A Dye Hard Interview with Pravasan Pillay from 2011

 

Back in 2011 -- a long time before Chatsworth and Aiyo! were published, I conducted an interview with Pravasan Pillay. In it he talks about his press Tearoom Books, his poetry chapbook Glumlazi, his collaboration with Anton Krueger, Shaggy, and, needless to say, his sense of humour. Read the interview here. 

Shaggy

Fourteen Rather Amusing Rambles
by Anton Krueger and Pravasan Pillay

Published by BK Publishing

“But listen to me rambling on! I’m sure you must be dying to rush home to feed your cat.”

Fourteen monologues by creeps, losers and an idiot.

Prepare yourself for a cast of some of the most manipulative, ingratiating, disillusioned, egotistical, inauthentic, spiteful narcissists operating in contemporary SA. Within these pages you will encounter fourteen first-hand shaggy stories told by a rogues gallery of scheming misanthropes whose speeches are full of sound and fury, signifying very little. These hilarious blowhards will make you snigger, cringe and wish your cousin had rather given you Spud 5 for your birthday.

EAN: 9780620504584
Price: R135

To order a copy,  please write to: andrea@alookaway.co.za

Incwadi - Autumn 2011 issue

The latest issue of online poetry journal Incwadi features work by poets such as Gail Dendy, Ingrid Andersen, Arja Salafranca, Kelwyn Sole, Fiona Zerbst, Gary Cummiskey, Kerry Hammerton, Sarah Frost, Michelle McGrane, Anton Krueger, Crystal Warren and Tania van Schalkwyk.

Invite to the launch of Shaggy: 14 rather amusing rambles by Anton Krueger and Pravasan Pillay

New from Tearoom Books: Reader Digest

Reader Digest is a free e-chapbook of poetry and recipes, compiled by Pravasan Pillay and Victoria Williams, and featuring 13 poets from 5 different countries. Poets were asked to pair their poems with a suitable recipe and the result is a deliciously good read.

The poets are Philip Burton, John L. Cope, Gary Cummiskey, Heshel Heller, Eva Jackson, Anton Krueger, Haidee Kruger, Joan McNerney, Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah, Joanna O’Connor, V.W. Sparkes, Pȁr Svensson and Adam Taylor.

Get the free e-chapbook here

Forthcoming from Tearoom Books: Reader Digest

Tearoom Books is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Reader Digest, a free e-chapbook of poetry and recipes.

Compiled by Pravasan Pillay and Victoria Williams, the chapbook features 13 poets from five different countries. The poets are: Philip Burton, John L Cope, Gary Cummiskey, Heshel Heller, Eva Jackson, Anton Krueger, Haidee Kruger, Joan McNerney, Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah, Joanna O’Connor, VW Sparkes, Pȁr Svensson and Adam Taylor.

Sunnyside Sal - Anton Krueger

Anton Krueger's debut novel Sunnyside Sal is published by Deep South. It is a tale of the friendship between two boys brought up during the dying years of apartheid and the first years of the new SA. It traces their lives as fortunes and choices change, producing many moments of comedy and sadness along the way.

Some of Krueger's poems have appeared in Green Dragon.

Poetry Africa: Boisterous Finale

In all the boisterous excitement you’d have forgiven the wry 2008 Poetry Africa delegate Anton Krueger (dressed in sporty red gangster fatigues) for thinking Durban’s BAT Centre dealt with “rehabilitating wild animals” - as all the discerning reserve of the preceding days at the festival viewing took an energised turn for the spirited during Saturday’s finale...Read more here.

Photo courtesy of Centre for the Creative Arts at Book SA