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

Dreadful as the Abortions of an Angel

Posted on November 9, 2014 by anthonyhowelljournal

Click on the image to find the essay! Grey Suit Editions re-published THE CROSS OF CARL by Walter Owen in Spring 2021.

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A reading from SILENT HIGHWAY at the launch.

Posted on November 5, 2014 by anthonyhowelljournal

SILENT HIGHWAY was launched at Doggett’s Coat & Badge on Blackfriars Bridge on 28 October 2014.  Click on the image for the reading I did in the Terrace Bar, overlooking the dark waters underneath the bridge, where Calvi was found … Continue reading →

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Silent Highway at The Fortnightly Review

Posted on October 5, 2014 by anthonyhowelljournal

Click the image to see the post on the Fortnightly Review. 2nd edition with a few crucial changes to the text available at Carcanet  

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Silent Highway

Posted on October 3, 2014 by anthonyhowelljournal

A poem about the Thames by Anthony Howell, published Autumn 2014 by Anvil Press Poetry – now available from Carcanet. Featuring Rutger Hauer as a sinister golf-loving cardinal, there’s an interesting film The Bankers of God  which goes deep into the … Continue reading →

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Caprice

Posted on September 20, 2014 by anthonyhowelljournal

There was an old man who said, ‘Hush! I perceive a young bird in this bush! When they said – ‘Is it small?’ He replied – ‘Not at all! It is four times as big as the bush!’   xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx(Edward … Continue reading →

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Grotesque: Ancient and Modern

Posted on August 8, 2014 by anthonyhowelljournal

“In the famous Kerch terracotta collection we find figurines of senile pregnant hags. Moreover, the old hags are laughing. This is a typical and very strongly expressed grotesque.  It is ambivalent.  It is pregnant death, a death that gives birth.  … Continue reading →

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IMMORALISM

Posted on July 17, 2014 by anthonyhowelljournal

  And having thus created me, Thus rooted me, he bade me grow Guiltless forever, like a tree That buds and blooms, nor seeks to know The law by which it prospers so …   André Gide refers to these … Continue reading →

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Lars Elling

Posted on July 9, 2014 by anthonyhowelljournal

  Interesting artist! More about him at http://www.larselling.no/

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Fetishism and the Uncanny

Posted on July 7, 2014 by anthonyhowelljournal

Remember how the media presented Roentgen’s discovery of X-rays towards the end of the last century: the idea was that X-rays allow us to see a person who is still alive as if he were already dead, reduced to a … Continue reading →

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Prison, Pumping Iron and Performance

Posted on April 1, 2014 by anthonyhowelljournal

“It is only through imagination that men become aware of what the world might be.” xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxBertrand Russell, Education and the Good Life. These days, the emphasis of the penal system is on teaching inmates ‘functional skills’, abilities which are supposed … Continue reading →

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