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Digital Masks
Very pleased to see this work by The Theatre of Mistakes on the front cover of Gazeta Grupy 404 – an arts magazine from Poznan in Poland. Design by Maciej Koziowski. It features a brilliant article on the relationship of … Continue reading
Why “Runiad”?
Why Runiad as the title of the epic poem I have just completed? Rune is a word which may be translated as ‘a secret, a mystery, a rumour or a whisper’. It can also suggest an enigmatic or incantatory line … Continue reading
Earth Day 2025 – Kristian Evans and Nathan Roach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPkBj7X1dfQ A Film by Kristian Evans & Nathan Roach This is one of the best poem/films I have come across. It often uses a constant moving image (reeds moving, waves breaking etc) which I have always found the ideal backdrop … Continue reading
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Tagged Kristian Evans, Nathan Roach, poem/film, poetry, sand-dunes
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The Runiad – books 1 – 24 – Updated Update
The final draft of my epic poem the Runiad is now completed. Click on the link to read Books 1 to 24: This link above opens the final version with my own illustrations. Since they are done with graphite on … Continue reading
Rhododendron
x It is always the same window, one out of which they have climbed Into the garden; leaving the house to its dreams at the fringes of sleep: Out of it by the back stairs or in by my half … Continue reading
From Book 7 of The Runiad
x At a time when St. Francis was staying in the town of Gubbio, There appeared in that region a wolf so maddened by lack of a meal It took to devouring humans as well as beasts in the wild. … Continue reading
Posted in art, Poetry, The Runiad
Tagged Anthony Howell, poetry, St Francis, The Runiad, the wolf of Gubbio
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Memories of an Island
Memories of a idyllic island on the Green Coast of Brazil. X ….Things that prefer to be hidden from us, without the effrontery Of the small seven-coloured birds that flit through the quiet, Perch for a sec on a branch … Continue reading
Posted in art, Brazil, Poetry, The Runiad
Tagged Anthony Howell, Brazil, Green Coast, mobile, poetry, The Runiad, watercolour
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A Serpentine
As well as the scansion of a regular metre such as pentameter, in verse, the madrigal was a form that used the scansion of prime numbers – 3 and 5. F.T. Prince has pointed this out in his book about … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged madrigal form, poetry, prime numbers, Serpentine, verse forms
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