Going once, going twice, and SOLD!

New exquisite corpse collaboration between Gary Cummiskey and Paul Warren.

 

We are all from somewhere else

Somewhere else, the latest poetry collection by Gary Cummiskey, was published in 2024 by Graffiti (Kolkata), and is still available from Clarke's in Cape Town.

It consists of 24 poems, and the cover collage is by UK artist Paul Warren.

Liberators of the mind

Liberators of the mind -- the latest exquisite corpse collaboration between Paul Warren and Gary Cummiskey.

Playtime

Playtime, a collage by UK artist Paul Warren, was inspired by the story of that name in my collection Off-ramp, published by Dye Hard Press in 2013. Off-ramp was a finalist for the 2014 Nadine Gordimer Short Story Award.

How patterns support the transition

Exquisite corpse collaboration with UK artist Paul Warren.
 

Revisiting Animal eyeball!

 

Animal eyeball consists of seven cut-up prose poems by South African poet Gary Cummiskey, complemented by collages by UK artist Paul Warren. It was published by Dye Hard Press in 2024 and is available as a free flipbook or it can be downloaded as a PDF.

When she walked through the door (la mere! la mere!)

 

Curry and Bread in England!

Good to see that artist Paul Warren in England has received his copy of Pravasan Pillay's Curry and Bread -- the first copy to land in the UK!

You can buy Curry and Bread from Exclusive Books, madeindurban.co.za, Clarke's in Cape Town, and Love Books, in Melville, Johannesburg.

Somewhere else in Cape Town

You can buy a copy of my latest poetry collection, Somewhere else, from Clarke's in Cape Town!

Somewhere else was published by the late Subhankar Das's Graffiti in Kolkata, India, in 2024.

32 pages.

The cover art is by UK artist Paul Warren.

Sugar-coated flavour (exquisite corpse)

An exquisite corpse drawing collaboration between Gary Cummiskey and Paul Warren.

View an Animal eyeball this Christmas

 

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.

Visit Animal eyeball

 

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.

New from Turquoise Press: The unwholesome visions of Emily Milner

 

The unwholesome visions of Emily Milner is the latest collage novella by UK artist Paul Warren, and the second title from new imprint Turquoise Press. It is avaulable as a flipbook on Heyzine.

It is also available as a PDF here. 

Warren also collaborated with Gary Cummiskey on Animal eyeball, a free e-chapbook of seven cut-up prose poems, with Warren providing collages. To access Animal eyeball the book on Issuu click here. You can also access and download a PDF version here.

You can read a Dye Hard Interview with Paul Warren here.

Sketches of dreams in Johannesburg

Seven poems from my recent collection Somewhere else have been translated into French by poet and collagist Bruno Sourdin, and appear on his blog Syncopes.

Thank you, Bruno Sourdin!

Somewhere else was published in 2024 by Graffiti in Kolkata, the publishing venue of the late Bengali poet Subhankar Das.

The cover art and cover design is by UK artist Paul Warren. 

Coming soon: Renegade eye -- collages by Gary Cummiskey

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

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.

Animal eyeball, his collaboration with British artist Paul Warren, is also available on Issuu.

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.

Somewhere else in hand

Nice to see Saloni Pandey holding a copy of my latest poetry collection, Somewhere else, published by the late Subhankar Das's press, Grafitti, in Kolkata, India.

The cover art, and cover design, is by UK artist Paul Warren.

Off-ramp in England

Nice to see that UK artist Paul Warren was able to obtain a copy of my short story collection Off-ramp from 2013, which was a finalist in the Nadine Gordimer Short Story Award the following year.

Copies of Off-ramp are available from Dye Hard Press at R140 a copy, including courier to your door (regret South Africa only). Email cummiskeyg@gmail.com to order. 

The lay of the land by Paul Warren, with a foreword by Gary Cummiskey

The lay of the land is a flipbook by UK artist Paul Warren, and consists of 12 collages, with a foreword by Gary Cummiskey.

You can read The lay of the land on Issuu.

Last year's astronaut by Paul Warren

'Last year's astronaut' is a collage by UK artist Paul Warren, and is inspired by my foreward to his forthcoming collage novella Lay of the Land.

Paul is also the creator of the collage novella Desire follows one step behind and collaborated with me on Animal eyeball, a series of seven prose poems by me while he contributed collages.