Bluepepper is Pleased to Announce the Release of Magellenica by Celebrated Sydney Poet Justin Lowe, Capturing the Sights, Sounds and Smells of 1920's Sydney
It is 1924. The dusty, snaking streets of Sydney are a hive of jagged ex-diggers, widows and orphans. Albermarle Darcy, DSO, is one of those returned to a world turned on its head, his mother dying of the influenza and all his childhood friends either dead or mad. So he appears to have made a covenant, “a pact, you see/with this new world of ours,” turning his back on it all with a line off the Darling street pier. The past, however, is not so easily shunned.
Leura, Australia, May 29, 2008 --(PR.com)-- “There is no longer any need to go searching for brilliance in Australian poetry…” MTC Cronin
“There are times when Lowe’s poetic sensibility shines. The largeness of the novel is tempered by rich observation.” Maggie Ball in The Compulsive Reader
“In Justin Lowe’s Glass Poems we find the poet existing as universal bard, traversing a multitude of realities….The poet narrator seems to be both guide and guided into uncertain existence….so that the reader might ask – for how long was I gone?” Dr Coral Hull
“While there is an otherworldly, observational quality, his words do not fail to connect with and move the reader. The work also contains a cautionary wisdom which sometimes lets our minds run free and other times corrals us with a big whip.” Brentley Frazer in Cordite magazine
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“There are times when Lowe’s poetic sensibility shines. The largeness of the novel is tempered by rich observation.” Maggie Ball in The Compulsive Reader
“In Justin Lowe’s Glass Poems we find the poet existing as universal bard, traversing a multitude of realities….The poet narrator seems to be both guide and guided into uncertain existence….so that the reader might ask – for how long was I gone?” Dr Coral Hull
“While there is an otherworldly, observational quality, his words do not fail to connect with and move the reader. The work also contains a cautionary wisdom which sometimes lets our minds run free and other times corrals us with a big whip.” Brentley Frazer in Cordite magazine
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