# Event Details - **Event Name**: Book Launch: Outward Bound from Liverpool: Reading Malcolm Lowry by Helen Tookey - **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 08 Sep, 2026 at 05:30 pm – Tue, 08 Sep, 2026 at 07:30 pm (+01:00) - **Event Description**: Poet, writer and LJMU creative writing lecturer Helen Tookey discusses and reads from her new book Outward Bound from Liverpool: Reading Malcolm Lowry. Weaving together literary criticism, memoir and place-writing, the book takes the reader on an immersive journey through the landscapes – textual and geographical, remembered and reimagined – of Wirral-born novelist, poet and short-story writer Malcolm Lowry (1909–57). At the same time, the book follows the author’s own evolving engagement with Lowry as she uses him to ‘think with’, turning his texts and her readings of them through unexpected angles, exploring questions of place and belonging, exile and home. Moving through the various terrains of Lowry’s life and work – Liverpool and the Wirral; Dollarton in British Columbia, where he found his always-threatened idyll; the archive of his work; and the richly textured, symbolic landscapes of his writing itself – the book offers a compelling, lyrical and often moving account of a sustained engagement with a writer and what it can enable. Outward Bound from Liverpool also pays tribute to the humour, beauty and passion of Lowry’s writing, his deeply felt sense of place, and his prescient concern for the natural world. It explores how reading can change us and shows why Lowry is a writer still very much for today. Helen will be in conversation with the Bluecoat’s Director of Cultural Legacies, Bryan Biggs, with whom she collaborates on the arts centre’s annual Lowry Lounge celebration of the writer. "A generous and open-minded literary adventure. Thoroughly researched but never allowing the propulsive narrative to be held back. Helen Tookey wins our trust and delivers a brave sequence of approaches to an impossible and endlessly rewarding author" - Iain Sinclair Outward Bound from Liverpool: Reading Malcolm Lowry is published by Liverpool University Press, August 2026 Free, booking required Book now: https://www.thebluecoat.org.uk/whatson/outward-bound-launch - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/liverpool/book-launch-outward-bound-from-liverpool-reading-malcolm-lowry-by-helen-tookey/200030241990112 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, trips-adventures - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 6 ## Ticket Details ## Event venue details - **city**: Liverpool - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: School Lane, L1 3BX Liverpool, United Kingdom - **lat**: 53.40447 - **long**: -2.98407 - **full address**: School Lane, L1 3BX Liverpool, United Kingdom, Liverpool, United Kingdom ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Book Launch: Outward Bound from Liverpool: Reading Malcolm Lowry by Helen Tookey - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events10/banners/a250be398adadd8b7efe5cab5b15e1ac9cbd3106ea53838b8efc8ff3f6017a15-rimg-w1024-h1621-dc080818-gmir?v=1788254026 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Book Launch: Outward Bound from Liverpool: Reading Malcolm Lowry by Helen Tookey being held? - **A:** Book Launch: Outward Bound from Liverpool: Reading Malcolm Lowry by Helen Tookey takes place on Tue, 08 Sep, 2026 at 05:30 pm to Tue, 08 Sep, 2026 at 07:30 pm at School Lane, L1 3BX Liverpool, United Kingdom, Liverpool, United Kingdom. - **Q**: Who is organizing Book Launch: Outward Bound from Liverpool: Reading Malcolm Lowry by Helen Tookey? - **A:** Book Launch: Outward Bound from Liverpool: Reading Malcolm Lowry by Helen Tookey is organized by Bluecoat. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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