Spending Poems Author:Anthony Howell Poetry. SPENDING is a meticulously wrought collection of poems concerned with sexuality, interspersed with drawings, which run parallel to the text without illustrating it. The poems are highly charged - as much by the psychological tension of intercourse as by the allure of the acts described. What is made explicit is the mood of the event, its... more » sourness as much as its sweetness, with the poems spanning the diapason of the intimacies - from tenderness and passion to callousness and unashamed vulgarity. Dilys Bidewell's images provide the text with intervals of visual stimulation as keenly turned and as wicked as the poems.« less