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

The Walking Dance

Posted on December 9, 2019 by anthonyhowelljournal

Fay Laflin’s excellent Tango for Balance class is featured on the BBC here It was broadcast on Radio 4 10.30 am Tuesday 10th December 2019 Here is a LINK to the recording.

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How I see this journal

Posted on December 6, 2019 by anthonyhowelljournal

Originally posted on anthonyhowelljournal:
I am advised that the best blogs are focused.   But I want this site to reflect the diversity of my interests – poetry, dance, performance art, essays and music.  Over the years, I have become…

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Yeah! High Fives all round!

Posted on November 28, 2019 by anthonyhowelljournal

Update August 2023: over 65,000 views! Over 40,000 visitors! Thanks to all of you who have clicked on any post of mine. As an outlying writer, a maverick and ancient fellow, I hugely appreciate the response and attention I get … Continue reading →

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Iliassa Sequin 1940-2019

Posted on November 12, 2019 by anthonyhowelljournal

The death has occurred of Iliassa Sequin, a poet much admired by the New York School. She was a friend of Nobel prize winner Odysseas Elytis, Paul Celan, Max de Carvalho and John Ashbery. Grey Suit Editions will be publishing … Continue reading →

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Bracelli’s modern art – 1624

Posted on October 26, 2019 by anthonyhowelljournal

https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/bracellis-bizzarie-di-varie-figure-1624/ I have long maintained that art has its rivers that have been flowing through culture at all times, and my friend Roger Malbert just sent me the interesting link (above), posted by The Public Domain Review. This bears out … Continue reading →

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Thoughts from the Wife of Bath

Posted on October 19, 2019 by anthonyhowelljournal

             “My liege lady, generally,” quod he, “Wommen desiren to have sovereynetee As wel over hir housbond as hir love, And for to been in maistrie hym above. This is youre mooste desir, thogh ye me kille. Dooth as … Continue reading →

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An Inquiry into the Sublime

Posted on October 4, 2019 by anthonyhowelljournal

Walter de Maria Lightning Field 1977 This talk for Norfolk Contemporary Art Society in Norwich, Wednesday 2nd October, 2019, is in essence a much edited amalgam of two of my essays in Art and its Dark Side: the eight rivers … Continue reading →

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Nubia

Posted on October 1, 2019 by anthonyhowelljournal

Rome and Nubia With this link to an excellent documentary about what happened after the deaths of Anthony and Cleopatra, I’m going to open a post I shall return to on Nubia. It was thus I was introduced to Queen … Continue reading →

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Tangoshiva

Posted on September 17, 2019 by anthonyhowelljournal

Very pleased that The Step is the Foot is selling so well on Ebay. Our Seller is Tangoshiva. And see also Shiva and my Songs of Realisation Our ebay outlet name is Tangoshiva. Click on this ebay link to purchase Grey … Continue reading →

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Freewheeling

Posted on September 2, 2019 by anthonyhowelljournal

For a round-up of good late Summer reads go to The Fortnightly Review   Post-Summer Reading: Hebdomeros by Giorgio de Chirico; introduction by John Ashbery (1992 edition) Exact Change | 258 pp | £14.93 $17.95 . Tales I Told My Mother  by Robert … Continue reading →

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