#brian howard

[packpack-killkill]

Winter in Yellowstone can be harsh at times. The circle of life is cruel but necessary for survival. A bison had a “miscarriage” and dropped her calf in the snow. The opportunistic coyote happened upon the fetus and made a meal of it. While cruel, it is nature and the pure untamed wild.

Mountain Coyote | Brian Howard

[theanticool]

Efe Ajagba KOs Brian Howard - 4/10/2021

This is one of the scariest knockouts I’ve seen in a long time.

[oleworm]

Amo. Amas. Amat. Does he really? How wonderful. A kiss translated from the Greek we received it in the bootroom, and we prayed prayed until our heads were cold with a pure sweat a simple dew, and ignorant. Not knowing the tomb when it touched us, not seeing the small, immediate burial of a child taking this first warning as a gift, which was only the last tap of an old woodpecker.

Across the harsh field the bell comes like a stone killing him who was telling us our first story. He, the lustful elder, the dead woodpecker, is silent, so distressed to be left alone again by youth, to be so abandoned perched on the fence alone, in a pair of gold spectacles with a few red feathers round a broken beak.

In an aseptic chapel, singing for Sunday supper our voices fail at the high note, the most holy. In the chapel sits the false eagle, the convert armoured in Christian brass, sprawling in a lean nest of Easter lilies. Here, the only eagle is brass and the saints have long since expelled the serpent leaving the lilies, virgins in a vase, open in death flowers of white soap, washed well, like the dead starched, like the white cowls of the dead, waxed, smelling of an immortal Sunday.

This one I like, and you can see more of his personality and it is not so much "I am vacationing in Spain" as the previous one.

The influence of TS Eliot is strong though, and it is true that it was one of the poets that he liked. Was infamous for liking. Or should we talk about the coincidence between them? Because it must also be true: there has to be a reason that Howard was drawn to him in the first place. You can tick the themes off a list: the Catholic religion, the loss of youth, birds and flowers, the eagle as a convert, or someone halfway doubtful, the juxtaposition of the ancient and eternal with what is contemporary. But show me a poet of the time who doesn't speak of birds and flowers and we'll be waiting here a long time.

A difference is that love is not the loss of innocence -- of ignorance -- here, but the renewal of it.

[johnrochesterlovesjazz]

Gay English poet Brian Howard (pictured right) with a friend. Howard was member of the infamous group called The Bright Young Things.

[proceduralbob]

Honestly one of the funniest comments from DJ Taylor about the bright young people as represented in adaptations is the line "Brian Howard and Eddie Gathorne-Hardy, all the evidence suggests, really did talk like this.", because of the sheer exasperation implied in that.

[mitfordgirls]

Diana and Nancy Mitford attend the ballet with Brian Howard.

[kerloaz]

Brian Howard & Nancy Cunard.

[paulp-doeyenextethynge]

Paul P., Portrait of Nancy Mitford as a Reflection of her Gay Friends, ink on paper collage, 2014-2017 (detail).