Publisher: Steel Incisors
Date published: 2021
An unprecedented take on collage as poetic medium, SJ Fowler’s Bastard Poems is a book that defies description. Poems are built with the found, the handwritten, the abstract, the irreverent and the archival, and the occasional text camouflaged as commentary. Reading it is the equivalent of exploring someone’s abandoned attic only to realise they have been watching you the whole time.