My new novella - Barabus - is now available to buy from Tenement press
https://tenementpress.com/BARABUS
Harrowing at times, but immensely rewarding, Fowler’s novella is a moving exploration of the effort required to remain unmoved.
— Dan Abnett
Everything that folds from Fowler’s soft bag of brain is a phenomenal and precious gift, and one anyone truly interested in language, human coping and the murk-sparks of the mind should know. Now drive and siren back to the station and go on. — Han Smith
Relentless, compelling, comic and sobering. — Vanessa Onwuemezi
Frenetic and exhilarating outbursts, as eye-witness accounts from a mind’s eye of true originality. — Andrew Kotting
" ... BARABUS is a book keen to picture the hard-edged horizon line of morbidity. A midnight-dark comedy with the bite and temerity of Chris Morris—the acerbity of Peter Weiss—and the ambiguity of Le Clezio, Fowler’s second novella is a work of disarming directness. A paean to the costs of life lived in service of the needs of others—in riverine prose cooked down to concrete—this is a book about long, hard and strange work. The weird of exhaustion, the colour of tarmac, and the breadline of spirit. About the people that attend to the possibility of our continuity.
To be launched with a series of events this April / May, followed by broadcasts of the audio book on Resonance Extra.