Review of alan finlay's pushing from the riverbank by Aryan Kaganof

a beautifully assembled and printed collection of poems
designed by the poet’s wife whose typography and layout
attest to an
intimate understanding of her spouse’s concerns...read more here

Dancing in the city

Sinclair Beiles on surrealist poetry

'Most surrealist poetry became mannered and in its quest for unusual relationships between words, and ideas, was set down at the expense of feelings and motives. The poems became beautiful seashells devoid of life.'

Sinclair Beiles, from the introduction to Marta Proctor's Offering of fire.

Postcard reproduction of L'oracle du Mont-Saint-Michel, a collage by Bruno Sourdin

Bruno Sourdin is a French poet, collagist and mail artist.

Bog Docks available as a free ebook

Gary Cummiskey's poetry collection Bog Docks, published by Dye Hard Press in 2005 and now out of print, is available as a free ebook.

Bog Docks consisits of 28 surreal poems that explore, and challenge, the schizophrenic and often brutal nature of contemporary society. It is a poetry that is not afraid to take risks as it journeys across the hazardous frontiers of the known.

Bog Docks can be downloaded here.

Original typescript of Charles Bukowski poem

Courtesy: Catfish McDaris

Coming soon from Graffiti Kolkata: Sky Dreaming by Gary Cummiskey

Forthcoming publication from Dye Hard Press: The Edge of Things

The Edge of Things is a short fiction special issue of Green Dragon, and consists of 24 short stories selected by Arja Salafranca. The authors are Jayne Bauling, Arja Salafranca, Liesl Jobson, Gillian Schutte, Karina Magdalena Szczurek, Jenna Mervis, Jennifer Lean, Fred de Vries, Margie Orford, Aryan Kaganof, Bernard Levinson, Hamilton Wende, Pravasan Pillay, Beatrice Lakwana, Hans Pienaar, Rosemund Handler, Tiah Beautement, Angelina N Sithebe, Jeanne Hromnik, David wa Maahlamela, Perd Booysen, Gail Dendy, Silke Heiss and Dan Wylie.

Publication is scheduled for March 2011.
More details to follow.

Bebop

An independent path: an interview with Subhankar Das

Subhankar Das is a writer, publisher and film producer living in Kolkata, India. He has published fourteen collections of poetry in Bangla though his most recent collection The Streets, the Bubbles of Grass, is published in English by his arts collective, Graffiti Kolkata. He has translated Allen Ginsberg’s Kaddish into Bangla and is the editor of the stark electric space..., an anthology of international experimental writing. He has produced six short films and owns a bookstore.

To read the interview, click here

Christmas greetings from Sweden

Christmas postcard from Pravasan and Jenny Pillay, Sweden.

Postcard reproduction of Man Ray's Le Violon d' Ingres

And the rains came down: a review of alan finlay's pushing from the riverbank by Gakwi Mashego

I am a fan of Alan Finlay. So the moment his latest instalment of poetry, pushing from the riverbank popped in my mailbox, just six days after publisher Gary Cummiskey shipped it, I had that foreplay anticipation that increases your breath and heartbeat. You know those seconds before you are deflowered...Read more here

Landscape

Tania van Schalkwyk wins the Ingrid Jonker Prize for Poetry 2010

South African poet and artist Tania van Schalkwyk has won the Ingrid Jonker Prise for Poetry 2010 for her debut collection Hyphen, published by Electric Book Works. Her work has also appeared in Green Dragon.

Poetry Discussion Panel at BookEx, Sandton November 2010

From left: Phillippa Yaa de Villiers, Gary Cummiskey, Helen Moffett and Alan Finlay.