Mindful Writing Retreat (April 7-12, 2017)

Dear Friends and other Fellow Humans, 

Apologies for the spamola, it's that time of year again where I'm trying to rustle up support for the annual writing retreat at the Tara Rokpa Centre in the Groot Marico. 

This year we're very proud to have the inimitable Jason Donald (www.jasondonald.org) as a guest facilitator. Jason will be in South Africa shooting a short film in Cape Town, so we're very lucky to have him on board. His most recent novel Dalila  is currently being turned into a movie by Oscar-winning writer/director Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons, Atonement etc). There's more info about the retreat attached, or you could shoot over to: 

www.tararokpacentre.co.za/mindful-writing

Please let me know if you would rather never hear from me again (i.e. next year around this time), by returning a message with "unsubscribe" in the subject line. Alternatively, you could also just quietly delete this mail and spend the year seething. Otherwise, please let me know if you might be interested in joining us. 

happy days

Anton   

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Mindful Writing Retreat: 29 March-3 April, TRC, Groot Marico, South Africa

Dear Friends, 

I'll be running another Mindful Writing retreat in the Groot Marico 

in just over a month. There are still a few spaces left, please let 

me know if you might be interested. There's more below. 

happy days

Anton

 

Writing Beyond the Self. 29 March - 3 April, TRC (Groot Marico)

"You need to begin to explore another way to write, to build awareness 

to write from...To create from joy, to create from wonder, demands a 

continual discipline, a great compassion...it demands a continual objectivity of spirit, a continual looking out at, and beyond the world created by the senses..." 

Thuksey Rinpoche, in Andrew Harvey's Journey to Ladakh (1983)

This retreat will run for five days, with the option of only joining for the weekend. It combines Mindfulness practices with writing workshops, exploring ways of using Mindfulness as a source of creativity and self-exploration, while using writing as a tool for developing awareness.  

Here are more details on the retreat, as well as the costs of different accommodation options: http://www.tararokpacentre.co.za/mindful-writing

For bookings or more information, contact Anton Krueger: mnrkrueger@gmail.com

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Invitation to Launch - Shaggy: 14 stories by Anton Krueger and Pravasan Pillay - Thursday, June 2 / Hatfield

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four city launch of sunnyside sal

              NEW from DEEP SOUTH

         Sunnyside Sal 

           by Anton Krueger 

 

     120 pages ISBN: 978-0-9584915-6-3 Price R120

 

 

       

 

Sunnyside Sal is the story of an unusual friendship between two boys growing up in Pretoria. It's a jauntily narrated novella set in the tumultuous early 1990s, when a whole generation was discovering that everything they'd been taught to believe was wrong. Fuelled by his reckless bravado and post-punk philosophy, Sal plunges into extreme situations, but his innocent experimentations in rebellion lead him increasingly into hazardous realms. Although ultimately a tragic tale, Sunnyside Sal is borne up throughout by an exuberant humour.

 

Anton Krueger teaches drama at Rhodes University. His award-winning plays have been performed in nine countries. He has published poems, short stories, reviews, academic articles and song lyrics. Sunnyside Sal is his first novel. 

 

 

 

SUNNYSIDE SAL LAUNCHES AT

 

    PRETORIA

Exclusive Books Menlyn 

Thursday 18 February 6.00 for 6.30pm

introduced by David Medalie

RSVP 012 361 6184/8 menlyn@exclusivebooks.co.za 

 

 

    CAPE TOWN

Book Lounge, Cnr Roeland and Buitenkant Streets

Thursday 4 March 6.00 for 6.30pm

introduced by Toast Coetzer

Tel 021 462 2425 booklounge@gmail.com 

 

    DURBAN

Friday 12 March 6.45pm 

Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre, UKZN

introduced by Syd Kitchen

Tel 031 2602506/1816 cca@ukzn.ac.za 

 

 

