Category Archives: Reviews

Andrea Loseries: The Scholar and Cremation Ground Yogini

Olivia Clementine has recorded a marvellous conversation with Andrea; informative and truly intriguing. “You will hear about Andrea’s path from being a 19-year-old student in Paris, to journeying to the Himalayas to study with yogic masters, including her teacher the … Continue reading

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Review of my Collected Longer Poems in London Grip

Very pleased to discover this review from Jennifer Johnson! I have also attached the review below. Collected Longer PoemsAnthony HowellGrey Suit EditionsPaperback ISBN 978-1-903006-37-5e-Book ISBN 978-1-903006-37-5280pp £20.00 Anthony Howell, 80, has a Wikipedia page showing his many achievements. He worked … Continue reading

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Aristotle Versus Ad Reinhardt

I was very pleased to have this review published in the brilliant magazine Critique d’Art 64 – with a translation into French 64 | Printemps/été : CRITIQUE D’ART 64 Articles –https://journals.openedition.org/critiquedart/122227 The above is a link that will disappear in a few months time. … Continue reading

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My Review of ‘The University of Bliss’ by Julian Stannard

The Fortnightly Review has migrated to SUBSTACK – and here is the link to my review

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Kazuko Shiraishi – “the Allen Ginsberg of Japan”

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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The Indian Jungle

Very pleased that my review of The Indian Jungle: Psychoanalysis and Non-Western Civilizations (published by Karnac) has just come out in The Fortnightly. Sadly the author Sudhir Kakar has recently passed away. A link to a website related to his … Continue reading

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Recent contributions to magazines etc: some useful links.

    Here is the link to new publishing activities  It includes poems, reviews and essays and is currently up-to-date. Ebook and flip-book publications which can be read for free can be found here

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On Difficulty in Poetry

A new essay in The Fortnightly Review!

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How Different Countries View War

Andrei Martyanov (SmoothieX12 on Youtube) cites the movie Come and See when he explains in the second part of a post called Economics of Military Industrial Complexes in Russia and US how the Russians conceive of war and how the … Continue reading

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Plum Pudding Books

Here is the link to Plum Pudding Books This is my new review for The Fortnightly Review, featuring: Against Decorumby Michael Hampton. IAM 2022 | 120 pp paper | £14.95 $22.33 .The Serpent Coiled in Naplesby Marius Kociejowski. Armchair Traveller, Haus Publishing, … Continue reading

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