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Really happy to be sharing this new book from Steel Incisors press edited by James Knight. It brings together years of collage, includes an essay of mine and 80 plus full colour works. It’s a sister to Sticker Poems and Crayon Poems, it’s my fifth publication of 2021, and the last this year and it’s launched on August 2nd in Bath.

From the publisher : An unprecedented take on collage as poetic medium, SJ Fowler’s Bastard Poems is a book that defies description. Combining the found, the handwritten, the abstract, the irreverent and the archival, and the occasional text camouflaged as commentary, Fowler has devised a new form of poetry standing on the shoulders of a grand tradition. Here are labels and book pages, monkeys and footballers, self-help instructions and informational leaflets, plus lists, letters, tickets, drawings, maps, barcodes, birds, bears, and (!) more. Reading it is the equivalent of exploring someone’s abandoned attic only to realise they have been watching you the whole time.

This volume is SJ Fowler's selected collages, collected from works made 2013 to 2021, and includes an essay by the author.

92 pages, full colour, paperback, perfect bound.