Articles

My articles have been commissioned and published by Nature, Tate Britain, The Photographers Gallery, Vice Magazine, Magma, Versopolis, The British Council and more. An assortment below, published online.

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Versopolis : The European Review of Poetry, Books and Literature / articles

Across 2018 and 2019 I was commissioned to write a series of new articles by Versopolis, as a series. There were 12 articles in all, 9 remain online to read free below.

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it wont go well : 2018

Kingston University Press published a limited edition volume of my selected articles in late 2018 entitled It Won't Go Well, currently out of print.

From the publisher 

“I find myself producing things I think forgettable, around ideas I sense are not.”

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 nearly a dozen articles commissioned and / or published by Tate Modern online, The Learned Pig, The European Review of Poetry Books and Culture, Magma, Penned in the Margins, The International Literature Showcase, Atlantic Drift, The Poetry School and The British Council.

A note on : Prose Poem Poetics, launching my selected articles November 29, 2018

A really magic night at Torriano Reading House in Kentish Town brought over a dozen poets together presenting new works, responding to the remit of poems in prose or poems as poetics. Some amazing performances, Jeff Hilson, Mischa Foster Poole, Chrissy Williams, Julia Lewis, Susie Campbell and the whole crew were really on.

I launched my selected articles It Won’t Go Well at the event and read from the opening essay with a robot hamster.

All the performances are here www.theenemiesproject.com/torriano

Some further assorted articles

introduction to Federico Federici's book, about asemic poetry and jazz Pithecanthropus Erectus (The article can be read with the Look Inside function) : 2018

"The work is remarkable precisely because it works in a graceful, familiar space to do often stark and unfamiliar things. Like jazz that absorbs sound. This feels to me a faithful act towards listening and the intention towards possibility and inspiration. The roll, the smudge, the dead signature. The cut in the scrawl. The squig. The line, cards and bled ink. Sounds on paper." - SJ Fowler and visit http://federicofederici.net/libri/

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INTRODUCTION TO BILYK an introduction to Volodymyr Bilyk's Heartbeat, Footclick, Machine Gun Vocalises

OTHER ROOM - A short article marking the end of the Other Room reading series in Manchester, after a decade of events http://www.stevenjfowler.com/blog/2018/6/9/a-note-on-the-end-of-the-other-room

CROWD - A travelogue on the CROWD Literature Bus Tour <http://theenemiesproject.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=faf956113cd2a96a41681f993&id=fe8eee37f9&e=824d8766e2> for Literaturhaus Europa

IN OTHER WORDS On being in Europe as the UK was leaving <http://theenemiesproject.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=faf956113cd2a96a41681f993&id=0b59f49fe3&e=824d8766e2>