In this collection of songs, Michael Mahy’s receptiveness and love of poetry shines as an accompaniment to B.W. Powe’s words. Surrender Row is comprised of selections of lyrics from Surrender Row: A Discarnate Rock Opera, written by Powe. Poetry and music together as an evocative artistic statement in synthesized atmospheres, digital signals, analogue waves, distortion, an acoustic guitar, and a rock and roll heart. Mahy’s voice haunts and flutters while the words offer a world of lingering questioning and reflecting.

Powe’s lyrics form part of his book Ladders Made of Water, published by Stream Elsewhere Press (2023). It is the second book of a trilogy, which began with The Charge in the Global Membrane (2019) and is to be completed with the to-be-published Mysteria (2024). Ladders Made of Water offers the immediacy of the visionary Canadian poet, philosopher, essayist, and scholar’s work.