Part One

Facets

1

Chapter One

Protocols

2

Chapter Two

Writing Strategies

18

Chapter Three

Conjugating Knowledge Worlds

32

Part Two

We Write…

52

Chapter Four

We Write-with Companions

53

Chapter Five

We Write Where We Are

70

Chapter Six

We Write Who We Are

84

Part Three

Re-enchanting Worlds

98

Chapter Seven

Refrains. A Kind of Magic

99

Chapter Eight

Opaque Worlds of Tricksters

115

Chapter Nine

Writing With the Hands of Gods

135

Part Four

Not-Knowing

150

Chapter Ten

Informed Ignorance. Eight Chickens and There was this Goat

151

Chapter Eleven

The All-Knowing Iconoclast. Grendel The Monster and Jagannath’s Stone

167

Chapter Twelve

Allegorical Blank Objects. The Missing and the  Unfinished

184

Part Five

Small is Big

201

Chapter Thirteen

Happenstance. A Rubbish Tip, an Owl and a Boojum

202

Chapter Fourteen

Anecdotes. Not-love Stories, Onions and Encounters with Foxes

219

Chapter Fifteen

Worlds of Poetry and Theory.  Zinc Verse and an Ethno-poet

233

Part Six

Styles

252

Chapter Sixteen

Yellingwriting. The Catharsis of Rage

253

Chapter Seventeen

On Late Styles. Women in their Bardos

269

Chapter Eighteen

The Last Plateau

290