I Am A Dark River

He was out to destroy the vulgar pomposity of the age.

– Writer Kevin Ireland describes Bob Lowry

Life is a bastard for the undercapitalised.

– Bob Lowry on his many failed businesses, in a 1957 letter to poet Denis GloverTe Ar

I feel he was a genius. But no genius is going to make a good father or a good husband...

– A relative of Bob Lowry

Even now, decades after the show, I still wonder, does the dark river that flowed through Bob, flow though me?

– Director Tessa Mitchell on her grandfather's legacy

The country spoke through him like the breath blown through a flute...

– Poet James K Baxter on his friend Bob Lowry, quoted in Peter H Hughes profile of Robert Lowry, Te Ara website/NZ Dictionary of Biography

[Bob] Lowry published Denis Glover, ARD. Fairburn, James K Baxter, Frank Sargeson, Allen Curnow and Hone Tuwhare, often adding his own brand of wit and creativity. Many became friends of Lowry's and, acknowledging the role he played in their lives, several of them immortalised him in their writings.

– NZ Herald writer Jane Phare on Bob Lowry, 30 June 2000