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Category Archives: Poetry
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 Poetry, art, 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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Take the Case of Mrs C.
Story worthy of the wife of Bath: What do women want? Well, take the case of Mrs C. She and Bill come to mind, for me. If that was your own White House, this is my own war. I can … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Politics, war
Tagged Hillary Clinton, poetry and politics, Politics
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Asprezza and Sprezzatura – A Paean to the Pioneer of the Madrigal – my homage to William Drummond
(First published in The Fortnightly Review, 16 Nov 2015 – and now to be found online as an appendix to The Step is the Foot) “Like the Idalian queen,Her hair about her eyne,With neck and breast’s ripe apples to be … Continue reading
Dunera Exhibition in the Library of New South Wales
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
Posted in art, Poetry, Politics, Uncategorised
Tagged Dunera, Eli Howell, enemy aliens, internment camp, Library of New South Wales, my father
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Review of my Collected Longer Poems in London Grip
Very pleased to discover this review from Jennifer Johnson! I have also attached the review below. Collected Longer PoemsAnthony HowellGrey Suit EditionsPaperback ISBN 978-1-903006-37-5e-Book ISBN 978-1-903006-37-5280pp £20.00 Anthony Howell, 80, has a Wikipedia page showing his many achievements. He worked … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Reviews
Tagged Anthony Howell, Collected Longer Poems, Jennifer Johnson, London Grip, poetry
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Narnia
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
Richard Lovelace: a Poet who Means a Lot to me
There are the poets of the canon, and then there are the poets you think with. I mean, poets whose method has a bearing on your own. They are often to be found not on the highroad of literature but … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Howell, Irony, oxymoron, poetry, Richard Lovelace
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