A Moving Target - Encounters with William Burroughs

Published by Beat Scene Press, Coventry, UK.

The Strangers in the House by Georges Simenon

First published in French in 1940, this translation was published by Digit Books, London, 1962.

Gail Dendy’s vivid and exhaustive sketch of life: a review of Closer Than That, by John Eppel

When I first read Gail Dendy’s poems I discerned something dance-like in their cadences, seldom continuous like the above examples, but sporadic, light-footed. After a few more readings, I discerned her technique: the strategic placement within prosaic, barely scannable phrases, of three-syllable feet. In “The Apprentice”, a re-telling of the creation story, she employs dactyls: “moistened the”; “felt how it”; “fashioned a”; “breath from my”; “this was the”; “called it a”; “sooner had”, and so on...Read more here

1-inch short

She was standing on the steps

This is Tomorrow Calling

Gary Cummiskey in conversation with Haidee Kruger at the launch of her new collection, The Reckless Sleeper

Haidee Kruger's second poetry collection The Reckless Sleeper is published by Modjaji Books, Cape Town. The launch was held at LoveBooks, Melville, Johannesburg, on November 29, 2012. Photos by Arja Salafranca.

Postcards of Tintin titles

Postcards of Tintin title received from Pravasan Pillay, of Tearoom Books, Stockholm.

Invite to the launch of The Reckless Sleeper by Haidee Kruger

Bird goes to the mirror

Drawing Twenty-One January-2002

Transit 25: A little magazine of the Beat Generation

Issue number 25 includes poems by Janine Pommy Vega, Joanna McClure, Diane di Prima and Neeli Cherkovski, as well prose pieces on John Montgomery, Ed Dorn, Burroughs, an interview with Aram Saroyan plus Lew Welch's review of Phil Whalen's On Bear's Head from the San Francisco Chronicle, 1969. Published by Beat Scene.

Lenny Lianne's Passport to Poetry: South African poets I: Gail Dendy

When I was in South Africa in May, the Cape Town newspaper printed a brief review of Gail Dendy’s new book, Closer Than That (Johannesburg: Dye Hard Press).  Not only did the review declare, “Here is a poet who seems to not take herself that seriously, but who takes her craft very seriously indeed” but also identified Gail Dendy as a “master…of poems that tip the reader deliciously off balance with their startling, almost tangible, plays with images.”  I was intrigued....Read more here

Drawing Twenty January 2002

Planet Noise - Liam O'Gallagher

Published by the Nova Broadcast Press, San Francisco, 1969 

Grand Ecart - Bruno Sourdin

Poems by poet and collagist Bruno Sourdin, published by Polder 78, 1994