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PARKING PERMIT PROFITEERING A Letter to my MP and part of his reply
https://www.thesun.co.uk/motors/29779355/visitors-council-triple-parking-fees-dishonesty/?#Echobox=1723223881 Dear Mr Lammy I have read that Haringey Council has voted to triple the cost of parking, as well as ending daily permits so that only hourly ones will be available. This will completely wipe me out. I will … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged David Lammy, parking permits, profiteering, Tottenham
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Some Images from the River Lee
A rusty boat A sunken boat Another sunken boat Stonebridge Lock, Tottenham A closer look at the lock Hum of bees A web in the thicket
Posted in art
Tagged Anthony Howell, Bees, River Lee, spiders, Stonebridge Lock, sunken boats, Tottenham, watercolours
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The RUNIAD – Book 10
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
Stewart Lee: The best performance I’ve ever seen
Table Moves, Birmingham Art Gallery, 1985 – Photograph: Judith Ahern Stewart Lee The Observer, Sunday 17 October 2010 ‘I was 16,’ says Stewart Lee, ‘and susceptible.’ It was my schoolfriend Simon Smith, perpetually ahead of the curve, who made me … Continue reading
Posted in art, Performance Art
Tagged Anthony Howell, Performance Art, Stuart Lee, The Observer
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Major Stede Bonnet – Gentleman Pirate
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
Posted in Ebooks and flipbooks, FICTION, history and Geography
Tagged FICTION, historical novel, novel of letters, Pirates, Spanish Main
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Maria Zakharova on English Literature!
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
TANGO
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
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 Anthony Howell, fragment, poetry, The Runiad, visual art
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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 Anthony Howell, duality versus the whole., ethics and aesthetics, Galatea, Runiad
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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 Beat Poetry, Japanese poetry, Kazuko Shiraishi, Kenneth Rexroth, New Directions, Poetry and Jazz
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