New publication : Abstract Automatic Autobiographical Asemic Argot

https://stonecorpse.com/sj-fowler/ Abstract Automatic Autobiographical Asemic Argot from Stone Corpse Press is out very soon, launched August 15th https://www.theenemiesproject.com/bob at Torriano Meeting House and then online in early September.

My second limited edition handmade pamphlet of asemic writing this year, and really remarkable how handmade this one has been thanks to Daniel J.Flosi over in the United States. He has put together, as the pictures below show, every single publication with stitches and press.

This publication opens with a short foreword which contextualises it a wee bit, an excerpt “These poems emerge from a time of both teaching and learning asemic writing. Since the publication of Selected Scribbling and Scrawling, my selected asemic poems (Zimzalla 2021) and my online lecture on asemic writing for the Arnolfini Gallery, I have often been invited to teach asemic writing, and in so doing, have worked with some remarkable practitioners in the field…/

And because someone leading should be doing what they are sharing, these poems exist, made in cities across Europe, in various schools and universities. They are thus somewhat collaborative and quite deliberately lo-fi, made of pens to hand, on paper I’ve salvaged or grabbed running out of the door. Made without recourse to trying to be impressive, or aesthetically grand. They are made of a sense of solidarity with those new to the asemic process, smashed out and rough.”