First edition: hardback limited to 40 copies
150 x 230 mm
64 colour pages
2018
£20.00 SOLD OUT
Second edition: paperback
ISBN: 9780464869399
150 x 230 mm
64 colour pages
2018
£7.99 buy here
150 x 230 mm
64 colour pages
2018
£20.00 SOLD OUT
Second edition: paperback
ISBN: 9780464869399
150 x 230 mm
64 colour pages
2018
£7.99 buy here
“The
toner explodes on the office carpet spilling out a perfectly formed
oeuvre. Serifs skywrite like migrating gannets. The rorschach
accidentally tells you what to think. The dollar sign is a duck walking
backwards into a lake. Aletta Ocean’s Alphabet Empire is an almighty
triumph, a well-earned relief.”
- Chris McCabe
Five years in the making, a new collection of over 50 new pansemic, asemic, ink poems, water poems, grid poems, abstract letters and word portraits. All in monochrome, the collection is closed with an essay.
This is a book about technology and its absence, about materiality and the body, and hands, that are required for touch. A book about sex, eroticism, pornography, violence. A book that asks, abstractly, are letters shaped like bodies? Are letters like faces, captured in a screen?
The poems are hand wrought in black, grey, silver and white, fashioned with indian ink, paint and pen, worked with techniques edging around writing, vying with abstraction, watercolour and constantly harrying both semantic meaning with messed letters and word composition with busy pages.
AOAE is reviewed with I Fear My Best Work Behind Me (Stranger Press, 2017) by Michael Jacobson over at The New Post-literate. Jacket 2 magazine featured 3 poems from Aletta - view them here
more on SJ Fowler's
- Chris McCabe
Five years in the making, a new collection of over 50 new pansemic, asemic, ink poems, water poems, grid poems, abstract letters and word portraits. All in monochrome, the collection is closed with an essay.
This is a book about technology and its absence, about materiality and the body, and hands, that are required for touch. A book about sex, eroticism, pornography, violence. A book that asks, abstractly, are letters shaped like bodies? Are letters like faces, captured in a screen?
The poems are hand wrought in black, grey, silver and white, fashioned with indian ink, paint and pen, worked with techniques edging around writing, vying with abstraction, watercolour and constantly harrying both semantic meaning with messed letters and word composition with busy pages.
AOAE is reviewed with I Fear My Best Work Behind Me (Stranger Press, 2017) by Michael Jacobson over at The New Post-literate. Jacket 2 magazine featured 3 poems from Aletta - view them here
more on SJ Fowler's