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| SJ Fowler |
Small Publishers Fair 2025
Launch of SJ Fowler’s Found Photo Poetry Postcards
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A Zed and two 0s
SJ Fowler
Matt Sokulsky
Eleanor Wilders
David Spittle
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| Eleanor Wilders |
The Small Publishers Fair is the annual gathering of books by writers, artists, poets, musicians, book designers and their publishers. It takes place in London’s historic Conway Hall, centre of humanism and literary Bloomsbury.
https://smallpublishersfair.co.uk
Matt Sokulsky
a zed & two o’s
An anthology of poems on the animals of Shaldon Zoo
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 the work of SJ Fowler, Colin Herd, Danica Ignacio, Will Rene, Matt Sokulsky, David Spittle, Vilde Bjerke Torset, Cameron Wade, Eleanor Wilders and Ellen Wiles.
Published by Sampson Low Ltd
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| David Spittle |
Found Photo Poetry Postcards
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.
Published by Sampson Low Ltd
