Scott Owens's Reviews
Reviews of Scott’s Work
Mar.08.2013
Published by North Carolina Literary Review
Most of the poems in For One Who Knows How to Own Land convey the pain of people learning to endure the circumstances of their life. However, the collection is a frank look...
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Oct.15.2012
Published by The South Carolina Review
Owens's style is direct, unadorned, and consists of simple sentence, followed by a comma, then one clause and another and another . . . . There is absolutely no pretentiousness in...
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Aug.13.2012
Published by Referential Magazine
Scott Owens draws heavily on his memories of growing up in the fast-disappearing rural South to bring forth his seventh collection of poetry, a collage of diverse but...
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Jul.20.2012
Published by Main Street Rag
For One Who Knows How to Own Land, by Scott Owens, is like walking through a farm on a hot South Carolina afternoon in the summer. His poems ring out with an emotional...
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May.01.2012
Published by Pirene's Fountain
I wrote my undergraduate honors thesis on “reverse regionalism” (a concept I coined with the confidence and confusion of a young intellectual) in the poetry of William Butler...
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Dec.03.2011
Published by Eyewear
Something Knows the Moment is an act of courage. The question of faith is posed and exposed with intelligence and insight; we experience a writer trying to make sense of the...
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Oct.27.2011
Published by The Pedestal Magazine
Concerning creation, the poet focuses on the relationship between the creator and his creation. Owens effectively rewrites the biblical history of the world, presenting the...
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Aug.28.2011
Published by Charlotte Observer
Scott Owens' new poetry collection, "Something Knows the Moment," wastes no time submerging readers in his theme, a candid investigation, sometimes raw and painful, sometimes...
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May.03.2011
Published by Musings
This book is about loneliness, being powerless, poverty, and death. Just because the subject is dark, it should not deter others from reading this collection. The stories are...
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Apr.01.2011
Published by Pirene's Fountain
In this narrative sequence of two lovers and their complicated and ultimately dysfunctional relationship, words turn themselves into images within the reader’s head with an...
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Aug.01.2010
Published by The Centrifugal Eye
Paternity I think signals much potential for this poet. I imagine Owens emerging from the warm cocoon of young parenthood into a caliber of poet with the iridescent, subtle...
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Aug.01.2010
Published by North Carolina Literary Review
Some say that it is never too late to have a happy childhood, it probably is, but perhaps it is never too late to experience the magic of childhood, which is what Owens conjures...
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Jul.01.2010
Published by JMWW
Paternity is so perfect, so obviously a book of poems I will come back to again and again, that I find so inspiring.
The poem that best represents this collection, to me, is "On...
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Jun.22.2010
Published by The Pedestal Magazine
There’s a lot to parenting and a lot to this book. Parenthood, we learn again, is demanding work. And the same can be said for writing. But Owens makes for effortless reading,...
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Apr.29.2010
Published by Pirene's Fountain
Paternity is a strong collection written with disarming candor and heart. Scott Owens extends the poetic prowess demonstrated in his previous collection, The Fractured World, to a...
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About Scott
Author of 10 Collections of Poetry, Founder of Poetry Hickory and The Art of Poetry at Hickory Museum of Art, Editor of Wild Goose Poetry Review and 234, Vice President of Poetry Council of North Carolina, Vice President of NC Poetry Society, NC Writers'...
Connections
Causes Scott Owens Supports
Poetry Hickory Hickory Soup Kitchen Temple Beth Shalom Hickory Women's Resources Center
Scott’s Favorite Books
The Book of Nightmares, Galway Kinnell