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Bomb Bait
The state is a child. Imagine the worst case scenario Ticking away. She has swallowed some nuclear thing. She is bundled up in the sort of net that lifts a cargo x Onto a boat. Of course you want to … Continue reading
Pleasure and Destruction
A new slideshow on YOUTUBE. The hyper-real becomes more intense than reality. The click-bait goes both ways. War or porn. Which is which? Can they be drawn at the same time?
Posted in art, war
Tagged amour and anger, Anthony Howell, Drawing by feel, savage drawing, sensual drawing
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Imaginary Illustrations
x x x x x x x What if one reversed illustration? If the picture came first, and it was up to the viewer to give it a story? A friend points out that this is nothing new. As this … Continue reading
Posted in art
Tagged Anthony Howell, imaginary illustrations, poems without words, watercolours
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NOUVEAU RÉGIME
x x The children keep disappearing. They vanish, into thin air. From Little Saint James, Khan Unis or Khartoum, Tampa, Columbus, Baton Rouge, the children keep disappearing, Just as they did from the view of Théophile de Viau And Rétif … Continue reading
Anatomy of Emptiness
x x It is not easy to create emptiness. What should you tip it into? A deserted square, Possibly by moonlight? Time is the perspective Lending it a depth. Here, in an abstracted way, Melancholy toys with metaphysics. Emptiness recalls … Continue reading
Snap
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
Dinghy
Posted in art, Politics, war
Tagged Anthony Howell, dinghy, immigration, watercolour
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Clemency at White Lodge
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
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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