It will also be on sale at the upcoming Durban International Book Fair.
160 pages.
A sample of some poems from the volume is as follows:
Colours
Downtown, the colours are gone.
The people are gone.
There are no supermarkets,
no cars, no traffic lights,
no beggars.
There is only the darkness.
I’m searching for you
but can’t remember your name.
Immortal
Last night, feeling suicidal,
I leapt over the balcony
and landed flat on my back
in the garden below.
Lying there, I looked up
at the sky and saw how empty
it was, apart from a few
insignificant stars.
Now I know I am immortal.
What’s on today’s menu?
A cold-storage plant filled with naked underwear
A pocketful of razors
A pecan-nut pie found on a sewage heap
A half-burned steak gone rotten with global atrocities
A fish stunned into silence
A DVD played backwards on the neck of an astrologer
A cherry farm riddled with last year’s crack cocaine
A loaf of bread rejected by a slaughtered seal
A scrambled egg fried on the remains of Lorca
A can of baked beans farting its way to the White House
A frigate of onions marked HIV-positive
A bowl of soup seasoned with sinister suspects
A lasagne sold out in the name of petty politics
A pizza topped with the succulent massacre of penguins
A half-burned steak gone rotten with global atrocities
A fish stunned into silence
Wheelbarrow
He pushes the wheelbarrow
through the gardens, 7am.
He has to be rid of the
patients’ nightmares, that’s
what they pay him for
– so lay off, don’t bug him,
don’t run the poor man down.
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.
Pravasan Pillay's latest book, Curry and Bread, was published in 2025 by Dye Hard Press. It is still available from selct Exclusive Books branches, Clarke's in Cape Town, Love Books in Melville, and madeindurban.co.za.
Pravasan Pillay's Curry and Bread is still available at Exclusive Books, Sandton City. Curry and Bread is also available from madeindurban.co.za, Love Books in Melville, and Clarke's in Cape Town.
He Said/ /She Said is available from Clarke's Bookshop in Cape Town, or from the publisher at cummiskeyg@gmail.com.
The first printing of He Said / / She Said was limited to 120 numbered copies.
He Said / / She Said will be available from Clarke's in Cape Town or the publisher.
Curry and Bread is available from Exclusive Books, madeindurban.co.za, Clarke's in Cape Town and Love Books in Melville, Johannesburg.
A page from Pravasan Pillay's new book Curry and Bread -- a list of Durban breyanis!
Curry and Bread is available from Exclusive Books, madeindurban.co.za, Clarke's in Cape Town, and Love Books in Johannesburg.
Watch this space!
Curry and Bread is available from other Exclusive Books branches, as well as from madeindurban.co.za, Love Books in Melville and Clarke's in Cape Town.
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, 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.
You can buy Curry and Bread from Exclusive Books, madeindurban.co.za, Clarke's in Cape Town, and Love Books, in Melville, Johannesburg.
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!
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.
Contact cummiskeyg@gmail.com to order, R160 a copy, and to courier to you door, R270. Regret South Africa only, unless you are prepared for pay for an international courier.
