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No Selection for Old Farts

Posted on September 26, 2016 by anthonyhowelljournal

Every single submission of mine to poetry magazines has been rejected – to date, for the last three years; but acceptance had become a rarity since 2010. A list of repeated rejections includes all the standard, Arts Council subsidised, UK … Continue reading →

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No Posts for Old Farts

Posted on September 26, 2016 by anthonyhowelljournal

Hi Anthony I’m sorry that you weren’t shortlisted for the vacant post here in Creative Writing. I know how much effort and emotional energy goes into a job application, and how disappointing it is not to get an interview. There … Continue reading →

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LINKS TO NEW POEMS

Posted on June 7, 2016 by anthonyhowelljournal

A new poem now on Blue of Noon And I am very pleased that the new poems I have written exploring the mixed meter form of the madrigal can now be found at this link: Journal of Poetics Research More… … Continue reading →

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My Part in the Downfall of Everything

Posted on April 28, 2016 by anthonyhowelljournal

First published 2015, my satire. The full story can be found in Go forth and Serve, Martin Rosenbluth, 1961. Library of Congress cat. no. 60-53237 Source: My Part in the Downfall of Everything

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CLASP Late modernist poetry in the 1970s

Posted on February 4, 2016 by anthonyhowelljournal

Tony Lopez posted this on Facebook, just as my own copy came through the post. Just received a copy of *Clasp: late modernist poetry in London in the 1970s*, edited by Ken Edwards and Robert Hampson and published by Tony Frazer at Shearsman … Continue reading →

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TOTTENHAM CLOUDS – and a CLOUD MUSEUM

Posted on January 9, 2016 by anthonyhowelljournal

A cloud tree! I will credit this photo as soon as I find the name of the photographer A wonderful blog  Tottenham Clouds  – which celebrates the weather and Luke Howard – “Namer of Clouds”  who lived in Tottenham and … Continue reading →

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Stewart Lee: “The most controversial thing you can do is be sincere in a world of irony.”

Posted on October 21, 2015 by anthonyhowelljournal

So pleased to be mentioned here!  Stewart has been enthusiastic before and it is wonderful that he continues to be so encouraging.  Please click on the link below for an article by him that mentions my work. Stewart Lee His original … Continue reading →

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IN THE LAND OF THE CENTAURS

Posted on October 4, 2015 by anthonyhowelljournal

I just watched Mama Mia At the end of this post is a version from the short lyrics of the Greek anthology of Philodemus – whose poem I translated on the beach where Mama Mia was filmed. Watching the movie … Continue reading →

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This essay is a homage to Adolfo Bioy Casares and also refers to other writers I enjoy.

Posted on October 2, 2015 by anthonyhowelljournal

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The Invention of Morel and its Context In his 1940 prologue to this celebrated novella by Adolfo Bioy Casares, Jorge Luis Borges exalts adventure stories and “works of reasoned imagination” –from G. K. Chesterton to Kafka…

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Poetry International 1973

Posted on August 14, 2015 by anthonyhowelljournal

  The youngest poet and the oldest in Poetry International 1973

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