Shaldon Wildlife Trust is a zoo like no other. Nestled on a hill, a stone’s throw from the sea, in a beautiful corner of South Devon. It is a residence to binturongs, loris’, armadillos and poets. In 2024 and 2025, SJ Fowler, as part of his residency in the zoo, organised a series of walking tour events, inviting poets from across the UK, to read to an audience of various animals. This pocket-sized anthology brings together the best of those new poems, each written for and read to an animal of Shaldon. The anthology also includes an introduction by Zoo director Zak Showell.
Featuring SJ Fowler, Colin Herd, Danica Ignacio, Will Rene, Matt Sokulsky, David Spittle, Vilde Bjerke Torset, Cameron Wade, Eleanor Wilders and Ellen Wiles.
Introduction by Zak Showell, director of Shaldon Wildlife Trust
a zed & two o’s An anthology of poems on the animals of Shaldon Zoo SJ Fowler, Colin Herd, Danica Ignacio, Will Rene, Matt Sokulsky, David Spittle, Vilde Bjerke Torset, Cameron Wade, Eleanor Wilders and Ellen Wiles. Published 2025 ISBN 978-1-915505-54-5 A6 Size 28 printed pages Colour SLB0267 BUY a zed & two o’s (£3.99 + £1.20 P&P)
In theorising what is possible for the photo poem while teaching at the Photographer’s Gallery, SJ Fowler proposed four possible ways the two mediums can interact. With each other, separately. With text upon image, somehow. With text made of image or language evoked with image, in sequence or otherwise. And finally, a photo of language. How would this last method be more than just documentation? When the photo was necessary, when it was intrinsic?
This limited edition set of twelve postcards, Obi wrapped as a bundle, presents photographs of language found in the world, and thus, photo poems. It is a sequence that demonstrates that language found on a high street, when divorced from context, can be more poetic than an ode. It suggests that the language people use and misuse when branding their business is often more creative than the best-selling novel. It is twelve simple photos that insist that conceptual poetry can be relatively funny, and oddly personal.
“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 BUY LEVELS OF CARE (£4.99 + £2.20 P & P)
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.
Sinnead Singson’s debut poetry pamphlet hot milky was launched at the Poetry Society on 30th February 2025. The event was part of the Writing Cultures’ Festival of Storytelling 2025.
hot milky Sinnead Singson Published February 2025 ISBN 978-1-915505-50-7 A6 Size, 16 printed pages, Colour Print run of 200 Writers Centre Kingston Chapbook #24 SLB0263 Price – £2.60 BUY hot milky (£2.60 + £1.20 P&P)
Designed to evidence the remarkable contemporary and innovative poetry being written by current and recent Kingston University Creative Writing students, this series of beautifully designed pamphlets each features a suite of poems, most often on one theme or in one style, by a solo author. The series mark the first publications of many poets who are very likely to be significant presences on the UK scene and beyond in the coming years. http://www.writerskingston.com
“Kingston University brings together students from all over the world, from as wide a range of backgrounds and cultures as can be found in the UK. It creates a community that cross pollinates influences and ideas, and this is inevitably reflected in the work the students create. The university does not get enough credit for this – it is, I have seen, a vibrant, harmonious environment where originality and difference can be transformed into exciting and innovative expression. The students are hungry for that which is innovative, that which allows them to express the true size and complexity of their experience and their community at the university. This series of poetry pamphlets reflects that. The work is utterly contemporary, it is exciting and energetic. It is, I hope, the best kind of representation of what Kingston University stands for – intelligent, unique and various in its character.” Series editor, SJ Fowler
“Moral cavity is the result of looking at the otherwise regular parts of life until they warp in on themselves. It is a test on how far away something can get while still maintaining its identity and a measurement of how long it takes to make the ordinary unrecognisable. Moral cavity reflects on perspective and definition through a collection of visual and textual poetry that mirror the feeling of a growing bed of bacteria in the back of your mouth, except there is no bacteria and there is no mouth, just you.”
