[18] He was also announced as a finalist for the 22nd Annual Lambda Literary Awards with his novella Troglodyte Rose (later, a selection from the book would be a Wattpad featured story getting over 190,000 reads).
[21] In 2012, his pamphlet Precocious (Fruit Bruise Press) was a reader nomination for the Guardian First Book Prize, which the publication described as "A vivid picture of emotions, deeply felt, but with a clear-eyed view of the ways we humans live, love and sometimes betray".
[25] Lowe rounded the year off with inclusion in MTV Books' Chorus: A Literary Mixtape, edited by Saul Williams and Dufflyn Lammers.
[26] In 2013, he was announced as one of 10 Black and Asian "advanced poets" for The Complete Works II (founded by Bernardine Evaristo) with Mona Arshi, Jay Bernard, Kayo Chingonyi, Rishi Dastidar, Edward Doegar, Inua Ellams, Sarah Howe, Eileen Pun and Warsan Shire, which resulted in the anthology Ten: The New Wave, edited by Karen McCarthy Woolf.
[35] In 2021, he contributed a poem called "Writing Myself in History" and performed a lip sync of Regina Spektor's "Us" for Manchester Museum, as part of Pride Month.
[12] As Beyonce Holes, he also performed at the Manchester Pride at Home event with Cheddar Gorgeous, doing a number inspired by #BlackLivesMatter to Nina Simone's "Sinnerman".
[36][37] In June 2022, Lowe performed at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery in Exeter with Mona Arshi, Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Fred D'Aguiar, Jennifer Lee Tsai, Shivanee Ramlochan, Jacob Sam-La Rose, John Siddique, Yomi Sode and Yusra Warsama as part of the My Words collaboration with the Museum of Colour, curated by Melanie Abrahams.
[38] As part of the My Words programme, Lowe also contributed a poem called "Seasoning" to the Museum of Colour, inspired by a set of chains used in the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans.
[39] In October 2022, he edited the anthology The World Reimagined, featuring 30 poets, including Anthony Joseph, Benjamin Zephaniah, Dorothea Smartt, John Agard, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Kadija Sesay, Khadijah Ibrahiim, Malika Booker, Marvin Thompson, Otis Mensah, Raymond Antrobus, Shara McCallum, Shivanee Ramlochan, Tanya Shirley and others.
The book was published by The World Reimagined, an arts education charity which "exists to transform our understanding of the Transatlantic Trade in Enslaved Africans".
[40] In December 2022, Lowe co-authored the scientific paper "What Primary Care Practitioners Need to Know about the New NICE Guideline for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in Adults" in the journal Healthcare, writing as a lay person with lived experience of ME/CFS.
[10][41] In 2023, Peepal Tree Press published Lowe's debut (full-length) poetry collection, Patterflash, as "[a] collection [which] connects the poet as a wry, humane observer of the scene, particularly as conducted in Manchester, and the persona of 'Adam Lowe' as both actor in and narrator of his own dramas, who performs, exults and sometimes suffers in a wide range of guises and disguises.
[31] In 2012, the readers for the Guardian First Book Prize described Lowe's chapbook "Precocious" as "A vivid picture of emotions, deeply felt, but with a clear-eyed view of the ways we humans live, love and sometimes betray".
[49] Publishers Weekly, in reviewing More Fiya, refers to the anthology's varied poems as like "the 'funny thing' that Adam Lowe calls desire—complex, surprising, and radical in both theme and structure, and whole in their moments of fragility and strength.
"[50] Poet Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa said of one of Lowe's poems in Filigree, "I am in awe of 'Boy-Machine', I was tipping towards the edge of my chair willing this brave soul's flight to end in a more satisfying outcome than Icarus'.
[52] In 2006, Lowe wrote the lyrics and performed the vocals for a hard house/trance single called 'Some Justice' with DJ GRH & Paul Maddox.