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TOTTENHAM TREES POETRY READING AT THE ROOM
Posted in Poetry
Tagged Hilary Davies, Open Mike, Poetry of Trees, The Room Tottenham, Wangari Maathai
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FACES AND VASES
Recent developments: drawing in lead pencil over indigo/black paint.
Several drawings done with the eyes closed. Erasure on vases done with the eyes closed.
The vases are inspired by a line from one of my own poems: the broken vase competes with the vase complete.
These works are the outcome first of drawing with the eyes closed, and then of painting with the eyes closed, and then of combining these activities.
Of a Snake and a Stith
From Arthur Golding’s A Moral Fabletalk. Seems a bit like NATO threatening Russia. A “stith” is an anvil.
A snake, being in malice with a stith, laboured to bite off a piece of it. But the more fiercely he bit, the more he hurt himself. For whilst that being blinded with the witchery of presumption, he considered not that the hardness and substantialness of the steel could not be overcome by the tenderness and brittleness of his teeth, and that his contending was against an enemy whose revenge he might not hope to scape, and whose strength he was not able to impair. He unawares bereft himself of his teeth, and received of the stithy such answer as this: ‘O too, too mad and worse than mad! Although thy teeth were of brass, and as fast riveted in thy head as could be, yet could they nothing avail against the hardness and substantialness of my nature.’
The Morals: This fable reproveth the fondness of such as, being of no strength at all or having very little, contend with those that are of such force and power as is able to despise and subdue even the stoutest that be.
MHRA Tudor and Stuart Translations (Volume 12) edited by Liza Blake and Kathryn Vomero Santos, Modern Humanities Research Association.
Gonzalo Lira on Victoria Nuland
A piece by the intrepid journalist Gonzalo Lira – murdered recently in a Ukrainian jail.
Posted in Politics, war, Whistleblower Lit
Tagged Gonzalo Lira, Ukraine, Victoria Nuland
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Colonel Douglas Macgregor on the state of the world today
Colonel Macgregor is to my mind one the most astute commentators on the state of affairs that exists in the world today, and this interview with a German site gives a very good introduction to his thought.
Douglas Abbott Macgregor (born January 4, 1947) is a retired U.S. Army colonel and government official, and an author, consultant, and television commentator. He was a leader in an early tank battle in the Gulf War and was a top planner in the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. His 1997 book Breaking the Phalanx argued for radical reforms inside the Army.
After leaving the military in 2004, he became more politically active. In 2020, then-president Donald Trump proposed Macgregor as ambassador to Germany, but the Senate blocked the nomination. On November 11, 2020, a Pentagon spokesperson announced that Macgregor had been hired to serve as Senior Advisor to the Acting Secretary of Defense, a post he held for less than three months. Trump also appointed him to the board of the United States Military Academy, but the appointment was terminated by the incumbent president Joe Biden. Macgregor regularly contributes to Fox News and has appeared on the Russian state-funded channel RT.
Heyzine Books – Read some of my work for free online.
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, Amazon and Ebay (Tangoshiva) if you want a physical object. And Grey Suit Editions has recently published my Complete Longer Poems.
These days, though, I care more about getting a wider readership than I do about sales, and Heyzine is a system which enables this. So do click on the link to each book I have so far published with Heyzine. You will find these links below. The bar under the text enables you to slide to the page you wish to read. Expand to fill the screen. I suggest turning off the sound of the page being turned.
Listed here are the free titles so far:
THE RUNIAD – my epic poem, completed 2025 – illustrated by the Author – It was a challenge to write a poem as long as The Odyssey. There are 24 books, all in verse. Here is the heyzine link.
ADULT POEMS – Erotic poems written over some 60 years. Here is the Heyzine link. The picture is from the back cover of my first book of poems Inside the Castle, published in 1969!
AUTUMN – Fragment of a Diary in Verse. Here is the Heyzine Link.
CANCELLED IN PARIS – Selected Essays. More to follow. Here is the Heyzine link.
SHORTER POEMS – Here is the heyzine link.
