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Silent Highway

  • ISBN-13: 9780856464522
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: ANVIL PRESS POETRY
  • By Anthony Howell
  • Price: AUD $27.99
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  • Local release date: 20/01/2015
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 138.00mm) 96 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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The centrepiece of Silent Highway is the title-poem which 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 Pocahontass 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. Howells 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, such as the witty (and true) poem In Praise of Shopping.
Anthony Howell, born in 1945, lives in London. He is a former dancer and a performance artist. He has published several collections of poems and two novels.
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