Tag Archives: Anthony Howell

Anatomy of Emptiness

Posted on January 28, 2026 by anthonyhowelljournal

x It is not easy to create emptiness. What should you tip it into? A deserted square, Possibly by moonlight? Time is the perspective Rendering its depth where melancholy toys with metaphysics In some abstracted kind of way. Emptiness Recalls … Continue reading →

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Snap

Posted on January 22, 2026 by anthonyhowelljournal

x I was a war widow’s only child. Her mother was a frightful tease. She would say anything to get a rise Out of my mother or me. A war widow herself, She lived with her house-keeper As my mother … Continue reading →

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Dinghy

Posted on January 15, 2026 by anthonyhowelljournal
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Clemency at White Lodge

Posted on January 10, 2026 by anthonyhowelljournal

x THE SUMMER-HOUSE BURIED BY SNOW x There were girls asleep on the beds, upstairs and down. I was living in the dreams of Paul Delvaux. When they woke up, it was slowly, slowly, and then One hit another on … Continue reading →

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Autumn

Posted on January 5, 2026 by anthonyhowelljournal

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

Posted on January 4, 2026 by anthonyhowelljournal

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, As monarch you might now be constitutional But you’re not. Rather, you choose … Continue reading →

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

Posted on January 1, 2026 by anthonyhowelljournal

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

Posted on December 25, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

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

Posted on December 16, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

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

Posted on December 12, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

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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