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
Addy Onkonkay
1. Lost Dreams of Grace
2. Larks in Bright Air
3. A Silly Toy
4. A Sour Pentecost
5. It touched me
6. Onkonkay chosen
7. Onkonkay beware
8. Onkonkay shout
9. Onkonkay among stones
10. Onkonkay flayed
11. Onkonkay Manifesto
Laura’s Chapels
Chapel Pantomime 1932
Chapel Kodak 1937
Temperance Chapel
Chapel Trader
Chapel Perilous
Chapel Eleven 1938
Chapel Poem
Chapel Kodak 1938
Pig-nut Chapel
Chapel Delphic
Chapel Kodak 1940
Chapel Word
Chapel for Sale
Inghamite Chapel
Chapel Kodak 1941
Chapel Letter 1941
Chapel Postcard 1
Chapel Postcard 2
Chapel Cat
Chapel Heights
Chapel Cinderella
Chapel Martha
Chapel Barn
Chapel Dismantled
Chapel Kodak 1943
Chapel Doornail
Chapel Fallen
Chapel Kodak 1945
Chapel Nowhere
Boggart Chapel
Chapel Sentimental
Lost Orisons
1. Je ne regret rien
2. Chocolate,
chocolate
3. Lost Orisons
