13 things I noticed in Lowestoft between 0845 and 1040 on 25th May 2010. Clean streets. More mobility scooters than I’ve ever seen in my life. Bicycles The sea. Emptiness. Outside a shop, on a blackboard, a chalk list of goods, including museli. The spelling of muesli as museli – which coincidentally was how…
Marsh Barn, Bridport (21st May 2010) Three generations. They had driven down all the way from Brighton, emerging Poletical Poits, (a possible politics, a possible poetry) on Friday evening began reading to us in this old rustic Dorset barn down by the sea: J H Prynne (‘…There are many questions about poetry that…
Normal? Gasp! Splutter! Perhaps shudder . . . and what is normal, the actress asked the bishop. Boredom was creeping in; how did this happen to me? She flicked her hair out of her eyes. How did I land up here? Again. Normal, he asked himself, how did I utter such a suspect word. Why…
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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.