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Anatomy of Emptiness
x It is not easy to create emptiness. What should you tip it into? A deserted square, Possibly by moonlight? Time is the perspective Rendering its depth where melancholy toys with metaphysics In some abstracted kind of way. Emptiness Recalls … Continue reading
Snap
x I was a war widow’s only child. Her mother was a frightful tease. She would say anything to get a rise Out of my mother or me. A war widow herself, She lived with her house-keeper As my mother … Continue reading
Dinghy
Posted in art, Politics, war
Tagged Anthony Howell, dinghy, immigration, watercolour
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Clemency at White Lodge
x THE SUMMER-HOUSE BURIED BY SNOW x There were girls asleep on the beds, upstairs and down. I was living in the dreams of Paul Delvaux. When they woke up, it was slowly, slowly, and then One hit another on … Continue reading
World War 1 – Charles Fouqueray – artist
I just acquired 9 wonderful prints by Charles Fouqueray – a war artist I had never heard of. Charles Dominique Fouqueray (Le Mans, 23 April 1869 – 28 March 1956) was a French painter. He studied at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris under Alexandre Cabanel and Fernand … Continue reading
My Father and his Motorbike with its Side-car
WILDERNESS ROAD x While seagulls fight for lamp‑posts near the timber stores, Inside the drawer, his folded airmail fades. Behind those bricked-up windows, boarded doors, His motor-bike once led your small parades. x You lost its little rider where the … Continue reading
Posted in art, Poetry, war
Tagged Aley Howell, Eli Rosenbluth, motorbike with sidecar, my father, Naples 45, poetry, war
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The Underground Lurches through the Underworld
x …You will pay Alan your last respects. The date conflicts With a meet proposed by a flirt. Two desires are thus at war And their dispute wrenches you apart, surges like the current In a battery being charged beneath … Continue reading
Posted in art, Poetry, The Runiad
Tagged Anthony Howell, Father Christmas, Red Bull, The Runiad, The Underground
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Inheritance Tax
The concept of inheritance tax, specifically the vicesima hereditatum, was introduced by the Romans under Emperor Augustus, making them one of the first to implement such a tax. I checked this out because Boadicea complains about it. x …Hence, although, … Continue reading
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Tagged Boadicea, farmers, inheritance tax, The Runiad
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Deborah on Sigurd
More than forty years ago! My mother was a child prodigy as an artist. On one of her paintings my grandmother has written in pencil, “asked for by Sickert”. I am pleased with this painting of her crossing a ploughed … Continue reading
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