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).
CONTENTS
An Icelandic Saga
The Origin of Species
Metamorphoses
Annunciations
Garibaldi Rides Again
The Stuff that kills germs dead
The Rhetorics of Constipation
A Matter of Fungus
Everyone’s shit smells different
New Adam christens his World
Trivial Pursuits
The Phlogiston Theory
The Gospels of Saint Belgrano
A Modest Proposal
That German Connection
The Word made Flesh
The Parables of Itch
A Man’s Man
Something and Nothing
The Last Marsupial Wolf
The Dick Test
The Anthropomorphic Universe
The Medium is the Massage
Ideal Republics
Requiem for the Skinback
Fusiliers
Goodbye and Bugger You
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