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Category: OTHER than Human

  • 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.…

  • Bus-ness As Usual

    Bus-ness As Usual

    The Train for the Oxus is departing at 10.51 today from Taunton. Or is that the train to Oxenholme? The one where I need to change at Birmingham New Street. Or Istanbul. Either way, although it might be different rolling stock, it is the same width of track wherever we go these days. Yes, it…

  • Pandora

    Pandora

    Dear Derek, The name for a dusty valley, except during the rainy season when the incessant wind ripples through the fresh grass and brief wild flowers like sea waves, and the shepherds bring their sheep up to the high meadows to graze. Do you think we’ll actually be able to recognize each other after all…

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.