That's Somewhere else!

 

My latest poetry collection Somewhere else, together with other titles by Graffity Kolkata. Thank you to my published Subhankar Das and British artist Paul Warren for cover art and design.

Coming soon from the Kolkata Arts Collective ...

 

Somewhere else is a chapbook of 26 poems by Gary Cummiskey, due out in March from the Kolkata Arts Collective, Kolkata, India, headed by Subhankar Das, who also published Sky dreaming in 2011.

Cover art and design by Paul Warren. 

'Immortal' in Bangla

 

My poem 'Immortal' translated into Bangla, by Mouni Mondal. 'Immortal' was published in Sky Dreaming, published by Graffiti Kolkata in 2011.

Sky Dreaming on Peony Moon

I am searching for André Gide and have been told he is staying with Sinclair Beiles, so I go to Sinclair’s house in Raleigh Street, Yeoville. It’s been years since I have been out this way, but even so, after I knock on the door, Sinclair answers quite friendly and says, ‘Gide doesn’t live here anymore. I think he’s staying at a flophouse – he went loony, you know’...Read more here

Review of Gary Cummiskey's Sky Dreaming - Aryan Kaganof

gary cummiskey was born after a short stint in london in 2009. in that same year he co-opted with sinclair beiles? a collection of titles about the beat poet. it’s intriguing that gary notes high levels of supermarkets in hillbrow as well as his death in 2000 (9 years before the so-called re-birth). gary cummiskey, a midget staring into space, moves on with his legs inspread. he leaps down from buildings into the fire but nobody hears his singing so he drags the terrified, whimpering sinclair beiles? through the hall up to andré gide’s lecture stand where he knocks a glass of papers all over the water. that’s when the cops surround him...read more here

Rough Travel: poems by Jeffrey S. Callico

A collection of 24 incisive domestic vignettes, reminiscent in style of William Carlos Williams. Published by Graffiti Kolkata Press.