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Review of Bread , Philip Hammial, Black Pepper, Victoria, Australia, 2000. Open this collection of surreal poems and witness an array of sar...

September has been an eventful month for the big guns of the South African publishing industry. The main news was the announcement of the me...

Review of All The Days , Robert Berold, Deep South, and Never , Bernat Kruger,Deep South ALL the Days is Robert Berold’s fourth collection ...

"The morning I got up to begin this book I coughed. Something was coming out of my throat: it was strangling me. I broke the thread whi...

They often ignore traditional market-related views and can provide a platform for passionate individual opinions, writes Gary Cummiskey THE ...

However, it is no easy ride and the challenges remain, writes Gary Cummiskey Despite poetry being regarded as a marginalised genre internati...

Ce nouveau court métrage de Aryan Kaganof est un bijou précieux et allégorique de 11 minutes et 32 secondes. Dans ce film il y a d’abord la ...

This is a second collection from the excellent Eastern Cape poet Mxolisi Nyezwa. As the blurb says, Nyezwa's work is lyrical and deeply ...

“Everyday life is surrealistic, made of miracles, weird and inexplicable events. There is no borderline between reality and magic.” Alejand...

Gary Cummiskey’s cut-up prose pamphlet April in the Moon-Sun (2006, Dye Hard Press) opens with the following quote from artist and originat...

An International Poetry Festival takes place in South Africa once a year, with Poets from all around the globe. This included the Netherland...

In all the boisterous excitement you’d have forgiven the wry 2008 Poetry Africa delegate Anton Krueger (dressed in sporty red gangster fatig...

Gary Cummiskey has published several collections of poetry, including Reigning Gloves , The Secret Hour , Lost in a World , Visitations and ...

Courtesy: Monica Rorvik

The 12th Poetry Africa International Poetry Festival takes place in Durban from the 29 September to 4 October 2008. One of the featured poet...

"Writing for (Artaud) wasn't a means of modifying or falsifying experience through the medium of language, it was the chace to comm...