Crash Wake and other Poems by Owen Lowery
PBS Winter Wild Card 2021 Aaron Meskin an oddball

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

These are poets who interrogate race and explode any ideas of a page/stage divide

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Crash Wake and other Poems by Owen Lowery <b><br>PBS Winter Wild Card 2021</b> Aaron Meskin an oddballIn 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