SJ Fowler is a concrete, sound and experimental poet. His work has been featured in over 60 journals and magazines, and his collections and pamphlets have been published by over a dozen presses. He is a member of the Writers Forum, the London based avant-garde poetry group formed in the mid-1950s by Bob Cobbing. He edits the Maintenant interview series for 3am magazine, introducing avant garde European poetry into England. His work is concerned with the latency of repression in capitalist culture, and often, the sport of boxing.
What have you got planned this week?
I went bookstomping in East Finchley & Highgate yesterday, so reading a lot. I also have to work up something to read at a poetry workshop on Saturday.
What do your parents think you do?
They know about my work but they think its all squiggles and stuff. They are wholly accurate and I appreciate their brevity.
Who do you look like?
Reinhard Heydrich
What’s your favourite sense?
Smell, though I fear losing my sight above all else.
Tell us something people don’t know about you…
A lot of people know outside of poetry, but I used to be a professional mixed martial artist, fighting in cages. Im on youtube punching people in the face alot.
Did your education count?
Not my undergraduate education, it was a mental vacuum. Since then it has been the very centre of my life and owe it almost everything that makes me happy.
What word can’t you spell?
Tomorrow, I’m always using two Ms.
Tell us a good fact
In the last decade or so, Sloths have been regularly found eating out of toilets and cesspits. Their digestion system works so slowly they can subsist on human faeces. True.
What’s Next?
Hope to get my doctorate in Philosophy soon and teach at a University. Seems a nice life.
What’s your ‘Plan B’?
Have a family, be a house husband, write poetry & read all day.