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Keith Howden
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…
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It has proved difficult to separate the usually melodramatically rendered life from a creative achievement that, despite a further number of successfully achieved canvases, depends essentially on the series, Landscapes…
Keith Howden continues to evoke the passions and memories associated with his lifelong contact with the moorland of the East Lancashire Pennines and the characters who live there.
A series of poems based on the Arthurian legend with illustrations by the author
Poems about life and landscapes of the Pennine towns of Lancashire
A vulgar trip into the mock heroic: an entertainment from the years after the Second World War.
The material of the Landscapes is apparently an allegorical interpretation and a reconstruction/prediction of Matthews' own life in which curiously stylised industrial or moor-land backgrounds hold recognisable, and, though the…
A record of sorts, in verse, rituals and poems of a Lancashire village.Poetry is not history any more than history is poetry. Poetry involves tensions in its structures, mythic patterns…
This collection includes Addy Onkonkay an account of East Lancashire tradition of mock bear baiting, Laura's Chapels responding to the isolated Pennine churches and Lost Orizons recalling scenes in occupied…
The Pendle witches, as they are now presented, are little more than a lure for tourism. Demdike and Chattox are alluring names but both were probably no more than village…
The collected rants of the crazy social commentator Birdy Horobin - fuelled by Pints and Park Drive. An hilarious twenty six gospels on government, philosophy and his bowels
An experimental novel arranged in ten hermetic dialogues. A satirical pastiche of east Lancashire folklore, popular press stories, Salome as bar entertainment and the aesthetics of goal-keeping
A story of East Lancashire events around Burnley poetically evoking the landscape of the moors, local football and a dramatic accident
A novel about parochial hypocrisy in the East Lancashire foothills of the Pennines. This is part of a trilogy comprising Godsman, New Found Lands and Hornyhorse
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This volume is the second in a trilogy comprising Godsman, New Found Lands and Hornyhorse. It carries on the saga of back biting and skulduggery amongst a religiously inclined academic…
Volume 3 of the trilogy completes the saga of goings-on in a quasi-religious community of academics somewhere in the foothills of the Pennines. AS the author says it's "a world…
Keith Howden updates Sebastian Brandt’s fifteenth century satire The Ship of Fools with particular reference to the current English political scene (2014) Durer’s original woodcuts are also reproduced.
Barlow agonises about most modern idiocies in a mixture of poems set in Blackpool, Burnley and the Pennines with excursions into Nazi Germany and the Czech republic.
Be my servant Soul Gnome in your salamander planet, be Jack the Lad, be Jack in the Green, be Jumping Jack in a quicksilver cosmos of arsenic, ammonia and brimstone…
