This series of images are the slides used at the 2021 Lounge, which was subtitled 'Through the Pandemic', in reference to Lowry's short story 'Through the Panama', also the title of a new project that Alan Dunn and Rob Keith outlined.

A regular feature of the Lounges is an update on recent and new Lowry research and activities: Bryan Biggs and Ailsa Cox's Letter from Cuernavaca reported on the previous year's online Colloquium organised in Mexico. Helen Tookey introduced Malcolm Lowry: Remaking the Voyage, a collection of essays on Lowry’s ‘lost’ novel, In Ballast to the White Sea, published during lockdown. She also presented her work-in-progress creative-critical non-fiction book inspired by Lowry, while Colin Dilnot discussed the correspondences between Lowry and American Beat writer William Burroughs, whose cut-up technique arguably echoes Lowry’s collage approach. Michael Romer, zooming in from Scotland, compared the character of Dr Vigil in Under the Volcano's 1940 and 1947 versions, as he discussed Lowry’s positive portrayal of a strong friendship between two men with similar or different sexualities. Mark Goodall put forward his theory about Lowry and Brazil’s own take on jazz, the bossa nova.

The event culminated in an 'Open Malc' with personal tribute to the writer from the floor and the customary mescal toast.