Monthly Archives: July 2024

The RUNIAD – Book 10

Posted on July 25, 2024 by anthonyhowelljournal

Excerpt from Book 10 in the Fortnightly Review here. As a work in progress Books 1-10 can be read for free as a Heyzine online book. On the Heyzine link there is a contents page – p 5. All the pages are … Continue reading →

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Stewart Lee: The best performance I’ve ever seen

Posted on July 22, 2024 by anthonyhowelljournal

Table Moves, Birmingham Art Gallery, 1985 – Photograph: Judith Ahern ‘I was 16,’ says Stewart Lee, ‘and susceptible.’ It was my schoolfriend Simon Smith, perpetually ahead of the curve, who made me see the then-unknown REM catch fire at a … Continue reading →

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Major Stede Bonnet – Gentleman Pirate

Posted on July 17, 2024 by anthonyhowelljournal

Introducing a new Heyzine online book: here is the link Major Stede Bonnet was an authentic pirate of the Caribbean.  However, he was also a landowner and gentleman of Barbados, and the only pirate to have purchased his own ship.  … Continue reading →

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Maria Zakharova on English Literature!

Posted on July 10, 2024 by anthonyhowelljournal

When you listen to the State Department’s latest cries that Gershkovich is a journalist and not a spy, just remember the autobiography of the British writer Somerset Maugham (Of Human Bondage, The Moon and Sixpence, Theatre, The Patterned Veil) called … Continue reading →

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TANGO

Posted on July 8, 2024 by anthonyhowelljournal

x I have to dance a tango with Joe. Commission I should not have taken on though Reduced to a flourish at the show. Joe can’t get the footwork. The red carpet Doesn’t help his pivot. No, Joe, no! Christ, … Continue reading →

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The Broken Vase

Posted on July 3, 2024 by anthonyhowelljournal

I have just published a new slide-show on Youtube here! The drawings in pencil on a black watercolour ground are inspired by a passage in The Runiad – the epic poem I am writing. Stay with me now. There is … Continue reading →

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The RUNIAD – Book 9

Posted on July 1, 2024 by anthonyhowelljournal

Excerpt from Book 9 in the Fortnightly Review here. The Runiad is a project I started in 2023 – an epic poem that will be 24 books long. As a work in progress it can be read for free as … Continue reading →

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