Danica Ignacio
moral cavity Danica Ignacio Published October 2024 ISBN 978-1-915505-47-7 A6 Size, 16 printed pages, Colour Print run of 200 Writers Centre Kingston Chapbook #22 SLB0260 Price – £2.60 BUY moral cavity (£2.60 + £1.20 P&P)
Designed to evidence the remarkable contemporary and innovative poetry being written by current and recent Kingston University Creative Writing students, this series of beautifully designed pamphlets each features a suite of poems, most often on one theme or in one style, by a solo author. The series mark the first publications of many poets who are very likely to be significant presences on the UK scene and beyond in the coming years. http://www.writerskingston.com
“Kingston University brings together students from all over the world, from as wide a range of backgrounds and cultures as can be found in the UK. It creates a community that cross pollinates influences and ideas, and this is inevitably reflected in the work the students create. The university does not get enough credit for this – it is, I have seen, a vibrant, harmonious environment where originality and difference can be transformed into exciting and innovative expression. The students are hungry for that which is innovative, that which allows them to express the true size and complexity of their experience and their community at the university. This series of poetry pamphlets reflects that. The work is utterly contemporary, it is exciting and energetic. It is, I hope, the best kind of representation of what Kingston University stands for – intelligent, unique and various in its character.” Series editor, SJ Fowler
A unique document in experimental poetry that celebrates the bone deep passion and pain football inflicts upon its followers. Written ostensibly to follow the turbulent 2022 / 2023 premier league season from the perspective of two lifelong fans of Crystal Palace and Everton respectively, A Seasons of Seasons then spirals out in the mass language ether of the world’s most popular game. Unusual for it’s methodology as well as its content, dragging in British poetry revival stalwarts alongside Pier Paolo Pasolini, Roy Hodgson and Sean Dyche, this book is a fusion of poetry, found text, collage, illustration, redaction and ground up collaboration.
SJ Fowler & Jules Sprake Published October 2023 ISBN 978-1-915505-31-6 A5 Size 36 printed pages Colour Cimera Series #6 SLB0244 Print run of 200 Price – £4.99 BUY A Seasons of Seasons (£4.99 + £2.20 P & P)
“Football, like poetry, is an artform that not so much encourages obsession as demands it. The back and forth between Fowler and Sprake perfectly captures this baroque particularity. Talking about football with a poet is usually like talking about tofu with a mountain lion: they know what it is, but they don’t see how it applies to them. So it’s a pleasure to read A Seasons of Seasons, a text, at last, for the intersection of the Venn diagram, perfect for a cold, wet Tuesday night in Stoke.” Tom Jenks
From its inception the European Poetry Festival has worked in partnership with the Austrian Cultural Forum London to present remarkable events that celebrate live literature, innovation in poetry and collaboration. Since 2018 poets from across Austria have visited the UK annually, to present new works made in pairs with local, British-based counterparts. These live poems, made for these nights, find themselves in print, for the first time, for this special, limited edition anthology. From the multi-lingual to the visual, from the the theatrical to the conceptual, these poems are as dynamic on the page, newly fashioned for that purpose, as they were when shared live, in the remarkable venue of the ACF London.
An anthology of poetic collaborations from across Europe Hannah Bründl and Han Smith, Fabian Faltin and SJ Fowler, Cornelia Hülmbauer and Ollie Evans, Max Höfler and Iris Colomb, Sophie-Carolin Wagner and Vilde Bjerke Torset, Robert Prosser and SJ Fowler, Daniela Chana and Phoebe Power, Verena Dürr and Magdalena McLean Published June 2022 ISBN 978-1-915505-08-8 A5 Size 40 printed pages Colour European Poetry Festival Series 8 SLB0221 Print run of 200 Price – £4.60 BUY An anthology of poetic collaborations from across Europe (£4.60 + £2.20 P & P)
The European Poetry Festival celebrates, in the UK and beyond, the grand resurgence in avant-garde and literary poetry that has marked the 21st century in Europe. It aims to not only innovate what a live poetry experience might be, but to inculcate community and engagement between poets across the continent, as well as between new audiences and complex poetries.
A unique epistolary poetry collection and a collaborative feat of rare acumen, Flowers Won’t Grow contemplates mundanity and gratitude with a mix of polite curiosity and tender contempt. The lettered, prose-ish poems of Sandhu and Fowler speak to a luminous private public exchange, and the writeable unspeakables of a long London summer. These are playful, complex poems, of a city, of soap and fizzy water, of a search for commonality in quiet, of paper birds and hardened workers.
