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).
Paperback 6" x 9" 76 pages
ISBN 978-1-326-55058-5
NOT BLOODY GAWAIN
Lexicon for the Fisher King
Lo Tsen’s Map of Lyonnesse
The Pendragon Manifestos
The Geologies of Illusion
The Satnav fails Camelot
Forged Metaphor
Crossroads
Within the Sun’s Wheel
Guinevere’s Piano
The Queen as Whore
What the Varnish saw
Did you want a seat?
A History of the Merlin Engine
A Sorcerer’s Fabrication
The Lancelot Equilibrium
A Grammar for Love
A Grammar for Lust
Elaine makes it to Page Three
The Great Rustic Paradigm
Nearly a Happening
Galahad : Perfection’s Question
Perfection’s Answer
Sarras; a million and one maps
Not bloody Gawain
Whose Epithalamium is it anyway?
A new cartography of Logres
Do you fancy a drink?
A cup’s circumference
Morgan le Fay: my sonar acrobatics
Morgana : the echo of an echo
A Handbook for Mycologists
What you wear is what you are
Morgause : a Guide to Royal Incest
A Diploid Algebra
Mere Manipulation
Nimue sees Darwin right
Making a Splash
An allegorical analogue
The Thigh in the Wound
HANGING ALICE NUTTER
Three Biters
Making
Hocus-Pocus
To kindle a child
Witchwords
The Witch Finder’s Journal
Whodunnit
Evidences
Hanging Alice Nutter
