3 poems in the Honest Ulsterman

Very proud indeed to have work in the first issue of the relaunched Honest Ulsterman. The magazine was a powerful entity once, began in 1968 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Honest_Ulsterman publishing some recent greats, and has been reawoken by the remarkable writer, essayist and literary monster that is Darran Anderson. If anyone can remake it as a wholly original but equally important entity, it is he. http://www.humag.co/poetry/three-poems-by-sj-fowler With Gorse, the Bohemyth and many other things happening out of Ireland, it is a fine time to announce a massive Enemies project thing there, which Ill do soon.

Incidents of Anti-Semitism

#104
if privileged presents where contact divine
mediated through a son, then privileges past
expressed in the covenant with a father on isles
a fact about oneself that cannot be changed
it can either be acknowledged or denied
one can live neither path changes the fact
one can be despite oneself, the event in petition to which
is not the eternal presence rather the acknowledgement
of a fact about the past, of one is bound whether one likes or not.

2 Incidents of Anti-Semitism in the Bohemyth

http://thebohemyth.com/ A real powerful magazine surge of poetry from Ireland at the moment. The Honest Ulsterman, Gorse and the Bohemyth on the spear point, and the relaunch issue of the latter carries with it two of my Incidents of Anti-Semitism poems. This book, the Incidents of Anti-Semitism, is probably my most intensive engagement with writing so far, took me years to write, whittling down hundreds of poems, all ostensibly aiming to engage with paradoxical and unreachable notions of anti-semitism in the UK and in Europe, hoping to be a work that shows through that experimentation in form is necessary when correctly employed. A few have appeared in the Other Room anthology and VLAK but by and large I've kept them hidden as they were due out as a collection but that got held up. Bit by bit I'm going to let them out into the world in 2014, hoping the book comes out in the next few years. Anyway, check out the new Bohemyth, and be sure to look up the work of Darran Anderson and Kim Campanello in the issue, amazing writers. http://thebohemyth.com/2013/12/07/steven-j-fowler/