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Category: POETIC Readings

  • It’s a Long Conversation

    It’s a Long Conversation

    It is the M25, anticlockwise, and you and I are on our way back from the zone. Time is on our hands: A. ‘Fog‘ is a new essay by Franco Moretti (NLR 81, May/June 2013, P 59-92). – drawn from The Bourgeois: Between History and Literature, in parallel with his companion work Distant Reading(Verso 2013).…

  • Feuilleton Fiction

    Feuilleton Fiction

    Last weekend’s Guardian Review (Sat June 1st) reads like a sign of the times short story or novella. The beginning section is about the imminent destruction of the buried classical city at Mes Aynak, which is to be found in eastern Afghanistan. This vast city was the crossing point between East and West for more…

  • Evolution (from ‘Taken Down God’)

    Evolution (from ‘Taken Down God’)

    I am slowly absorbing a poem which arrived in my inbox last Friday: ‘Evolution’ by Jorie Graham.   One’s nakedness is very slow. One calls to it, one wastes one’s sympathy. Comparison, too, is very slow. Where is the past? I sense that we should keep this coming. Something like joy rivulets along the sand.…

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.