AS IF IT WERE A BOW – my book of poetry written in Thailand (with my own drawings and paintings). Here is the heyzine link
THREE NOVELLAS – here is the Heyzine Link:
Another Heyzine book – my abstract poems – (with my own deep art paintings). It has been brought out online to accompany my Collected Longer Poems – now published by Grey Suit Editions UK. Here is the Heyzine link.
Temptation in Whispers is an abstract novel which first appeared as an Argotist ebook – I have now added it to this heyzine book library
I have also published Passenger as a Heyzine book. It contains poems written in the USA, mainly around New York, New England and the Maritimes (plus Canada) with my own water-colours as illustrations.
PHILOCTETES – my version of the play by Sophocles. Here is the Heyzine link
And another Heyzine book: Major Stede Bonnet – Gentleman Pirate
This is a novel of letters about a real pirate who was also a gentleman, and the only pirate to have purchased his own sloop. An enigmatic character, who may have become a pirate because of marital problems. Here is the Heyzine link
I have also added Further Poems: here is the Heyzine link
Anthony Howell
Open the Heyzine link. I suggest clicking on the ‘sound’ icon to switch it off! The arrow at the foot of the page enables one to turn the pages. Expand the image to full screen.
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For details about published works that can usually be purchased via Amazon or ebay please visit WRITINGS
My selling site for GREY SUIT EDITIONS and other books can be found on ebay at Tangoshiva
See also GREY SUIT EDITIONS.
Posted in Ebooks and flipbooks, FICTION, Grey Suit Editions, HEYZINE BOOKS, Key Links, Poetry, Thailand, The Runiad
Tagged Anthony Howell, epic, Essays, Grey Suit Editions UK, HEYZINE BOOKS, novellas, poetry, Runiad, Thailand
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The Runiad
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 complete.
So far I have completed a fair draft of books 1 to 22. Click on the link above to read what I have managed to write so far – (my advice is to turn off the sound, enlarge the screen and click on the arrow at the foot of the starting page).
Every few months, I hope to add another book. The link will remain the same – unless a change is notified here.
Rather than being one single narrative, stories and fables get entangled in it, and so it’s more like the Canterbury Tales than like a classical epic. There are also philosophical debates, culled from various sources as well as scenes from my life. I think of it as a quantum mosaic.
Comments are welcome. They will be a source of feedback.
The right is reserved to delete inappropriate comments.
After a number of books are completed I may publish them, but I am not making an effort to go into print for now. However, I’m happy to share, since each book will have some relevance to the time when it was written, and I’m happy if you feel like sharing the link with friends who might be interested.
AS IF IT WERE A BOW – Poems and paintings from Thailand
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.
The flipbook is a good vehicle for these as it allows for good reproductions of my watercolours. My advice is, turn the sound off. At the foot of the page to the right is an arrow – click on this to turn the page. You can also expand the pages for a larger view.
Please feel free to share the link. I am happy to get this flipbook circulated as widely as possible. The more readers the better.
UPDATE – More than 1400 views already. I am so pleased. Thanks to all my readers!
Twice as hard, thrice as hard, four times as hard.
“An eye for an eye” (Biblical Hebrew: עַיִן תַּחַת עַיִן, ʿayīn taḥaṯ ʿayīn) is a commandment found in the Book of Exodus 21:23–27 expressing the principle of reciprocal justice measure for measure. The earliest known use of the principle appears in the Code of Hammurabi, which predates the Hebrew Bible. The law of exact retaliation (Latin: lex talionis), or reciprocal justice, bears the same principle that a person who has injured another person is to be penalized to a similar degree by the injured party. In softer interpretations, it means the victim receives the [estimated] value of the injury in compensation. The intent behind the principle was to restrict compensation to the value of the loss. And yet my Israeli relatives would say, “Our policy is, hit back twice as hard.”
But now all my relatives have left Israel.
Denis Boyles
Dr Denis Boyles has passed away after a short illness.
Dr Boyles and Mrs Boyles have been teaching at the Chavagnes International College since 2008. He was editor of The Fortnightly Review.
He published my work for many years as well as my reviews and essays. I am deeply saddened.
The Fortnightly continues. Here is a link to my latest review.
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