Where you are brutally thrown out of beer parlors for standing where no man stands In this pompous and joyless city of police moral perfection and one man stands With clawbars they have gone to work on the poor lovely houses above the sandsĪt their callous work of eviction that no human law countermandsĬallously at their work of heartbreak that no civic heart understands
They are taking down the beautiful houses once built with loving handsīut still the old bandstand stands where no band stands In Under the Volcano, arguably the most famous novel ever written in British Columbia, he offhandedly refers to Vancouver as a place "where they eat sausage meals from which you expect the Union Jack to appear at any minute." During his fourteen years in the Lower Mainland, mainly in North Vancouver, Malcolm Lowry briefly resided at three West End locations giving rise to his poem, Lament in the Pacific Northwest, about the Haywood Bandstand, which was built in 1914 and restored in 1988.
Malcolm Lowry was an alcoholic novelist whose relationship to Vancouver - and much else - was uncertain, though there is no doubt that he did his best work here. LITERARY LOCATION: Haywood Bandstand, 1755 Beach Avenue Bidwell Street, Vancouver.
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