“Expanding the stomach, with water, in a bookshop. Hairdressing while on piggy back, in a university. Olympic wrestling, in the German embassy. Baby carries and leg drags in an arts centre. Human sculptures and gymnastic lifts in the Poetry Society. These are the things of poetry, naturally, if you are Krišjānis Zeļģis and SJ Fowler. In a Latvian-British collaborative duo that has gained it’s own strange kind of fame, through five performances in six years, a collaborative form has been generated, pioneered, that blends, uniquely, laconic, elegiac, dialogic literary poetry with physical, uncanny, generous conceptual performances. This book is then a inversion of the liveness that has made these collaborations whole, it is a return to the written word, an emphasis of that, and evidence all the same, of friendship, and of the potential of collaboration in literature.
LEVELS OF CARE
KRIŠJĀNIS ZEĻĢIS & SJ FOWLER
Published June 2025
ISBN 978-1-915505-52-1
A5 Size
32 printed pages
Colour
Cimera Series #7
SLB0265
Print run of 200
Price – £4.99
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This book was launched at the opening event of the European Poetry Festival 2025. The night celebrated one of the most exciting literary scenes in contemporary Europe – Latvia! In the iconic National Poetry Library, four of Latvia’s most exciting poets performed their work, as well as brand new collaborations made with British poets. It was a brilliant, joyous, energised event of collaborative poetic performance and literary readings, from a nation that champions the spirit of European poetry and collaboration.
Sampson Low 