited with Eva Kowalska. A revised and expanded edition was published in 2014. His short fiction collection Off-ramp was a finalist for the 2014 Nadine Gordimer Short Story Award. From 2014 to 2016 he was editor of New Coin, one of South Africa’s oldest and most prestigious poetry journals.
Pravasan Pillay’s new book, Curry and Bread, is now in production!
Great news -- I telephoned God, a 40-minute recording of Gary Cummiskey reading a selection of his poetry and released by Sloow Tapes in Belgium, is now available for download on Bandcamp.
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.
Clarke's in Cape Town has just ordered more copies of Kobus Moolman's He Said/ /She Said and I am now out of stock!
The cover art, and cover design, is by UK artist Paul Warren.
You can read The lay of the land on Issuu.
Coming soon from Dye Hard Press: Pravasan Pillay's latest book, Curry and Bread. Watch this space!
Paul is also the creator of the collage novella Desire follows one step behind and collaborated with me on Animal eyeball, a series of seven prose poems by me while he contributed collages.
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Pravasan Pillay's much-acclaimed debut short story collection Chatsworth will soon be available again at Exclusive Books Gateway and La Lucia branches in KwaZulu-Natal.
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