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Month: May 2008

  • Ezra Pound in London

    I enjoyed James Campbell’s piece in last Saturday’s Guardian review piece about Pound in London and my attention was particularly taken with the following extract: “Go In a friendly manner, Go with an open speech. He lived in London for 12 years, from 1908 to 1920, gradually widening his poetry to absorb natural forms of…

  • More Mess

    What is it about, this mess? Surely it’s the ground of our being, the ground to which we return as rotting meat or ashes. There’s that other phrase: the return of the repressed. Sleep might be seen as a preparation, a daily practice of dying. A letting go into . . . what exactly –…

  • Travelling down Iron Bars in parallel lines

    It was one conversation, Hey Het, but they were travelling in opposite directions, it was familiar territory, Terra Nostra, and yet they were both headed for unknown regions. What do people get out of your songs, the one travelling in a westerly direction asked, but dissatisfied with the way the question sounded in his ears…

Categories (2024) are:

  • ATELIER Work – about-creative-work (in all mediums: text-drawing-sounds-image etc)
  • CLIMATE Action – indications-and-contra-indications
  • DAWDLING – walking-pausing-to-wonder-wandering
  • IN Conversation – companionship-and-connections
  • LA Communita –participatory-collaborative-artivism
  • OTHER than Human – animate-and-inanimate-terrestrial-kin
  • PARANOID Readings – violence-and-fundamental-perversions
  • POLITICAL Readings – mobilisations-affect-polarisations
  • REPARATIVE Readings – inspiring-healing-restorative
  • SHADOW Readings – speculative-and-not-yet-visible-thinking
  • STYLE Readings – scales-and-familiarities
  • TONITE at the Coliseum – live-experiences-performance
  • YOGI (‘Not This-Not That’) – meditation-bhakti-consciousness


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.