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About anthonyhowelljournal

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

Digital Masks

Posted on June 21, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

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 →

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Why “Runiad”?

Posted on June 17, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

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 →

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Earth Day 2025 – Kristian Evans and Nathan Roach

Posted on June 9, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

 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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Gaza

Posted on June 3, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

See also WAR

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The Runiad – books 1 – 24 – Updated Update

Posted on May 31, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

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 →

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Rhododendron

Posted on May 22, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

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 →

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From Book 7 of The Runiad

Posted on May 18, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

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

Posted on May 16, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

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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A Serpentine

Posted on May 13, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

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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THE RUNIAD – Books 1 to 23 – (Now completed – 24)

Posted on May 9, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

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 of a page-turn. Click the bottom right corner of the page … Continue reading →

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