A new limited edition pamphlet of asemic poems commissioned and released by Asatami Legesse, an independent micro-publisher established by Italian visual poet and dada performer Dario Roberto Dioli and Zewditu Anteneh Retta. They have done some brilliant work in European asemia recently, with James Knight, Sylee Gore and others.

It’s a handmade minimalist work. It’s snapshots of a massive asemic piece, a kind of constellation work, made on a large wood board in my studio. The individual works in this publication are therefore meant to be impossible jigsaw puzzle pieces, they connect and are separate but seem almost the same. Repetition, and that which is lost in the whole, in the margin, is the idea. And the density of line too, the spirographical. If you’d like a copy, there are a few left, please email me https://www.stevenjfowler.com/contact

The publication was launched August 15th at Torriano Meeting House https://www.theenemiesproject.com/bob and is made in an edition, in the UK, of 30 copies.

Amazingly, for the launch, the publisher Dario Dioli came all the way from Italy to London! It was wonderful to hear more about his work, and his mission, and what asemic writing has meant to him. He is a heartfelt, charming, brilliant poet and publisher, and he was right at home on a lovely afternoon of performances.

For my launch I ‘read’ some of the asemic poems in sound poetry while Matt Sokulsky joined me on piano