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Helen Tookey @helentookey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This year’s Lowry Lounge @thebluecoat.bsky.social on Sat 31st Oct, featuring international guests and a magical altar. Demons may be raised… www.trybooking.com/uk/event/118...

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The 2026 Lowry Lounge: Malc, Magic and Mexico

Our annual celebration of Wirral-born writer Malcolm Lowry

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Editor's note: My cat is currently (not) helping me with a Lowry presentation I'm working on.

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Malcolm Dixon @malcolmdixon59.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Homeward bound with an exciting new volume for the collection. @malcolmlowry.bsky.social @helentookey.bsky.social

1. Photo of the front cover of the book: Outward Bound from Liverpool by Helen Tookey.

2. Photo of three bookshelves holding volumes by or about Malcolm Lowry and his writing.

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Helen Tookey will be in conversation with @thebluecoat.bsky.social's Director of Cultural Legacies Bryan Biggs at the event, and we'll be bringing along the books! We hope to see you there. bit.ly/TookeyLaunch #Liverpool

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Outward Bound from Liverpool: Reading Malcolm Lowry - Smithdown Litfest: Liverpool's Year Round Literary Festival

The book launch of Outward Bound from Liverpool: Reading Malcolm Lowry by poet, writer and LJMU creative writing lecturer Helen Tookey.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Editor's note: Received @helentookey.bsky.social latest Lowry offering today. It's always a good day when you are able to pull some Lowryian item from the mailbox..

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Robert Sheppard @robertsheppard.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Malcolm Lowry fans: Last year's Lowry Lounge 'I am pleased to let you know that documentation of and material from last year's Lounge is now available on the Bluecoat website': www.thebluecoat.org.uk/library/the-.... Lots of pictures of Lowry on the Wirral that have not been seen before.

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The Lowry Lounge, 2025

The fifteenth annual Lounge focused on Lowry’s childhood years and the significance of the Wirral to his writing.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I seem to see us living in some northern country, of mountains and hills and blue water; our house is built on an inlet and one evening we are standing, happy in one another, on the balcony of this house, looking over the water.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

"Under the Volcano is therefore a profound meditation on alcohol as pharmakon—the remedy that is also a poison." www.theliftedbrow.com/liftedbrow/2...

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"JUST THE NECESSARY, THE THERAPEUTIC DRINK”: MALCOLM LOWRY’S UNDER THE VOLCANO by Chad Parkhill — The Lifted Brow

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

To say nothing of what you lose, lose, lose, are losing, man. You fool, you stupid fool ... You've even been insulated from the responsibility of genuine suffering ... Even the suffering you do endure is largely unnecessary.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

1) He stopped after a awhile: all was calm. No one had come after him. Was that good? Yes, it was good, he thought, his heart pounding. And since it was so good, he would take the path to Parián, to the Farolito.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

2) Before him the volcanoes, precipitous, seemed to have drawn nearer. They towered up over the jungle, into the lowering sky--massive interests moving up in the background.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

1) The broken pink pillars, in the half-light, might have been waiting to fall down on him: the pool, covered with green scum, its steps torn away and hanging by one rotting clamp, to close over his head.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

2) The shattered evil-smelling chapel, overgrown with weeds, the crumbling walls, splashed with urine, on which scorpions lurked - wrecked entablature, sad archivolt, slippery stones covered with excreta - this place, where love had once brooded, seemed part of a nightmare.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

But the stars by their very being consoled her.

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

It has been pointed out to me that Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry (Donald Brittain and John Kramer, 1976) is a perfect example of both 3 and 4.

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Munkle @unklemunkle.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Happy November 3rd to all who celebrate, and to all who celebrate- mind how you go.

Passage taken from Under The Volcano, by Malcolm Lowry-
"The platform slept. The tracks were vacant, the signals up.
There was little to suggest that any train ever arrived at this station, let alone left it:

QUAUHNAHUAC"

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Today is a special one for us, the "lunatic admirers" of Lowry (Firminists). I ask that you pause for a moment today, and reflect on that most special book, whose "quality is too rare to be successful".

