S.J. Fowler

SJ Fowler is a writer, poet, and performer who lives in London. His numerous publications include collections of poetry, visual poetry, collaborative poetry, essays, and collaborations as well as a novella. His books include Unfinished Memmoirs of a Hypocrit (Hesterglock Press, 2019) and {Enthusiasm} (Test Centre, 2015). Including multimedia collaborations, he has worked with over 40 independent UK presses, performed in more than 40 countries, and collaborated with over 200 writers and artists, including Iain Sinclair, Eley Williams, Max Porter, and Phil Minton. His sound poetry and concrete poetry has been featured in Palais de Tokyo’s The Liberated Voice – Sound Poetry exhibition and The New Concrete: Visual Poetry in the 21st Century (Hayward Publishing, 2015) anthology from the Hayward Gallery. 

His writing explores prescription drugs, films, fighting sports, museums, prisons, and animals, often taking on satirical, conceptual, and experimental forms. He has worked in the fields of performance literature, literary curation, collaborative poetry, asemic writing, and neuropoetics.

Fowler’s work has been translated into 29 languages and commissioned by the National Gallery, 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. He was part of the first Hub residency at the Wellcome Collection, and has been poet in residence at Kensal Green Cemetery and J&L Gibbons, a landscape architecture studio. 

He is the founder and curator of Poem Brut and The Enemies Project as well as a poetry editor at 3:AM Magazine and former executive editor at the Versopolis Review. Fowler is a lecturer in creative writing and English literature at Kingston University. He has also taught at the Tate Modern, Poetry School, and Photographer's Gallery, and he is a Salzburg Global Fellow. He is the director of Writers’ Kingston and the European Poetry Festival.