I saw her again last night

New from Dye Hard Press: Left Over by Kobus Moolman

ISBN: 978-0-9869982-2-5

The poems in Moolman’s latest collection tease the boundaries between fact and fiction, between memory and invention. The poems push into territories as yet unexplored in Moolman’s work: the obsessions and hallucinations of the body ‒ all permeated with a wry humour, the kind that laughs at its own terrible seriousness.

Kobus Moolman was born in 1964 in Pietermaritzburg. He has been awarded the Ingrid Jonker Prize, the PANSA award for best drama, the DALRO poetry prize and the South African Literary award for poetry. He teaches creative writing at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban.

His previous poetry collections include Light and After, Separating the Seas, Feet of the Sky and Time like Stone. His play Full Circle has also been published, as has Blind Voices, a collection of radio plays. He edited the anthology Tilling the Hard Soil: Poetry, Prose and Art by South African Writers with Disabilities.

Un jour, tu apprendres (One day you will learn), a collage by Bruno Sourdin

An original collage received from French poet and collagist Bruno Sourdin.  

Cover Story

A review of Who was Sinclair Beiles?

Before I opened Dye Hard Press‘ new volume, its title, Who was Sinclair Beiles? was a question I certainly didn’t know the answer to. His is a name I’ve occasionally come across, as a poet who, as a resident of Paris’ famous “Beat Hotel,” created cut-ups with William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, and Gregory Corso, and helped to edit Naked Lunch and as a resident of the famed “Beat Hotel” in Paris. But there’s where my knowledge stopped.

Gary Cummiskey and Eva Kowalska have brought together a collection of eleven essays and interviews which address the question, “Who Was Sinclair Beiles?” from multiple angles....Read more here

It's not the way we teach

Mail art from Bruno Sourdin

Comme en Poesie No 53

Comme en Poesie No 53 contains five poems by Gary Cummiskey, translated into French by poet and collagist Bruno Sourdin.

There she goes

Posessing tools/professing artistry:artworks by Wopko Jensma

Possessing tools/professing artistry is a tribute to the way in which South African Wopko Jensma explored the different forms - 'many entities in one shape' - in various and diverse mediums, in bright and unusual colours and colour combinations, not only in the familiar black and white with which many people associate his art. 

The exhibition runs from April 6 to May 4, at Art on Paper, 44 Stanley Avenue, Braamfontein, Johannesburg.

Eye and I

Dye Hard Interview: Erik Vatne: In service to the poem

Erik Vatne is a poet, visual artist and publisher born in the US. He was educated at the Barnstable Academy, Bard College (BA), and Trinity College Dublin (MA). His books of poetry include Endings (Round Lake Press, 1991), Cartographies of Silence (Station Hill Press, 2009), Don Scotus on his Sickbed (Burning Apple Press, 2011), XXIII Epistles (Graffiti Kolkata, India, 2011), Mormon Heroin (Burning Apple Press, 2012) and the trilogy Words in Search of a  Meaning (Burning Apple Press, 2012). He has lived in Mexico, Norway, Iceland, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and Ireland. He divides his time between New Jersey, US and Dublin, Ireland. 

Read the Dye Hard Interview with Erik here

Stepping out

Forthcoming title from Dye Hard Press: Left Over by Kobus Moolman

Left Over, a new collection of poems by Kobus Moolman, to be published by Dye Hard Press at the end of April 2013.  

Am I in Texas or India?

Elixeevitan: a memoir of Djuna Barnes, by Jack Hirschman

Published by Bottle of Smokes Press, Delaware, US, 2012