Category Archives: Poetry

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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Celebrating Edward Field. One hundred years old today!

Posted on June 7, 2024 by anthonyhowelljournal

Congratulations, Edward! CELEBRATING HIS ASS they try to block your dick with their little pills x for blood pressure, prostate, heart they figure you’re an old guy x so what’s the difference and just to stay alive x you go … Continue reading →

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ABSTRACTIONS

Posted on May 29, 2024 by anthonyhowelljournal

To accompany my COLLECTED LONGER POEMS – now published by Grey Suit Editions UK – I am releasing another Heyzine book. This is my collected ABSTRACTIONS Click on the link for a free online copy of this collection of my … Continue reading →

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The Runiad – book 7 – Agape or Eros

Posted on May 14, 2024 by anthonyhowelljournal

Book 7 of the Runiad is now available. And an extract is published in The Fortnightly Review here. As usual, the entire epic so far (now books 1 to 8) is available on this Heyzine flipbook link

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Writing at The Room – June 9 at 3 pm

Posted on May 13, 2024 by anthonyhowelljournal

WRITING AT THE ROOM – Poetry, text, sound, song 3 pm Sunday June 9. Featuring Tom Bland and Dominic Lyne Hosted by Anthony Howell and Patricia Ahern The Room, 33 Holcombe Road, Tottenham Hale/Bruce Grove London N17 9AS – enquiries: … Continue reading →

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