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About anthonyhowelljournal

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

Losing a Slave Girl

Posted on March 8, 2024 by anthonyhowelljournal

x Around my garden the little wall is low; In the bailiff’s lodge the lists are seldom checked. I am ashamed to think we were not always kind; I regret your labours, that will never be repaid. The caged bird … Continue reading →

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TOTTENHAM TREES POETRY READING AT THE ROOM

Posted on February 15, 2024 by anthonyhowelljournal

Hilary Davies has published four volumes of poetry with Enitharmon Editions. She has been a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at King’ s College, London and the British Library, is a former Eric Gregory award winner and and also former Chairman … Continue reading →

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FACES AND VASES

Posted on February 12, 2024 by anthonyhowelljournal

Recent developments: drawing in lead pencil over indigo/black paint. Several drawings done with the eyes closed. Erasure on vases done with the eyes closed. The vases are inspired by a line from one of my own poems: the broken vase … Continue reading →

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Of a Snake and a Stith

Posted on February 2, 2024 by anthonyhowelljournal

From Arthur Golding’s A Moral Fabletalk. Seems a bit like NATO threatening Russia. A “stith” is an anvil. A snake, being in malice with a stith, laboured to bite off a piece of it. But the more fiercely he bit, … Continue reading →

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Gonzalo Lira on Victoria Nuland

Posted on January 17, 2024 by anthonyhowelljournal

A piece by the intrepid journalist Gonzalo Lira – murdered recently in a Ukrainian jail.  

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Colonel Douglas Macgregor on the state of the world today

Posted on January 14, 2024 by anthonyhowelljournal

Colonel Macgregor is to my mind one the most astute commentators on the state of affairs that exists in the world today, and this interview with a German site gives a very good introduction to his thought. Douglas Abbott Macgregor … Continue reading →

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Heyzine Books – Read some of my work for free online.

Posted on January 5, 2024 by anthonyhowelljournal

I have published several of my books on this attractive site which closely resembles a printed book in its format. You can read them all for free. There are plenty of my earlier books in print and on Abebooks, Amazon … Continue reading →

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The Runiad

Posted on December 29, 2023 by anthonyhowelljournal

Welcome to The Runiad This is the site on my journal for the epic I started writing in 2023. There will be 24 books to it, making it the length of the Odyssey. It will take me several years to … Continue reading →

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AS IF IT WERE A BOW – Poems and paintings from Thailand

Posted on December 12, 2023 by anthonyhowelljournal

AS IF IT WERE A BOW is a Heyzine flipbook. Read it for free. This is the link – https://heyzine.com/flip-book/86a5281b7f.html These poems and paintings were all done on my wonderful trip to Thailand last year – hosted by Bhorani Nissaisorakarn. … Continue reading →

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Twice as hard, thrice as hard, four times as hard.

Posted on December 5, 2023 by anthonyhowelljournal

“An eye for an eye” (Biblical Hebrew: עַיִן תַּחַת עַיִן, ʿayīn taḥaṯ ʿayīn) is a commandment found in the Book of Exodus 21:23–27 expressing the principle of reciprocal justice measure for measure. The earliest known use of the principle appears … Continue reading →

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