Gary Cummiskey
Gary Cummiskey (born 1963) is a South African poet and publisher.
He was born in England and moved to South Africa in 1983. He is the editor of Dye Hard Press, which since 1994 has published writers such as Gail Dendy, Arja Salafranca, Alan Finlay, Philip Zhuwao, Roy Blumenthal, Gus Ferguson and Kobus Moolman. He is the editor of Green Dragon literary journal, which started in 2002.
Cummiskey is co-editor with Eva Kowalska of Who was Sinclair Beiles? published by Dye Hard Press in 2009. That same year, Cummiskey compiled Beauty Comes Grovelling Forward, a selection of South African poetry and prose published online at www.bigbridge.org.
He was a participant in the 2008 Poetry Africa International Festival held in Durban, South Africa.
Through Dye Hard Press, Cummiskey published an anthology of South African short fiction, The Edge of Things, selected by Arja Salafranca, in 2011.
Bibliography
- Poetry
- The Secret Hour, Dye Hard Press, Johannesburg,1994
- Lost in a World, Dye Hard Press, Johannesburg, 1994
- Visitations, Dye Hard Press, Johannesburg, 1995
- River of Dreams, Dye Hard Press, Johannesburg, 1995
- City, Sun Belly Press, Johannesburg, 1995
- When Apollinaire Died, Firfield Press, Plumstead, 1996
- Head (with Roy Blumenthal), Dye Hard Press, Johannesburg, 1998
- Reigning Gloves, Dye Hard Press, Johannesburg, 2000
- Bog Docks, Dye Hard Press, Johannesburg, 2005
- April in the Moon-Sun,Dye Hard Press, Johannesburg, 2006
- Today is their Creator, Dye Hard Press, Johannesburg, 2008
- Romancing the Dead, Tearoom Books, Durban, 2009
- Sky Dreaming, Graffiti Kolkata, India, 2011
- Non-fiction
- Who was Sinclair Beiles?, with Eva Kowalska, Dye Hard Press, Johannesburg, 2009
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