I just returned from the library, where I was inspecting vol. 3 of Jonathan Bowden’s very rare Collected Works, 6 vols. (London: Avant-Garde, 1995). I examined the first two volumes a couple of years ago. I will look at the remaining three as soon as time permits.
The Collected
Works mark the transition, in my view, from the first to the second period in
Bowden’s writing life. This was a transition of which Bowden was himself aware.
Below are gathered a few snippets of ‘Bowden on Bowden’ from vol. 3. I hope
this will be of all the more interest given how vanishingly rare and difficult
to access texts from this period are, especially these Collected volumes.
