Published within the innovative Unisa Flame Series, Henrik Brand, aka croc E moses, comes of many places and from nowhere; he is of here, only here, yet not. The dislocations of today and their sudden openings are croc E’s field of dreams and protest, proclamations and heresy. The poems and songs by croc E Moses challenge us to place ourselves – where are you now in the cosmic entanglement? Are you the puzzle you’re intent on fleeing? Like a true court jester, the poet hints, teases and sings about overscaled expectation and mutterings of selfhood, towers of accumulation that crowd the ledgers of an expanding confusion. So comes a mantric humour that tells of living out the odds; hopping direction when doubt or despair untune the livelihoods of creative thought. Many of the songs/poems partly stem from this Canadian-born poet’s living within South Africa – yet somewhat outside of institutions and corporations, unbound by securities and ever uncertain, as many artists are. A Canadian by birth, the poet has moved beyond the role of an outsider, looking on. He has physically and emotionally submerged himself within the rain, tears, blood and waters of his current African home environment. Croc E moses’s spiritual attachment to the land itself, apart from his sharing the plight of its inhabitants, drives him to challenge his audiences to reconsider the status quo of their own selfhood, the dominance of certain institutions, and the lure and the trappings of bureaucracy. Driftword sets out to change traditional modes of viewing the self and society, and successfully extends Unisa Press’ reach as a publisher of innovative works.