About: Gary Cummiskey

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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 founder and editor of Dye Hard Press, which since 1994 has published writers such as Khulile Nxumalo, Gail Dendy, Arja Salafranca, Alan Finlay, Philip Zhuwao, Roy Blumenthal, Gus Ferguson, Kobus Moolman, Pravasan Pillay, Grame Feltham and Allan Kolski Horwitz. He edited Green Dragon literary journal from 2002 to 2009. He was a participant in the 2008 Poetry Africa International Festival held in Durban, South Africa.

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  • 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 founder and editor of Dye Hard Press, which since 1994 has published writers such as Khulile Nxumalo, Gail Dendy, Arja Salafranca, Alan Finlay, Philip Zhuwao, Roy Blumenthal, Gus Ferguson, Kobus Moolman, Pravasan Pillay, Grame Feltham and Allan Kolski Horwitz. He edited Green Dragon literary journal from 2002 to 2009. Cummiskey is co-editor with Eva Kowalska of Who was Sinclair Beiles? published by Dye Hard Press in 2009. A revised and expanded edition was published in 2014. Also in 2009, Cummiskey compiled Beauty Came 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. Cummiskey's work has been translated into French, Bangla and Greek. Three of his poems have inspired short films. He published a book of short fiction, Off-ramp, in 2013. The collection was shortlisted for the Nadine Gordimer Short Story Award 2014. From 2014 to 2016 he was editor of the South African poetry journal New Coin, which is published by the Institute for the Study of English in Africa, at Rhodes University, Grahamstown. (en)
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  • 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 founder and editor of Dye Hard Press, which since 1994 has published writers such as Khulile Nxumalo, Gail Dendy, Arja Salafranca, Alan Finlay, Philip Zhuwao, Roy Blumenthal, Gus Ferguson, Kobus Moolman, Pravasan Pillay, Grame Feltham and Allan Kolski Horwitz. He edited Green Dragon literary journal from 2002 to 2009. He was a participant in the 2008 Poetry Africa International Festival held in Durban, South Africa. (en)
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