Wednesday, 08 October 2025

Curry and Bread at Exclusive Books Sandton City


Pravasan Pillay's new title Curry and Bread on display at Exclusive Books, Sandton City, Johannesburg.

Curry and Bread is also available from other select Exclusive Books branches, Love Books in Johannesburg, Made in Durban, and Clarke's in Cape Town.

Sunday, 05 October 2025

Vertigo -- feast -- fast


Thanks to poet and collagist Bruno Sourdin for suggesting the title.

Saturday, 04 October 2025

Durable goods from 2012 with Subhankar Das and others





Durable Goods was (is still?) a micro poetry journal published in the US. Issue 65 contained poems by Rajarshi Chattopadhyay, Sharmy Pandey (who also did the cover art), the late Subhankar Das and yours truly.

Subhankar Das published two collections of mine - Sky Dreaming in 2011 and Somewhere else in 2024.
 

Thursday, 02 October 2025

A leap into liberation? I telephoned God: a recording of poetry by Gary Cummiskey

 


Was it a descent into Hell? Madness?

A leap into liberation?

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.

Cover art by French poet and collagist Bruno Sourdin.

Wednesday, 01 October 2025

Visit Animal eyeball

 


Respected and acclaimed South African poet Kobus Moolman calls Animal eyeball '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.

Eye to eye with Renegade eye

 

Renegade eye is a selection of 18 collages by Gary Cummiskey, published by new imprint Turquoise Press. Renegade eye is available as a flip-book on Heyzine. 

You can also download it as a PDF here.

Gary Cummiskey is a South African poet, writer and publisher of Dye Hard Press. His latest poetry collection is Somewhere else, published by Graffiti, Kolkata, in 2024.

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.