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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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John Welch 1942-2025

Posted on January 26, 2026 by anthonyhowelljournal

x I remember him reading his elusive poems under a gnarled sycamore at the far end of a field on my mother’s Hampshire farm – Purdies Farm – that lovely summer when we held an arts festival there in the … 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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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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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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