Published 2021. Chapbook, 36pp, 8.5 x 5.5ins, £7.50 / $10.95
ISBN 9781848617919 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]

Song of the Constant Sea is a poem of moderate length which attends to the deeply entangled network of interrelations and genealogies that come together and variously cohere within a single consciousness of being. Starting from home or not home, the poem winds through a catalog of experiences and memories to suggest that home, more than a geographical location, is an imagined and essential space that is both constituted by and participant in building a poetic imaginary committed to liberatory balance, equity, and social justice.

Richard Owens is the author of several collections of poetry, including Delaware Memoranda (2009), Ballads (2012 and 2015), and Poems (2019). He is the founding editor of the poetry and poetics journal Damn the Caesars and Punch Press, a small literary press based in the US which has since 2005 produced both handmade and trade editions of work by contemporary poets on both sides of the Atlantic. Some of his criticism on British and American poetry from a Marxist perspective can be found in the volume Sauvage: Essays on Anglophone Poetry (2019).

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