The bogeyman is published by Samizdat Press and Outside the Cave by Dtye Hard Press.
To order, contact Gary Cummiskey at cummiskeyg@gmail.com.
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.
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.
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.
Good to see that Outside the cave: selected poems by Gary Cummiskey, has landed in the hands of Richard Pithouse.
Outside the cave contains a selection of 30 years' work, and is selected and introduced by Kobus Moolman. It was published by Dye Hard Press and copies are still available.
Contact cummiskeyg@gmail.com to order. Regret South Africa only, unless you are prepared for pay for an international courier.
Selected and introduced by Kobus Moolman. 162 pages. Selected poems from 1990 to 2020.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The poems read are from my selected poems volume Outside the cave, but also from Thunder on the highway, Animal eyeball (a collaboration with UK artist Paul Warren), and my latest collection Somewhere else.
The cover shows three collages by French poet and collagist Bruno Sourdin.
To order, please visit Sloow Tapes.
Selected and introduced by Kobus Moolman. 162 pages. Selected poems from 1990 to 2020.
Outside the cave: selected poems, by Gary Cummiskey, is still available at Clarke's Bookshop in Cape Town. You can either pop into the shop in person in Long Street, or order online.
Selected by renowned South African poet Kobus Moolman, Outside the cave brings together work by Gary Cummiskey from 1990 to 2020.
Outside the cave is published by Dye Hard Press.
Outside the cave: selected poems, by Gary Cummiskey, is still available at Clarke's Bookshop in Cape Town. You can either pop into the shop in person in Long Street, or order online.
Selected by renowned South African poet Kobus Moolman, Outside the cave brings together work by Gary Cummiskey from 1990 to 2020.
Outside the cave is published by Dye Hard Press.
Outside the cave is introduced by Kobus Moolman, who also chose the poems.
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.
