Category Archives: Poetry

WHAT STARTED IT?

Posted on April 11, 2019 by anthonyhowelljournal

Gulls on the pitch sound faint through the night at five. Lights are wasted on streets forsaken even by foxes. Hooked beaks inspire each other’s desolate, distant mewing Over the somewhat more diminished drone of one lone juggernaut Orbiting the … Continue reading →

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Anthony Howell – Readings and Performances

Posted on February 26, 2019 by anthonyhowelljournal

Readings and Performances Click the above link for a connection to this selection of performances in various genres. I have added a vimeo link to OBJECTS to this page, a performance I created in the 1990s. And I have added a … Continue reading →

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Writing as the plough turns.

Posted on January 30, 2019 by anthonyhowelljournal

Very interesting article about Boustrophedon writing which I came across  – by David L O’Hara. It proved rewarding to research I am did into the relationship between dance steps and the metrical foot in poetic scansion, with regard to the … Continue reading →

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Variations on Pygmalion

Posted on January 25, 2019 by anthonyhowelljournal

Jean-Léon Gérôme   THE METAMORPHOSIS OF PIGMALION’S IMAGE 1. Pigmalion, whose high love-hating mind Disdain’d to yield servile affection, Or amorous suit to any woman-kind, Knowing their wants, and men’s perfection. Yet Love at length forc’d him to know his … Continue reading →

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Incomprehensible Lesson – Poems by Fawzi Karim – English Versions by Anthony Howell

Posted on January 24, 2019 by anthonyhowelljournal

I was honoured to be included on the 2019 shortlist for the Sarah Maguire Prize for Poetry in Translation  for my versions of Incomprehensible Lesson by Fawzi Karim. I feel that Fawzi would have been pleased about this as well. My … Continue reading →

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POETRY AT THE ROOM

Posted on January 15, 2019 by anthonyhowelljournal

Sorry, guys! Poetry at the Room is still closed. Will post any new events in due course – Events are at 33 Holcombe Road, Tottenham Hale, London N17 9AS our very last was: Tuesday 9th July 2019 at 7.30 pm … Continue reading →

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The Forbidden Rose

Posted on January 4, 2019 by anthonyhowelljournal

Honoured to have my poem set to music and sung so sweetly. I find it plays better on Youtube at 480 p. Battista Pradal (1964) The Forbidden Rose, for Tenor and Cello. Poem by Anthony Howell. Alessandro Cortello, tenor Riccardo … Continue reading →

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A CHAPERONE

Posted on December 23, 2018 by anthonyhowelljournal

The monkeys are in among the mangoes. As for the lovely one, she is emerging from Under the trees, the trees laden with mangoes And monkeys.  She’s ambling out of the grove   Bearing the nail marks left by the … Continue reading →

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THE BOBOS OF MACRON

Posted on December 17, 2018 by anthonyhowelljournal

  The Bobos never man the barricades or burn the town. They’re unimpressed by crowds that weaken one’s identity. The very verb ‘to man’ offends their feminist vocabulary. What matters more, to them, is ridding us of fossil fuels, Wicked … Continue reading →

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THE MORTUARY OF ART

Posted on December 17, 2018 by anthonyhowelljournal

  To wander through this mortuary of art Underneath a flyover at Clignancourt Is sad not solemn – unlike Père Lachaise – For this is where the unmemorable makes its unsung exit.   Bland landscapes on hardboard, lifeless drawings From … Continue reading →

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