The bogeyman is 28 pages, and published by Samizdat Press. It will be available for R190, including courier cost, from the author at cummiskeyg@gmail.com.
160 pages.
A sample of some poems from the volume is as follows:
Colours
Downtown, the colours are gone.
The people are gone.
There are no supermarkets,
no cars, no traffic lights,
no beggars.
There is only the darkness.
I’m searching for you
but can’t remember your name.
Immortal
Last night, feeling suicidal,
I leapt over the balcony
and landed flat on my back
in the garden below.
Lying there, I looked up
at the sky and saw how empty
it was, apart from a few
insignificant stars.
Now I know I am immortal.
What’s on today’s menu?
A cold-storage plant filled with naked underwear
A pocketful of razors
A pecan-nut pie found on a sewage heap
A half-burned steak gone rotten with global atrocities
A fish stunned into silence
A DVD played backwards on the neck of an astrologer
A cherry farm riddled with last year’s crack cocaine
A loaf of bread rejected by a slaughtered seal
A scrambled egg fried on the remains of Lorca
A can of baked beans farting its way to the White House
A frigate of onions marked HIV-positive
A bowl of soup seasoned with sinister suspects
A lasagne sold out in the name of petty politics
A pizza topped with the succulent massacre of penguins
A half-burned steak gone rotten with global atrocities
A fish stunned into silence
Wheelbarrow
He pushes the wheelbarrow
through the gardens, 7am.
He has to be rid of the
patients’ nightmares, that’s
what they pay him for
– so lay off, don’t bug him,
don’t run the poor man down.
Published by Dye Hard Press. The cost is R180, plus courier is R100 -- so R280 altogether, for South Africa only. To order please email cummiskeyg@gmail.com.
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| Credit: Oona Matta |
Ramunchto Matta is a French composer and interdisciplinary artist. He has worked with people such as Don Cherry, Brion Gysin, John Cage, Chris Marker, and Robert Wilson. He has released 34 solo CDs and collaborated on about 20 other albums. He has exhibited his visual work in Paris, New York, London, Madrid, Barcelona, Tokyo, and Rome.
A book titled Hello Yes Hello: 30 Dialogues, containing conversations between Kathelin Gray and Ramuntcho Matta about Brion Gysin and William Burroughs, was published by Moloko Plus in 2025, and Ce que Brion m'a dit de Gysin (Marcel le Poney) in 2026.
Your father was the Chilean surrealist painter Roberto Matta, who knew writers and artists such as Andre Breton, Joyce Mansour, Max Ernst, and Robert Motherwell. I imagine your childhood must have been interesting, with many famous artists around you. What was it like?
Everything was normal.
It was “normal” to sleep in a closet with holes in the door to be able to breathe...Read more.
Pravasan Pillay's latest book, Curry and Bread, was published in 2025 by Dye Hard Press. It is still available from selct Exclusive Books branches, Clarke's in Cape Town, Love Books in Melville, and madeindurban.co.za.
It consists of 24 poems, and the cover collage is by UK artist Paul Warren.
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You can view all five collages here.
There is a slightly delay with the publication of Gary Cummiskey's The bogeyman, but it will be out in the next month!
The bogeyman is a haunting and disturbing stream-of-consciousness narrative by Gary Cummiskey, due to be published by Samizdat Press.
28 pages, limited with 50 numbered copies.
Watch this space!
Pravasan Pillay's Curry and Bread is still available at Exclusive Books, Sandton City. Curry and Bread is also available from madeindurban.co.za, Love Books in Melville, and Clarke's in Cape Town.
