Another episode looking at the dimensions of life, and in particular the ‘horizontal’ motion, forwards or backwards. What power lies at our backs in what we’ve left behind? Following on from Unwrapping the Present, released mid-year. All pieces are available in written form at the Ravings from the Lucid Fringe website, and in your e-mail if you’re so inclined.

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Audio omnibus version of ‘Flamenco Improvising’ and ‘Mudejar Magic & Cigarettes’ which can be read on the Substack as usual. And part 2 of a multi-part audio series, about my adventures in western Europe in the summer of 2025.

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Fifty episodes of the podcast! And this is the longest one yet, coming in at just over 50 minutes. An omnibus edition of the first two articles from my ‘expedition’ to Western Europe, beginning at the beginning, in Madrid and then on to southern Spain.

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So, for episode 7x7 it feels appropriate to delve a little more into the mystery. These poems haven’t been published before, though some have been performed. Neither have they been recorded. They can be read in the Thickly Mulched Words section of the Substack. Titles are as follows:

Wymondham

“Bonnyrigg”, Cape Town, 2005

Returning is Archaeological

Heidelberg at Decade’s End

Prodigal Precipitation

Sliding in Bristol

Marina da Gama

The Last Perfect Page of Sorror

Sonnet

A Feisty Forest-Born Ferment

Frog Mountain

Scarborough Autumn

Transkei Threads

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Another equinox, another southern season. And it’s Michaelmas, on the day I release this. Following on from Brown Trust and Solstice Summer Swells, in the back catalogue. Spring musings and waftings. Blessings on your new cycle! And don’t forget, there are a host of these to look through in print form first, over at the Substack page.

This is an omnibus version of two articles that appeared in the ‘Homes’ series on the Substack over the last couple of months. It’s good to be back in Muizies after my time away: hopefully you enjoy this trip down memory lane.

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My latest piece on the dimensions of life, this time carrying on traversing the direction from behind to in front - via a pause right in the middle, here and now.

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Ja, ek weet, I’m not the only person writing about the iconic sacred gathering-festival-anarchic debauched party that is Afrikaburn. Nor is it the first time I’ve written about it. But I did participate in its creation for the first time in a decade so that means a little reflection on it is perhaps easier. Following on from many previous examples of ‘Homes’ and perhaps more to come!

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Another set of journeys around our wonderful country, South Africa. Before I head off to more ‘civilised’ places.

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Moving horizontal… the time plane that lies in front of us. A meditation on vision.

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