Sticker Poems - Trickhouse Press
£10.00 128pp, A5, full-colour. https://www.trickhousepress.com/product/-sticker-poems-by-sj-fowler/6?cs=true&cst=custom
From the publisher “Forget everything you thought you knew about stickers and everything you might have suspected about poems. From animals to Mexican wrestlers, football players to medieval knights, zombie apocalypse to motivational mantras, Garbage Pail kids to dinosaurs, Sticker Poems is no less than a snapshot of human cognition, narrated by Fowler’s idiosyncratic poetics. This book offers a bold new take on what poetry means, a playful shock treatment for arthritic literary convention, and the kind of crystalline insight which is usually reserved for the deranged. These poems will stick to you like gum to your hair. Strawberry gum.”
The book contains 99 sticker poems, full colour, on photographic as well as essays by myself and David Spittle. Every order includes two free stickers of sticker poems which you can stick to that which you wish to stick to.
“Screw your courage to the sticking place! SJ Fowler has invented a new poetic form, and traced out all its kinks and convolutions in one deliriously weird book. Let your nail grow out a bit to really get under the corners of his language and prise them off the page and you’ll be rewarded. I found at least one of these adhesive little poems at the back of my knee after a particularly hard reading session and now it’s stuck. What is there in life but adhesion?” Colin Herd
Launching Sticker Poems in the City of London - June 11th 2021
the first live www.poembrut.com event in a long time, over 18 months, and the launch of my new book, sticker poems
I took people on a merry dance. I’ve spent a lot of time in the city of london, i explore it often, im interested in its history and so when i wanted to do a poem brut event, outdoors as we emerge out of lockdown, i thought it suited as a locale. 11 poets were given 11 locations but no one but they knew where the readings would be or in what order. so there was a sense of surprise, i hope, amidst the hot weather, hidden corners and general friendly ambiance. we began at bank and ended up at the thames, two hours later, a good few dozen of us. all the videos of the excellent performances are online here www.poembrut.com/city
Stickers of the Stickers
Alongside the book Trickhouse press has produced six stickers of individually chosen sticker poems within the volume. Two are given free with each purchase of the book
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Published : Aww-struck Anthology and online Exhibition May 15, 2021
Out in a week, and produced to a remarkable standard, I am happy to have a bevy of my sticker poems and collage poems in this new anthology from Poem Atlas https://www.poematlas.com/awwstruck-book
“A wide range of visual poems themed around cuteness is framed with significant critical essays and page-based poems that take our theme to another dimension. Featuring a wide range of poetic and critical responses to cuteness by UK-based and international poets and academics including Chris Kerr, Chris McCabe, Daniele Pantano, Karenjit Sandhu, Vik Shirley, Kate Siklosi, Greg Thomas et al.”
The theme of the anthology is resonant with some of my visual poetry work, without design, but undeniably. My upcoming two visual collections - Sticker Poems from Trickhouse Press and Bastard Poems from Steel Incisors - get their first outings in grand company.
In the meantime there is a brilliant online exhibition of work featured in the book, which is well worth a free look https://www.poematlas.com/aww-struck
