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).
Self -Dissolve
Ten Hermetic Dialogues
‘I no longer believe
what I wrote in The Aesthetics of Goal Tenure. Then, I noted
that I believed the finest game yet to be played would be the one in
which the pitch moves while the players stand still. What I now feel
is this: that the finest game yet to be played will be the one in
which a player plays himself on a pitch playing itself.’
L. Yashin
The Metaphysics of the Penalty Area
‘Control may be
exercised upon the cue-ball and its path determined by the condition
of the cue-tip and the accuracy and judgment with which the stroke
is played. The cue-ball may be controlled in various ways : it may
receive side, thus causing it to follow an unusual route
across the table’s surface and by which its behaviour, both then and
after striking another ball will be affected : if the cue strikes
the base of the ball, its subsequent motion will be in a direction
dimensionally different from that commonly supposed...’
J. Davis
The Aesthetic of Snooker.
CONTENTS
Persons of this fiction
A Modern Salome
A Lancashire Mystery
Art, Goalkeeping and Society
Hands like Snakes
Coiled Pipes and Tripes
A Lancashire Idyll
Golden Boy breaks leg
Hare and Tomato Soup
MAD NUD
Self-Dissolve: A Note
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