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

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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Kazuko Shiraishi – “the Allen Ginsberg of Japan”

Posted on June 17, 2024 by anthonyhowelljournal

Kazuko Shiraishi has died aged 93. She was, to my mind, the most significant Japanese poet of her generation. She was a modernist, outsider poet who got her start in Katsue Kitazono’s avant-garde “VVOU” poetry group, which led Shiraishi to … Continue reading →

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Observations on the Caesura

Posted on June 13, 2024 by anthonyhowelljournal

Here are the conventional terms for metrical feet in poetry. a line with two feet is a dimeter; a line with three feet is a trimeter; a line with four feet is a tetrameter; a line with five feet is … Continue reading →

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Writing at The Room

Posted on June 11, 2024 by anthonyhowelljournal

Iris Colomb Paul Buck

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