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

The Script of Storms by Michael Hersch

Posted on August 8, 2022 by anthonyhowelljournal

I am very pleased that the composer Michael Hersch has set several of my versions of the poems of Iraqi poet Fawzi Karim to music in his new work THE SCRIPT OF STORMS – featuring the work of Christopher Middleton … Continue reading →

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Tangoshiva – my selling site on Ebay

Posted on August 1, 2022 by anthonyhowelljournal

Click TANGOSHIVA For books by Gwendolyn Leick, Iliassa Sequin, Donald Gardner, David Plante, The Theatre of Mistakes and myself. All recently published books by myself or by Grey Suit are now listed on Tangoshiva. This is the link for my … Continue reading →

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The Step is the Foot

Posted on July 23, 2022 by anthonyhowelljournal

More about this book at the website for Grey Suit Editions It can be ordered from Amazon etc Here is an extract from Chapter 1: The Gait of the Lizard The gaits of animals/the units of Orthometry I never had … Continue reading →

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Plum Pudding Books

Posted on July 21, 2022 by anthonyhowelljournal

Here is the link to Plum Pudding Books This is my new review for The Fortnightly Review, featuring: Against Decorumby Michael Hampton. IAM 2022 | 120 pp paper | £14.95 $22.33 .The Serpent Coiled in Naplesby Marius Kociejowski. Armchair Traveller, Haus Publishing, … Continue reading →

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All our Perverse Pleasures

Posted on July 10, 2022 by anthonyhowelljournal

This being Giorgio de Chirico’s birthday, I’m adding this link to his contemporary epitome Trevor Winkfield. It’s an entertaining interview, and includes several images of Winkfield’s unique vision. Both de Chirico and Trevor Winkfield were favourites of John Ashbery. Anyway, … Continue reading →

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Operation Violet Oak

Posted on July 3, 2022 by anthonyhowelljournal

Here is my review of Operation Violet Oak in the Fortnightly Review.

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Jack the Ripper

Posted on June 23, 2022 by anthonyhowelljournal
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AN ANGRY BLUE

Posted on June 15, 2022 by anthonyhowelljournal

From Notions of a Mirror (Anvil Press Poetry, 1983) * How to be reason, how to be hopeless in light: Exhaustion throwing off the bad Other proposals — letter to get off To people of pedestrian letters, petitions * Somebody causes out … Continue reading →

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Martyrdom

Posted on May 22, 2022 by anthonyhowelljournal

Saint Catherine of Alexandria by Caravaggio My article on martyrdom down the ages – and reflections on Ukraine – published here by The Fortnightly Review in May 2022. And here is my poem for Shireen Abu Akleh, a martryr in … Continue reading →

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Shireen

Posted on May 11, 2022 by anthonyhowelljournal

x You journos, you’re poets on active duty, For you can get disappeared, positively aimed at, Even with PRESS writ all over you. Maybe even because…. Today you’re Al-Jazeera, tomorrow Some scruffy independent. x And then you have your caricatures … Continue reading →

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