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Tag: Geoffrey Hill

  • Ripped through Time and Space

    Ripped through Time and Space

    “Hello Grandpa”, kindly defiance, defiant humility and with a feeling like I am not done with my story either. Well, you would have to come out of hiding too faced with that kind of greeting wouldn’t you? Really, after that sunny command you are not going to stay crouched down on your knees with your…

  • Like a B@ out of hell!

      ‘Quiet woman,’ he said. ‘When did you last confess.’ ‘Two days ago.’ The sparrows were twittering; they pecked at the wind-blown leaves, and twittered. So, here you are, the visitor from hell, and you have even taken the name B@! I should have wailed but I held back, the anxiety picking at my bones.…

  • Soldier boy, soldier blue

    Soldier boy, soldier blue which war were you fighting? Ah huh, the Freudian father wars I think it must have been back there in 1960s Berlin. Play therapy you might call it. Or ‘it does no harm,’ as the family visitor responded. It does no harm. But we thought the war was over even though…

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.