Compiled by poet Alan Finlay
Friday, 11 July 2014
Sunday, 29 June 2014
Saturday, 28 June 2014
Exhibition celebrating New Coin's 50th anniversary
The '50 years of New Coin’ exhibition, presented by
the National English Literary Museum (NELM) and the Institute for the Study of
English in Africa (ISEA), will be running during the National Arts Festival
July 2014, at Eden Grove in Grahamstown. The opening is 10.30am on Sunday
6 July.
The above image of New Coin covers is available as an A2-sized poster printed on card for R100 + postage. Email isea@ru.ac.za for order details.
Saturday, 21 June 2014
Saturday, 24 May 2014
Thursday, 22 May 2014
Review of Off-ramp in Cape Times, by Karen Jeynes
Off-ramp is the debut collection of short stories by
Joburg-based poet Gary Cummiskey.
The stories read a little like dreams come to life. As
with dreams, they are disturbing and disjointed at times, soft and poetic at others. Some
meander slowly, others fly past. The stories juxtapose violence, erotica, and a
constant sense of fear and foreboding.
And yet the style is simple, clean, and often detached.
This adds to the surreal nature of the world that Cummiskey’s characters occupy:
it is like ours, and has echoes of the old South Africa in some stories, but it certainly
is not ours.
Described as (featuring)“individuals who are slowly
being devoured by paranoia and absurdity”, this is an unrelenting read,
and one is left at the end of each story feeling uneasy and a little adrift from
reality. – Karen Jeynes
(Published in Cape Times)
Tuesday, 20 May 2014
Tuesday, 13 May 2014
Friday, 02 May 2014
Sunday, 13 April 2014
Select titles from Sea Urchin Editions, Rotterdam
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Black Dogs Circled, poems by Mick Farren, published by Sea Urchin Editions, 2011.
The Unparalleled Adventure of one Hans Phaall, Edgar Allan Poe, Sea Urchin Editions, 2011
Ectojizzed, art by Ben Schot, Sea Urchin Editions, 2012
Saturday, 29 March 2014
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