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Minimum Security Prison Dentistry S J Fowler The latest publication from London-based poet S J Fowler.
"Imagine a Boys Own Paper landscape with True Crime architecture. Laurence Harvey dodges from building to country trying to evade CCTV whose sound footage runs through Babelfish. The smells are Jack London, the light is Genet and the memories are Edgar Lee Masters. Equally in words is Steven Johannes Fowler's Minimum Security Prison Dentistry: elegant, coldly funny, at times emotional, textured with occasional accidental/intentional solecisms; but getting the work done. Nowadays most pages labelled "poetry" are unreadable and uninteresting: these give hope. Anyone who can name-check Joe Arpaio and Jacky le Mat, and reference the cover-texture of an Anselm Hollo book from the sixties rides my particular range." Tom Raworth Fake Book Tony Leuzzi 'At what point does a word, any word- rouse or flight- cease claiming what it means and become? Say rouse slowly, again and again, and like a piece of porous drift life will leave and enter it.' Described by Robert Glück as "a love letter to love letters", Leuzzi's Fake Book is a gorgeous suite of brawny, tricksy & charming lyrics written through, on and over source material from the songs of the American Songbook and the poems of Georg Trakl and William Carlos Williams. [more details] “DING-HEY” Unprompted, she exclaims, & again: “DING-HY” The oars suck at water & clonk in their rollocks.' The follow-up to Andrew Spragg's sell-out debut The Fleetingest (Red Ceilings Press, 2011), Notes For Fatty Cakes is uproarious, briny and mannered, with tenderness by the shimmering and deliciously shifty bucketload. [more details] also forthcoming, titles by S. J. Fowler, Stephen Nelson and Dom Lyne. |
