Category Archives: Poetry

WRITING AT THE ROOM – Poetry, text, sound, song

Posted on March 16, 2024 by anthonyhowelljournal

3 pm Sunday October 6. Featuring Michelene Wandor and Anthony Howell Hosted by Marian Eastwood and Patricia Ahern * The Room, 33 Holcombe Road, Tottenham Hale/Bruce Grove London N17 9AS – enquiries: 0208 801 8577 Open mike. BYO – suggested … Continue reading →

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PUTIN’S DAUGHTER

Posted on March 11, 2024 by anthonyhowelljournal

x Aged eleven, I was sent to meet Putin’s daughter. She was a year or so younger. Smiling, she invited me To go out for a ride with her. Two white horses were provided. She of course rode brilliantly, but … Continue reading →

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Losing a Slave Girl

Posted on March 8, 2024 by anthonyhowelljournal

x Around my garden the little wall is low; In the bailiff’s lodge the lists are seldom checked. I am ashamed to think we were not always kind; I regret your labours, that will never be repaid. The caged bird … Continue reading →

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TOTTENHAM TREES POETRY READING AT THE ROOM

Posted on February 15, 2024 by anthonyhowelljournal

Hilary Davies has published four volumes of poetry with Enitharmon Editions. She has been a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at King’ s College, London and the British Library, is a former Eric Gregory award winner and and also former Chairman … Continue reading →

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Heyzine Books – Read some of my work for free online.

Posted on January 5, 2024 by anthonyhowelljournal

I have published several of my books on this attractive site which closely resembles a printed book in its format. You can read them all for free. There are plenty of my earlier books in print and on Abebooks and … Continue reading →

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The Runiad

Posted on December 29, 2023 by anthonyhowelljournal

Welcome to The Runiad This is the site on my journal for the epic I started writing in 2023. There will be 24 books to it, making it the length of the Odyssey. It will take me several years to … Continue reading →

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AS IF IT WERE A BOW – Poems and paintings from Thailand

Posted on December 12, 2023 by anthonyhowelljournal

AS IF IT WERE A BOW is a Heyzine flipbook. Read it for free. This is the link – https://heyzine.com/flip-book/86a5281b7f.html These poems and paintings were all done on my wonderful trip to Thailand last year – hosted by Bhorani Nissaisorakarn. … Continue reading →

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DURGA

Posted on October 22, 2023 by anthonyhowelljournal

A sculpture of eight-armed ‘Durga Mahishasuramadini’, holding weapons, slaying the demon Mahisasura, emerging out of buffalo. The sculpture dates back to 10th-11th Century CE from the hills of Almora, Uttarakhand & was repatriated from USA in 2018. This is a … Continue reading →

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Vulcan’s Net

Posted on August 27, 2023 by anthonyhowelljournal

x Then with the rich harpe came Pontonous, And in the midst tooke place Demodocus. About him then stood foorth the choise yong men That on man’s first youth made fresh entrie then, Had Art to make their naturall motion … Continue reading →

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Imruil (my version of Imr al Kais)

Posted on August 13, 2023 by anthonyhowelljournal

Imruil – A naturalized version of his ode-book – one of the seven ‘suspended odes’ of pre-Islamic Arabia – came out in 1970 from Barrie & Jenkins, whose editor at the time was Christopher Maclehose. A SELECTION OF LYRICS FROM IMRUIL … Continue reading →

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