Wordstall

Month: October 2008

  • Lizards

    Where is the point of interception? Where does the wild locate? Is there a crossing point? Like the message from underground Vandalisme e verite Our fellow vertebrates Alive alert hungry angry Leave pustules of graffiti   And what if I think about ‘the Major’ Back home in Totnes Bearing the wounds of his beating At…

  • Patacara Sequence: GUITTARA MIA

    It was still that Sunday several months ago at the Harnham monastery in the north of England, and because of the noise from the washing machine upstairs it was almost impossible for someone outside in the corridor to hear anything that was being said in the main reception room at the front of the house:…

  • Casting Off

    To wake into a night of heavy trucks roaring Beneath the window Beneath the trees So intent Through the narrows Perhaps hell is this close Let’s call it hell A scattering of confusions Questions proliferate The leaves rustle Branches toss And I’m being tempted to abandon The fight to breathe To keep a toe-hold on…

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.