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My Father and his Motorbike with its Side-car
WILDERNESS ROAD x While seagulls fight for lamp‑posts near the timber stores, Inside the drawer, his folded airmail fades. Behind those bricked-up windows, boarded doors, His motor-bike once led your small parades. x You lost its little rider where the … Continue reading
Posted in art, Poetry, war
Tagged Aley Howell, Eli Rosenbluth, motorbike with sidecar, my father, Naples 45, poetry, war
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A Post for New Year’s day 2026! Plus a Review and an Interview…
Great to find this post today in THE HIGH WINDOW. These are taken from what is now titled my Shorter Poems – which can be read on this Heyzine link. Other works I have published on Heyzine can be read … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged Anthony Howell, poetry, Selected Poems, Shorter Poems, The High Window
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Perfidious Albion
Terrific interview of Harley Schlanger by Garland Nixon. See also The Geographical Pivot of History Harley Schlanger is a prominent figure associated with the Schiller Institute, a political and economic think tank founded in 1984. He is known for his … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Whistleblower Lit
Tagged Britain rules the Waves, Geopolitics, Harley Schlanger, Nord Stream
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The Underground Lurches through the Underworld
x …You will pay Alan your last respects. The date conflicts With a meet proposed by a flirt. Two desires are thus at war And their dispute wrenches you apart, surges like the current In a battery being charged beneath … Continue reading
Posted in art, Poetry, The Runiad
Tagged Anthony Howell, Father Christmas, Red Bull, The Runiad, The Underground
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Inheritance Tax
The concept of inheritance tax, specifically the vicesima hereditatum, was introduced by the Romans under Emperor Augustus, making them one of the first to implement such a tax. I checked this out because Boadicea complains about it. x …Hence, although, … Continue reading
Posted in art, Poetry, Politics
Tagged Boadicea, farmers, inheritance tax, The Runiad
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Deborah on Sigurd
More than forty years ago! My mother was a child prodigy as an artist. On one of her paintings my grandmother has written in pencil, “asked for by Sickert”. I am pleased with this painting of her crossing a ploughed … Continue reading
Two Unforgettable Poets
Nicholas Lafitte (1943-1970) and George Pitts (1951-2017) There are two poets who should not be forgotten, one British and the other American. Here, I want to share my thoughts about their work. ***** Poet of light, of the sea remembered … Continue reading
New MI6 head Blaise Metreweli could not be made up
x Blaise Florence Metreweli CMG (born 30 July 1977) is a British civil servant, currently Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), following the retirement of Sir Richard Moore. She is the first female chief of MI6. Metreweli’s father, Constantine … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, war, Whistleblower Lit
Tagged Blaise Metreweli, MI6, Nazi legacy, Ukraine
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Christmas Gloom
x MOBILITY * Unable to decide quite where to be, I’m based in the car this Christmas, Travelling from relation to relation. Think of me As an eighty horse-power snail Whose shell goes wherever it’s expected. In between, I make … Continue reading
Posted in art, Poetry, Politics
Tagged Books for Christmas, homelessness, poetry, Politics, Zelensky starmer macron merz
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The Oligarch
x The deep artist stumbles backwards, backwards into a past That can’t be seen. Because that artist faces the other way, Anticipating horrors that progress would inflict upon us all, As evidenced by the tractors that have come to block … Continue reading
Posted in art, Poetry, Politics, The Runiad
Tagged Anthony Howell, art, poetry, the oligarch, The Runiad
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