[2] In 1968, she published her first collection, This Difficult Flowering, with Very Stone House, a small Canadian poetry press.
In 1972, "The Age of the Bird", a long poem inspired by revolutionary politics in South America, was published as a broadside by Blackfish Press.
Milk Stone, published in 1974 by Borealis Press, became Lowther's breakthrough into Canadian mainstream literature.
She was about to begin her first teaching term as a Creative Writing sessional at the University of British Columbia when she was murdered by her husband.
In September 1975, Lowther was reported missing after failing to arrive for a scheduled poetry reading at Vancouver's Ironworkers Hall.