We'll be back in January 2012. Thank you to all of this year's guest contributors and, of course, to the regulars: Gary Cummiskey, Jenny Kellerman Pillay, Max Moodley, Michelle Nair and Victoria Williams.
Tearoom Books is an indie press based in Durban, South Africa.
Run by Pravasan Pillay and Jenny Kellerman Pillay, it aims to publish pamphlets of contemporary poetry, fiction, non-fiction and humour.
Apart from Tearoom Books related material this site will also carry short humour pieces.
Contact: tearoombooks@gmail.com
New From Tearoom Books
Reader Digest is a free e-chapbook of poetry and recipes, compiled by Pravasan Pillay and Victoria Williams, and featuring 13 poets from 5 different countries. Poets were asked to pair their poems with a suitable recipe and the result is a deliciously good read. Click on the cover for more information.
Tearoom Books Titles
Romancing the Dead by Gary Cummiskey. This small collection of 11 prose poems from one of South Africa's leading underground poets displays writing that is laconic, unfussy, surreal, morbidly humourous and unsentimental. The world presented in it is one where the rules of causality have either broken down or are on their last legs. It is thus an absurd world, but, and this is Cummiskey's talent, it is also a world that is instantly and, in some cases, frighteningly recognizable. "...chapbook of the year..." - Aryan Kaganof. Available at R40 including postage (R50 for overseas orders). For order information, contact tearoombooks@gmail.com [SOLD OUT]
Tearoom Books Titles
Knock Knock Jokes Pertaining To Common Human Ailments by Pravasan Pillay is a four-page pamphlet of themed Knock knock jokes. It is free of charge, though copies are limited. "...very lame, but I love them that way..." - Paul Wessels. Write to tearoombooks@gmail.com for your copy. [OUT OF PRINT]
Tearoom Books Titles
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
OTHER
(Book) Shaggy: 14 Rather Amusing Rambles by Anton Krueger and Pravasan Pillay. 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@alookaway.co.za