I can't get started

 

Look out for Curry and Bread in Umhlanga!

 

Diarise for the Umhlanga Book Fair, where Pravasan Pillay's Curry and Bread will be on sale!

Curry and Bread is also available at Exclusive Books, madeindurban.co.za, Love Books in Melville (Johannesburg) and Clarke's in Cape Town.

Outside the cave: selected poems by Gary Cummiskey

 

Outside the cave: selected poems by Gary Cummiskey, is still available. Chosen from 30 years of work, the poems are selected and introduced by renowned South African poet Kobus Moolman.

160 pages.

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. 

Here is one of the poems 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.

 

Curry and Bread in England!

Good to see that artist Paul Warren in England has received his copy of Pravasan Pillay's Curry and Bread -- the first copy to land in the UK!

You can buy Curry and Bread from Exclusive Books, madeindurban.co.za, Clarke's in Cape Town, and Love Books, in Melville, Johannesburg.

Sinclair Beiles is still hanging out at Clarke's in Cape Town

Who was Sinclair Beiles?, edited by Gary Cummiskey and Eva Kowalska, is still available at Clarke's Bookshop in Cape Town. You can order a copy here.

From Randburg with the greatest of pleasure

 

Somewhere else in Cape Town

You can buy a copy of my latest poetry collection, Somewhere else, from Clarke's in Cape Town!

Somewhere else was published by the late Subhankar Das's Graffiti in Kolkata, India, in 2024.

32 pages.

The cover art is by UK artist Paul Warren.

Start the new year with Curry and Bread!

 

Happy new year, folks! I hope that you have managed to kick the sand out from between your toes, and if you haven't bought a copy of Pravasan Pillay's new book, Curry and Bread, yet, you can buy copies from Exclusive Books, madeindurban.co.za, Love Books in Melville, Johannesburg, and from Clarke's in Cape Town!

Let the good times roll!

Somewhere else at the Kolkata Small Magazine Fair

Photo: Santanu Roy

 The photo of a bit blurred, but here at the Graffiti stand at the Small Magazine Fair in Kolkata, you can see Subhankar Das's widow Sabina, with various Graffiti publications on sale, including my latest poetry collection, Somewhere else. 

Poem by Gary Cummiskey in The Odd Magazine 31

 

The Odd Magazine 31 also includes a poem by Gary Cummiskey titled 'Moving Mindless'. You can view it and other poems in the latest issue of The Odd Magazine here.

Interview with Ramuntcho Matta in The Odd Magazine

Ramuntcho Matta.
Photographer: Oona Matta

 

The Odd Magazine 31 is now out, and among other goodies contains an interview (in English and French) with musician and artist Ramuntcho Matta. In the interview, Ramuntcho talks about people such as his father, surrealist artist Roberto Matta; Ira Cohen and William Burroughs; but most of all about his friendship with Brion Gysin. He also chats about his music and visual art.

Sugar-coated flavour (exquisite corpse)

An exquisite corpse drawing collaboration between Gary Cummiskey and Paul Warren.

At the Little Magazine Fair in Kolkata

The Graffiti stand at the Little Magazine Fair in Kolkata. The stand displays some books by the late Subhankar Das, with two of them (one on the left just out of camera range) featuring artwork by the French artist and poet Pascal Ulrich on the covers. At front right is the last issue of Graffiti magazine issued while Sub was still alive, featuring one of my collages on the cover. 

Dreams of Marilyn

 

She is coming

 

Digging for gold