The Parts of the Body that Stink - Bristol Launch
March Saturday 30th 2024
7pm doors : 7.30pm start - Free Entry
Book available here hesterglock.net/SJ-Fowler-Stink and more info stevenjfowler.com/stink
For the full tour with readings in London and Kingston theenemiesproject/stinktour
With readings and performances by SJ Fowler, Vik Shirley, Angie Butler, Sarer Scotthorne, Vicki Kaye, Julia Rose Lewis, Paul Hawkins and more to be announced.
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 independent publisher, Hesterglock, founded by Paul Hawkins. Drawing in those local to Bristol, home of the press, and at the remarkable Arnolfini gallery, this event will see readings and art performances, perfume and anti-perfume, text and textiles, visual poetry and sound poetry - a launch as eccentric and entertaining as the book it throws into the world.
“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