John Edwin Cowen. Poems: From Dylan’s Wales. Photographs by Bebe Barkan. Wales & New York: The Seventh Quarry and Cross-Cultural Communications, 2012. 80 pages.

• Main Author: Francia, Luis H.
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2014
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/paha/vol4/iss1/14; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/paha/article/1103/viewcontent/PAHA_204.1_2014_20Book_20reviews_20__20Francia.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Excerpt: In this, his second collection, John Edwin Cowen derives both inspiration and subject matter from his participation in the 2011 International Poetry Festival in Swansea, Wales, Dylan Thomas’s birthplace. Cowen, who passed away in 2012 at the age of seventy-one, was also a devoted friend, student, and literary trustee executor of José Garcia Villa. I knew John, having taken Villa’s workshop held at his Greenwich Village flat, but only kept regularly in touch with him once he started editing the collection of Villa’s poems, with an introduction by myself that was published in 2008 by Penguin as Doveglion: Collected Poems.