Aiyo! at still available at Clarke's and The Commune

 

Pravasan Pillay's Aiyo! is still available at Clarke's in Cape Town - either order online or if you are in the area, pop into the shop in Long Street.

Copies are also available at The Commune bookstore in Braamfontein, Johannesburg. 

A Dye Hard Interview with Pravasan Pillay from 2011

 

Back in 2011 -- a long time before Chatsworth and Aiyo! were published, I conducted an interview with Pravasan Pillay. In it he talks about his press Tearoom Books, his poetry chapbook Glumlazi, his collaboration with Anton Krueger, Shaggy, and, needless to say, his sense of humour. Read the interview here. 

Outside the cave: Selected poems of Gary Cummiskey still available

 

Outside the cave, the selected poems of Gary Cummiskey, is still available from Dye Hard Press. 162 pages of poetry from 1990 to the present.

Here is one poem 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.

Cost, including courier to your door, is R260. Regret SA only.

To order please email cummiskeyg@gmail.com

Chatsworth still available at Clarke's in Cape Town

 

A reminder that Pravasan Pillay's much-acclaimed debut collection of short stories is still available either directly from Dye Hard Press or from Clarke's bookstore in Cape Town. To order direct from Dye Hard Press email cummiskeyg@gmail.com or to order from Clarke's click here.

Poet at work

 Photo: Arja Salafranca

Forthcoming from Dye Hard Press: Animal eyeball by Gary Cummiskey and Paul Warren

In the pipeline ... Animal eyeball, a collaborative e-publication between Gary Cummiskey and British artist Paul Warren, with cut-up prose poems by Cummiskey and collages by Warren.

Watch this space!

Please keep your ticket

 

Subhankas Das and Graffiti at the Kolkata Book Fair

Indian poet and publisher Subhankar Das at the Kolkata Book Fair. To the left of his elbow is the latest issue of his literary journal Graffiti, with one of my collages as cover art.

Dark, composed

 

To be continued

 

Graffiti on sale at Small Magazine Fair in Kolkata

 The latest issue of Bengali literary journal Graffiti on sale at the Small Magazine Fair in Kolkata. The artwork on the cover is a collage by Gary Cummiskey. Thank you, Subhankar Das!

Leaking dreams by Paul Warren

 

A collage by British artist Paul Warren, inspired by one of the prose poems in an unpublished cut-up sequence titled Animal eyeball by Gary Cummiskey. 'Leaking dreams' is the title of one of the prose poems.