Keith Howden
was born near Burnley in 1932. He is married, with three children.
After National Service and work as a laboratory assistant, he taught
English and modern European fiction with a major interest in 'the
text as event' at Nottingham Trent University. Among his many poetry
pamphlets are Joe Anderson, Daft Jack's Ideal Republics, Pauper
Grave, Hanging Alice Nutter and Barlow Agonistes. He has
published three full-length collections, Marches of Familiar
Landscape (Peterloo 1978), Onkonkay (Peterloo (1984) and
Jolly Roger (Smokestack 2012). Recently, with his son, the
composer Matthew Howden, he has completed two poetry music
collaborations, with accompanying discs: The Matter of Britain
(PRE Rome 2009) and Barley Top (Redroom 2013).
Blake at the Women’s Institute
Angel
Black Moonshine
Ratisbon
Barlow: Gull
Barlow: A Birdseed Symphony
Lowry to Bosch
A Swastika lullaby
For Franc Sesec
Barlow: Phyllis Dixey in Burnley
Barlow: Joke
The Girl
Barlow in Blackpool
Menagerie
Blackpool Beach
The Tower on Fire, 1956
Come and Suffer
For the Tower’s Inverted Reflection,1990
Barlow’s back-row bulletins
Barlow on Pendle
Witch
Charm
Moorson
On Pendl
Sally Lucas : Jubilate
Barlow : Jubilate
Paperback 6" x 9" 66 pages ISBN
978-1-291-98775-1 Published September 2014
