The Parts of the Body that Stink : London Launch
March Saturday 23rd at Rich Mix Arts Centre
With readings and performances by SJ Fowler, Jules Sprake, Laura Davis, Julia Rose Lewis, Stephen Sunderland, Paul Hawkins, Oscar Rodriguez, Danica Ignacio, Francis de Lima & Ramsey Tawfick, Mischa Foster Poole, Michael O’Mahony, Rushika Wick and Tereza Stehlikova.
For the launch of SJ Fowler’s strange new poetry collection - The Parts of the Body that Stink - comprised of five long poems exploring scent and stink and smells, over a dozen poets, writers and artists celebrate that theme or their works with brilliant Bristol-based press, Hesterglock, founded by Paul Hawkins. From readings to art performances, perfume to anti-perfume, text to textiles, visual poetry to sound poetry, this event will be a launch as eccentric and entertaining as the book it throws into the world.
Book available here hesterglock.net/SJ-Fowler-Stink and more info stevenjfowler.com/stink
“The thing that stinks the most … is you! Or this book. Who cares? That’s not what this is about at all. You stink, I stink, everything worthwhile stinks. Smell it while you can. This is an eccentric poetry book by most standards, divided into five chapters, each a long poem. Nose, pits, feet, anas, genitae. All about how we smell and what that might worry in us. For example, let’s not get obsessed with what we’ll smell of in the grave! After all, you smell right now. Let’s just read, and for one day, not give ourselves a scrubbing.” hesterglock.net/SJ-Fowler-Stink and stevenjfowler.com/stink
