Drawing Seven 10-2001

Book launch: donga, There Are Two Birds At My Window, Meditations of a Non-White White and Botsotso #16

Drawing 6 9-2001

Drawing Five 8-2001

New from Dye Hard Press: Meditations of a Non-White White by Allan Kolski Horwitz

Allan Kolski Horwitz’s latest collection of short fiction, Meditations of a Non-White White, scrapes away at superficial assumptions and brings to life a multitude of characters whose issues and concerns have dominated post-1994 South Africa but are in many respects timeless. The stories probe the limitations of middle-class norms and blinkered identities, and grapple with the diverse experiences of those living beyond privileged ghettos. 272 pages.

ISBN: 978-0-9870178-6-4

Estimated retail price is R160. If ordered directly from the publisher, the price is R130, including postage.  

Drawing Four 8-2001

Beached whale

Death in Paris, by Carl Weissner

Originally published on RealityStudio.org, this print edition was published in 2012 under the imprint Doll No Mori, Tokyo.

Drawing Three 7-2001

Rene Bohnen on donga

n ʼn tyd van e-boeke, beide nuwe publikasies en bestaande boeke wat in die nuwe formaat aangebied word, het ek afgekom op ʼn publikasie wat andersom werk.

donga was ʼn aanlyn projek wat deur Alan Finlay begin is en vanaf 2000 tot 2003 op die internet verskyn het. Onlnags is sommige van die werke wat aanlyn verskyn het in gedrukte vorm gebundel en uitgegee deur Bleksem en Dye Hard Press gesamentlik ...Read more here

Drawing Two 1-2002

The Edge of Things and Arja Salafranca's The Thin Line on display at the Cape Town Book Fair 2012

The Edge of Things: South African Short Fiction, selected by Arja Salafranca, was published by Dye Hard Press in 2011. Salafranca's debut collection of short fiction, The Thin Line, was published by Modjaji Books in 2010. Salafranca was interviewed about her writing at the Anfasa stand at the Cape Town Book Fair 2012.

Drawing One 1-2002

Kelwyn Sole: Dreaming the everyday

Kelwyn Sole was born in Johannesburg in 1951 and has lived in Windhoek, London and Kanye. He is a professor in the English department of the University of Cape Town. He has published six collections of poetry, the most recent of which, Absent Tongues, was published by Hands-On Books, Cape Town. His work has appeared in many poetry anthologies and literary journals, including Green Dragon ... Read the Dye Hard Interview here

In the Stars

Review of Gail Dendy's Closer Than That

It’s disconcerting to realise that although this SA poet has published seven collections over the past 20 years, only three have been published locally.

The others were all picked up by publishers in the UK and the US. I think we’re the poorer for it.

Here is a poet who seems to not take herself that seriously, but who takes her craft very seriously indeed.

The poems read with the ease of carefully honed work and a sly sense of fun in many of them ensures that my smile is never far away.

Gail Dendy is master of synaesthesia and mistress of poems that tip the reader deliciously off balance with their startling, almost tangible, plays with images.

– Moira Richards

(Published in Cape Times, May 18 2012)