Animal eyeball 'a fantastic visual and linguistic collaboration'

 

Respected and acclaimed South African poet Kobus Moolman calls Animal eyeball 'a fantastic visual and linguistic collaboration'. 

Animal eyeball is a free e-chapbook of seven cut-up prose poems accompanied by collages by UK artist Paul Warren,

It won't cost you anything to read, but it may take your mind to where it has never been before!

To access the book on Issuu click here.

You can also access and download a PDF version here.

Somewhere else in Pretoria

Dawie Malan in Pretoria has arrived his copy of Somewhere else by Gary Cummiskey, as well as other titles published by Dye Hard Press, including Pravasan Pillay's Chatsworth and Gary Cummiskey's Outside the Cave and Off-ramp.

A new love

 

Last few copies of Aiyo! still available

Pravasan Pillay's Aiyo! is still available at Clarke's in Cape Town - either order online or if you are in the area, pop into the shop in Long Street.

Copies are also available at The Commune bookstore in Braamfontein, Johannesburg. 

 

Chatsworth still available at Clarke's in Cape Town

 

Pravasan Pillay's much-acclaimed debut collection Chatsworth is still available at Clarke's Bookstore in Cape Town. Either order online or if you are in the area, why not pop into the shop in Long Street? 

Chatsworth is published by Dye Hard Press.

Somewhere else in Cape Town

Renowned South African poet Kobus Moolman has read his copy of Somewhere else by Gary Cummiskey and says: ' I love it. Just brilliant. .. to me the poems are as naked and clear and deep as water. Beautiful.'

Somewhere else is published by Graffiti Kolkata in India.

The cover collage and designed is by Paul Warren.

Somewhere else in safe hands in Nepal

Poet, publisher and bookseller Shiv Mirabito (left) with Arshad Siddiqui, in Kathmandu, Nepal,  holding, among others, my new poetry collection Somewhere else, published by Graffiti Kolkata, India. 

Somewhere else arrives in Kathmandu, Nepal

 Copies of Gary Cummiskey's Somewhere else arrive in Kathmandu, Nepal!

Dreaming of Laura Palmer's eyes

 

The Kolkata eagle has landed in Johannesburg

The Kolkata eagle has landed in Johannesburg! Author's copies of Somewhere else, a new collection of poems by Gary Cummiskey, published by Graffiti Kolkata, received this morning, couriered all the way from Kolkata, India. Many, many thanks to Subdankar Das, poet and publisher of Graffiti Kolkata, and to UK artist Paul Warren for the cover art and cover design.

Thanks Alan Finlay and Pravasan Pillay for reading the manuscript and making suggestions.

Dye Hard Press author Alan Finlay to read on The Red Wheelbarrow

 Dye Hard Press author Alan Finlay is to read on The Red Wheelbarrow on 28 March 2024. Alan is the author of poetry collections such as Burning aloes, The Red Laughter of Guns in the Green Summer Rain (with Philip Zhuwao), pushing from the riverbank and The cactus of a bright sky, of which were published by Dye Hard Press.  

Praise for Animal eyeball by Gary Cummiskey and Paul Warren

 

Respected and acclaimed South African poet Kobus Moolman says Animal eyeball is 'a fantastic visual and linguistic collaboration'.

To access the book on Issuu click here.

You can also access and download a PDF version here.

Alan Finlay to read at The Red Wheelbarrow

 

Dye Hard Press author Alan Finlay will be reading at The Red Wheelbarrow on 28 March 2024!

The Kolkata eagle has landed!

 

Somewhere else, a  new collection of 26 poems by Gary Cummiskey, published by Graffiti Kolkata, India, has arrvied from the printer!

Cover art and design by Paul Warren.

Email the publisher Subhankar Das at subhankar.das@gmail.com to order.

A short review of Animal eyeball, by Stephen Michael Whitter

 

Cut-up poetry teamed with surreal collages.

Not everyone's cup of tea when you first think of it, not mine if I'm honest but I'd worked with Paul before on one of my books and so I was more than happy to give this 26-page book a try, and furthermore try and record what I thought.

Cut-up poetry, I am by no means an aficinado but I gave it a go and I feel it's a personal thing, each poem meaning something and that something I imagine [is] different for each reader.

In saying that, if the cut-up style is your thing, I think you'll love these seven pieces by Gary.

I found that it started to fall into place in my brain after two or three readings, my pick of the pieces [being] 'The Fluid Horse', the second poem.

Each poem is accompanied by a surreal collage from Paul Warren, 'She fails to follow through' accompanied my favourite poem and is my favourite image featuring a WW2 radar dish if I'm not mistaken!

As with cut-up, surrealism is there to be 'got', to make you think, but if like Paul's work it's easy on the eye it makes the 'getting' a pleasure.

And this is what this collaboration is a pleasure not a chore.

Stephen Michael Whitter on Facebook.

Animal eyeball by Gary Cummiskey and Paul Warren can can be read on Issiu as a flipbook or you can download a PDF.

New from Dye Hard Press: Animal eyeball by Gary Cummiskey and Paul Warren

 

Animal eyeball is a free e-chapbook and consists of seven cut-up prose poems by South African poet Gary Cummiskey, complemented with collages by UK artist Paul Warren. 

26 pages. 

To access the book click here.

You can also access and download a PDF version here.