Tag Archives: Anthony Howell

Autumn

AUTUMN, a fragment of a diary in verse, has just been re-issued as a Grey Suit Heyzine edition See also this list of all books presented in this format CHAINLINK gave Autumn an excellent review, and did an interview with … Continue reading

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THEOSIS

x Uber delivers you your order from MacDonalds. Now you can relax and watch the game; A pop trash white who has somehow risen to the top. x As monarch now you might be constitutional But you’re not. Turns out … Continue reading

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A Post for New Year’s day 2026! Plus a Review and an Interview…

Great to find this post today in THE HIGH WINDOW. These are taken from what is now titled my Shorter Poems – which can be read on this Heyzine link. Other works I have published on Heyzine can be read … Continue reading

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The Underground Lurches through the Underworld

x …You will pay Alan your last respects. The date conflicts With a meet proposed by a flirt. Two desires are thus at war And their dispute wrenches you apart, surges like the current In a battery being charged beneath … Continue reading

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Two Unforgettable Poets

Nicholas Lafitte (1943-1970) and George Pitts (1951-2017) There are two poets who should not be forgotten, one British and the other American. Here, I want to share my thoughts about their work. ***** Poet of light, of the sea remembered … Continue reading

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The Oligarch

x The deep artist stumbles backwards, backwards into a past That can’t be seen. Because that artist faces the other way, Anticipating horrors that progress would inflict upon us all, As evidenced by the tractors that have come to block … Continue reading

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Summer

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Asprezza and Sprezzatura – A Paean to the Pioneer of the Madrigal – my homage to William Drummond

(First published in The Fortnightly Review, 16 Nov 2015 – and now to be found online as an appendix to The Step is the Foot) “Like the Idalian queen,Her hair about her eyne,With neck and breast’s ripe apples to be … Continue reading

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Review of my Collected Longer Poems in London Grip

Very pleased to discover this review from Jennifer Johnson! I have also attached the review below. Collected Longer PoemsAnthony HowellGrey Suit EditionsPaperback ISBN 978-1-903006-37-5e-Book ISBN 978-1-903006-37-5280pp £20.00 Anthony Howell, 80, has a Wikipedia page showing his many achievements. He worked … Continue reading

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Richard Lovelace: a Poet who Means a Lot to me

There are the poets of the canon, and then there are the poets you think with. I mean, poets whose method has a bearing on your own. They are often to be found not on the highroad of literature but … Continue reading

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