LINKS TO NEW POEMS, ESSAYS AND REVIEWS

Posted on March 22, 2016 by anthonyhowelljournal

(This post last updated 20 May 2026)

Very pleased to see I DO MORE DEEPLY published finally in THE EXACTING CLAM MAGAZINE Issue 21

Review of Melissa McCarthy’s Photo, Phyto, Proto, Nitro published in The Fortnightly Review

Ten Poems from Shorter Poems 1969-2022 published in The High Window.

A Review of Autumn, plus an interview in CHAINLINK JOURNAL

Review of Anthony Howell’s Collected Longer Poems by Jennifer Johnson published in London Grip,

Book 10 of The Runiad – an extract now in The Fortnightly Review

Extracts from the RUNIAD in The High Window

and in The Fortnightly Review

Very pleased that my review of The Indian Jungle: Psychoanalysis and Non-Western Civilizations (published by Karnac) has just come out in The Fortnightly.

Extract from the Runiad book 7 published here in the Fortnightly Review

Essay Ethics is Aesthetics published in Wittgenstein and Performance edited by Mischa Twitchin ISBN 9781538175095 – 2023

Extracts from the Runiad books 5 and 6 are published here in the Fortnightly Review.

Extracts from the Runiad books 3 and 4 are published here in the Fortnightly Review.

Extracts from the Runiad books 1 and 2 are published here in the Fortnightly Review.

My Review of Three Ingenious Authors in the Fortnightly Review

Part 2 of my Poems and Pictures from Thailand Just out from the High Window. The link for part 1

can be found below.

My review of The Ghost Net by Alan Jenkins is on this link. It is published by the Fortnightly Review.

The Fortnightly also published three poems from Thailand

Very pleased to see part one of my three part artist in residence series at The High Window.

New essay on Constitutional Monarchies has come out in The Fortnightly Review and also there is my

review of Jody Stewart’s Selected Poems.

Very pleased with this perceptive review by Michelene Wandor – the first for Invention of Reality, my own latest book of poetry.

Here is a link to a very nice introduction to Invention of Reality posted by the High Window. Here is a link to Envelopes– my poem about the ‘suicided’ artist Mark Lombardi.

This poem has just been published (15/08/22) in The High Window.

One of my versions of the Comtesse de Noailles appeared in the Spectator, late Summer 2021, as well as a new poem of mine. An essay on the Belle Epoch and 13 poems by the Comtesse de Noailles were also published by the Fortnightly Review.

Torpedo Fair – an eclogue came out 24/09/21 in The Fortnightly Review.

New England and the Maritimes – New poems with my own water-colours to go with them in the High Window

Three New Poems here at the Fortnightly Review. Now with sound recordings!

Ticklishness was first published in The Fortnightly also.

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And it was great to see another extract from one of my Songs of Realisation on Tottenham Trees. Click the link: Epping

SONGS OF REALISATION is now published by The High Window Press for further details click SONGS

Hubble (the last of the Songs of Realisation) was published by the Journal of Poetics Research here.

The link above is an archived one, and here are several other contributions by me to the Journal of Poetics Research.

A Few Words on Alain-Fournier

Three poems

Three More Poems

An essay – Verse from the Desert Country 

Click The New Versailles  for this poem published in The Fortnightly Review.

See also Incomprehensible Lesson – from Carcanet, versions of Fawzi Karim.

See also Consciousness (with Mutilation), from Odd Volumes. This has poems embedded in its text. The book (a non-fiction novel) was published mid-February 2019.

A Clearing, Sunday Castle and Auto-Analysis have all been published in Sept/Oct 2018 Spectators. These appear in my collection Songs of Realisation, from The High Window Press. The Spectator has also published, on 1 Sept 2018, The Early Mists of September from Alain-Fournier’s Poems – which I translated with Anthony Costello and Anita Marsh – published by Carcanet (2017).

A DIATRIBE – has been published here

There is also a new poem now on Blue of Noon

My short essay on Alain-Fournier is among several contributions to the Journal of Poetics Research – unfortunately the link to this and other contributions to this excellent online journal seems to be down.

More about the madrigal and its history can be found at A PAEAN TO THE PIONEER OF THE MADRIGAL.

And also two poems and some translations can be found at the link to this excellent magazine: The High Window

My thanks to all these supportive sites: Blue of Noon, Journal of Poetics Research, The Fortnightly Review and The High Window, and also to offline publications, The Spectator and Poetry Salzburg Review who have also recently taken poems.

Several of my books which cannot be found on Amazon can be found on Tangoshiva on Ebay.

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CLASP Late modernist poetry in the 1970s

Posted on February 4, 2016 by anthonyhowelljournal

Clasp cover.

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 Books. It is a collection of brief memoirs by Gilbert Adair, Peter Barry, Clive Bush, Paula Claire, Ken Edwards, P.C. Fencott, Paul Green, Robert Hampson, Anthony Howell, Tony Lopez, David Miller, John Muckle, Frances Presley, Elaine Rose, Randell, William Rowe, Gavin Selerie, Robert Sheppard, Iain Sinclair, Valerie Soar, Lawrence Upton, Robert Vas Dias, Stephen Watts, John Welch..

Thanks to Robert and Ken for putting this project together — and to Tony Frazer, as ever, for making it real.

