Monday, 24 September 2018

As she looked down ...

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Text messages | Eleven short trips to Chatsworth, by Darryl Accone

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Readers of Pravasan Pillay’s  Chatsworth  who know the place and its people say:  “That’s the way they talk” or “I recognise that”. Having ...

Austere beauty of Chatsworth by Niren Tolsi

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His prose is spare yet precise in detail and minutiae. It captures not merely the lives of  people living in the eponym of his collection...
Tuesday, 11 September 2018

Not going very far

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Food ( Music is the weapon of choice)

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Graffiti in Venice, 2016. 

Opening up Soweto and Chatsworth with stories: a glowing review of Chatsworth in Business Day

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Pravasan Pillay writes about another township, Chatsworth, in Durban. Seldom have I come across similar writing in which I can hardly wait f...
Monday, 06 August 2018

A place where paradox lives and breathes - a review of Chatsworth, by Francine Simon

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As a South African Indian, it is not easy for me to find writing that is descriptive of my cultural heritage. This is what I have experien...
Sunday, 08 July 2018

Literary bunny chow: a review of Pravasan Pillay's Chatsworth in Sunday Times

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Sunday, 01 July 2018

The queen begins to dream

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Saturday, 30 June 2018

A tweet from Saaleha Idrees Bamjee

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#amreading Chatsworth by Pravasan Pillay. Such artfully crafted characters, wonderfully nuanced tellings. Published by @GaryCummiskey ....
Friday, 29 June 2018

Copies of Gary Cummiskey's Bog Docks still avaiable

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Dye Hard Press has just FOUR copies left of Bog Docks , a chapbook of 25 poems by Gary Cummiskey, published in 2005. Available at R60 p...

Copies of Gary Cummiskey's When Apollinaire Died still available

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Dye Hard Press has in stock just FOUR copies of When Apollinaire Died , a chapbook by Gary Cummiskey published by Firfield Press in Cape ...

Copies of Arja Salafranca's Beyond Touch still available

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Dye Hard Press still has copies in stock of Arja Salafranca's poetry collection Beyond Touch , which was published by Modjaji Books a...

Copies of Alan Finlay's pushing from the riverbank still available

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Dye Hard Press has just FIVE copies left of pushing from the riverbank by Alan Finlay, published in 2010. Consisting of 19 poems, this...

Copies of Green Dragon #2 still available

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Dye Hard Press has just TWO copies left of Green Dragon #2 , published in 2003. It contains poems by the late Daniel Abdul-hayy Moore,...

Chats ‘home Swede home’ for author: an article on Pravasan Pillay's Chatsworth

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Inspired by his love for his hometown, a former Chatsworth resident now living in Sweden, released a book on the Durban township and the ...