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Category Archives: Poetry
Autumn
AUTUMN, a fragment of a diary in verse, has just been re-issued as a Grey Suit Heyzine edition See also this list of all books presented in this format CHAINLINK gave Autumn an excellent review, and did an interview with … Continue reading
THEOSIS
x Uber delivers you your order from MacDonalds. Now you can relax and watch the game; A pop trash white who has somehow risen to the top. x As monarch now you might be constitutional But you’re not. Turns out … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Politics, war
Tagged Anthony Howell, Donald Trump, poetry, satire, The last trump
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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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A Post for New Year’s day 2026! Plus a Review and an Interview…
Great to find this post today in THE HIGH WINDOW. These are taken from what is now titled my Shorter Poems – which can be read on this Heyzine link. Other works I have published on Heyzine can be read … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged Anthony Howell, poetry, Selected Poems, Shorter Poems, The High Window
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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
Posted in art, Poetry, Politics
Tagged Boadicea, farmers, inheritance tax, The Runiad
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Two Unforgettable Poets
Nicholas Lafitte (1943-1970) and George Pitts (1951-2017) There are two poets who should not be forgotten, one British and the other American. Here, I want to share my thoughts about their work. ***** Poet of light, of the sea remembered … Continue reading
Christmas Gloom
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
Posted in art, Poetry, Politics
Tagged Books for Christmas, homelessness, poetry, Politics, Zelensky starmer macron merz
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The Oligarch
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
Posted in art, Poetry, Politics, The Runiad
Tagged Anthony Howell, art, poetry, the oligarch, The Runiad
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Andrea Loseries: The Scholar and Cremation Ground Yogini
Olivia Clementine has recorded a marvellous conversation with Andrea; informative and truly intriguing. “You will hear about Andrea’s path from being a 19-year-old student in Paris, to journeying to the Himalayas to study with yogic masters, including her teacher the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Reviews, Uncategorized
Tagged Andrea Loseries, India, Skulls, Tibet, Yogini
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