The launch of The Fall by Hans Pienaar

Hans Piennar in conversation with Toast Coetzer about his latest poetry collection, The Fall, published by Dye Hard Press.

Launch of The Fall by Hans Pienaar

The Fall by Hans Pienaar is published by Dye Hard Press.

Another drawing in Ons Klyntji

 

Chuffed to have another drawing published in Ons Klyntji -- thank you, Toast Coetzer!

Honoured to be published in Ons Klyntji again

Truly honoured to be published once again in Toast Coetzer's Ons Klyntji, one of the great small press/maverick journals still around - how long has Ons Klyntji been going for? I remember reviewing an issue for The Weekender around about 2010.

Anyway, Toast accepted one of my poems AND a drawing - thank you, Toast!

Ons Klyntji - passport

Chuffed to be published in Toast Coetzer's legendary Ons Klyntji once again - I have a wee prose poem about walls, letters, Syria and Angola included! Thank you, Toast!

BleKSEM, Botsotso and Dye Hard Press launch at De La Creme, Melville, Johannesburg August 7, 2012

Centre, seated, from left: Ike Muila and Siphiwe Ka Ngwenya

The mime artist

Ike Muila

Frank Meintjies and Arja Salafranca

Arja Salafranca

Alan Finlay

Allan Kolski Horwitz

Allan Kolski Horwitz

Richard Fox

Eva Kowalska

Toast Coetzer

Street view on a wintry Johannesburg night - snow had fallen earlier in the day.

Photos: Arja Salafranca and Michelle McGrane

New title from BlekSem, in collaboration with Botsotso Publishing and Dye Hard Press: donga

donga is a selection of poetry, short fiction, interviews and essays from what was one of South Africa's first literary online journals (2000-2003).

With 32 contributors, donga  contains work by writers such as Lionel Abrahams, Robert Berold, Lauren Beukes, Nadine Botha, Toast Coetzer, Gary Cummiskey, Graeme Feltham, Richard Fox, Stacy Hardy, Stephen Hofstatter, Aryan Kaganof, Bernat Kruger, Joan Meterlerkamp, Ike Mboneni Muila, Pravasan Pillay, Lesego Rampolokeng, Arja Salafranca, Kelwyn Sole, Ivan Vladislavic and Paul Wessels.

donga is edited by Alan Finlay and Paul Wessels, and is published by BlekSem, in collaboration with Botsotso Publishing and Dye Hard Press.

320 pages.

ISBN: 978-0-620-52779-8

For more information and direct orders, contact Alan Finlay at bleksembook@gmail.com. donga will soon retail at bookstores.

Ons Klyntji, August 2011

The latest issue of alternative culture journal Ons Klyntji has been published and contains poetry, prose, interviews and artwork from a wide variety of names including Allan Kolski Horwitz, Aryan Kaganof, Diane Awerbuck, Koos Kombuis, Kai Lossgott, Stacy Hardy, Kleinboer and notably - from my point of view - Fred de Vries's piece on Sinclair Beiles, 'The First Man in Space was a South African'.

Contact Toast Coetzer at info@toastcoetzer.com for details.