Ravings from the Lucid Fringe

Most of these reflective pieces appeared in my 2009 book, Flying on the Lucid Fringe, a few hard copies of which are still available from me if you want to ask! I set myself the task of looking at a year in my childhood each time. The titles of the pieces are as follows:

* New Catton 1977

* Government Milk and Bigger Things 1978

* Seven (‘neath the Severn) 1979

* Sausage Dogs and Well-intentioned Wounds 1980

* Boyhood’s Heart 1981

* Double Figures 1982

* Superheroes are Always at War 1983

* Private Uniformity 1984

* Teenage Status Symbols in Shifting Sand 1985

* Uncertain Certainty 1986

* Sharpening my Chrysalid Wings 1987

* Recipe For A New Era 1988

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The second in this series looks at air (and ether). Original article here!

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Audio version of another series I began with articles last year, you can read the original here.

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Being an audio version of Mole, Mountains and Mezcal and City of Angels - both articles can be read at the substack page. This is the third audio in the series on my Mexican trip, coming after Time Out in San Cris, and Forests, Temples and Revolutionaries.

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Final instalment - the southern hemisphere midnight edition. As seen in my Substack article from late last year!

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This is the audio version of my latest Substack article. Continuing the trip with the southern hemisphere direction of the sun… towards sunset, before next week concluding with my piece on the south.

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Continuing the series, as published last year on my Substack.

First in the 4-part series, as published here late last year. To be followed next week by an audio version of North of the Border, and then an all-new article/episode facing the sunset!

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I’m best known out there as a performance poet, and released a couple of successful albums (you can hear all my existing audio tracks at my bandcamp site). But my first release back in 2009 was a book, ‘Flying on the Lucid Fringe’, published by Crazy Diamond Press here in Muizenberg (old copies still available directly from me). I’ve recorded some of them here, an interesting task of reflection back to an earlier life stage for me, and I still enjoyed revisiting these words.

The poems spoken here are:

* Let’s Talk Beanstalk (speaks for itself)

* Above Kalk Bay (one of my favourite spots to contemplate our history)

* Song for Nic Le Roux (old friend and musician I also spoke of in Cape of Sounds)

* Return to N!Au’ma (magical spot in the little Karoo where I was part of local ceremonies)

* still point spin (quantum physics and stuff)

* To Some Men I Know (inspired by Jacob Zuma and his infamous shower)

* Eden II (a quirky piece of love)

* Flow, Cash, Flow (can we be poetic about globalized capitalism?)

* Beyond the Blackboard (on the education crisis)

* Easter of Good Hope (a ceremonial piece, for the Cape autumn equinox… which is also today!)

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Articles originally available on my substack: Symbols in the Selva and Revolution in the Air

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