Tag Archives: poetry

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. x As monarch now you might be constitutional But you’re not. Turns out … Continue reading →

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My Father and his Motorbike with its Side-car

Posted on January 4, 2026 by anthonyhowelljournal

WILDERNESS ROAD x While seagulls fight for lamp‑posts near the timber stores, Inside the drawer, his folded airmail fades. Behind those bricked-up windows, boarded doors, His motor-bike once led your small parades. x You lost its little rider where the … 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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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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Christmas Gloom

Posted on December 13, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

x MOBILITY * Unable to decide quite where to be, I’m based in the car this Christmas, Travelling from relation to relation.  Think of me As an eighty horse-power snail Whose shell goes wherever it’s expected.  In between, I make … 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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Asprezza and Sprezzatura – A Paean to the Pioneer of the Madrigal – my homage to William Drummond

Posted on November 27, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

(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

Posted on November 18, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

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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Narnia

Posted on November 15, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

x Open the wardrobe door. Push past the gowns and the suits, Past the furs and the overcoats, and you are there. There in Narnia. Trigger warning however: it’s not at all like the Narnia in “The Lion, the Witch … Continue reading →

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