Month: May 2010

  • 13 Items of Normality

    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…

  • Normal Hustle and Bustle

    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?

    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…

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.