Publications : Limited Editions / Letterpress / Chapbooks & Pamphlets / Cassettes / Ephemera

Over 30 publications, from the hand-made and hand-printed, to posters and audio materials, my engagement with independent publishers, book-makers, collaborators in many fields, has generated many rarer objects of poetry and literature. Most are available still at links below, and all remain in my archive and at The National Poetry Library, London. Any enquiries are welcome at stevenjfowler at yahoo.co.uk. More below on …

  • Letterpress : The Hyphen is a Dagger and Cock and Bull

  • Limited edition poetry chapbooks from Moormaid Press, If a leaf falls, Sampson Low, Broken Sleep Books.

  • Bab’s London Adventures cassette : 8ox publishing

  • CD Albums with Diamanda Dramm

  • Vikings : concrete poetry poster from POW

  • It Won’t Go Well : Selected Articles - Kingston University Press

  • Limited edition collaborations and translated Books

  • Limited edition poetry chapbooks : The fights series

  • Out of print poetry chapbooks and collaborations

The Hyphen is a Dagger; Guillaume IX, troubadour crusader (2023)

Letterpress. 60 numbered copies has been covered using Fabriano paper and stitch-sewn. 20 further copies, marked I - XX, have been case-bound by Roger Grech. Copies available, email stevenjfowler at yahoo.co.uk for enquiries.

The Hyphen is a Dagger is a product of a unique ground-up collaborative project between printers and poets - Angie Butler, Pat Randle and SJ Fowler. Working in cahoots from scratch, this publication was made with its specific letterpress production as a constraint and guide. Using only wood-letter typefaces from the stores of the legendary Whittington press in the heart of the Cotswolds, and working to vocabularies available from the letters on hand, the poems were written by Fowler to be then edited, while being set, across a series of collaborative in press sessions. For print afficionados, the text is buffeted with labels of each typeface used, from the Delittle collection of 1888. Find out more at www.stevenjfowler.com/ppp and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMczVk9nAI4 The publication was launched at St Brides institute in London.

Cock and Bull : 25 Poems (2021) Nomad Letterpress and AB Press

An edition of 50, hand-printed and bound at Whittington Press. A product of the first Printed Poetry Project supported by Centre for Contemporary Print Research at UWE Bristol. Launched at Arnolfini Gallery. Find out more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVrq3_s5lKc - Out of print but available upon enquiry

Poetry Chapbooks : Limited editions

  • How Do You In Devon : Moormaid Press 2023
    Available to purchase www.moormaidpress.co.uk/product/how-do-you-do-in-devon-by-sj-fowler “‘City elegies for the living and the living dead in Devon, Liverpool. England as the disappearer returning. SJ Fowler has done it again, transforming what we think we know poetry can do. Capacious, as always, but there’s an innovative tenderness at work here. Press play and let these little skulls sing through you.’

  • reading list massage : If a leaf falls 2021
    Out of print but available upon enquiry - More info www.stevenjfowler.com/blog/readinglistmassage “A succinct suite of minimal misspelled poems written for, and published by, Sam Riviere's If a leaf falls micropress. Fragments of speech, mis or unlabelled quotations and comforting typopoetry reference self-referentiality as a kind of brief, grim spectre descending upon writers and academics.”

  • I Stand Alone By The Devils and other poems on films : Broken Sleep Books 2019
    Available to purchase www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/sj-fowler More info https://www.stevenjfowler.com/istandalone 26 new poems celebrating 26 cult films of the 20th and 21st century, a slim volume of cinematic poetic ekphrasis. At play is an aberrant intersemiotic translation between the mediums of popular or arthouse cinema and contemporary, modernist poetry.

