Kids

Hannah Lowe was born in Ilford to an English mother and Jamaican-Chinese father. She has lived in London, Brighton and Santa Cruz, California. She studied American Literature at the University of Sussex and has a Masters degree in Refugee Studies, and a PhD in Creative Writing from Newcastle University. She has worked as a teacher of literature, and is now a lecturer in Creative Writing at Brunel University. She has been poet in residence at Keats House, and in 2020 she received a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors.Her pamphlet The Hitcher (The Rialto, 2011) was widely praised. Her first book-length collection Chick (Bloodaxe Books, 2013) won the 2015 Michael Murphy Memorial Prize, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for Poetry, and was selected for the Poetry Book Society’s Next Generation Poets 2014 promotion. This was followed by two pamphlets, R x (sine wave peak, 2013) and Ormonde (Hercules Editions, 2014), and her family memoir Long Time No See (Periscope, 2015). She also read from Long Time, No See on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week in 2015. Her second full-length collection, Chan, was published by Bloodaxe in 2016, followed by a pamphlet, The Neighbourhood (Out-Spoken Press) in 2019. Her third full collection, The Kids (Bloodaxe Books, 2021), was the Poetry Book Society Choice for Autumn 2021. It won the 2021 Costa Poetry Award and went on to be named Costa Book of the Year, and was also shortlisted for the 2021 T.S. Eliot Prize.

Hannah Lowe’s The Kids is a book to fall in love with - it’s joyous, it’s warm and it’s completely universal. It’s crafted and skilful but also accessible... You will love it!

• 8 The White DogI11 The Register12 Try, Try, Try Again13 Queen Bee14 The Art of Teaching I15 The Art of Teaching II16 The Art of Teaching III17 Technology18 Sonnet for Vlad19 The Only English Kid20 Notes on a Scandal21 Boy22 Simile23 The Sixth-form Theatre Trip24 Sonnet for the A Level English Literature and Language Poetry Syllabus25 Red-handed26 Sonnet for the Punched Pocket27 Pepys28 Janine I29 Janine II30 The Unretained31 All Over It32 Sonnet for Rosie33 Something Sweet34 7/735 Ricochet36 British-bornII38 Mr Presley39 Mrs Vanuka40 Blocks41 She42 Bethena43 Étudier44 Martin and Pam45 The Only Black Girl46 Rain Dance47 The Pitch48 John I: Pink Humming Bird49 John II: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf50 Love51 So Amazing52 The Stroke55 Sonnet for Noah56 Welling57 Dear Professor58 White Roses59 Daughter60 House61 The River62 PlayersIII64 The Sky Is Snowing65 Skirting66 Scooting67 Fire Scissors Drowning68 The Size of Him69 Sonnet for Boredom70 Balloons71 In H&M72 Sonnet for Darren73 Zoom74 Aretha in the Bath75 His Books76 Anjali Mudra77 Sonnet for Rory with Soap Bubbles78 Nĭ hăo79 Kathy, Carla