Category Archives: Reviews

Mardaani 1, 2 and 3

Posted on April 13, 2026 by anthonyhowelljournal

Until now I have not been a fan of Bollywood movies, but I watched Mardaani 1, which came out in 2014, directed by Pradeep Sarkar, and written by Gopi Puthran. I found it full of suspense, informative, quite terrifying and … Continue reading →

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Andrea Loseries: The Scholar and Cremation Ground Yogini

Posted on December 10, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

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

Posted on November 18, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

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

Posted on July 11, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

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

Posted on March 26, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

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”

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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The Indian Jungle

Posted on May 23, 2024 by anthonyhowelljournal

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.

Posted on July 1, 2023 by anthonyhowelljournal

    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

Posted on November 7, 2022 by anthonyhowelljournal

A new essay in The Fortnightly Review!

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How Different Countries View War

Posted on November 7, 2022 by anthonyhowelljournal

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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