Water and Lights

Wesley talks to Zama Madinana a poet based in Johannesburg. We will look at his latest anthology titled ' Water and Lights ' and talk about his journey in the Joburg poetry scene and how he has evolved during the pandemic. Art Lexica is a podcast where we talk art and art processes.

Transcript

Wesley: [00:00:00] Uh, yes. Uh, greetings everybody. Uh, Wesley Pepper here. And you are tuned into my podcast wesley peppers art Lexia, which is brought to you by spudcaster and baobulb. Yeah. Thanks everybody. Uh, to all the new and returning listeners. Welcome, welcome, greetings to you all. Um, clearly you’s know where the top ranking arts-based podcast is.

[00:00:32] So thanks all for coming through. Uh, yeah, my fingers and my hands is pretty cold today. It’s very chilly where I’m sitting today. Uh, but it's all good, man. So, um, just as brief, uh, to start off with, um, last week's, uh, touch base on last week's episode. Thanks for Mike for coming through. It's always really cool to talk to him as you could tell through last week’s episode

[00:00:52] I've got a longish relationship with him and his poetry, and it's always cool to, um, I guess just being active again. That was really cool. So thanks Mike, for coming through. I hope you guys enjoyed that episode. Um, uh, today's episode. Yeah, we are on that same sort of poetry. Today's episode is also a poetry based episode.

[00:01:12] I'm talking to. Uh, poets based in Johannesburg, Zama, Madinana. Um, he's an old school cat, man. I actually know of him when I used to run with reunited siblings that was in the early two thousands. And I know he was self-published back then already. So I know the brother's got a serious foothold, um, in the.

[00:01:30] Publishing self publishing a poetry scene, and we'd definitely be touching base on that because he's also released he's. Uh, um, he's also, um, just published a recently, recently published a book called water and lights, and we're definitely gonna be talking about that. It's really, it's really got me excited when I started to see him post that on social media.

[00:01:51] Because to be honest with you, I don't really know many poets who has released a anthologies over the past since basically since COVID not that I'm in touch with every single poet in South Africa, but like I keep my eye on. I keep my finger on everything. And, um, it was really exciting to see, um, to see that.

[00:02:10] And I was really excited to get hold of him and, uh, to talk about it. And I'm really looking forward to that thing today. Um, so stay tuned for that. So remember the art, um, giveaway. Well, it'll always be up for grabs. Um, um, it's it's um, it's, uh, it's not a one-time thing. Uh, remember if you want to win yourself an original artwork done by yours, truly remember to like subscribe and comment on this episode and I shall choose a

[00:02:35] name randomly and you’ll win an art, uh, an artwork done by, um, yours truly. And just remember that this, uh, giveaway is only based, uh, for now, for us only for artists based in South Africa and that's only for now. Um, so yeah, man, um, there's also a lot of exciting things and not so many exciting things that have been happening, um, over the past few weeks, you know, one being, um, what's happening in the Eswatini, um, with, uh, Yeah, I was I'm I'm I'm, I'm actually thinking and seeing how I can go about doing a full episode on that, uh, feature on, um, what was happening in Eswatini but

[00:03:14] wow, man. Um, that plus the third wave here in South Africa. Things us are getting tougher and tougher and tougher. Uh, nothing is getting easier, but, um, yeah man, whatever, man, you know, we move on, you know, we soldier on, uh, And we definitely don't quit. We keep producing, we keep making art, we keep writing...