It’s Paula on the cover.

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Is 5

Posted on January 21, 2016 by anthonyhowelljournal

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Ok, so here is a wonderful forward by e. e. cummings, followed by a poem from IS5

FOREWORD TO IS5

On the assumption that my technique is either complicated or original or both, the publishers have politely requested me to write an introduction to this book.

At least my theory of technique, if I have one, is very far from original; nor is it complicated. I can express it in fifteen words, by quoting The Eternal Question And Immortal Answer of burlesk, viz. “Would you hit a woman with a child?—No, I’d hit her with a brick.” Like the burlesk comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement.

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little—somebody who is obsessed by Making. Like all obsessions, the Mak­ing obsession has disadvantages; for instance, my only interest in making money would be to make it. Fortunately, however, I should prefer to make almost anything else, including locomotives and roses. It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my “poems” are competing.

They are also competing with each other, with elephants, and with El Greco.

Ineluctable preoccupation with The Verb gives a poet one priceless advantage: whereas nonmakers must content themselves with the merely undeniable fact that two times two is four, he rejoices in a purely irresist­ible truth (to be found, in abbreviated costume, upon the title page of the present volume).

e.e. cummmings

Is 5

Section xiii

 

It really must

be Nice, never to

 

have no imagination) or never

never to wonder about guys you used to (and them

slim but queens with dam next to nothing

 

on) tangoing

(while a feller tries

to hold down the fifty bucks per

job with one foot and rock a

 

cradle with the other) it Must be

nice never to have no doubts about why you

put the ring

on (and watching her

face grow old and tired to which

 

you’re married and hands get red washing

things and dishes)and to never, never really wonder i

mean about the smell

of babies and how you

 

know the dam rent’s going to and everything and never, never

Never to stand at no window

because i can’t sleep (smoking sawdust

 

cigarettes in the

middle of the night

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TOTTENHAM CLOUDS – and a CLOUD MUSEUM

Posted on January 9, 2016 by anthonyhowelljournal

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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 we all think his lovely derelict house here should be turned into a Cloud Museum. They have also posted my two versions of the poems sent to Luke Howard by Goethe – which it is said he threw in the bin since he couldn’t believe that Goethe would write to him!  The poems are here.

There is also a great post about Luke Howard here:  How The Naming of Clouds Changed the Skies of Art

 

 

 

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Readings

Posted on January 4, 2016 by anthonyhowelljournal

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Click here for Readings

Several of these readings are an exploration of the “Poem Film”.

I find most poem films detract from the words by illustrating the verse.  I therefore evolved the notion of the “constant moving image” – as being most appropriate for poetry.

This is an image (such as the waves breaking on a shore) that keeps repeating itself – so it does move, but at the same time it remains the same.  I think the constancy enables the listener to pay full attention to the words of the poem – since, as far as the image is concerned, nothing changes.

All the poem films on this page evolved from this notion except for the reading from “Silent Highway” – which is simply a record of my introduction to the poem and a brief reading at the launch on Blackfriars Bridge in 2014.

 

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The Mastery of the Suicide Bomber

Posted on December 30, 2015 by anthonyhowelljournal

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My article on Suicide Bombers can be found here:

The Fortnightly Review

This essay, written in 2015, concerns the accurate perception that a drone killing is essentially a cowardly act, and will be perceived as such by supporters of its victims.

PS.  Excellent Article here by Abbas Kadhim on the origins of Wahabi extremism 

Bear in mind, whatever is asserted by the media, Qassem Soleimani was one of the most effective commanders against Daesh and the Caliphate.

 

 

 

 

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GREY SUIT EDITIONS

Posted on December 9, 2015 by anthonyhowelljournal

Grey Suit chapbooks

Grey Suit Editions

WE have moved on since I first posted this, and have now published a further three chap-books – Rosanne Wasserman, Donald Gardner and Hugo Williams. Please click on the link above for details.

Grey Suit Editions, another new arrival, place a similar emphasis on more established poets, and are produced to a high specification, on thick cream pages. The Empty Quarter showcases the Iraqi poet Fawzi Karim’s often wryly self-questioning poems, in versions by Anthony Howell: “A woman slips a foot between my feet: / ‘You want to dance?’ / I change into a ball of eagerness in her hands. / She bounces this on the ground and it never comes to rest”. Kerry-Lee Powell’s The Wreckage, from the same press, is a collection of clear-eyed, slow-burning lyrics inspired by the psychological struggle and suicide of her father, “his heart full of holes”

From a review of poetry chap-books and pamphlets in the TLS.  “The Wee Malt” by Rory Waterman.  Each of these “wee malts” is concentrated, complex, and has a kick – as so many of the best pamphlets tend to.

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A PAEAN TO THE PIONEER OF THE MADRIGAL

Posted on November 16, 2015 by anthonyhowelljournal

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Here is the link to my essay in the Fortnightly Review:

A Paean to the Pioneer of the Madrigal

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Verse from the Desert Country

Posted on October 27, 2015 by anthonyhowelljournal

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Very pleased that the Journal of Poetics Research has republished this essay, which first came out in PN Review:

The link is here:   Verse from the Desert Country

They have also published with it “The Age of the Street” – a poem I wrote in Glebe, Sydney.

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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

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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 post about me is The Best Performance I’ve Ever Seen

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