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Tagged books by Anthony Howell, erotica, Fawzi Karim, In the Company of Others, novels, poetry, Silent Highway, Spending, Statius, The Ogre's Wife, theory, translation
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My First Book
This was the photo Alexandra Lawrence took for the back cover of my first book – Inside the Castle – published by Barrie & Rockliffe in 1969. I would love to find the original print of this photograph, but cannot trace the brilliant photographer.
The New York Beard Tax and Other Strange Beard Facts!
I am interested in hairiness in the light of Enkidu and Moses,that is hirsute, maybe even horned, men coming out of the wilderness, coming “in from the cold” – and the difference between hair as wild power (Samson) and cultivated facial hair – all in the light of the notion that lowering levels of testosterone led to increased culture and art as our species became more “feminized”. Of course, our weapons became more sophisticated as well and killed other people more efficiently.
But see also re Beards and Pubes
It’s ‘Decembeard’ and time to get the beard growing to raise money for research into bowel cancer. It’s a fantastic cause and, in its honour, here are some beardy sidenotes from history to get us inspired…and donating!
1) Peter the Great’s tax on beards in the eighteenth century is well known. Few people probably know that New York apparently nearly had its own version in the early twentieth century.
In 1907 a member of the New Jersey State Legislature introduced a bill for the graded taxation of men with beards. The mystery legislator argued that men who grew beards not only had something to hide but, worse still, grew their beards for ‘ulterior and often base motives’. The preamble to the bill pointed out that such evil ‘celebrities’ as ‘Holmes the Trunk Murderer’ and ‘Palmer the Poisoner’ were amongst prominent whisker-wearers. As far as the legislator was concerned this…
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Marianne Faithfull
This was posted in November 2014. Hearing the sad news yesterday, I am now reposting it with links to my Fortnightly Review essay and the song I wrote for her.
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As I am going to hear Marianne give a talk tonight for the Friends of the V & A, I thought I would repost my essay on her here
And here is a link to the song!
Posted in Essays, Music
Tagged John Dunbar, Knightsbridge, Leighton Park, Marianne Faithfull, the sixties
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Testosterone and Art
A very interesting article published on her blog by Nathalia J Calderon.
It’s about testosterone levels and art – not sure I quite agree about the conclusion!
http://nathaliajcalderon.wordpress.com//?s=testosterone&search=Go
The F. T. Prince Memorial Reading 2012
Tim Dooley, John Haynes, Lee Harwood, Todd Swift, Anthony Howell, John Hall, Tom Raworth and Peter Robinson all read a poem of F.T. Prince’s and one of their own at The F.T.Prince Memorial Symposium September 2012.
Prince reads his poems on Grey Suit: Video for Art & Literature Issue 1
Posted in Poetry
Tagged Anthony Howell, F T Prince, Grey Suit 1, John Hall, John Haynes, Lee Harwood, Peter Robinson, poetry, Tim Dooley, Todd Swift, Tom Raworth
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Horns of Moses and Enkidu
Moses has horns and so does Enkidu, in the epic of Gilgamesh. Enkidu was a wild man, he lived in the wilderness, and Moses spent 40 years in the wilderness. Like Moses, Enkidu came in from the cold, he came with a message (in Enkidu’s case loyalty and friendship were what he brought to King Gilgamesh – human companionship). The myth is of course written on tablets.
Click on the interesting link below to read more about the horns controversy.
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Tagged Enkidu, Gilgamesh, Horns of Moses, light beams, Moses, solid light
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Dreadful as the Abortions of an Angel
Click on the image to find the essay!
Grey Suit Editions re-published THE CROSS OF CARL by Walter Owen in Spring 2021.
Posted in Essays
Tagged Anthony Howell, Edward Field, Kerry-Lee Powell, Robert Browning, trench warfare, Walter Owen, war, war poetry
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A reading from SILENT HIGHWAY at the launch.
SILENT HIGHWAY was launched at Doggett’s Coat & Badge on Blackfriars Bridge on 28 October 2014. Click on the image for the reading I did in the Terrace Bar, overlooking the dark waters underneath the bridge, where Calvi was found hanging, with a brick in his pocket. So this was a site-specific poetry reading, demonstrating my interest in loco-descriptive verse.
Posted in Poetry, Politics
Tagged Anthony Howell, Blackfriars, Pocahontas, poetry, Roberto Calvi, Thames, The Thames
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Silent Highway at The Fortnightly Review
Click the image to see the post on the Fortnightly Review.
2nd edition with a few crucial changes to the text available at Carcanet
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