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About anthonyhowelljournal

Poet, essayist, dancer, performance artist....

Anger: A new slide-show on Youtube

Posted on February 14, 2026 by anthonyhowelljournal

Click on ANGER – my new video on Youtube. But maybe open a vigorous track by Fourplay before you press play on my link. Almost all my slide-shows can be found on Youtube @theanthonyhowell here There is also STENCIL ART … Continue reading →

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Death Penalty for Palestinian Prisoners

Posted on February 10, 2026 by anthonyhowelljournal

Israel has legalised the death penalty for Palestinian prisoners The link takes you to a damning report in Middle East Eye.

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Imaginary Illustrations

Posted on February 9, 2026 by anthonyhowelljournal

x x x x x x x What if one reversed illustration? If the picture came first, and it was up to the viewer to give it a story? A friend points out that this is nothing new. As this … Continue reading →

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Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi Assassinated

Posted on February 4, 2026 by anthonyhowelljournal

MUAMMAR GADDAFI’S SON SAIF AL-ISLAM GADDAFI ASSASSINATED Who did it? Sources on the ground in Libya suspect that British intelligence used local proxies to assassinate the man seen by many as the one who could reunite Libya, 15 years after … Continue reading →

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The Vintage to the Dungeon

Posted on February 3, 2026 by anthonyhowelljournal

The Vintage to the Dungeon – a poem by Richard Lovelace I. Sing out, pent soules, sing cheerefully! Care shackles you in liberty: Mirth frees you in captivity. Would you double fetters adde? Else why so sadde? Chorus Besides your … Continue reading →

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NOUVEAU RÉGIME

Posted on February 1, 2026 by anthonyhowelljournal

x The children keep disappearing. They vanish, into thin air. From Little Saint James, Khan Unis or Khartoum, Tampa, Columbus, Baton Rouge, the children keep disappearing, Just as they did from the view of Théophile de Viau And Rétif de … Continue reading →

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Anatomy of Emptiness

Posted on January 28, 2026 by anthonyhowelljournal

x It is not easy to create emptiness. What should you tip it into? A deserted square, Possibly by moonlight? Time is the perspective Lending it a depth. Here, in an abstracted way, Melancholy toys with metaphysics. Emptiness recalls all … Continue reading →

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A Review of “Near Calvary” by Nicholas Lafitte

Posted on January 27, 2026 by anthonyhowelljournal

As a further tribute to John Welch – who published this seminal collection by Nick Lafitte: Alan Morrison on Nicholas LafitteNear Calvary – Selected Poems 1959 – 1970, The Many Press ISBN 0 907326 20 X No Macro Lover Nicholas … Continue reading →

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John Welch 1942-2025

Posted on January 26, 2026 by anthonyhowelljournal

x I remember him reading his elusive poems under a gnarled sycamore at the far end of a field on my mother’s Hampshire farm – Purdies Farm – that lovely summer when we held an arts festival there in the … Continue reading →

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Metaphysical Photography

Posted on January 25, 2026 by anthonyhowelljournal

METAPHYSICAL ITALY Beautiful photographs by George Tatge. George Tatge b.1951 Italian-American photographer George Tatge studied English Literature at Beloit College, Wisconsin. Tatge moved to Italy in 1973 and began working as a freelance photographer and writer. He served as Director … Continue reading →

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