Published : Come and See the Songs of Strange Days - Poems on Films

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My 9th collection is released today from Broken Sleep Books. They have done a grand job creating a beautiful book with an especially ambitious text, as it brings literary poetry together with visual, photographic, asemic, sound, conceptual poetries. Each poem is on a film. The book is purchaseable at https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/sj-fowler-come-and-see-the-songs-of-strange-days
and much more on it at www.stevenjfowler.com/comeandsee

From the publisher "To say that SJ Fowler’s Come and See the Songs of Strange Days is a poetic encyclopaedia of film would be right but falls short of describing its true nature. From an authorship marked by poetic skill and genius insanity, this book covers a range of avantgarde methodology without parallel in the British literary tradition. At times aberrant, at times playful, it overlaps cinema and language, combining lyricism with abstract visual commentary, and thriving on that which defies description. The films include American blockbusters and European arthouse, obscure documentary and all-time classics. It is a book that offers much, whether or not you like film, and whether or not you like poetry."

Poems from the book can be found at the following journals, if you're the kind that likes to sample before buying:

'I love the conceit of the project; the meandering and collagic mindscape, induced by the various prose and textual formats, encourages a desire to keep on reading. Here lies an unfathomable interconnectivity, parts always competing for a place in some unfinished scene.' - Andrew Kötting