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About anthonyhowelljournal

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

Asprezza and Sprezzatura – A Paean to the Pioneer of the Madrigal – my homage to William Drummond

Posted on November 27, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

(First published in The Fortnightly Review, 16 Nov 2015 – and now to be found online as an appendix to The Step is the Foot) “Like the Idalian queen,Her hair about her eyne,With neck and breast’s ripe apples to be … Continue reading →

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Starmer’s Sinister Rise to Power

Posted on November 25, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

Ash Sarker interviews Paul Holden Tremendous new book by Paul Holden. The Fraud is a meticulously researched account of the political machinations at the heart of the Labour Party currently ruling Britain. And Colonel Doug Macgregor brilliantly analyses just where … Continue reading →

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Solomon’s Knot

Posted on November 24, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

Solomon’s Knot performing Handel’s “Israel in Egypt” in St Mary-at-Hill for the 80th birthday of Alan Moses. x x Sir Alan George Moses (born 29 November 1945) is a former Lord Justice of Appeal, a Court of Appeal Judge and the former chairman of Independent … Continue reading →

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Dunera Exhibition in the Library of New South Wales

Posted on November 19, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

Hugely impressed with the Library of New South Wales catalogue to the exhibition about the internment camp in Hay, Australia where my father and other jews were interned as “enemy aliens” for the first years of WW2. My father kept … Continue reading →

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Review of my Collected Longer Poems in London Grip

Posted on November 18, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

Very pleased to discover this review from Jennifer Johnson! I have also attached the review below. Collected Longer PoemsAnthony HowellGrey Suit EditionsPaperback ISBN 978-1-903006-37-5e-Book ISBN 978-1-903006-37-5280pp £20.00 Anthony Howell, 80, has a Wikipedia page showing his many achievements. He worked … Continue reading →

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Narnia

Posted on November 15, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

x Open the wardrobe door. Push past the gowns and the suits, Past the furs and the overcoats, and you are there. There in Narnia. Trigger warning however: it’s not at all like the Narnia in “The Lion, the Witch … Continue reading →

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Richard Lovelace: a Poet who Means a Lot to me

Posted on November 9, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

There are the poets of the canon, and then there are the poets you think with. I mean, poets whose method has a bearing on your own. They are often to be found not on the highroad of literature but … Continue reading →

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Du Dsi Tschun

Posted on November 9, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

The Chinese tale of Du Dsi Tschun is told in Book 5 of THE RUNIAD (move the pagination bar below the text along to page 115). x …….‘Once upon a time there was a man, One Du Dsi Tschun: a … Continue reading →

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The Deserted Garage

Posted on November 4, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

x Cracks have appeared in the concrete and some tough, urbanised grasses Have sprung up.  You can’t get onto its forecourt with wheels any more: Some circular blocks have been dropped across entrance and exit While metal roller blinds have … Continue reading →

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Terror in the Sudan

Posted on October 31, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

Mass murder has been going on in the Sudan for years. It just got worse.

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