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Category: LA Communita

  • 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…

  • Sunday Morning at Harnham

    Some months ago I was staying with friends in the north of England at Harnham, a short line of cottages leading up to an ancient manor farmhouse on a sandstone hill one hour outside Newcastle. ON the STREET there are all kinds of conventions, rules if you like, for how we go about our business,…

  • There comes a time to close the door and catch the train

    Saying Goodbye Misty autumnal 8 a.m. A line of twenty-two geese On their early morning commute Lazy flapping Following the tracks Keeping to the margins of earth and sea Ignoring the cormorant hanging out to dry. Part of me is still looking around That last look Nervous in anticipation of what I’ve forgotten Or never…

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.