An Open Access edition of this book is available on theLiverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.‘Whoever thought they would one day be able to read Malcolm Lowry’s fabled novel ofthe 1930s and 40s, In Ballast to theWhite Sea?
An Open Access edition of this book is available on theLiverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.
‘Whoever thought they would one day be able to read Malcolm Lowry’s fabled novel ofthe 1930s and 40s, In Ballast to theWhite Sea? Lord knows, I didn’t’ – Michael Hofmann, TLS
This book breaks new ground in studies of the Britishnovelist Malcolm Lowry (1909–57), as the first collection of new essaysproduced in response to the publication in 2014 of a scholarly edition ofLowry’s ‘lost’ novel, In Ballast to theWhite Sea. In their introduction, editors Helen Tookey and Bryan Biggsshow how the publication of In Ballastsheds new light on Lowry as both a highly political writer and one deeplyinfluenced by his native Merseyside, as his protagonist SigbjørnHansen-Tarnmoor walks the streets of Liverpool, wrestling with his ownconscience and with pressing questions of class, identity and socialreform. In the chapters that follow, renowned Lowryscholars and newer voices explore key aspects of the novel and its relation tothe wider contexts of Lowry’s work. These include his complex relation to socialismand communism, the symbolic value of Norway, and thesignificance of tropes of loss, hauntings and doublings. The book draws on theunexpected opportunity offered by the rediscovery of In Ballast to look afresh at Lowry’s oeuvre, to ‘remake the voyage’.
“"Remaking the Voyage makes a major contribution to Lowry studies, perhaps unsurprisingly given the strength of the academic contributors. It genuinely advances humanistic knowledge of Lowry's In Ballast, additionally offering an intriguing identity politics argument or interpretive nexus, comprising cultural and geographical location, class and political awareness/affiliation." Professor Richard J. Lane, Vancouver Island University”
‘Remaking the Voyage makes a major contribution to Lowry studies, perhaps unsurprisingly given the strength of the academic contributors. It genuinely advances humanistic knowledge of Lowry’s In Ballast, additionally offering an intriguing identity politics argument or interpretive nexus, comprising cultural and geographical location, class and political awareness/affiliation.’
- Professor Richard J. Lane, Vancouver Island University
Helen Tookey teaches creative writing at Liverpool John Moores University. She has published two poetry collections with Carcanet Press: Missel-Child (2014, shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Prize 2015) and City of Departures (2019, shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2019). She is the author of Anaïs Nin, Fictionality and Femininity (Oxford University Press, 2003) and co-editor, with Bryan Biggs, of Malcolm Lowry: From the Mersey to the World (Liverpool University Press, 2009). Bryan Biggs has worked at Bluecoat, Liverpool’s contemporary arts centre, for over four decades, curating numerous exhibitions, and live art programmes. In 2017 he directed Bluecoat’s tercentenary year. He writes on contemporary culture and is co-editor, with Julie Sheldon of Art in a City Revisited (Liverpool University Press, 2009) and, with John Belchem, of Liverpool City of Radicals (Liverpool University Press, 2011).
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