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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
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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
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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
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Tagged madrigal form, poetry, prime numbers, Serpentine, verse forms
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THE RUNIAD – Books 1 to 23 – (Now completed – 24)
Books 1 to 24 (now) of my (now completed) epic poem can now be read on this Heyzine link I suggest expanding the image and turning off the sound. Click the bottom corner of the page to turn the pages, … Continue reading
Posted in Brazil, Ebooks and flipbooks, Poetry, The Runiad
Tagged Anthony Howell, epic poem, poetry, The Runiad
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Rio, back in 2012
Here is a Youtube slideshow It’s a slideshow of paintings I made in Rio in 2012, when I escaped the London winter to spend summer in Brazil. Below are some poems I wrote at the time: x TRISTEZA x That … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Howell, Brazil, poems from Rio, watercolours
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Capoeira
x x x x x Capoeira drawings from 2012.
The Island off the Green Coast
x x x x And to this post I am now adding a section from Book 23 of my poem The Runiad: x Now here seems far away from the pressing urgency Experienced in the West. Sure it’s an illusion, … Continue reading
Posted in art, Brazil, Ebooks and flipbooks, The Runiad
Tagged Anthony Howell, drawings, Island off Brazil, poetry, Rio, seven coloured birds, The Runiad
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