Copies of Green Dragon #6 still in stock

There are just THREE copies left in stock of Green Dragon #6, which was the final issue of a literary journal published by Dye Hard Press from 2002 to 2009. Contributors to this final issue were Alan Finlay, Arja Salafranca, Haidee Kruger, Janet van Eeden, Joop Bersee, Kelwyn Sole, Kobus Moolman, Tania van Schalkwyk, Megan Hall, Cecilia Ferriera, Anton Krueger, Allan Kolski Horwitz, Goodenough Mashego, David wa Maahlamela, Vonani Bila, Mphutlane wa Bofelo, Aryan Kaganof, Neo Molefe Shameeyaa, Colleen Higgs, Gus Ferguson, Brent Meersman, Kai Lossgott, Daniel Browde, Ingrid Andersen, Gary Cummiskey, Mick Raubenheimer and Mxolisi Nyezwa. There were also lyrics from Durban folk group The Litchis.

Copies are available from Dye Hard Press at R80 per copy, including postage, for South Africa only. Overseas is R130, including postage.Email dyehardpress@iafrica.com to order.

Forthcoming title from Dye Hard Press

Coming soon from Dye Hard Press: Chatsworth, a debut collection of stories by Pravasan Pillay. Watch this space!

New poems by Gary Cummiskey

Image: Empty Mirror

Six new poems of mine published in US online literary journal Empty Mirror.

Twelve more collages by Gary Cummiskey on Empty Mirror

Once again honoured to have my collages featured in US online literary journal Empty Mirror.

From centuries of passage

The adoration of the magi

Tu verras des choses plus grandes encore - a collage by Bruno Sourdin

Watch out, Billy Boy!

Three of hearts

I found a Three of Hearts in my garden ...

As he was holding a photo by Man Ray ...

Ridin' the spheres

Try for the sun

Still at breakfast

Dye Hard Interview: Adrian Manning: A poetic microcosm

Adrian Manning is an English poet and micro-publisher. He has had a number of chapbooks published, including Wretched Songs

For Out of Tune Musicians, Down At The Laundromat, Bring Down The Sun(with Henry Denander), These Days, Days Like This (with John Dorsey) and 13 Poems from the Edge of Extinction. His poems have been published around the world and have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He is the founder of Concrete Meat Press, a micro-press that publishes poetry broadsides and chapbooks.

He lives in Leicester, England.

DH: How and when did you start writing poetry? I am curious about the contemporary poetry scene in England. I regard most English poetry as conservative. Is there a strong ‘alternative’ poetry/literary culture there? 

AM: I started writing when I was a teenager, about 17 or 18. I had a notebook in which I used to record my thoughts about my confused worldview at the time. It was sort of like a diary but the thoughts took on a poetic prose form...Read more.

Illustrated book covers: Death in Venice, Tristan and Tonio Kruger by Thomas Mann

Death in Venice, Tristan and Tonio Kruger by Thomas Mann, published by Penguin Modern Classics, 1962, Middlesex.

Poems by Gary Cummiskey included in special South African issue of Illuminations

I have two poems included in this special South African poetry issue of the US-based literary journal Illuminations.