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POETRY IN THE PLAGUE YEAR
Poems written during the Coronavirus Outbreak 2020
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S J Fowler London UK
Written 5th May 2020 SJ Fowler is a writer, poet and artist who
lives in London. His work has been commissioned by Tate Modern, BBC
Radio 3, Somerset House, Tate Britain, the London Sinfonietta,
Kettle’s Yard, UNESCO, Whitechapel Gallery, Southbank Centre,
National Centre for Writing, National Poetry Library, Science Museum
and Liverpool Biennial amongst others. He has published eight
collections of poetry, five of artworks, six of collaborative poetry
plus volumes of selected essays and selected collaborations. His
writing has explored subjects as diverse as prescription drugs,
films, fight sports, museums, prisons and animals. http://www.stevenjfowler.com a scale covered in some metal kept indoors not so good but swimming like the metaphor of bacteria on the fish being referenced on fingers of even tiny animals we wash for what is our ocean but a sock to rub metal from the feet of people forced in homes the ocean of microbes make scales shine and reduce to an empty alarm that it could do with washing water of the mouth now in small muds with microbial taxa and secrets underwater ignoring humans it goes into clear ocean together with us to look out forward
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