An Enquiry into the Delight of Existence and the Sublime

In his debut collection of poetry, H. K. G. Lowery explores a journey incorporating all the natural anxieties and pains of living, leading to an understanding of real forgiveness and redemption.

From the first poem of the collection, An Ode to Father John Misty, he sets the scene touching on societal issues such as racism, homophobia, religion, addiction and consumerism. The darkness of such issues, as well as other emotional issues, are given light gradually when he journeys into the positive attributes of forgiveness, hope in the God, the wonderment of nature, self-acceptance and salvation. The collection begins to rotate towards the Sublime with A Requiem for St. Francis which holds a strong personal resonance from the time he visited Assisi in Italy.

Each poem commences with an epigraph which summarises each individual poem. The final poem sees all twelve epigraphs combine into a conclusion of the collection which results in a cathartic outpouring where the delight of existence is realised.

An Enquiry into the Delight of Existence and the Sublime is a personal journey, a rise from darkness to light, from despair to hope.

H. K. G. Lowery is a Poet from the North East of England. In July 2020, Lowery graduated from Newcastle University with a BA Honours degree in English Literature receiving First Class grades for his Poetry and his essays on Ezra Pound and Immanuel Kant. In his two years of writing, Lowery has composed over 500 poems that span across three collections of Poetry. He has been shortlisted for the Terry Kelly Poetry Prize 2020, and his work has been accepted into many anthologies including Train River Publishing and Sylvia Magazine. Lowery also travels around the United Kingdom playing shows with his band, Fossway.

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