Digging for gold

 

View an Animal eyeball this Christmas

 

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.

You can also access and download a PDF version here.

Outside the cave at Christmas

Outside the cave contains a selection of 30 years' work by South African poet Gary Cummiskey, and is chosen and introduced by Kobus Moolman. It was published by Dye Hard Press and copies are still available.

Contact cummiskeyg@gmail.com to order, R160 a copy, and to courier to you door, R270. Regret South Africa only, unless you are prepared for pay for an international courier.

Peace on earth

 

The dream is a day

 

B-movie incantations: a Dye Hard Interview with Doug Campbell

Doug Campbell
Photo courtesy of Janice Hathway

Doug Campbell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he still lives. He is an artist who works primarily in collage. When he was a child he discovered the word ‘surrealist’ in a science fiction novel and then was given a small book of surrealist paintings. This was the first step in an adventure that continues until this day. He has an ongoing engagement with the international surrealist movement through correspondence, collective games, and contributions to publications and group shows. 

When did you become interested in art and when did you start making art? At what point did you become acquainted with surrealism?

I don’t remember ever not being interested in art, in the widest sense, from my first picture books and comics onwards. I drew obsessively as a kid, grew up making and painting models and graduated into making posters for gigs as a teen and an adult. All this in spite of bad experiences at school, being told off for talking back to art teachers and having my work torn up in front of the class. Read more.

Pravasan Pillay on Literary Tourism

There is a nice wee entry on the Literary Tourism website about Pravasan Pillay, compiled just after the publication of his previous book, Aiyo!, and containing an extract from his short story 'Crooks' in his debut collection, Chatsworth.

Pillay's new book, Curry and Bread, is available from Exclusive Books, madeindurban.co.za, Love Books in Melville, Johannesburg, and Clarke's in Cape Town.

Pascal Ulrich material received

 

Received a load of material -- publications of art and poetry, postcards and an original artwork -- of French artist and poet Pascal Ulrich, from Robert Roman in France.

Last year I conducted a Dye Hard Interview with Roman about Ulrich's life and work.

Thank you, Robert Roman!

Outside the cave in hand

Good to see that Outside the cave: selected poems by Gary Cummiskey, has landed in the hands of Richard Pithouse.

Outside the cave contains a selection of 30 years' work, and is selected and introduced by Kobus Moolman. It was published by Dye Hard Press and copies are still available.

Contact cummiskeyg@gmail.com to order. Regret South Africa only, unless you are prepared for pay for an international courier.

 

Through the moods

 

Christmas is coming with Curry and Bread

Christmas is around the corner, so why not buy a copy - or even two copies - of Pravasan Pillay's new book Curry and Bread as a Christmas gift? It will definitely bring the reader(s) joy and laughter this festive season!

Curry and Bread is available from Exclusive Books, Clarke's in Cape Town, madeindurban.co.za, and Love Books in Melville, Johannesburg.