  • Beastings : Sampson Low Ltd 2019
    Available to purchase https://sampsonlow.co/2019/12/29/beastings-sj-fowler/ Poems written to be made into songs by Diamanda Dramm. Anticipated lyrics through long and found text poems

Bab’s London Adventures : 8ox publishing 2023 - Cassette

Available to buy as digital download and / or Limited Edition Cassette https://sjfowler.bandcamp.com/album/babs-london-adventures-talk-poems “In your lucy locket, a series of encounters with London’s most loveable rogue, Babs the purple cat, whose improvised talk poems have become a staple of the UK’s avant garde poetry scene. Recorded at public performances, film shoots and specifically for this release, and featuring found sound recordings around the capital, Babs takes on what is possible for’ the improvised poem and for the poet as a character.” https://www.stevenjfowler.com/babs

CD Albums with Diamanda Dramm

Beastings 2019 from Pretty Purgatory https://prettypurgatory.bandcamp.com/album/beastings

Chimp 2022 from Diatribe Records https://diatriberecords.bandcamp.com/album/chimp

Songs made of my poems, taken from two collections and one pamphlet written for the purpose.

Vikings : concrete poetry poster - POW (2014)

Out of print but available upon enquiry - A concrete poetry poster, edited by Antonio Claudio Carvalho. www.stevenjfowler.com/vikings From Chris McCabe “The penultimate p.o.w. takes us directly into the heart of visual language and does so through a challenging emotive language. vikings by s.j. fowler is an anachronistic Anglo-Saxon poem spelt out through runic images … This landscape of movement, uncertainty, lust and danger is propelled forwards through the compounded, a-syntactic language and the shifts in font type and size. The poem, it could be argued, represents a fierce and honest struggle with the self, although it concludes quite beautifully : "I shine only for you, dove / it's / time to introduce / my distant pres- / ent past into / the pres- / ent". More on the POW series http://chris-mccabe.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/pow-final-series-perrone-melville-vas.html

It Won’t Go Well : Selected Articles - Kingston University Press 2018

Out of print but available upon enquiry - From the publisher “In this inquisitive and insightful book of essays, poet, writer and artist SJ Fowler asks questions of what it is to be a literary artist in this new century. Pushing poetry up against concepts like sex, violence, time, composition, collaboration and sound, Fowler funnels his own particular journey through writing into a select series of standalone essays which offer the reader a greater whole. Having become synonymous with a new generation of prolific 21st century British experimentalists, Fowler’s articles are accessible but intellectual, agile as well as understated, as perceptive as they are challenging.”

The volume features a dozen articles commissioned and / or published by Tate Modern, Versopolis Review, The Learned Pig, Magma, Penned in the Margins, International Literature Showcase, Atlantic Drift, The Poetry School and The British Council.

Collaborations : Limited Editions

Two publications made in collaboration for the Small Publisher’s Fair retrospective exhibition in 2022.

Translated Books - Maadlejad, Simpanz et al

Multiple collections have been translated into other languages in part, but a few I worked on with the translators to be new works for that language. In this case with Mathura in Estonia and Muanis Sinanovic in Slovenia. Further translations available here https://www.stevenjfowler.com/translations

Poetry Chapbooks : Fights, boxing poetry series

Early chapbooks from my first years writing, each about the life of a boxer through experimental poem sequences.

Poetry Chapbooks : out of print

My first ever publications - the last hand-made zine by the united Writers Forum in 2010, launched at the workshop - amongst others emerging from the zine culture of the London experimental poetry scene circa 2010. Later to include very limited edition Books in Boxes from Like this press (still available in the National Poetry Library).

  • Tractography - Pyramid Editions 2016

  • Four Fold w/ Ross Sutherland, Colin Herd et al : 2014

  • Whale Hunt - Annexe Press 2014

  • The Primarchs - Bear Press 2014

  • The Estates of Westeros w/ Ben Morris : Like This press 2013

  • Gilles de Rais: Like This press 2013

  • Twins w/ Matteo Patocchi : 2013

  • Recipes - Red Ceilings press 2012

  • Saint Augustine of Hippo - Bear Press 2010

  • Animal Husbandry - Bear Press 2010

  • Poggel Intricate - Writers Forum 2010