British poet Adrian Manning on Outside the cave

English poet and publisher Adrian Manning writes on Facebook: 'Been reading this selected poems book by Gary Cummiskey again. I have to say it is a collection of amazing poems and some of the finest poems I have read in a while.'

After the surrealist poetry night reading at Dai Gallary, Zamalek, 14 December

With Saira Sheik, Mohsen Elbelasy, Ghadah Kamal

 

Surrealist poetry night at Dai Art Gallery, Zamalek, Cairo

 

Surrealist poetry reading in Cairo 14 December

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Another drawing in Ons Klyntji

 

Chuffed to have another drawing published in Ons Klyntji -- thank you, Toast Coetzer!

We have sat in judgement for so long

 

When the conference turns to dark ...

 

Launch of the June 2022 issue of New Coin at Love Books, Melville

 

Khosi Xaba reading from an interview she conducted in the June issue of New Coin.

Photo: Zodwa Mtirara

Garth Mason reading from his poem in New Coin.

Photo: Zodwa Mtirara

Gary Cummiskey reading three short poems from a recent issue of New Coin.

Photo: Zodwa Mtirara

Khulile Nxumalo reading his poem in the latest issue of New Coin.

Photo: Zodwa Mtirara

Zama Madinana reading his contribution.

Photo: Zodwa Mtirara

Sello Huma performing a poem.

Photo: Zama Madinana

Zodwa Mtirara reading from her collection. 

Photo: Zama Madinana

The June 2022 issue of New Coin, published by the ISEA, Rhodes University.

Photo: Zodwa Mtirara

Not being part of you is a crime

 

Launch of New Coin June 2022 issue

 Various poets, including Gary Cummiskey, will be reading their poems from recent issues of New Coin, one of South Africa's oldest and most respected poetry journals. RSVP Kate at Love Books, Melville, Johannesburg.

As the child spun out from the bird-mother

 

Raymond Foye writes about Who was Sinclair Beiles?

 

Burning the midnight oil with SINCLAIR BEILES, a wonderful poet who I always heard about, but knew very little about. A South African poet who lived at the Beat Hotel and was the editor of Naked Lunch + Samuel Beckett, at Olympia Press, followed by many years of mental illness which he often documented in his poems. Thanks to Gerard Bellaart for sending this book, full of essential information and many poems.

Originally posted on Facebook, 25 September, 2022.

The spider-witch is abusive

 

Patterns become automatic

 

After I returned on Sunday

 

Completely autonomous: an interview with Armando Fragale in The Odd Magazine 24

Armando Fragale is a multifaceted artist born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1985. He is a painter, illustrator, filmmaker, actor, musician, writer, poet, designer, and producer who works in various mediums. He developed the artistic technique called Drivage and founded the art movement Openism. He has shown his work all over the world and has also collaborated with a wide array of artists in various art forms. Notable exhibitions he has been involved in have been Cosmic Unity: Occult Art and Music in Latin America in New York, International Surrealism Exhibition in Cairo/Saint-Cirq-Lapopie and The Cabinet of the Solar Plexus: The Liminal and the Marvellous, in Dublin. He also runs a record label Wraith Productions, which he started in 2005. Read the interview here.