War is being declared tomorrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under difficulties, but difficulties negligible compared with what others have to go through.

In May 1927 his parents drove him to the Liverpool waterfront and while the local press watched waved goodbye as he set sail on the freighter S. The effort to save their marriage failed. Theirs was a turbulent union especially due to his drinking and because Malcolm Lowry was upset about homosexuals being attracted to him.

Clarence Malcolm Lowry (28 July 1909 – 26 June 1957) was an English poet and novelist who is best known for his novel Under the Volcano which was voted No.