Trepidation commended for the Forward Prize 2014

I'm pleased to say my poem Trepidation, which featured in my latest collection, the Rottweiler's Guide to the Dog Owner, has been highly commended by the Forward Prize. It means it'll feature in the anthology the prize puts out to celebrate it's awards later in the year. I wrote the poem as a set of ten on two days in Berlin for a performance with Alessandro Eramo, sat with WS Graham in a bedsit in Wedding, in a snowing February in 2013. I've never once thought back on that poem as being in anyway exceptional, for it to be singled out is pleasing as it surprises me to reread it and see what people might see when viewing it in isolation. A random thing, but good to have recognition for the thing within the thing. http://www.eyewearpublishing.com/products-page/books/s-j-fowler/

London Review Bookshop - new & recommended poetry

http://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/on-our-shelves/on-our-tables/new-and-recommended-poetry

New and Recommended Poetry

Our pick of poetry. Here are six of our current favourites, as chosen by our poet in residence, John Clegg.
The Rottweiler’s Guide to the Dog Owner

The Rottweiler’s Guide to the Dog Owner

S. J. Fowler
From the publisher:
A groundbreaking, aberrant but ever ebullient love letter to those who deserve it, The Rottweiler’s Guide to the Dog Owner refracts marriage, death, friendship, violence ...

The Rottweiler's guide to the Dog Owner launched

I was trepidatious about the launch of my new collection, the wine-ing of the event not being my normal outmode, but in the end it was a lovely evening, and I owe a debt of thanks to everyone who was kind enough to attend and buy a book and to those who brought it into physical form. It has been extraordinarily well produced and designed, don't think it could be better really, and the people at the London Review of Books were amazing too, John Clegg making me feel as at home as was also possible.http://www.eyewearpublishing.com/products-page/books/s-j-fowler/ Here's the vid

my new collection launched at the LRB

I'm happy to say my new poetry collection is launched on May 21st, 7pm, at the LRB bookshop in Bloomsbury. http://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/ If you're free and are kind enough to attend, you can book a spot using the eventbrite link below. It's free.


The Rottweilers guide to the Dog Owner is made up of 13 different sequences or commissions, including works written for VerySmallKitchen, Zimzalla, The Enemigos project, Lush & the Wortwedding gallery, & features works that call on, or celebrate, the poetry of Anselm Hollo, Tom Raworth & Jack Spicer.

A sample work here: http://www.dusie.org/atacama_by_SJ_Fowler.pdf Thanks, Steven.




Wednesday, 21 May 2014 from 19:00 to 22:00 (BST)
London Review Bookshop
14 Bury Pl
WC1A 2JL London
United Kingdom
 
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