    GRAHAMSTOWN

Friday 19 March 5.30 for 6.00 pm

Reddits New Street

introduced by Robert Berold

Tel 0823243048 mnrkrueger@gmail.com

 

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maths

tell me about the triangle in its capacity as a triangle
set in relation to the visual perception of its three sides

one side is a straight line you see, the other is a road
leading to the third line which will lead to your demise

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stupid boy

You stupid boy, don't be coy
with your deep voice like a drone
up in my ear like a phone
trying hard to make me moan
with your muscle on bone

But you FAIL as you try
to no AVAIL,
I can't comply to let you
down
down
down

so try not to drown
dude alone
in all your own
overblown testosterone

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"Fuck I love my life" by Steph Taylor

Gotta love my life. I have a disciplinary hearing on Tuesday for my behaviour at the last Ravens game. I love how Robbie, Mitch and Dana ALL don’t get cuffed for their antics and I do. It was a bloody Ravens vs Cubs game for fuck’s sake. A bit of excitement and support for my own team (for which I was benched for two games for shagging in the locker rooms anyway, so I was already pissed) is completely natural. Everybody streaks. Big deal. A bit of free, live nudity never hurt anyone – people pay to see that shit. And I’d think the captain of the soccer team should have some shagging rights. But no.
And Robbie, the idiot, completely turned into such a girl when Priscilla Fanbelt told him off. Who names their kid “Priscilla” anyhow? And even more disturbing, who dates a kid called Priscilla? Robbie Thomas, that’s who. What a doosh. He answers to her every beck and call like a slipper dog – you know, those little rat-dogs that if you put a foot up its ass it becomes a slipper? Yeah. One of those. And Priscilla Fanbelt has much more than just a foot up his ass, obviously. God, I can’t stand her. The next time I find her in my apartment rearranging the spatulas, I’m going to stick a spatula up you-know-where. The real sad thing is that Alan would want nothing more than to have a perfect daughter like her. I can see the appeal, I guess. Being the absent parent of a difficult child like me has GOT to be the hardest job in the world! Doosh.
Dana says I’m “conflicted and confused”. But I told her quite adamantly that I’m almost 100% certain that I’m straight this year. For real real. Fair enough, I probably watched far too much South Park and just wanted to throw the word “bicurious” around. But still. No one can say I didn’t make an attempt to play batsman for the other team. Sigh.
Some good news though. My ass is on the front cover of The Chronicle! Ha. There is justice in this world. Imagine that baby on Alan’s breakfast tray. “Oh, good morning Mr Taylor” and WHOOPAH. Good bye lemon muesli and hello, daughter’s ass. Bit late for him to learn to change nappies though. I think I will have to frame this bad boy and stick it in my room. Worth more than a grad certificate any day. Fuck I love my life. 

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I wanna write

Once upon a time in a misty litte village lived a dwarf boy and his gnome parents. All the other gnome boys would laugh at him because he was a dwarf and not a gnome. He didn't care though cause he had a trusty hash pipe. All day he would sit with Alice and together they would explore the new wonderland beneath the mushroom forrest. Twas there that he discovered the magic of it all. He didnt even know where he was or what was going on in the story but alice had her tits in a knot and that gave him his best thought yet:"Gnomes and dwarfs are not that different (perhaps a slight difference,and gnomes wear funny hats and chill in gardens while dwarfs chill underground)". he considered this for a moment then he jumped up and round-house kicked Alice in the teeth. "You human bitch!why didnt you tell me about the gulf war?!" he shouted, "Fuck you, lets go to a sexy party...NOW!". Alice wiped the blood off her chest and smiled a toothless grin. He reached up and climed up her pony tale,riding her like camel towards a lumo sexy party. That was all to embarrassing for alice who threw him into a coffee grinder that emptied into a mincing machine which poured the remains of the poor dwarf onto two pieces of bread. Mmmm,dwarf sandwich!

The End

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