otherwise you well?
Richard Fox
otherwise you well? a selection of Richard Fox’s poems written over 10 years, confronts the way predatory capitalism and its digital culture is cauterising humanity and nature. With taut momentum and often fierce humour, these poems describe the 21st-century predicament in a way that is both graphic and austere. In between, in a gentler style, are lyric poems of painful insight. And in between those, a very South African road trip.
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Without any of the predictable doomsday warnings or linear unfolding, there is a frenetic energy moving through [this poem] which mirrors so well the way our overstimulated brains scamper in multiple directions in an attempt to make sense of these turbulent times […] The visual and visceral assaults are relentless to the point of that very feeling untethered that this poem ‘embodies’.
– Malika Ndlovu, judge of New Coin Poetry Prize 2021
on Fox’s poem “Animal Mind is Tripping”
Date of publication: 2021
ISBN 978-1-928476-40-5 / ebook ISBN 978-1-928476-41-2
62 pages
200 x 130mm
R120.00
Richard Fox 2021 © Michael Jaspan
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Richard Fox was born in Cape Town in 1975, and moved to Johannesburg as a teenager. He did a BA in English and Philosophy at the University of Johannesburg (then RAU) in 1998. After a short stint in the corporate environment, he decided to pursue a career ('if it could be called that') writing poetry. He did that for some years while working in a bookshop, and then founded an online T-shirt company. He lives in Linden, Johannesburg, and runs the Tshirt Terrorist shop in Parkhurst. Books published
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Interviews & Articles
Interview with Richard Fox by Gary Cummiskey The Odd Magazine, 2022
Interview with Richard Fox by Kyle Allan New Coin, 2021 text PDF
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