Outside the cave still available

 

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.

Gary Cummiskey reading at Off the Wall

 

Please enjoy this recording of me reading my poetry at Off the Wall on April 7. I read a selection of poems from my collections Thunder on the highway, Somewhere else and Outside the cave.

The recording can only be kept up for a limited time so you may want to downloadd it for future use.

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Outside the cave available from Clarke's in Cape Town

 

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.

Outside the cave is still available from Clarke's

 

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.

I telephoned God awaits you!

Sloow tapes in Belgium has released a 40-minute cassette tape of me reading my poetry, titled I telephoned God.

The poems read are from my selected poems volume Outside the cave, but also from Thunder on the highway, Animal eyeball (a collaboration with UK artist Paul Warren), and my latest collection Somewhere else.

The cover shows three collages by French poet and collagist Bruno Sourdin.

To order, please visit Sloow Tapes.

Outside the cave still available

 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.

Outside the cave still available at Clarke's

 

Outside the cave: selected poems, by Gary Cummiskey, is still available at Clarke's Bookshop in Cape Town. You can either pop into the shop in person in Long Street, or order online.

Selected by renowned South African poet Kobus Moolman, Outside the cave brings together work by Gary Cummiskey from 1990 to 2020. 

Outside the cave is published by Dye Hard Press.

Outside the cave still in Cape Town

 

Outside the cave: selected poems, by Gary Cummiskey, is still available at Clarke's Bookshop in Cape Town. You can either pop into the shop in person in Long Street, or order online.

Selected by renowned South African poet Kobus Moolman, Outside the cave brings together work by Gary Cummiskey from 1990 to 2020. 

Outside the cave is published by Dye Hard Press.

Outside the cave in Cape Town

Outside the cave: selected poems by Gary Cummiskey, published by Dye Hard Press, is still available at Clarke's in Cape Town. You can order online here or, if you are in Long Street, why not pop into the shop?

Outside the cave is introduced by Kobus Moolman, who also chose the poems.

Outside the cave and Thunder on the highway arrive two years later!

Good lord - copies of Outside the cave and Thunder on the highway sent by airmail to Pravasan Pillay in Stockholm two years ago have finally arrived! Maybe the SA Post Office is trying to come back to life!

Outside the cave is still out there!

 Outside the cave, selected poems of Gary Cummiskey and introduced by Kobus Moolman, is still available for sale from Clark's Books in Cape Town. You can also order directly from the publisher at cummiskeyg@gmail.com.

Somewhere else in Pretoria

Dawie Malan in Pretoria has arrived his copy of Somewhere else by Gary Cummiskey, as well as other titles published by Dye Hard Press, including Pravasan Pillay's Chatsworth and Gary Cummiskey's Outside the Cave and Off-ramp.

Outside the cave: Selected poems of Gary Cummiskey still available

 

Outside the cave, the selected poems of Gary Cummiskey, is still available from Dye Hard Press. 162 pages of poetry from 1990 to the present.

Here is one poem from the collection:

Recipe

Take your favourite

book of poems.

Place in an oven dish.

Drizzle (as the menus

always say)

with olive oil.

Place the dish in the middle

of the oven.

Turn to maximum on Grill.

Don’t stop until incinerated.

Cost, including courier to your door, is R260. Regret SA only.

To order please email cummiskeyg@gmail.com

 

Outside the cave, the selected poems of Gary Cummiskey, is still available from Dye Hard Press. 162 pages of poetry from 1990 to the present.

Here is one poem from the collection:

Recipe 

Take your favourite 

book of poems. 

Place in an oven dish. 

Drizzle (as the menus

always say) 

with olive oil. 

Place the dish in the middle 

of the oven. 

Turn to maximum on Grill.

 

Don’t stop until incinerated. 

Outside the cave is still available from Dye Hard Press

 

Outside the cave, the selected poems of Gary Cummiskey, is still available from Dye Hard Press. 162 pages of poetry from 1990 to the present.

Here is one wee poem from the collection:

ORPHANS

No more moms in fancy dress

walking by the side of the river

No more dads poking holes

                        in the night sky

making the stars redundant

The cost of Outside the Cave is R280, including courier to your door (SA only). Email cummiskeyg@gmail.com to order.

Look what Phillippa Yaa de Villiers has received!

 

Look what poet Phillippa Yaa de Villiers has received: Aiyo! by Pravasan Pillay, and Outside the Cave and Off-ramp by Gary Cummiskey, all published by Dye Hard Press.

British poet Adrian Manning on Outside the cave

English poet and publisher Adrian Manning writes on Facebook: 'Been reading this selected poems book by Gary Cummiskey again. I have to say it is a collection of amazing poems and some of the finest poems I have read in a while.'

TV appearnce on BookBytes, Salaamedia

 

Gary Cummiskey being interviewed by Shafinaaz Hassim, on BookBytes, Salamedia, on Sunday 24 July, 2022. A wonderful, warm conversation about poetry, short fiction and publishing in South Africa. We chatted a bit about Outside the cave in particular and I read one poem from the collection. Chatsworth and The Edge of Things were also discussed, as single collections and anthologies published by Dye Hard Press.

On Bookbytes, with Shafinaaz Hassim

 

Shafinaaz Hassim receives Outside the cave

 

Author Shafinaaz Hassim receives her copies of Outside the cave and Off-ramp, both by Gary Cummiskey and published by Dye Hard Press.