Outside the cave: selected poems by Gary Cummiskey

 

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.

 

Outside the cave is still out there!

 Outside the cave, selected poems of Gary Cummiskey and introduced by Kobus Moolman, is still available for sale from Clark's Books in Cape Town. You can also order directly from the publisher at cummiskeyg@gmail.com.

Somewhere else has gone to final print

Somewhere else, a new chapbook of 26 poems by Gary Cummiskey, is being published by Grafitti Kolkata, India. Copies will be available for sale from publisher Subdankar Das in Kolkata, and a few copies will be available for sale from the author in South Africa soon. 

Cover art by Paul Warren.

Coming soon: Animal eyeball by Gary Cummiskey and Paul Warren

She sleeps in the tent of the breakfast jingle

 Animal eyeball is an e-chapbook of cut-up prose poems by Gary Cummiskey and collages by UK artist Paul Warren, to be published by Dye Hard Press soon. One of Warren's collages to feature in the chapbook appears above. Watch this space!

Five poems and three drawings by Gary Cummiskey at Sulfur

 You can read five new poems by Gary Cummiskey, and as well as view three of his drawings, here. Thank you, Mohsen El Belasy and Ghadah Kamal Ahmed of the Egyptian and North African Surrealist Group.

Too many poems