DYE HARD PRESS

Towards the end of September, The Centre for Creative Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal organised the 12th Poetry Africa International...

Glumlazi is a first collection by Durban poet Pravasan Pillay, published by new small press Tearoom Books. A beautiful little debut volume,...

On May 7 2003, the 74-year-old African-American beat poet and artist Ted Joans was discovered dead in his apartment in Vancouver, British Co...

Ce nouveau recueil de poèmes de Gary Cummiskey a comme titre une phrase du peintre américain Robert Rauschenberg. La quotidienneté serait le...

Maria is a fat little girl born in New York City in 1923. Her parents are Greek immigrants, George and Evangelia Kalogeropoulos. George is a...

For many years I disliked their poetry. His poetry – filled with cold, bleak landscapes, hawks in the rain, battered cats, and predatory fis...

The sixth issue of literary journal Timbila has just been published. Edited by Vonani Bila and Mark Waller, it contains poetry (and a bit of...

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...