It's been a while

 

Chatsworth due for a reprint!

Pravasan Pillay's much-acclaimed debut collection of short stories, Chatsworth, first published in 2018, is due to be reprinted ... again!

Watch this space!

Aiyo! in The Post

 

A nice wee article and chat with Pravasan Pillay about his latest title Aiyo!, in Durban newspaper The Post.

You can buy Aiyo! through Made in Durban at https://www.madeindurban.co.za/HOME/... or directly from the publisher at cummiskeyg@gmail.com.

And if you are in Cape Town, copies will soon be available at Clarke's in Long Street!

Awkward continents remain intact by Paul Warren

 

A montage by British artist Paul Warren, with the title taken from my poem 'Slam', published in my collection Reigning Gloves, published by Dye Hard Press in 2000.

Aiyo! in Pretoria!

 

Dawie Malan in Pretoria has received and read his copy of Aiyo! by Pravasan Pillay. 'Poor Vinod', Dawie says. Why 'poor Vinod'? Why don't you buy Aiyo! and find out!

You can buy Aiyo! from Made in Durban, or directly from the publisher - R90 plus R100 for courier (South Africa only). You can email the publisher at cummiskeyg@gmail.com.

And if you are in Cape Town, Clarke's in Long Street will soon have copies in stock!

Aiyo! reaches 60

 

As of today, 60 copies of Aiyo! have sold -- that's over half of this numbered limited edition of 100 copies!

Aiyo! is R90 a copy, plus R100 for courier, from the publisher.

Alternatively, you can order from Made in Durban at https://www.madeindurb
an.co.za/HOME/...

And for those of you in Cape Town, the good news is that Clarke;s will soon have copies in stock!

Aiyo! on a roll!

 Just two weeks after publication, and we have sold 44 copies of Aiyo! -- that's almost half of the limited number print run of 100 copies!

If you want a copy of Aiyo! you will need to order one pretty soon! You can order directly from Dye Hard Press at cummiskeyg@gmail.com or through Made in Durban.

The presences welcome autumn

 

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.

Aiyo! arrives in Pretoria

 

Poet Raphael d'Abdon looks chuffed with his (reversed image!) copy of Aiyo! by Pravasan Pillay, the most recent release by Dye Hard Press.

Aiyo! on a roll!

We have sold 25 copies of Aiyo! by Pravasan Pillay in the first week of publication! That's a quarter of this limited numbered print run of 100 copies!

In Aiyo!, a man orders a bunny chow from a deserted takeaway in Chatsworth late one night, and is told a morbid tale by the seductive owner. A woman wants to cut her long hair and encounters strange opposition. A Durban man travels to India to meet his beautiful bride-to-be, but soon discovers that her parents have other things in mind.

48 pages. This edition is limited to 100 numbered copies.

ISBN: 978-0-6397-6267-8

Pravasan Pillay has published two poetry chapbooks, Glumlazi (2009) and 30 Poems (2015), as well as a collection of co-written comedic short stories, Shaggy (2013). His acclaimed short story collection Chatsworth was published in 2018, and was translated into Swedish in 2020.

Price: R90 a copy. Cost of courier to your door is R100, so R190 altogether.

As most South Africans will know, the South African Post Office is now in provisional liquidation, so that makes getting copies by post out of the question.

For order details, contact Dye Hard Press at cummiskeyg@gmail.com.

New from Dye Hard Press: Aiyo! by Pravasan Pillay

ISBN: 978-0-6397-6267-8

A man orders a bunny chow from a deserted takeaway in Chatsworth late one night, and is told a morbid tale by the seductive owner. A woman wants to cut her long hair and encounters strange opposition. A Durban man travels to India to meet his beautiful bride-to-be, but soon discovers that her parents have other things in mind.

48 pages. This edition is limited to 100 numbered copies.

Pravasan Pillay has published two poetry chapbooks, Glumlazi (2009) and 30 Poems (2015), as well as a collection of co-written comedic short stories, Shaggy (2013). His acclaimed short story collection Chatsworth was published in 2018, and was translated into Swedish in 2020.

Price: R90, plus R100 for cost of courier to your door. 

For order details, contact Dye Hard Press at cummiskeyg@gmail.com.

 

 

Aiyo! The eagle has landed!

 

The presences make their presence known

 

The proof of Aiyo! has arrived!

 

The proof of Aiyo! has arrived and it looks excellent - the format and the cover reminds me so much of the old War Picture Library comics I used to buy and read as a kid. I am just giving it a good look, and if all is well, we will roll to final print tomorrow!

A man orders a bunny chow from a deserted takeaway in Chatsworth late one night, and is told a morbid tale by the seductive owner. A woman wants to cut her long hair and encounters strange opposition. A Durban man travels to India to meet his beautiful bride-to-be, but soon discovers that her parents have other things in mind.

48 pages. This edition is limited to 100 numbered copies.

ISBN: 978-0-6397-6267-8

Pravasan Pillay has published two poetry chapbooks, Glumlazi (2009) and 30 Poems (2015), as well as a collection of co-written comedic short stories, Shaggy (2013). His acclaimed short story collection Chatsworth was published in 2018, and was translated into Swedish in 2020.

Retail price: R90.

For order details, contact Dye Hard Press at cummiskeyg@gmail.com.

Physical and spiritual merge in the world of Mxolisi Nyezwa's uprbringing: a review of Mxolisi Nyezwa's Bhlawa's Inconsolable Spirits, by Gary Cummiskey

 

Not only is Bhlawa’s Inconsolable Spirits the first book that poet Mxolisi Nyezwa has published in six years, but it is also his first prose work. Autobiographical in nature, it traces the development of the young Mxolisi from childhood to adulthood and is set mainly in the township of Bhlawa, previously New Brighton, where the author has spent most of his life. ..Read more at Media24.