Art is not created in a vacuum. If you click on the “Links” link on my website (anthonyhowell.org) you get to artists, poets, musicians and film-makers I admire as well as to a variety of my own interests.
Went to North Acton to a recording studio back in January 2015, to record an hour of my poetry for The Poetry Archive. I read two long poems (Silent Highway and Dancers in Daylight) and then several shorter poems. What a great resource the Archive is. I feel honoured to have been invited to record.
And now all the poems are available, some for free, some for a modest price. Here is one of them:
Click on the image for the link to the Fortnightly article, published back in 2015.
with Anthony and Fay on Friday Nights
at The Room 33 Holcombe Road, Tottenham Hale, N17 9AS
Tango Fun and Exercise 8 – 9 pm –All levels – This is a class which focuses on giving students a sequence of exercises for musicality, footwork, the body spiral and the technique of moving neatly with your partner. Many of the exercises are really enjoyable to work on together. It’s a valuable class for beginners and more advanced dancers who would like to brush up on their skills. Beginners, come and start having fun exploring this rewarding dance! Experienced dancers, come and improve your axis. £30 for six lessons, paid in advance on first lesson. £7 drop in.
Fierce Tango – 9 – 10.00pm – FREE practica till midnight –Level –advanced/intermediate.
Here experienced tango dancers may hone and extend their skills, paying close attention to detail as well as taking on new challenges. The standard for Fierce Tango will be pitched to the more advanced in the class but the mechanics of the action will be clearly explained. Participants will be encouraged to give reciprocal help and support to each other so that all can improve their style and technique in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. Guest teachers will be invited sometimes and there will be opportunities for sharing. Issues raised by workshop members will be considered as tuition targets.
£30 for six lessons, paid in advance on first lesson. £7 drop in (you only pay for the lessons you attend).
Tango Schumann (Lindi De Angelis and Anthony Howell) performing in Zwickau for the Schumann Bicentennial 2010.
Movement 1
Movement 2
Movement 3
Schumann saw his music as articulating emotion. We worked very hard to discover the content in these movements, sensing depression in the first movement, playful flirtation in the second movement and a terrific argument in the third.
This is a page on Facebook for poems chosen by myself, Kerry-Lee Powell and Pamela Stewart.
The page is just for poems, which may attract occasional comments. So it is a stream which may easily be recycled by poems previously shown being copied and pasted back in. The stream is a wheel, like the Milky Way – an expanding wheel of verse.
Anthony Howell and Lindi De Angelis perform Negative Time: Three Movements to Classical Music
1 Eric Satie – Tres Gymnopedias No. 1, Cécile Ousset/2 Claude Debussy – D’un cahier d’esquisses, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet/3 Alexander Scriabin – Prelude Op. 16, no 1, Vladimir Horowitz
Then a tango to a Jazz Impression – Duke Ellington orchestra – Isfahan
Like ‘negative space’, negative time suggests that form is created by what is missed out. Each dance in this series misses out some usually included ingredient in the art of tango – that is the art of leading and following in time. The ingredients jettisoned are connection, contact, and thirdly development. Finally all the ingredients come together in a fourth dance to the jazz impressionism of Duke Ellington.
Here are the links:
Negative Time at Ikon, Birmingham, wall installation by David Tremlett
Isfahan at The Room
More of our performances, including Schumann’s Fantasiestucke 1, 2 and 3 – danced at Zwickau (Schumann’s birthplace) for the Schumann Bicentennial – can be found on our website
Easier to order through Anvil than Amazon. I have added a link.
A poem about the Thames by Anthony Howell, published this Autumn by Anvil Press Poetry
The centrepiece of ‘Silent Highway’ is the title-poem which celebrates the role of the river Thames in the life of London. It is written as a sequence that looks at history and the present: from Pocahontas’s voyage to the arrival of the ‘Windrush’ bringing immigrants from Jamaica, the mysterious death of Roberto Calvi and the ‘Marchioness’ disaster, via the Fire of London and many incidents in which the river has been spectator or participant.
Howell’s mix of verse styles and skill with cameos ensures that interest never flags. In other poems he demonstrates his pleasure in avoiding the predictable and in writing on a wide variety of subjects. Among the…
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RIVAL
Whereas she’s no great burden to my bed,
Her visitor should be assigned the floor.
He teases, as she never ever would,
With irritating tugs at the extension.
Nicely, she respects the need for exits,
Leaving my door into the weeds ajar,
And, being something of a Thespian herself,
Appreciates my more dramatic entrances.
Mornings, she’s responsive to the prayer,
Opening the altar to secure for me
Libations worth the lowering of hauteur.
Just as a nutriment stales she changes the flavour.
Has the most brushable calves, I declare,
Although I’m rather partial to his trouser.
Never knowingly shall I sink myself unsheathed
Into her contour. There are times, alas,
One suffers from unconscious fits of tenderness,
And nothing’s to be done, one has to tread
The memory still soft beneath the paw.
Of course I maul that maul-provoking visitor
Mewling his resentment of the ardour
Lavished upon me by her. She has a use
For him, it seems, although it’s clear
That in her breast my tenure’s ever paramount.
From SILENT HIGHWAY my book of poems, published in 2014 by Anvil, now distributed by Carcanet. The picture is of my grandson Vinicius phoning a Siamese!
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