As part of the Hay festival Xalapa, Mexico, in 2014, held on October 3rd, at the Casa de Lago, SJ Fowler read from the Enemigos anthology amongst 9 poets from around the world. http://www.hayfestival.com/xalapa/

Readings

Page last updated in 2020. Recitations and readings of poetry. From Beijing to Bratislava, Tbilisi to Novi Sad, Xalapa to Erbil. At festivals and institutions in the UK like Hay on Wye, The LRB, Garden Museum and Southbank Centre. / On separate pages are my

A mini-festival of poetry readings held in Beijing on April 8th 2016 to mark the Chinese Culture Translation and Studies Support (CCTSS) global literary conference featuring poets from across the world, held in the Beijing Language and Culture University, Shaw Auditorium. http://www.cctss.org/portal.php?mod=view&aid=1978
Held on May 21st 2014, at the London Review of Books bookshop in Bloomsbury, London, the Eyewear publishing summer launch saw six new collections of poetry launched on one evening. http://www.eyewearpublishing.com/
Held on March 24th 2016 in the Iskele Municipality of Northern Cyprus, as part of a month long annual arts festival, this reading was the headlining night of a poetry festival with poets from around the world, curated by Emel Kaya. www.stevenjfowler.com/iskele
http://www.arspoetica.sk/2013/ a reading in Bratislava October 2013 for the Ars Poetica international poetry festival. Footage shot and edited by Igor Stimka http://blutkitt.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/ars-poetica-bratislava-diary-of-magic.html
Held on June 6th 2015, in the White Hart, Influx press curated a day of readings evidenced the close knit bonds of London's small press scene, part of which included a reading celebrating Test Centre press. Iain Sinclair, Tom Chivers and SJ Fowler read from their books with Test Centre, before a Q&A, in front of a sold out audience.
I attended the 9th International Novi Sad Literature festival in Serbia in the summer of 2014, reading alongside some extraordinary poets like Mark Waldron, Stevan Bradic and Joachim Sartorius. :http://www.stevenjfowler.com/novi-sad-literature-festival/
Held at the beautiful Writer's House in Tbilisi, Georgia, the 2nd International Festival of Literature featured writers from all over the world. On the penultimate night of the festival, all the attending poets read one of their works, with Georgian translations by Davit Gabunia et al, to a packed audience in the garden of the house.
Held on June 11th 2015, the Big Tree Debate was held at the Garden Museum in Lambeth, London. As part of the evenings discussion, poet in residence at Landscape Architects J&L Gibbons, SJ Fowler, read from the works he's written while working with the firm on Soil & Dendrophily.
The 6th English Pen Modern Literature Fest took place at the Bishop in Kingston, on January 14th 2020, hosted by Writers' Centre Kingston, with 8 british bas...
Dostoyevsky Wannabe : a literary event : February Sunday 23rd 2020 at Torriano Meeting House Beautifully designed and championing brilliant, innovative autho...

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Held in the cultural centre El Tercer Lugar in Buenos Aires n February 8th 2016, these readings formed part of the second day of three nights of performances centred around the Enemies Project: Argentina, which brought together poets from Argentina, UK and Germany to write new collaborations and exchange ideas.
October 2013, Mexico city DF, at the Laboratorio Arte Alamede, SJ Fowler reads his poems featured in the Enemigos anthology, accompanied by Amanda de la Garza, reading her transliterations on those poems. Then a improvised collaboration with Holly Pester, beginning 7.37 into the video. Filmed by Edgardo Dander http://blutkitt.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/mexico-city-diario-de-poesia-4.html
Held on July 24th 2014, in the city of Erbil, Kurdistan, the Niniti International Literature festival hosted the culmination of the second Reel Iraq project, where 4 British based writers and 4 Iraqi poets came together to transliterate each other's poetry. Read more here http://www.reelfestivals.org/
Enemies: Visual Art & Poetry --The Hardy Tree gallery, London: July 6th -20th 2013 A two week exhibition of visual art & avant-garde poetry in collaboration at the Hardy Tree gallery (http://www.hardytreegallery.com) July 6th to 20th 2013. This groundbreaking exploration of poeart exchange featured seven events over the fortnight. www.weareenemies.com.
Held on July 10th 2013, in the John Galsworthy building of Kingston University, London, a poetry reading was held to close out the writing school's first international pedagogy conference.
Held on the evening of Saturday June 30th, in the White room of the Southbank centre, the crowning event of the Maintenant series at Poetry Parnassus saw 10 international avant garde and experimental poets celebrate their work and the growing prominence of innovation in poetry to a sold out audience.
Held on September 2nd 2012 in Sofia, Bulgaria, the culmination of the Sofia Poetics festival saw a reading with both international and local poets presenting their work before the national theatre to a large audience who had come to witness a memorable night of poetry and music.
At the launch of the Herbarium poetry anthology, Friday 22nd July 2011 at the Urban Physic Garden, 100 Union Street, London. 36 poets read to celebrate the garden and it's plants. http://www.physicgarden.org.uk
On the evening of July 19th 2012, a large group of friends, family and fellow poets met in the Keynes Library, in Birkbeck college, in London's Bloomsbury to celebrate the life and work of the British innovative poet, James Harvey.