Anthony Howell's Journal

Sir Charles Sedley by Godfrey Kneller x Tame as we may appear to be, Brits are good at Anarchy. Much appreciated are the japes Perpetrated by St Trinian’s and the training In revolt offered by that riot-prone establishment. x The Pistols got it right, and rough music Spurs our charivari on – epitomised by Punch And Judy. Fuck the system. Turn things upside-down. Beat your pots and pans.…

x Conventional again, Warfare can nevertheless Take the world as her stage.  A period piece perhaps, Featuring asymmetric tanks. Nostalgic gear Of the Great War – what the Napoleonic ones were To the Victorians. There in the national memory. We thought nuclear deterrence safeguarded us From another world affair. But we were wrong. Anywhere can be the next proxy. Similar to the memory Of…

Very pleased to see this published finally in THE EXACTING CLAM MAGAZINE Issue 21 This text is called I do more deeply Click on the link to read it. It was written in 1973-74 when I was invited to join the Internation Writers Program in the University of Iowa. So it was written more than 50 years ago! The text is a shortened version of a booklength piece called HOT DAMN – which is now a…

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The Paris Years by the Brothers Quay – brilliant animation and musical synchronisation. The Brothers’ works from 1979 to the present show a wide range of often esoteric influences, starting with the Polish animators Walerian Borowczyk and Jan Lenica and continuing with the writers Franz Kafka, Bruno Schulz, Robert Walser and Michel de Ghelderode, puppeteers Wladyslaw Starewicz and Czech Richard…

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I have just discovered a review written in Double Dutch Magazine for Donald’s poems published by Grey Suit Editions. Donald’s page on the Grey Suit website is here.