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This piece originally appeared as Dye Hard Press Newsletter 11 and covered a panel discussion on contemporary South African poetry which too...

Aryan Kaganof writes: "It starts with the cover. Nicola Deane has described it as 'rough, edgy and seductive'. And that’s a per...

Goodenough Mashego writes: "Dye Hard Press founder and poet of serious note Gary Cummiskey writes about 'minister's daughter st...

The wind was strong in Cape Town today, and I felt almost carried along as I walked down to the convention centre about 9.30am. With its bei...

It has been a cold and overcast day in Cape Town and as I arrived at the book fair about 9.30am there were only a few visitors around. By ab...

On arriving at the book fair at about 10am, my initial impression was that it was quiet with not too many visitors compared to previous year...

It’s that time of the year again, when publishers, writers and readers converge on the Cape Town Convention Centre for the annual Cape Town ...

Starting up your own small publishing venture can be a rewarding process (though admittedly rarely financially rewarding). It requires dedic...

"Urgent, edgy, undaunted, the poetry in Gary Cummiskey's latest collection resonates with a fluent energy, a post-classical reverb ...

One of my favourite websites is ABEBooks.com, which operates as a sales intermediary for international stores specialising in used and rare ...