Nowadays I like to comb my hair perfectly straight and have people address me as Miss Williams. I have been known to wear a tie. In the mornings (don’t even ask how I spent my mornings before all this) I get up, make black coffee and drink it while I deal with my correspondence. I smoke a well-known brand of cigarettes – mainly for show – and my typing is fast, lucid and error-free. Why isn’t all this making me happy?
Later: I just don’t think there is room in my life for David Bowie anymore, and that may be the key… I’ve been thinking carefully, and I’d quite like to have my hair cut short and spiky and dyed red – and thus renounce all structures and conventions of my current lifestyle. But I don’t trust hairdressers and it won’t be easy to find one who’ll understand this very special request.
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Gary Cummiskey's Don't Stop Until Incinerated is a short collection of poems that inhabit a desolate, disquieting place, a place in which the fabric of reality is threadbare. Cummiskey has mastered the art of minimalist unease, yet there are also moments of dark humour in these 26 starkly elegant poems, characterised by his iconoclastic surrealism.
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30 Poems by Pravasan Pillay collects a selection of poems written mostly between 2003-2006 and published in South African journals. The themes of the poems are old, new and broken love; sex; marriage; failure; vanity; and quitting smoking.
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Loop is Tearoom Books' writing zine. It will be published primarily as free e-chapbooks. Issue 2 comprises a selection of poetry. Click on the cover for more information.
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Glumlazi by Pravasan Pillay, was released in January 2009. Glumlazi, Pillay's debut, is a collection of short poems, concerning revenge, sex and the blues. The majority of poems run no-more than two lines. Available at R40 including postage. For order information, contact tearoombooks@gmail.com
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(Book) Shaggy: 14 Rather Amusing Rambles by Anton Krueger and Pravasan Pillay. Second Print Run. Prepare yourself for a cast of some of the most manipulative, ingratiating, disillusioned, egotistical, inauthentic, spiteful narcissists operating in contemporary South Africa. Within these pages you will encounter fourteen first-hand shaggy stories told by a rogues gallery of scheming misanthropes whose speeches are full of sound and fury, signifying very little. These hilarious blowhards will make you snigger, cringe and wish your cousin had rather given you Spud 5 for your birthday. Published by BK Publishing. Price: R135. To order a copy write to: andrea [at] bkpublishing [dot] co [dot] za