Tag Archives: Runiad

Charybdis

Posted on July 5, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

x Bayesian, the name of that yacht. Elementary, my dear Wat! Scilla and Charybdis frequent the strait at Messina. Water-spouts round Sicily are nothing new, it seems to me. Another old dilemma has still to be resolved in the wake … Continue reading →

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Why “Runiad”?

Posted on June 17, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

Why Runiad as the title of the epic poem I have just completed? Rune is a word which may be translated as ‘a secret, a mystery, a rumour or a whisper’. It can also suggest an enigmatic or incantatory line … Continue reading →

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The Runiad – books 1 – 24 – Updated Update

Posted on May 31, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

The final draft of my epic poem the Runiad is now completed. Click on the link to read Books 1 to 24: This link above opens the final version with my own illustrations. Since they are done with graphite on … Continue reading →

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Vista

Posted on April 17, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

x Each of us pursues a path, each ant has its very own Destination. However, in my opinion, poetry’s been ruined by An excess of thought: thought that sneers at action and Reduces observation to a metaphor crawling across the … Continue reading →

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The RUNIAD – Book 10

Posted on July 25, 2024 by anthonyhowelljournal

Excerpt from Book 10 in the Fortnightly Review here. As a work in progress Books 1-10 can be read for free as a Heyzine online book. On the Heyzine link there is a contents page – p 5. All the pages are … Continue reading →

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The RUNIAD – Book 9

Posted on July 1, 2024 by anthonyhowelljournal

Excerpt from Book 9 in the Fortnightly Review here. The Runiad is a project I started in 2023 – an epic poem that will be 24 books long. As a work in progress it can be read for free as … Continue reading →

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Observations on the Caesura

Posted on June 13, 2024 by anthonyhowelljournal

Here are the conventional terms for metrical feet in poetry. a line with two feet is a dimeter; a line with three feet is a trimeter; a line with four feet is a tetrameter; a line with five feet is … Continue reading →

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Extracts from The Runiad – books 5-6 now in The Fortnightly Review.

Posted on March 29, 2024 by anthonyhowelljournal

Extracts from Books 5 and 6 of my epic poem can now be found in The Fortnightly Review here There is a link at the end of that post to previous extracts (from books 1-4) that The Fortnightly has posted. … Continue reading →

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Heyzine Books – Read some of my work for free online.

Posted on January 5, 2024 by anthonyhowelljournal

I have published several of my books on this attractive site which closely resembles a printed book in its format. You can read them all for free. There are plenty of my earlier books in print and on Abebooks and … Continue reading →

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