The invite to the launch of When Apollinaire Died by Gary Cummiskey and Unmitigating Circumstances by Marc Glaser, both published by Firfield Press, at Walter Saunders' bookstore Hooked on Books, in Rosebank, Johannesburg. Firfield Press was run by the late Gus Ferguson - poet, cartoonist, publisher.
Sunday, 05 May 2024
Thursday, 09 September 2021
Dye Hard Press in the Cape
A Facebook post by René Bohnen: I have come to love all couriers. Today's delight from Dye Hard Press. I had to start with the darling tiny chapbook. Gems in there! I still maintain that Gary Cummiskey comes up with some of the most brilliant titles: Outside the cave (conjuring up all sorts of intertextual images) and Thunder on the highway. I still have all the A4 size collections from those long-ago Braamfontein days too: I think the first one I got was When Apollinaire died. [a chapbook published by Gus Ferguson's Firfield Press]. I attended an Alan Finlay launch a few years ago somewhere in Queen Street, I think (it was pushing from the riverbank) Now happily reading these poets again! Also looking forward to the novel set in 1990's Yeoville.