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Atalanta
Thus it is on this planet. Self-importance may suggest posterity will grant us An immortal empire, that we shall rule the waves forever, but Nothing, nothing whatsoever can be relied on, x Not even one or two relics. It can … Continue reading
Boadicea – from Book 21 of The Runiad
x (As Nero fiddled and the city burned) the empire was horribly smitten: Eighty thousand Romans and their proxies died in Britain. The island could have been lost for good. Moreover, all this ruin Was brought upon us by a … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Howell, Boadicea, epic, poetry, The Runiad
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Shorter Poems 1969-2022
I have set up my Shorter Poems as a Heyzine Link. Click on the link to read.
Earth Day 2025 – Kristian Evans and Nathan Roach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPkBj7X1dfQ A Film by Kristian Evans & Nathan Roach This is one of the best poem/films I have come across. It often uses a constant moving image (reeds moving, waves breaking etc) which I have always found the ideal backdrop … Continue reading
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Tagged Kristian Evans, Nathan Roach, poem/film, poetry, sand-dunes
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Rhododendron
x It is always the same window, one out of which they have climbed Into the garden; leaving the house to its dreams at the fringes of sleep: Out of it by the back stairs or in by my half … Continue reading
From Book 7 of The Runiad
x At a time when St. Francis was staying in the town of Gubbio, There appeared in that region a wolf so maddened by lack of a meal It took to devouring humans as well as beasts in the wild. … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Howell, poetry, St Francis, The Runiad, the wolf of Gubbio
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Memories of an Island
Memories of a idyllic island on the Green Coast of Brazil. X ….Things that prefer to be hidden from us, without the effrontery Of the small seven-coloured birds that flit through the quiet, Perch for a sec on a branch … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Howell, Brazil, Green Coast, mobile, poetry, The Runiad, watercolour
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A Serpentine
As well as the scansion of a regular metre such as pentameter, in verse, the madrigal was a form that used the scansion of prime numbers – 3 and 5. F.T. Prince has pointed this out in his book about … Continue reading
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Tagged madrigal form, poetry, prime numbers, Serpentine, verse forms
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THE RUNIAD – Books 1 to 23 – (Now completed – 24)
Books 1 to 24 (now) of my (now completed) epic poem can now be read on this Heyzine link I suggest expanding the image and turning off the sound. Click the bottom corner of the page to turn the pages, … Continue reading
Posted in Brazil, Ebooks and flipbooks, Poetry, The Runiad
Tagged Anthony Howell, epic poem, poetry, The Runiad
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