Category Archives: Poetry

Now up on The Poetry Archive! And an Error Rectified!

Originally posted on anthonyhowelljournal:
The recordings I made of some of my poems, including “Innisfree”, are now online at the  National Poetry Archive. The Archive has more material recorded, including the whole of  “Silent Highway”.  These recordings are now available for a…

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THE BALLAD OF MULAN

Creak creak, and again a creak. It’s Mu-lan’s loom there, by the door. But you don’t hear its shuttle speak. You hear her sighs and nothing more. You ask her, Who is in your heart? You ask her, Who is … Continue reading

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Beverley at Iguazu – Read by Anthony Howell

Beverley at Iguazu This poem was first published in Dancers in Daylight, Anvil, London 2003. More poem-films and videos of performances here

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My Part in the Downfall of Everything

First published 2015, my satire. Click the image to see the post in the Fortnightly Review! The full story can be found in Go forth and Serve, Martin Rosenbluth, 1961. Library of Congress cat. no. 60-53237 The poem is now … Continue reading

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Now up on The Poetry Archive!

The recordings I made of some of my poems, including “Innisfree”, are now online at the  National Poetry Archive. The Archive has more material recorded, including the whole of  “Silent Highway”.  These recordings are now available for a very modest price on … Continue reading

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Diane Arbus and Howard Nemerov

Very interesting post about sibling rivalry in the arts of poetry and photography. Has to be said, Nemerov was no slouch when it came to poetry.  Here is one of his best. BRAINSTORM The house was shaken by a rising … Continue reading

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Blue of Noon

A New online poetry ‘zine.  Glad to have a poem here at Blue of Noon Check the magazine’s archive for provocative poems by other poets. The poem is one that I consider abstract, and now there is another here – … Continue reading

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Click Links!

Art is not created in a vacuum.  If you click on the “Links” link on my website (anthonyhowell.org)  you get to artists, poets, musicians and film-makers I admire as well as to a variety of my own interests. http://www.anthonyhowell.org/Links.htm

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Recording for the Archive

Went to North Acton to a recording studio back in January 2015, to record an hour of my poetry for The Poetry Archive.  I read two long poems (Silent Highway and Dancers in Daylight) and then several shorter poems.  What … Continue reading

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The T. S. Eliot Prize

Click on the image for the link to the Fortnightly article, published back in 2015.

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