Rego Retold

Celebrating the 80th birthday of one of the great Anglo-Portuguese painters, Rego Retold is an in-depth poetic response to Paula Rego’s compelling paintings. Featuring full-color reproductions of 50 of Rego’s most celebrated works, the collection also contains poems by Owen Lowery that react to Rego's striking visions of aggressive feminism, colored by folk themes from her native Portugal.

Owen Lowery is a poet whose work has been published in PN Review and Stand. He has been listed in the Bridport Prize, the International Sonnet Competition, the Virginia Warbey Prize, and the Welsh Open Poetry Competition. He is the author of Otherwise Unchanged. Paula Rego is a Portuguese painter and printmaker considered one of the leading figurative artists of the day. Her career as an artist spans half a century, during which she was nominated for the 1989 Turner Prize, was awarded the Grã Cruz da Ordem de Sant'Iago da Espada by the president of Portugal, won the 2010 MAPFRE Foundation Drawing Prize in Madrid, and was made a dame of the British Empire in the 2010 Queen's Birthday Honours.