My work was included in an article by Astra Papachristodoulou in Ambit magazine http://ambitmagazine.co.uk/reviews/on-neo-futurist-poetics-by-astra-papachristodoulou worth a wide read as its complex legacy stuff but
“Steven J Fowler has also produced a range of works that could be considered as Neo-futurist in some ways. Fowler’s work often examines the possible end of the Anthropocene as a moral intervention by an uncaring and non-personified universe. His engagement with animals in his The Guide To Being Bear Aware and The Rottweiler’s Guide to the Dog Owner provides a critique of anthropocentrism by placing emphasis on self-identity. The Internet has become a significant social laboratory for experimenting with the reconstructions of self – an experiment that can help or hinder our selfhood. Fowler explores this in his poem ‘Looper’ from The Guide To Being Bear Aware in a dark and humorous way:
Maybe they look away
because I’m ugly,
like a lizard.
Or because I live in my underwear.
Or because of my fertility.
Or because I can regenerate limbs.
Or because I insist on tickling everyone.
I’m a good lover though.
Formally, Fowler has explored technological innovation through his series of groundbreaking collaborations with material engineer, Thomas Duggan. My favourite piece of theirs is a recent collaboration in which Thomas Duggan and Steven Fowler printed a poem in silk fibroin, an entirely new biodegradable material developed using the very latest design technology. It’s one of these ideas that you see and wish had thought of first. Fowler’s poem ‘Silk fibroin’ is 3D poetry at its best – innovative and sustainable. The most fascinating part about it, is that its production involved a robot – yes – it was Duggan’s KUKA Robot that printed Fowler’s poem onto silk.”