Category Archives: Poetry

Silent Highway at The Fortnightly Review

Posted on October 5, 2014 by anthonyhowelljournal

Click the image to see the post on the Fortnightly Review. 2nd edition with a few crucial changes to the text available at Carcanet  

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Silent Highway

Posted on October 3, 2014 by anthonyhowelljournal

A poem about the Thames by Anthony Howell, published Autumn 2014 by Anvil Press Poetry – now available from Carcanet. Featuring Rutger Hauer as a sinister golf-loving cardinal, there’s an interesting film The Bankers of God  which goes deep into the … Continue reading →

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THE GREY SUIT INITIATIVE

Posted on July 11, 2013 by anthonyhowelljournal

The brilliant Grey Suit Issues 1-12 are now online! These are hour-long videos featuring poets, musicians, performance artists and film-makers. They were created in the 90s and are an essential record to live art and poetry in that era. Thanks … Continue reading →

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Reading with Fawzi Karim

Posted on April 1, 2013 by anthonyhowelljournal

Back in 2013, Fawzi Karim and I had a new book of my translations of his poetry out from Carcanet – called Incomprehensible Lesson Click for more details and a poem from the book For reviews of Plague Lands and … Continue reading →

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MODERNIST MANQUÉ

Posted on November 27, 2012 by anthonyhowelljournal

‘And when upon your gentle breasts I lie (In due obedience to Nature’s laws) It is in truth iniquity on high That they should open out in chests of drawers… …Surrealist love! For God’s sake change your form Back to … Continue reading →

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QUEENS WEST

Posted on March 19, 2012 by anthonyhowelljournal

Hardly one open shop remains Inside this draughty vending hall: It never gets to share the circulation Of carrier-bagged pedestrians with cash to spare. Business is so bad that the discount clothing store Closes for lunch from eleven till quarter … Continue reading →

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Grey Suit: Poem Stream

Posted on January 20, 2012 by anthonyhowelljournal

This is a page on Facebook for poems chosen by myself, Kerry-Lee Powell and Pamela Stewart. Grey Suit: Poem Stream The page is just for poems, which may attract occasional comments. So it is a stream which may easily be … Continue reading →

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CATHAR COUNTRY

Posted on January 18, 2012 by anthonyhowelljournal

They are here like us at Queribus And at Peyrepertuse, fiddling with their Camera batteries, dragging their red setters Up congested spirals onto views. When they meet each other unexpectedly Hyperbolic protests of astonishment Lose their fizz in about five … Continue reading →

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BATRACHIANS

Posted on January 13, 2012 by anthonyhowelljournal

A wary nod suffices on the cycle track. It follows an extensive reach where breezes Dint the idling river. Clustered round A sewer’s lid, cow parsley thrives, as muddied Clouds abet the treacherous stillness of This prelude to the weir … Continue reading →

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Modern Love

Posted on January 6, 2012 by anthonyhowelljournal

Now I ask her to kiss her fingers and then touch Her privates just as though the kisses came from me. And she tells me that she’s done it, someone I’ve never met, whose passionate responses On the internet only … Continue reading →

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