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Sailing on the breath of a prehistoric yawn. Notes on Cambodia and Thailand

I said goodbye to Scotty a few days ago, he left for Australia to see his father, and I've spent the remainder of my travels…

neilcoppenFebruary 16, 2019

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The pleasures of falling and flight.

For Vaughn on his 27th Birthday You gave me a palace in clouds, a JHB skyline dressed in mist and moonlight, dust-storms and thunder showers.…

neilcoppenSeptember 20, 2015

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Absence makes the vine grow longer

You left me with... 1.) A green piggy bank (in the shape of an elephant). Loot from one of your car-boot sale trawls. A relic…

neilcoppenJanuary 4, 2012

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Jay Pather’s Standard Bank Young Artist Speech 2011

Ladies and Gentlemen As my first outing as Chairperson, I want to pay tribute to my predecessor, Sibongile Kumalo. She was a beacon of light…

neilcoppenNovember 3, 2010

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Malema, Power and the Performative Turn

The following is an extract taken from an essay I wrote in 2008 exploring South African politics and the Performative turn. I print an extract…

neilcoppenApril 9, 2010

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The Great Elephant Debacle

Stupidity plummeted to new lows in Durban this week (with Sunday newspaper headlines that even satirists like Haibo might have been hard pressed to come…

neilcoppenFebruary 16, 2010

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Anglo-Boer(-ing) War Conference

v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} To kick start each morning of the South African Military Societies International Anglo Boer War History conference,…

neilcoppenFebruary 8, 2010

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Giant Killer Prehistoric Rubber-Duck on the Rampage

My brother Gregg and his wife Angella (a web developer and illustrator) live on a mountainside in Fishhoek in the Western Cape. Their house overlooks…

neilcoppenJanuary 14, 2010

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Top Billing from the Bottom Drawer

Last Thursday I happened upon an episode of Top Billing on SABC 3. What ensued over the next hour was something, that as much as…

neilcoppenAugust 5, 2009

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The text is unequal to the task of being alive– Meeting Margret Edson

It's vaguely terrifying speaking the words of a Pulitzer winning playwright as she sits inches away from you in an opening night auditorium. Almost…

neilcoppenJuly 21, 2009

Sailing on the breath of a prehistoric yawn. Notes on Cambodia and Thailand

The pleasures of falling and flight.

Absence makes the vine grow longer

Jay Pather’s Standard Bank Young Artist Speech 2011

Malema, Power and the Performative Turn

The Great Elephant Debacle

Anglo-Boer(-ing) War Conference

Giant Killer Prehistoric Rubber-Duck on the Rampage

Top Billing from the Bottom Drawer

The text is unequal to the task of being alive– Meeting Margret Edson

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