All together in the all-together

Haidee Kruger: shaking language out of the furrows of habit

Haidee Kruger is associate professor in the School of Languages at the Vaal Triangle Campus of North-West University in South Africa. She holds a PhD in translation studies, and is primarily involved in research in descriptive and theoretical translation studies. Her poetry and short stories have been published in, among others, The Common,  New Contrast,New Coin and Green Dragon. Her work also appeared in Beauty Came Grovelling Forward, a selection of South African poetry and prose published on Big Bridge. Her debut collection of poetry, lush: poems for four voices, was published in 2007 by Protea Book House. lush was praised in the judges’ statement for the 2006/2007 Ingrid Jonker Prize as an "innovative volume of poems" that was "a close contender for the prize". The reckless sleeper(Modjaji Books, 2012) is her second collection...Read more here

Mail art from Henry Denander

Mail art received from Stockholm poet, artist and publisher Henry Denander (envelope and inside contents).

Amateur - Misti Rainwater-Lites

Amateur, a new chapbook of 23 poems by Misti Rainwater-Lites, published by Graffiti Kolkata.

Naked Fly Cherry Marijuana - Catfish McDaris

Naked Fly Cherry Marijuana, a new chapbook of 22 poems by Catfish McDaris, published by Graffiti Kolkata. 

Tent Shaker Vortex Voice - Charles Plymell

Tent Shaker Vortex Voice, a new poem by US outlaw poet Charles Plymell. Beautifully published by Bottle of Smoke Press, Dover, Delaware, US. The chapbook also contains two photos of stone and metal sculpture pasted onto the pages.

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