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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/book-launch-outward-bound-from-l
 iverpool-reading-malcolm-lowry-by-helen-tookey/
SUMMARY:Bluecoat: Book Launch: Outward Bound from Liverpool: Reading Malcol
 m Lowry by Helen Tookey
DESCRIPTION:Poet\, writer and LJMU creative writing lecturer Helen Tookey
  discusses and reads from her new book Outward Bound from Liverpool: Rea
 ding Malcolm Lowry. Weaving together literary criticism\, memoir and place
 -writing\, the book takes the reader on an immersive journey through the l
 andscapes – textual and geographical\, remembered and reimagined – of 
 Wirral-born novelist\, poet and short-story writer Malcolm Lowry (1909
 –57).\n\nAt the same time\, the book follows the author’s own evolving
  engagement with Lowry as she uses him to ‘think with’\, turning his t
 exts and her readings of them through unexpected angles\, exploring questi
 ons of place and belonging\, exile and home.\n\nMoving through the various
  terrains of Lowry’s life and work – Liverpool and the Wirral\; Dollar
 ton in British Columbia\, where he found his always-threatened idyll\; the
  archive of his work\; and the richly textured\, symbolic landscapes of hi
 s writing itself – the book offers a compelling\, lyrical and often movi
 ng account of a sustained engagement with a writer and what it can enable.
  Outward Bound from Liverpool also pays tribute to the humour\, beauty a
 nd passion of Lowry’s writing\, his deeply felt sense of place\, and his
  prescient concern for the natural world. It explores how reading can chan
 ge us and shows why Lowry is a writer still very much for today.\n\nHelen 
 will be in conversation with the Bluecoat’s Director of Cultural Legacie
 s\, Bryan Biggs\, with whom she collaborates on the arts centre’s annua
 l Lowry Lounge celebration of the writer.\n\n"A generous and open-minded l
 iterary adventure. Thoroughly researched but never allowing the propulsive
  narrative to be held back. Helen Tookey wins our trust and delivers a bra
 ve sequence of approaches to an impossible and endlessly rewarding author"
  - Iain Sinclair\n\nOutward Bound from Liverpool: Reading Malcolm Lowry 
 is published by Liverpool University Press\, August 2026\n\nFree\, booking
  required\n\nBook now: https://www.thebluecoat.org.uk/whatson/outward-boun
 d-launch
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LOCATION:Bluecoat\, School Lane\, Liverpool\, L1 3BX\, Liverpool\, United K
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