About the author



Peter Howard

Peter Howard was born in Nottingham, educated at the Royal Grammar School, Worcester, and Hertford College, Oxford. He now lives in Milton, a village just outside Cambridge, UK, where he is a telecommunications systems design consultant for Hidalgo and a poet. He has written a booklet of poems called Low Probability of Racoons and has had poems published in magazines, on the World Wide Web, and read on television. On his other site you can find some samples, and lots of links to other interesting poetry-related sites.

During five years, Peter wrote an Internet poetry column for Poetry Review, and he occasionally acts as guide for those wanting to find out about poetry and literature on the Internet.

He took part in the first trAce conference on Writers & the Internet held at the Broadway Media Centre, Nottingham, and in the Beyond Art? colloquium held in the Oxford Union Debating Chamber. You can now read the papers presented by some of the speakers at the colloquium. He has also given talks at two trace Incubation symposia.

He is a tutor for the trAce Writing School, teaching Animated Poetry in Flash.

Peter is a member of the performance group The Joy of Six.

You can read his Who's Who in Poetry entry, or his Poetry Kit Interview, both at the excellent Poetry Kit site. Or you could take a look at his occasional soundpoetry blog at: Subatomic Poetry

Flash Pieces

o Hev

o DTMF I

o DTMF II

o Colour Transform I

o Colour Transform II

o Broken

o Emotionally configurable poem generator

o The Interpreter's House

o Modem

o Moiré

o Triangles

o Visual Exercises

Some of Peter Howard's Poems

In at the Deep End Death in the Afternoon Dear Folks, Poetry for Scientists Cat in Hell's The Motorist The Education of Adolescent Girls Donor Card - A Decision The Visit Crazy Joe's Painting Think Carefully, Word of Honour A Clear Voice (part of Midwinter Fair) Weighing the Air Rubric The Snow Queen Sorted Francesca Diffracted A Summer Evening Waddon Marsh Halt Enmity A Sonnet Called Sonnet

One Second Before Waking The Last Science Lecture Last Recorded Transmission Terminally Registered Dispatch Deadly Haste Indicator Rash Toxic Symbolism 68000 Mornings Light Pressure In Its Place Primrose Hill Shepherd Drawing up the Borders Extraordinary Meeting Love Letter to Brigitte Helm A Poppy Replacement Impossible This is a no smoking zone 14/2 The Uses of Mown Grass The Construction of the Tomahawk

For five years, between 1996 and 2001, he wrote a quarterly column called Net Verse for the UK poetry journal Poetry Review. The column was a brief review of poetry-related websites and other Internet happenings of interest to poets and poetry-lovers. The articles he wrote are the next:

Article 1 - Spring 1996 - You wouldn't believe the URLs we wore in those days

Article 2 - Summer 1996 - Trouble with newsgroups

Article 3 - Autumn 1996 - Blimey. This Internet thing really works!

Article 4 - Winter 1996/97 - Hypertext poetry

Article 5 - Spring 1997 - Sex and search engines

Article 6 - Summer 1997 - RIP Allen Ginsberg

Article 7 - Autumn 1997 - Science Fiction and Bad Poetry

Article 8 - Winter 1997/98 - All British edition

Article 9 - Spring 1998 - Chadwyck-Healey and CompuServe's heyday

Article 10 - Summer 1998 - Discussions and Dating Agencies

Article 11 - Autumn 1998 - Geocities and Lies People Tell

Article 12 - Winter 1998/99 - A Periodic Table

Article 13 - Spring 1999 - The Australian edition

Article 14 - Summer 1999 - Showing promise

Article 15 - Autumn 1999 - Gumball poetry

Article 16 - Winter 1999/2000 - The importance of subtitles

Article 17 - Spring 2000 - Mainly books and journals

Article 18 - Summer 2000 - The breakdown of geography

Article 19 - Autumn 2000 - First flight of the Boomerang

Article 20 - Winter 2000/2001 - How did I miss that site?

Article 21 - Unpublished retrospective

Children poetry

Death in the Afternoon
My Pet Goldfish
Knocked for Six
A Lesson in Respectability
Power to the Python
The Key
When I was young


Other Links

hypertexts: http://www.hphoward.demon.co.uk/poetry/petehype.htm

http://peterhoward.org/about.html

http://peterhoward.org/flashindex.html

http://www.hphoward.demon.co.uk/poetry/petepoem.htm

http://www.hphoward.demon.co.uk/netverse/netverseindex.html

http://www.hphoward.demon.co.uk/kidstuff/

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