Le Souffle de Cocteau: a collage by Bruno Sourdin

Mail art: envelope from Bruno Sourdin

Give me a coloured pumpkin

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.

Comrade Babble: a play by Allan Kolski Horwitz

Allan Kolski Horwitz's play Comrade Babble looks at the life and times of Brett Kebble, the controversial mining magnate who perpetrated the biggest corporate fraud in South African history and then was killed in 2005 in an 'assisted suicide'.

Comrade Babble stars David James and Lebohang Motaung, and will be performed at The Market Laboratory in Newtown, Johannesburg, from May 4 to May 13. Tickets: R70, students and block bookings R40. Telephone 011 832 1641 or 082 512 8188 for more information.

Allan Kolski Horwitz's new collection of poems, There Are Two Birds At My Window, and  new collection of short fiction, Meditations of a Non-White White, are to be published by Dye Hard Press shortly.

Where the dreamers go to dream

Head on Fire: Rants/Notes/Poems 2001-2011 by Lesego Rampolokeng

 ISBN: 978-0-9870282-0-4. 

Published by Deep South, Grahamstown,2012.

For order details, email r.berold@gmail.com

Quick - pull down your veil!

Jack Kerouac's Visions of Cody...The Long Road, by Kevin Ring

Published by Beat Scene Press, 2012. Visit www.beatscene.net for order details.