Category Archives: art

Christmas Gloom

Posted on December 13, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

x MOBILITY * Unable to decide quite where to be, I’m based in the car this Christmas, Travelling from relation to relation.  Think of me As an eighty horse-power snail Whose shell goes wherever it’s expected.  In between, I make … Continue reading →

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The Oligarch

Posted on December 12, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

x The deep artist stumbles backwards, backwards into a past That can’t be seen. Because that artist faces the other way, Anticipating horrors that progress would inflict upon us all, As evidenced by the tractors that have come to block … Continue reading →

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Summer

Posted on December 6, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal
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Destruction of The City

Posted on December 1, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal
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Solomon’s Knot

Posted on November 24, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

Solomon’s Knot performing Handel’s “Israel in Egypt” in St Mary-at-Hill for the 80th birthday of Alan Moses. x x Sir Alan George Moses (born 29 November 1945) is a former Lord Justice of Appeal, a Court of Appeal Judge and the former chairman of Independent … Continue reading →

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Dunera Exhibition in the Library of New South Wales

Posted on November 19, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

Hugely impressed with the Library of New South Wales catalogue to the exhibition about the internment camp in Hay, Australia where my father and other jews were interned as “enemy aliens” for the first years of WW2. My father kept … Continue reading →

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Narnia

Posted on November 15, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

x Open the wardrobe door. Push past the gowns and the suits, Past the furs and the overcoats, and you are there. There in Narnia. Trigger warning however: it’s not at all like the Narnia in “The Lion, the Witch … Continue reading →

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The Great Cheese Riot

Posted on October 28, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

x THE GREAT CHEESE RIOT x Boston had its Tea Party. What of the Great Cheese Riot? Was it something to keep quiet about, happening as it did In 1766 at Nottingham’s annual Goose Fair Where you were free to … Continue reading →

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The Cob

Posted on October 25, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

x Taller than anything built so far, the Cob gleams golden In the sun : each curved window sees to that. Rivalling Mount Everest, only its air-con ensures That anyone can breathe inside its penthouse. x Seriously, the Gherkin and … Continue reading →

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The Warrior

Posted on October 21, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

x I am not suffering, me, from post-traumatic stress disorder. There is a reason for what we do. Their wives have weaponised Their wombs. Our problem is our democracy. We call it mowing the lawn, think of it as a … Continue reading →

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