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

A sense of a shared, a mountain peace seemed to fall between them; it was false, it was a lie, but for a moment it was almost as though they were returning home from marketing in days past.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

1) “Ah, the harbour bells of Cambridge! Whose fountains in moonlight and closed courts and cloisters, whose enduring beauty in its virtuous remote self-assurance, seemed part,

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

2) less of the loud mosaic of one’s stupid life there, though maintained perhaps by the countless deceitful memories of such lives, than the strange dream of some old monk, eight hundred years dead,

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

3) whose forbidding house, reared upon piles and stakes driven into the marshy ground, had once shone like a beacon out of the mysterious silence, and solitude of the fens. A dream jealously guarded: Keep off the Grass. And yet whose unearthly beauty compelled one to say: God forgive me."

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The Bluecoat @thebluecoat.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Lowry Lounge returns this weekend, book your tickets today! 📖 Since 2009 we've been celebrating the life and work of local writer Malcolm Lowry, and this year's celebration will explore his early years spent in the Wirral.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

"Besides after a while one begins to feel, if the man can hold his liquor as well as that why shouldn't he drink?"

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

[F]or some reason this simple fact appeared to make these two good people-for nearly all people are good who walk in parks-very happy again.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Windy shadows swept the pavement.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

"I have discovered one first rate author, an American, Julian Green, who writes in French, which is translated back again into English." theamericanreader.com/19-september...

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19 September (1931): Malcolm Lowry to Conrad Aiken | The American Reader

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

...but still the old bandstand stands where no band stands.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

But my lord, Yvonne, surely you know by this time I can’t get drunk however much I drink.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Taken at "Lieben", Bowen Island. Left to right are Reg Watters (Canadian editor and anthologist), Malcolm, Margerie, and Earle Birney. July 1947. Special Collections Library, UBC - BC 1614/25.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Everything that deceives may be said to enchant. Plato, The Republic

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

How could he have thought so evil of the world when succor was at hand the whole time?

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Rain - rain - rain here, Vancouver's Jubilee, and the city full of wild Indians. Yours sincerely, Malcolm Lowry

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Some words on David Markson. themillions.com/2016/03/this...

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

A documentary on Lowry that is not for the faint of spirit. Regardless, a must watch. www.nfb.ca/film/volcano/

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

"Come amigo, throw away your mind," Dr. Vigil said behind him.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Slightly to the right and below them, below the gigantic red evening, whose reflection bled away in the deserted swimming pools scattered everywhere like so many mirages, lay the peace and sweetness of the town.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

The spectators laughed and cheered, though Hugh, really indistinguishable from a Mexican now, looked serious, even grim. He leaned back, holding on determinedly, with feet splayed, heels knocking the sweaty flanks. The charros galloped across the arena.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

I have lived only nineteen years and all of them more or less badly. --letter to Conrad Aiken, 1929.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

And it seemed to me that until I knew her I had lived my whole life in darkness.

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Harry Finch @harryfinch.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Afraid to imagine what she's dreaming.

Tortoiseshell cat sleeps on a bed using a hardcover copy of Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

"...where is the sunrise? Where is the frost? Where are my seagulls? Where is my coffee? Where is love?" Lowry to Markson, 1951.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Black geometry angled against dark skies.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Nothing is altered, and in spite of God's mercy I am still alone. (Watercolor of Lowry by Arturo Espinosa, May 15, 2012)

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

...the old bastard would merely grin... 1979 letter from Markson discussing Lowry

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

[D]eliver me from this dreadful tyranny of self. I have sunk low. Let me sink lower still that I may know the truth.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Round and round we swung rhythmically, moving our bodies now in quick little nervous vibrations, now in long, sweeping drags.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

There are accounts dedicated to great 20th century writers Paul Bowles and Malcolm Lowry. I love that people dedicate themselves to a particular writer in this way.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

The moon had gone. A hot gust of wind blew in their faces and lightning blazed white and jagged in the northeast: thunder spoke, economically; a poised avalanche…

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