Anthony Howell
Anthony Howell
Poet and Performance Artist

Anthony Howell was born in 1945.  After an early spell dancing with the Royal Ballet, he decided to concentrate on poetry and performance art.  In 1973 he was invited to the International Writing Program in Iowa and in 1974 he founded The Theatre of Mistakes, a performance company which made notable appearances at the Cambridge Poetry Festival, The Paris Biennale and the Hayward Gallery as well as in New York.  He has published six previous books of poetry and a novel and received major bursaries from the Arts Councils of England and Wales.  In 1997 he was short-listed for a Paul Hamlyn Award. His book The Analysis of Performance Art: a guide to its theory and practice
is a key text in the field of performance art

e-mail: anthony@ther00m.wanadoo.co.uk