Author Archives: anthonyhowelljournal

Unknown's avatar

About anthonyhowelljournal

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

The Broken Vase

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

Posted in art, Poetry, The Runiad | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

The RUNIAD – Book 9

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

Posted in Ebooks and flipbooks, Poetry, The Runiad | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Kazuko Shiraishi – “the Allen Ginsberg of Japan”

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

Posted in Poetry, Reviews | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Observations on the Caesura

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

Posted in Essays, Poetry, The Runiad | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Writing at The Room

Iris Colomb Paul Buck

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Celebrating Edward Field. One hundred years old today!

Congratulations, Edward! CELEBRATING HIS ASS they try to block your dick with their little pills x for blood pressure, prostate, heart they figure you’re an old guy x so what’s the difference and just to stay alive x you go … Continue reading

Posted in Poetry, war | Tagged , | Leave a comment

The Runiad – Book 8 – The Mare with the Beautiful Eyebrows

Book 8 of the Runiad is now on the Heyzine Link here. And an extract from Book 8 is now published in The Fortnightly Review Which means I am now one third of my way to completion of all 24 … Continue reading

Posted in The Runiad | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

ABSTRACTIONS

To accompany my COLLECTED LONGER POEMS – now published by Grey Suit Editions UK – I am releasing another Heyzine book. This is my collected ABSTRACTIONS Click on the link for a free online copy of this collection of my … Continue reading

Posted in art, Ebooks and flipbooks, Grey Suit Editions, Key Links, Poetry | Tagged , , | 1 Comment

The Indian Jungle

Very pleased that my review of The Indian Jungle: Psychoanalysis and Non-Western Civilizations (published by Karnac) has just come out in The Fortnightly. Sadly the author Sudhir Kakar has recently passed away. A link to a website related to his … Continue reading

Posted in Essays, Reviews, Uncategorised | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

The Runiad – book 7 – Agape or Eros

Book 7 of the Runiad is now available. And an extract is published in The Fortnightly Review here. As usual, the entire epic so far (now books 1 to 8) is available on this Heyzine flipbook link

Posted in Poetry, The Runiad | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment