Crash Wake and other Poems by Owen Lowery
PBS Winter Wild Card 2021 Aaron Meskin colloquial enough to keep you

colloquial enough to keep you reading

/ the terra firma that is silent in Finisterre’

and in his despair speaks to other exiled Kurdish poets (Nali

and the catastrophe

Crash Wake and other Poems by Owen Lowery <b><br>PBS Winter Wild Card 2021</b> Aaron Meskin colloquial enough to keep youIn February 2020, ventilated tetraplegic poet Owen Lowery and his wife, Jayne, were travelling to Scotland when their vehicle aquaplaned, spun round on the motorway, hit a barrier, flipped over the barrier and rolled over several times, before coming to rest on its side in a field. Having barely survived, Lowery emerged into a world transformed by the coronavirus, one in which life and death had moved closer. During his months of recovery from three