“Cowin guides us through poetry that is as panoramic and intense as the landscape it explores.”
Tess Jolly.
We’re soon to release a booming, earth-shattering noise record by OLM, which has been hiding underwraps for far too long. But did you know one member of OLM, Tom Cowin, is also a published poet?
Tom told me his ‘3 Revolutionary Songs of the Fatberg City State’, published by Datableed, is set against the backdrop of a post-pandemic Extinction Rebellion protest in London. Chock-full of images of the city (‘parasitic anxiety of conductive fog’) and the greed of the wealthy and complacent (‘their mouths are full of hot clay and our blood’) it demands a few re-reads.
It captures feelings of both horror and ecstatic resistance, but what really moves me is the steeled resolve against the lack of care of the powerful, breaking through in the refrains: ‘don’t believe them.’ ‘Prevent harm’.
You can read more by Tom Cowin here.
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