First Time in Japan Deborah Plummer The art world missed a

The art world missed a trick in not accepting these painterly rag works as true art and many have been lost

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First Time in Japan Deborah Plummer The art world missed aImagine a character of our time whose affinities are with the Silver Poets of Ancient Rome. A person at the pivot of middle age; cosmopolitan, yet jaundiced a hedonist with greying temples and expanding belly This is the persona whose voice permeates "First Time in Japan", enabling Anthony Howell to speak without calculating the soundness of the view expressed. As always his poems are distilled from irony, wit and an intensity of poetic craft,