Monday, 30 May 2022

When you let the bits go back

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Tuesday, 24 May 2022

You tell me

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Sunday, 22 May 2022

Copies of With the Safety Off by Graeme Feltham still available

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  It’s Yeoville in the mid-1990s. Enter Fig, a copywriter with a penchant for living on the edge – staying up all night, having casual sex a...

The Fall by Hans Pienaar is still available

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  Dedalus decides to flee South Africa but his plane crashes somewhere else on the continent. He miraculously survives but is taken captive ...

Gary Cummiskey's artwork on cover of Graffiti once again

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Once again, one of my drawings is used for the cover art of the Kolkata-based print magazine, Graffiti . This time it is for the May issue. ...

Buy a copy of Chatsworth at Made in Durban

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  A reminder that Pravasan Pillay's much-acclaimed collection of short stories, Chatsworth, is available for R190 (including postage) fr...

Copies of Off-ramp still available

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  A finalist for the 2014 Nadine Gordimer Short Story Award,  Off-ramp  is the debut short fiction collection of Gary Cummiskey and consists...

Who was Sinclair Beiles? still available at David Krut

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  Who was Sinclair Beiles? , a compilation of writings about the South African beat poet edited by Gary Cummiskey and Eva Kowalska, is avail...

The cactus of a bright sky still available

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  Alan Finlay's chapbook  The cactus of a bright sky   is  available from Clarke's bookstore in Cape Town. You can order it  here --...

Outside the cave in Cape Town

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  Gary Cummiskey's selected poems,  Outside the cave , is available also at Clarke's Books in Long Street, Cape Town. You can order ...
Thursday, 28 April 2022

Jiving for Janis

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Wednesday, 27 April 2022

The cactus of a bright sky available at Clarke's in Cape Town

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  Alan Finlay's chapbook The cactus of a bright sky is also available from Clarke's bookstore in Cape Town. You can order it  here ...
Monday, 25 April 2022

Extract from 'Chops Chutney' in Pravasan Pillay's short story collection Chatsworth

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  Abdul was twenty-three-years old, five years older than her, and was originally from a small town outside Lahore. He had moved to Durban t...

Gary Cummiskey's Outside the cave at Clarke's Books

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  Gary Cummiskey's selected poems,  Outside the cave , is available also at Clarke's Books in Long Street, Cape Town. You can order ...
Thursday, 21 April 2022

Extract from 'The Green Ghost', in Pravasan Pillay's short story collection, Chatsworth

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  On 12 August 1999, I found an article that I thought was worth investigating further. The article had appeared in the knock-and-drop Chats...
Wednesday, 13 April 2022

Extract from 'The albino', in Pravasan Pillay's short story collection Chatsworth

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Two hours after the assembly, the teachers gathered in the staffroom for the first lunch break. I sat with the other female teachers, as I...