Philip Owens

Philip Owens (1900–1945) was a poet, translator, and editor. He published one novella, Hobohemians, in 1929, as well as several verse plays and poems over the succeeding decade. He translated two novels by Hans Fallada, and his poetry appears in the 1930 Samuel Putnam-edited anthology European Caravan, which also introduced the world to Samuel Beckett and William Empson. In the penultimate year of his life, Owens edited the collection Bed and Sometimes Breakfast: An Anthology of Landladies (1944). He died in an accident in Greece—where he was serving with British Intelligence—just three months before the end of the Second World War.