Paperback. 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' - Robert Nye in "The Times". A collection of poems by Anthony Howell. It chronicles the odyssey of one sentenced to commute across London, while the title poem extends a theme of dubious empathy. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Title: Ogre's Wife (Paperback)
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd, Manchester
Publication Date: 2009
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0856464228
ISBN 13: 9780856464225
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new

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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.

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Anthony Howell was born in 1945. A former dancer with the Royal Ballet and subsequently a performance artist - he founded the Theatre of Mistakes during the 1970s - he has always been as active in literature as he has been in movement. Anvil published his Selected Poems in 2000.

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