Flowers Won’t Grow SJ Fowler & Karenjit Sandhu Published June 2021 ISBN 978-1-912960-70-5 A5 Size 40 printed pages Colour Cimera Series #5 SLB0183 Print run of 200 Price – £4.99
‘Exchanges, transfers and transferrals of intimacy and stark urgency – a work of posed questions, thumbed noses and drawn blood’. Eley Williams
‘This is a nurse’s attention on a knife edge. A pin-prick of address, a poem that says “let’s get out of here” to and about itself. Everything is external, but you can’t get outside, even if you don’t what to know what’s inside. It’s a hostile take over of mundane objects and day-to-day experience in a language that asks us to settle for fruit syrup but reaches beyond to the universe’ Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain
Karenjit Sandhu is a poet and artist. Her debut poetry collection young girls! is forthcoming with the 87 Press (2021). Karenjit’s poems appear in Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry (Timglaset Editions, 2021), Writing Utopia (Hesterglock Press, 2020) and Nemeses (HVTN Press, 2019). Her work has also appeared in Magma in collaboration with Ryan Ormonde (2020), as well as online at Digital Poetics (87 Press, 2020), Junction Box (2020) and DATABLEED (2019). Her performance work has led to collaborations with the Sir Denis Mahon Foundation, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Flat Time House and Camden People’s Theatre (London), Arnolfini (Bristol) and Galerie Eric Dupont (Paris). Karenjit is one of the judges of the 2021 Streetcake Writing Prize. @k_ren_sandhu
SJ Fowler is a writer, poet and artist who lives in London. His writing has explored subjects as diverse as prescription drugs, films, fight sports, museums, prisons and animals and his work has been commissioned by Tate Modern, BBC Radio 3, Somerset House, Tate Britain, London Sinfonietta, Southbank Centre, National Centre for Writing, National Poetry Library, Science Museum and Liverpool Biennial amongst others. He’s been translated into 27 languages and produced collaborations with over 150 artists. He has pioneered the fields of performance literature, literary curation, visual, photo and fifilm poetry, collaborative poetry and Neuropoetics. ‘Flowers won’t grow’ is his 44th publication and the 17th to be collaborative. www.stevenjfowler.com
SLURPS is the utterly unique, bold and bountiful debut publication by poet-artist Patrick Cosgrove. A book of visual poetry that explores the colourful, haptic spaces between words, occasionally bumping into a few along the way. SLURPS are poems that like to feel what words feel, while mostly afraid of what they might say. A book of linguistic abstraction, gesture and pattern, sound and smell – this is organic poetry, full of the actual sucking sounds of everyday life.
Patrick Cosgrove is an artist and parent. His work often explores the boundaries between different artistic domains: visual art, sculpture, sound, lm, performance and poetry. Much of his practice has been, and continues to be, inspired by S. J Fowler’s Poem Brut project, for which he has frequently performed. patcosgroveart.wordpress.com
Slurps Patrick Cosgrove Published June 2021 ISBN 978-1-912960-67-5 A5 Size 36 printed pages Colour Poem Brut Series #1 SLB0180 Print run of 100 Price – £4.99 SOLD OUT
Poem Brut celebrates artistic creative writing and its relationship with neurobiology – embracing text and colour, space and time, handwriting, composition, abstraction, illustration, sound, mess and motion – affirming the possibilities of the page, the pen, the process, the performance and the voice in a computer age. It is a project that celebrates genuine authentic originality in poetry, without overt recourse to biographical context and identity, and resists a literature of control, neatness, poise and direct, didactic meaning.
Poem Brut has offered an alternative understanding of 21st century literature since 2017 and has formed a quiet movement in British, and global, poetry. Series edited by SJ Fowler.
Dream Red, the debut publication from poet Nina Fidry, is a remarkable collection of concrete and projective poems filled with abstract imagery and multi-lingual play. Experimenting with space, composition, font, text-size and mathematics, these remarkable poems create a series of elegant divisions, forcing the reader to think of what could be and/ or what they are there for.
DREAM RED Nina Fidry Published June 2021 ISBN 978-1-912960-83-5 A6 Size, 16 printed pages, Colour Print run of 200 Writers Centre Kingston Chapbook #14 SLB0196 Price – £2.60 BUY DREAM RED (£2.60 + £1.20 P&P to UK Address)
Designed to evidence the remarkable contemporary and innovative poetry being written by current and recent Kingston University Creative Writing students, this series of beautifully designed pamphlets each features a suite of poems, most often on one theme or in one style, by a solo author. The series mark the first publications of many poets who are very likely to be significant presences on the UK scene and beyond in the coming years. www.writerskingston.com
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