A company of young ballet dancers reflect on the nature of dance and their potentially threatening interdependency on each other.

In the Company of Others

Howell, Anthony

Rizzoli Intl Pubns

Anthony Howell's choice from his five previous books displays a poet of great variety and accomplishment. From playful short poems to extended narratives, whether in free verse or traditional forms, his skill enlivens his subjects and offers surprise and delight. His poetry has appealed to readers as diverse as John Ashbery ('curiously strong') and Peter Porter ('Howell has style to spare and is happily unclassifiable').

Selected Poems

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Anvil Pr Poetry Ltd

Anthony Howell’s first collection for several years moves in unusual directions. Guilt and society’s victimization of those it punishes are among its subjects: it begins with poems concerned with the harm caused by anorexia and moves on to investigate the situation of offenders held in units for vulnerable’ prisoners. The collection includes two longer poems: Ode to a Routine’ chronicles the odyssey of one sentenced to commute across London, while the title poem extends a theme of dubious empathy explored by Browning in My Last Duchess. As always Anthony Howell’s poems are cool, intelligent, entertaining and simply different from anything else being written. The best of Ashbery’s disciples is without doubt Anthony Howell’, said Robert Nye in The Times. Anthony Howell, born in 1945, lives in London. He has published several collections of poems, the most recent being Selected Poems and Dancers in Daylight, and two novels. During 2002-7 he taught creative writing in prisons.

Ogre's Wife

Anvil Press Poetry

"An eclectic original."—Peter Reading in the Times Literary Supplement "For many years, Anthony Howell has been unspooling his mad and lovely poems in England, yet has somehow managed to be not famous. . . . Meanwhile, welcome to the wide, wild world of Britain's best kept secret."—John Ashbery All the sweat of working be to set things up back home,But it's more than fifty year, and me still on the roam. Man, it's just the women here who make we feel alive:Had I share of them since the day me arrive. Ain't they lain beside we, the smooth night long?Sweet Thames, run softly, till me end I song. The centerpiece of Silent Highway celebrates the role of the river Thames in the life of London. It is written as a sequence that looks at history and the present: from Pocahontas's voyage to the arrival of the Windrush bringing immigrants from Jamaica, the mysterious death of Roberto Calvi and the Marchioness disaster, via the Fire of London and many incidents in which the river has been spectator or participant. Anthony Howell's mix of verse styles and skill with cameos ensures that interest never flags. In other poems he demonstrates his pleasure in avoiding the predictable and in writing on a wide variety of subjects. Among the many poems of place, in which he excels, are some disturbing descriptions of modern Britain; in the final section, poems inspired by a winter spent in Brazil, he has surprises in store.

Silent Highway

Consciousness: (with Mutilation)

Odd Volumes

Poetry. SPENDING is a meticulously wrought collection of poems concerned with sexuality, interspersed with drawings, which run parallel to the text without illustrating it. The poems are highly charged - as much by the psychological tension of intercourse as by the allure of the acts described. What is made explicit is the mood of the event, its sourness as much as its sweetness, with the poems spanning the diapason of the intimacies - from tenderness and passion to callousness and unashamed vulgarity. Dilys Bidewell's images provide the text with intervals of visual stimulation as keenly turned and as wicked as the poems.

Spending Poems

Menard Press

Anthony Howell is a poet and novelist whose first collection of poems, Inside the Castle was brought out in 1969. A former dancer with the Royal Ballet, he is also a performance artist. In 1986 his novel In the Company of Others was published by Marion Boyars. Another novel Oblivion was published in 2006 by Grey Suit editions. In 1997 he was short-listed for a Paul Hamlyn Award for his poetry. His poems have appeared in The Guardian, The TLS and The Spectator. His versions of the poems of Statius were well received and his versions of Fawzi Karim were a Poetry Book Society Recommendation for 2011.

Songs of Realisation

The High Window

The Analysis of Performance Art: A Guide to its Theory and Practice (Contemporary Theatre Studies)

This finely illustrated book offers a simple yet comprehensive 'grammar' of a new discipline. Performance Art first became popular in the fifties when artists began creating 'happenings'. Since then the artist as a performer has challenged many of the accepted rules of the theatre and radically altered our notion of what constitutes visual art. This is the first publication to outline the essential characteristics of the field and to put forward a method for teaching the subject as a discipline distinct from dance, drama, painting or sculpture. Taking the theory of primary and secondary colours as his model, Anthony Howell posits three primaries of action and shows how these may be mixed to obtain a secondary range of actions. Based on a taught course, the system is designed for practical use in the studio and is also entertaining to explore. Examples are cited from leading performance groups and practitioners such as Bobbie Baker, Orlan, Stelarc, Annie Sprinkle, Robert Wilson, Goat Island, and Station House Opera. This volume, however, is not just an illustrated grammar of action - it also shows how the syntax of that grammar has psychoanalytic repercussions. This enables the performer to relate the system to lived experience, ensuring a realisation that meaning is being dealt with through these actions and that the stystem set forth is more than a dry structuring of the characteristics of movement. Freud's notion of 'transference' and Lacan's understanding of 'repetition' are compared to a performer's usage of the same terms. Thus the book provides a psychoanalytic critique of performance at the same time as it outlines an efficient method for creating live work on both fine art and theatre courses.

Howell, A.

Sports & Outdoors

Routledge

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In the Company of Others

Selected Poems

Ogre's Wife

Silent Highway

Consciousness: (with Mutilation)

Spending Poems

Songs of Realisation

The Analysis of Performance Art: A Guide to its Theory and Practice (Contemporary Theatre Studies)

The Analysis of Performance Art: A Guide to its Theory and Practice (Contemporary Theatre Studies)