A WAVEREQUIEM: at the end of this week I travel to Sri Lanka to continue the charity work that I am involved with there. I will be away from the weblog for a week. One task I have in Sri Lanka is to take up writing the waverequiem. The title ‘waverequiem’ arose shortly after 26th…
I’d like to start by quoting four lines from Seamus Heaney’s poem, Rilke: After the Fire (in his collection, District and Circle): To make them realise what had stood so. For now that it was gone, it all seemed Far stranger: more fantastical than Pharaoh. And he was changed: a foreigner among them. “ .…
IS THIS A BOOK? Some ten days ago Cassandra my publishing agent and I paid a visit on the three Hetairai at the Publishing House in the West Country we are with. Hetairai is one of the names we give to three of the women who are senior fiction editors there. The possibility of publishing…
Categories (2024) are:
Different WORDSTALL Categories in the past supported the mainly experimental personal writing in posts. The previous list of Category headings was: Anti-gravity Surgery / Atelier / Catastrophe Games / Echo Effects / Exodus / Fundamental Perversions / Hitting the Potholes / Holy Fool-Hero / In Conversation / Old Men Traveling / On the Street / Out in the Wilderness / Over and Beyond / Tonite at the Coliseum. Some of these still persist or recur as Tag key-words.
The even earlier Category headings for the walkingtalkingwriting blog (2006-2012) have been forgotten, but can be explored if desired via the long tail of monthly posts for those years here.