Songs of Realisation

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.