Category Archives: Poetry

Earth Day 2025 – Kristian Evans and Nathan Roach

Posted on June 9, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPkBj7X1dfQ A Film by Kristian Evans & Nathan Roach This is one of the best poem/films I have come across. It often uses a constant moving image (reeds moving, waves breaking etc) which I have always found the ideal backdrop … Continue reading →

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The Runiad – books 1 – 24 – Updated Update

Posted on May 31, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

The final draft of my epic poem the Runiad is now completed. Click on the link to read Books 1 to 24: This link above opens the final version with my own illustrations. Since they are done with graphite on … Continue reading →

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Rhododendron

Posted on May 22, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

x It is always the same window, one out of which they have climbed Into the garden; leaving the house to its dreams at the fringes of sleep: Out of it by the back stairs or in by my half … Continue reading →

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From Book 7 of The Runiad

Posted on May 18, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

x At a time when St. Francis was staying in the town of Gubbio, There appeared in that region a wolf so maddened by lack of a meal It took to devouring humans as well as beasts in the wild. … Continue reading →

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Memories of an Island

Posted on May 16, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

Memories of a idyllic island on the Green Coast of Brazil. X ….Things that prefer to be hidden from us, without the effrontery Of the small seven-coloured birds that flit through the quiet, Perch for a sec on a branch … Continue reading →

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A Serpentine

Posted on May 13, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

As well as the scansion of a regular metre such as pentameter, in verse, the madrigal was a form that used the scansion of prime numbers – 3 and 5. F.T. Prince has pointed this out in his book about … Continue reading →

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THE RUNIAD – Books 1 to 23 – (Now completed – 24)

Posted on May 9, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

Books 1 to 24 (now) of my (now completed) epic poem can now be read on this Heyzine link I suggest expanding the image and turning off the sound. Click the bottom corner of the page to turn the pages, … Continue reading →

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Rio, back in 2012

Posted on May 1, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

Here is a Youtube slideshow It’s a slideshow of paintings I made in Rio in 2012, when I escaped the London winter to spend summer in Brazil. Below are some poems I wrote at the time: x TRISTEZA x That … Continue reading →

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The Runiad – Books 1 to 22

Posted on April 18, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

x To read this epic in progress, please click this Heyzine link. Book 22 was written in Rio de Janeiro. I suggest expanding the image and turning off the sound. Click the bottom corner of the page to turn the pages, … Continue reading →

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Vista

Posted on April 17, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

x Each of us pursues a path, each ant has its very own Destination. However, in my opinion, poetry’s been ruined by An excess of thought: thought that sneers at action and Reduces observation to a metaphor crawling across the … Continue reading →

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