Roy Blumenthal

Roy Blumenthal, born 1968, Johannesburg, South Africa, has been an active poet since the early 1990s.

He is the founder of Barefoot Press, which started out printing free pamphlets. Five editions were published, with a print run of 20 000 each.

With Graeme Friedman, he co-edited A WRITER IN STONE, the tribute to South African writer, Lionel Abrahams.

Blumenthal is also a screenwriter, novelist, filmmaker, and visual artist(http://www.flickr.com/photos/56788416@N00/).

A frequent editor to MoneywebLIFE [http://www.moneyweb.co.za/mw/view/mw/en/page93] , Blumenthal is an intelligent social commentator and cultural agent who employs a combination of visual, text and convergent mediums to make sharp and exacting comments about the South African socio-economic milieu.