Bab's London Adventures : Talk Poems
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“In your lucy locket, a series of encounters with London’s most loveable rogue, Babs the purple cat, whose improvised talk poems have become a staple of the UK’s avant garde poetry scene. Recorded at public performances, film shoots and specifically for this release, and featuring found sound recordings around the capital, Babs takes on what is possible for’ the improvised poem and for the poet as a character.”
Released by 8ox publishing. Mixed by Milo Thesiger-Meacham. Supported by Resonance Extra radio
The Launch - Babsing Babs and Cassette Literature February 26, 2023
It was a brilliant event, the 62nd of Writers Kingston, celebrating Cassettes this past week. And a perfect place for me to launch my debut cassette https://sjfowler.bandcamp.com/album/babs-london-adventures-talk-poems and the culmination of my Babs performances. Everyone brought some brilliant work, poems, performances, spools and tape, and all can be seen here https://www.writerskingston.com/cassette/ My own performance, I made it up on the spot, obviously, but also wasn’t going to do anything but play the cassette until it all kicked off. It seemed to go well. Please have a watch.
The Pilgrimage of Watts
December 21, 2022
A new poetry film. One that documents a walk led by Stephen Watts, a great poet and person, across East London, earlier in 2022. It is another short film in the London I series I have been doing over the last few years, leading to a full feature in the next few years. It features an appearance by Babs too.
A note on : Babs at Poem Brut; cassette coming in 2023 from 8ox November 20, 2022
Another Babs performance, the last of the year, and likely to be in the last on my upcoming cassette release, coming early in 2023, from Stephen Emmerson’s object published house 8ox https://eightox.org/
The cassette will be called : Bab’s London Adventures - talking poems
This Babs was all made up on the spot, what a nice audience, at Poem Brut at Rich Mix, Nov 19th 2022.
EPF #2 : Norwegian poetry at St Johns on Bethnal Green June 17, 2022
The second event of the fest at the unique St Johns on Bethnal Green this time hosting Norwegian poets. More of a grand camarade and with some really exceptional performances, and a real range of approaches to what poetry actually is. From local poet psychiatrists to AI to improv to live transcriptions, it was a lovely and constantly interesting night. For my own part, my collaborator didn’t show, so I did a Babs…
A note on : Babs in the Nunnery April 13, 2022
A performance in my Babs series, as part of a reading at the Nunnery Gallery in Bow, organised by Julia Rose Lewis and Andrew Wells. Do you need life insurance?
A note on : Babs in Folkestone February 2, 2022
The next chapter in the babs saga, a series of new improvised talking performances im doing as a cockney cat. Soon to be collected on cassette, and this time at the Beyond Text festival in Folkestone.
It was a grand festival all told, wonderfully organised by Michal Piotrowski. I got to babs alongside matt martin and stephen emmerson, old mates, and meet fran lock, who was brilliant.
Babs seemed to go down well enough, and i even read a new poem before babsing, but i cut this out of the video here, for puritys sake
A note on : Bab's Tractor at Poem Brut Bristol October 16, 2021
The first of a new series of improvised performances I'm maybe doing, following the adventures of a cockney cat Babs, and likely the content of a new cassette release I'll be doing entitled Bab’s Adventures : A Sound Poetry Odyssey – somewhere in between found sound material following Leon Ferrari, sound poetry in the mode of Ghedalia Tazartes and improvised talking performance kind of echoing David Antin – in 2022 with Stephen Emmerson's EIGHTOX publishers. People seemed to like it, at a poem brut event in an ex-newsagents in a shopping centre on the outskirts of Bristol anyway.
