An unusual situation

 

A year ago today

It was a year ago today that Kolkata-based poet and publisher Subhankar Das passed on. I still struggle to comprehend that is is gone.  Just a month before he had published my latest poetry collection, Somewhere else.

Life is fragile. We are fragile.

Forthcoming from Dye Hard Press: Curry and Bread by Pravasan Pillay

Here's a sneak peak of the cover of Pravasan Pillay's forthcoming book, Curry and Bread, soon to be published by Dye Hard Press.

Blending memoir, humour, lists, slices of life, and vignettes into a layered collage, Curry and Bread is Pravasan Pillay's offbeat exploration of the food and foodways of working-class South African Indians – as well as his own food memories.

Watch this space! 

What goes up?

 

Chatsworth is still around

 

A reminder that you can still buy copies of Pravasan Pillay's much-acclaimed debut short story collection Chatsworth at Made in Durban.

Don't forget to telephone God at bandcamp!

 

I telephoned God, a 40-minute recording of Gary Cummiskey reading a selection of his poetry and released by Sloow Tapes in Belgium, is available for download on Bandcamp.

Check it out here.

Animal eyeball is waiting for you

 

Respected and acclaimed South African poet Kobus Moolman calls Animal eyeball 'a fantastic visual and linguistic collaboration'. 

Animal eyeball is a free e-chapbook of seven cut-up prose poems accompanied by collages by UK artist Paul Warren.

It won't cost you anything to read, but it may take your mind to where it has never been before!

To access the book on Issuu click here.

You can also access and download a PDF version here.

Outside the cave still available

 

Outside the cave: selected poems by Gary Cummiskey, is still available from Clarke's Bookstore or directly from the publisher at cummiskeyg@gmail.com.

Selected and introduced by Kobus Moolman. 162 pages. Selected poems from 1990 to 2020.