Six years in the making this booklet is a record of a friendship, full of collaborative poetry and photos documenting the performances that instigated the poems. It’s come out so well, such high quality work from Alban at Sampson Low, as ever before. https://sampsonlow.co/2025/06/17/levels-of-care-krisjanis-zelgis-sj-fowler/
“Expanding the stomach, with water, in a bookshop. Hairdressing while on piggy back, in a university. Olympic wrestling, in the German embassy. Baby carries and leg drags in an arts centre. Human sculptures and gymnastic lifts in the Poetry Society. These are the things of poetry, naturally, if you are Krišjānis Zeļģis and SJ Fowler. In a Latvian-British collaborative duo that has gained it’s own strange kind of fame, through five performances in six years, a collaborative form has been generated, pioneered, that blends, uniquely, laconic, elegiac, dialogic literary poetry with physical, uncanny, generous conceptual performances. This book is then a inversion of the liveness that has made these collaborations whole, it is a return to the written word, an emphasis of that, and evidence all the same, of friendship, and of the potential of collaboration in literature.
LEVELS OF CARE : KRIŠJĀNIS ZEĻĢIS & SJ FOWLER
Published June 2025. ISBN 978-1-915505-52-1 / A5 Size
32 printed pages. Colour. Cimera Series #7. Print run of 200
Price – £4.99 BUY LEVELS OF CARE (£4.99 + £2.20 P & P)
This book was launched at the opening event of the European Poetry Festival 2025.