Category Archives: Poetry

Abstractions published on Heyzine

Posted on September 2, 2024 by anthonyhowelljournal

I have published a selection of my abstract writings as a free Heyzine online book here I have been engaged in writing liberated from any deliberate attempt to convey a meaning since the 1960s. I consider as ‘abstract’ my writings … Continue reading →

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CHARYBDIS

Posted on August 30, 2024 by anthonyhowelljournal

A new slideshow on Youtube I don’t do modern art, I do deep art. Unlike those modernists who derived abstraction from figuration – Mondrian for instance – I begin from chaos and just see how far I can get towards … Continue reading →

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THE RUNIAD – Book 11

Posted on August 26, 2024 by anthonyhowelljournal

Extract from Book 11 in the Fortnightly Review here. As a work in progress Books 1-11 can be read for free as a Heyzine online book. On the Heyzine link there is a contents page – p 5. All the pages … Continue reading →

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All about the Stern Gang

Posted on August 25, 2024 by anthonyhowelljournal

At 38:27 that is my great uncle Felix (Pinhas Rosen) sitting two from the left from Shamir. Head of the Liberal party and Minister of Justice, he brought in proportional representation, which has been blamed for enabling extremist splinter groups … Continue reading →

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The RUNIAD – Book 10

Posted on July 25, 2024 by anthonyhowelljournal

Excerpt from Book 10 in the Fortnightly Review here. As a work in progress Books 1-10 can be read for free as a Heyzine online book. On the Heyzine link there is a contents page – p 5. All the pages are … Continue reading →

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TANGO

Posted on July 8, 2024 by anthonyhowelljournal

x I have to dance a tango with Joe. Commission I should not have taken on though Reduced to a flourish at the show. Joe can’t get the footwork. The red carpet Doesn’t help his pivot. No, Joe, no! Christ, … Continue reading →

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The Broken Vase

Posted on July 3, 2024 by anthonyhowelljournal

I have just published a new slide-show on Youtube here! The drawings in pencil on a black watercolour ground are inspired by a passage in The Runiad – the epic poem I am writing. Stay with me now. There is … Continue reading →

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The RUNIAD – Book 9

Posted on July 1, 2024 by anthonyhowelljournal

Excerpt from Book 9 in the Fortnightly Review here. The Runiad is a project I started in 2023 – an epic poem that will be 24 books long. As a work in progress it can be read for free as … Continue reading →

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Kazuko Shiraishi – “the Allen Ginsberg of Japan”

Posted on June 17, 2024 by anthonyhowelljournal

Kazuko Shiraishi has died aged 93. She was, to my mind, the most significant Japanese poet of her generation. She was a modernist, outsider poet who got her start in Katsue Kitazono’s avant-garde “VVOU” poetry group, which led Shiraishi to … Continue reading →

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Observations on the Caesura

Posted on June 13, 2024 by anthonyhowelljournal

Here are the conventional terms for metrical feet in poetry. a line with two feet is a dimeter; a line with three feet is a trimeter; a line with four feet is a tetrameter; a line with five feet is … Continue reading →

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